after being shot as many times as Sean Connery was? He must have been shot about 20 times! He not only lived several minutes but drug himself clear across his apartment. Is this medically possible?
shareNo I very much doubt it.
That was one of the most ridiculous scenes I have EVER seen in a movie.
Remember, there might be some MOMENTARY DISCOMFORT.
Between this scene and the end of Scarface, I think it's safe to say Brian de Palma has no idea how multiple gun shot wounds affect humans.
DEAL WITH IT
Maybe, but I still found the scene in this movie Far more ridiculous.
Remember, there might be some MOMENTARY DISCOMFORT.
And he still kept his Scots accent!!
Its that man again!!
And he still kept his Scots accent!!
And he still kept his Scots accent!!
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Between this scene and the end of Scarface, I think it's safe to say Brian de Palma has no idea how multiple gun shot wounds affect humans.
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No, but i think it was deliberate to show the consequences of Malone's amoral attitude towards violence. He delighted in putting the other man down and schooling Ness to "shoot first" no matter what, mocking the bad guy for bringing "a knife to a gun fight" etc. Perhaps i'm giving De Palma too much credit, but that's the feeling i had. Ness gets off too easily because he's the family man.
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
don't forget about the fact that they *had* to show Connery taking a drink of whiskey before being cut to ribbons - I know it's a stylistic "device" DePalma uses in the film (an obvious one at that), but it doesn't work the way the oranges did in The Godfather films.
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Well alcohol is a definite part of the context. I don't think it's a gratuitous beat, which you could maybe say about the oranges.
The drink of whisky looked to me like one of the little punctuation marks that De Palmatypically uses in his set pieces.
Glasgow's FOREMOST authority Italics = irony. Infer the opposite please.
count the bullets. sounds like around 100. he would have been cut in half in real life
shareWhat's that got to do with Malone taking a drink?
Glasgow's FOREMOST authority Italics = irony. Infer the opposite please.
it has nothing to do with alcohol. People don't nest their pages on imdb - they respond to the last person as if it's the OP, because they don't know how to work the board correctly.
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The fools.
Glasgow's FOREMOST authority Italics = irony. Infer the opposite please.
Ridiculous, indeed. I laughed so hard at that part!
If we wanna hear you talk, I will shove my arm up your ass and work your mouth like a puppet!
Funny how no one gives Coppola *beep* for james caan's absurd death in The Godfather but people talk a lot about the scene in this movie...
shareThank you !! .. people likes to take a trend of mocking depalma .. I mean com'n .. he's a great filmmaker .. and its fiction..enjoy and chill .
shareI haven't seen Godfather in a while but what's ridiculous to me in that movie is how the Godfather played by Marlon Brando was able to survive getting shot several times with a machine gun! But I admit this scene in the Untouchables is also pretty unrealistic. I can't believe Sean Connery won an oscar for this movie.
"You know Parker, I don't think I've made you suffer enough." Green Goblin Spidey TAS
I would have to disagree with you guys. Unrealistic it may be, but given my love and attachment for Malone at that point, my suspension of disbelief was strong for me enough not to think of that detail and to just be upset about the scene and his agonizing death. I actually think it is one of the most powerful scene in the film, dramatically speaking, and it definitely fueled the rest of the film. It was the same thing for me in The Godfather, and for the record, Brando's character was not shot with a machine gun, but with several handguns (unlike Sonny, aka James Caan, who was just multiple times with multiple Tommy machine guns).
Bill Foster: I'm the bad guy?...How did that happen?
The answer to the original question is of course: it's most improbable. However, sometimes you'd be surprised. A reasonable use of a spare 90 minutes is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095366/
PS I'm not sure it was the best idea to script it for Malone to be holding a shotgun when he's shot. There's a pause of a couple of seconds between his seeing Nitti and Nitti shooting him. But it seems out of character for Malone to hesitate before letting Nitti have it. This awkardness could have been avoided by having him chase out the first hitman using something other than a range weapon, eg a meat cleaver, baseball bat, whatever.
"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken."
Malone was way to far away from Nitty for a shot gun to be effective - he would have been better off throwing a rock at him.
I think the idea of having Malone shot up so bad, and crawling so far, and the time passage was to show the will he had. The bookeeper was the only real hope they had in getting Capone, and Malone knew he was the only chance to pass that information on.
You just have to be resigned-
You're crashing by design
Malone was way to far away from Nitty for a shot gun to be effective
Agreed. But, maybe my memory is poor. I took Niity to be much further away. It seemed he was behind where the knife guy was, and up on a fire escape or something.
You just have to be resigned-
You're crashing by design
not too much further.. he was in the next building.. it looked like 15-20 yards on air to air distance max.
shareVito Corleone wasn't shot with a machine gun.
That was his son, Sonny, who did not survive.
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