"Turn your key sir!" with a gun pointed at his head, we learn later that the guys in the silos wet their pants when it came time to perform, are we to assume the guy pulled the trigger and blew his boss' head to bits?
shareAfter that scene ended, I was wondering the same thing. But then I saw him appear in the film again.
P.S. Even though I knew that was Michael Madsen in the beginning, I didn't really recognize him until he was seen holding a gun and threatening another person.
They really are rude to Americans! - Al Bundy on the French
The makers of this movie got the reason why the launch officers had pistols, ass-backward. The launch officers were both armed so that one guy could not threaten to turn both keys because the other guy was armed. Even Hollywood had previously understood this in an earlier movie but evidently forgot. (In 1977, in a movie titled Twilight's Last Gleaming, Burt Lancaster's character pointed a pistol at Paul Winfield's character threatening to shoot him if he didn't turn his key, and Winfield laughed and basically said "Go ahead, then see if you can launch.")
shareThe makers of this movie got the reason why the launch officers had pistols, ass-backward. The launch officers were both armed so that one guy could not threaten to turn both keys because the other guy was armed.