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'Good Bye, Cobb'

posted 15 years ago by lmartin-17
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Is it just me, or did Brian Dennehy look like he was faster on the draw than Kevin Kline in the final climatic scene? I have watched this scene in slow-mo on my DVD player and I'm still not sure! Any thaughts?

[–] Bilwick1 15 years ago

Will have to look again but it just might be a touch of realism. At that range, tt wasn't necessarily the man who shot first who won a gunfight, but the man who shot straightest.

[–] bkstosell 15 years ago

Actually, you're both right. After looking at it in slo-mo and freeze-frame, Cobb does indeed begin to draw first, but if you catch the initial smoke discharge from Cobb's gun, it is down and to Cobb's left, meaning he fired too quickly and only managed to kill the street.

[–] NL-Proud 14 years ago

I guess, according to Paden, it was 'Luck'

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[–] dirtyoldhawg 10 years ago

Looked to me like Dennehy beat Kline to the draw, but hesitated at the top of the draw to let Kline catch up. Maybe the front sight hung on the holster, Who knows.

Louis L'Amour once said as the foreward to one of his e--books, that often the first to draw was not necessarily the one to live. The first shot usually went off into the dirt, or went wild, while the second draw was more deliberate and better aimed. Often it was not a matter of being faster, but being more 'determined' to get a shot into the other guy.

He also noted how notoriously unreliable the western 45 revolver was for shooting at more than about 15 feet.

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