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No Country for Old Men | 34 | 44.16% | |
Blood Simple | 0 | 0% | |
O Brother Where Art Thou | 41 | 53.25% | |
Fargo | 31 | 40.26% | |
The Big Lebowski | 46 | 59.74% | |
Raising Arizona | 33 | 42.86% | |
Miller's Crossing | 10 | 12.99% | |
Barton Fink | 2 | 2.60% | |
The Hudsucker Proxy | 3 | 3.90% | |
The Man Who Wasn't There | 1 | 1.30% | |
Intolerable Cruelty | 0 | 0% | |
The Ladykillers | 1 | 1.30% | |
Paris, je t'aime | 0 | 0% | |
Chacun son cinéma | 0 | 0% | |
No Country for Old Men | 12 | 15.58% | |
Burn After Reading | 2 | 2.60% | |
A Serious Man | 1 | 1.30% | |
True Grit | 12 | 15.58% | |
Gambit | 0 | 0% | |
Inside Llewyn Davisit | 4 | 5.19% | |
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | 2 | 2.60% | |
The Tragedy of Macbeth | 0 | 0% | |
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I know he carries a rifle in the book but honestly don't recall specifically if he uses it in the shootout (or if the author clarifies either way). I just know it's pretty damn cool seeing John Wayne chamber a round and fire it one-handed and if I'm betting, Bridges just couldn't manage it.
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But it seems like people somehow go into TBL with expectations that are just off from what they get. But when you acclimatize [that's the best word I can think of], the humor just bursts out everywhere. I think part of it is that the humor is so deadpan and downplayed, and in a way throwaway, that if you're trying to soak in the entire film you don't even register that some things are humorous. Then when you're acclimatized it just hits you. And the jokes are familiar and comfortable and make you laugh over and over and over. So when you click with the movie's 'vibe' you'll realize that it's not a slog to 'get' and it was so worth the second viewing.
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The partisans who rode with Quantrill would generally carry four, or sometimes six, pistols into combat, so that they could fire a large number of rounds without reloading, and were extremely proficient shooting two guns at once on horseback. They also short loaded their pistols, so that they wouldn't kick as much, which helped with accuracy while firing from a moving horse. It also helped them conserve gunpowder. |
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Now I have no idea if that was a common way of trying to get it cocked from horseback or not, but I gotta believe it had been done before... Short loads were pretty common for some of those pistols because the cylinder would blow up if you overloaded 'em. There was a trick to preventing it I can't remember off the top of my head; something like loading beeswax into the back of the cylinder to keep the charge from leaking out into the next chamber, but my memory was that they just used smaller loads and that fixed it. The Walker Colt seemed pretty notorious for it. And you can blame Unforgiven for this information because I went down a rabbithole years ago after Little Bill said something about the Walker Colt having a propensity for blowing up on guys. So I looked it up and sure enough - pretty common problem. It seemed to be a design problem with the Colt but some other pistols had metallurgy issues that created similar headaches.
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I'm talking about ones with the big loop, like this.
You can't spin cock a normal-sized one. |
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Good info.
Half-assed internet research says that was kindof a John Wayne invention going all the way back to Stagecoach and yes, required the modified lever.
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It is possible to cycle a lever action rifle with one hand; I've done it. It's definitely hard on the wrist, though, and not very practical. |
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I stopped doing it after that. Pretty sure it was hell on every part of the action and sight but I was a kid and it was fun.
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I kid you not.
And can I interest you in Intolerable Cruelty if I said it follows the dictates of a 1930's screwball comedy.
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I gave Blood Simple honorable mention in my post, but I didn't have it in my top 3. However, I'm surprised more posters didn't at least bring it up. Maybe the title made some people get a different idea and they didn't see it. It was the Coen Brothers first movie, they made it on a budget of $800K. They had gone to 40 family members and borrowed $20,000 from each. The movie made $4 million, so everybody got more money back. I saw Blood Simple on HBO in 1985 when it was a year old and when their following movie Raising Arizona came out, I saw it twice in the theater because I was blown away even more.
They had some many new and usual filming techniques in Blood Simple, it's a classic for cinematographers. Here's one of my favorite scenes as detective M. Emmet Walsh gets stabbed in the hand by Francis McDormand, and then he shoots through the wall. I wish the clip was longer. |
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Man, it's so hard to pick a top three... Here's what I came up with (not ranked):
Inside Llewyn Davis No Country for Old Men Burn After Reading BAR is criminally underrated and holds up as possibly their funniest movie. Brad Pitt is ****ing hilarious, and I honestly think it's his best role. |
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