Right after the car explosion (about 90 minutes into the film), watch closely: Jessup, who shoots like Annie Oakley (he almost never misses a shot), shoots a guy standing on the floorboard of a car, killing the man (or at least knocking his victim flat). Exactly 1 second later, the camera shows the guy who was shot still standing!! It's a total goof!
shareI thought the greater goof was how the seemingly well-trained American agents barely used the element of surprise to their advantage as they approached a line of men with automatic weapons all facing a single direction.
Nope. Instead of pulling up alongside them and laterally taking out several combatants before they knew what was hitting them, they quickly drive past the firing line with only one kill to a position barely a degree off the line of fire directed at Hathaway and Chen (apparently to save the attackers the difficulty of turning), and then didn't even try to use their vehicle as cover from which to return fire.
If they had bothered to have ambushed the bad guys, or even had exited the vehicle from that ridiculous position in a manner reflecting appreciation of the bullets flying at their unarmored bodies, given Jessup's Robocop shooting skills, they could've taken out Darth Hacker's minions in a fell swoop.
But then we wouldn't have had the poignancy of yet another patented Mann-slaughter scene... It's like the characters thought, hey, despite that we have lives and families and careers, this moment in time seems to demand the drama of us sacrificing our lives in a pointless act of misplaced skill and honor.
"I like to watch." Chauncey Gardiner, 'Being There'
Look under "TRIVIA" (although I don't find it trivial) for this film. Mann disowned this version (theatrical and the only one available) at a retrospective of his films held earlier this year. He screened his own personal Director's Cut because the studio rewrote and severely edited the film. I don't blame him. I KNEW there were some odd things about it; very "un-MANN" like (to coin a phrase). I will wait in the hope his version becomes readily available to the public. I am sure there will be pne, because this shows what Studios and producers are mainly about: MONEY! btw, I LOVED "Being There". I saw it when it first opened. PETER SELLERS was an absolute genius and truly one of the funniest and most talented comedic actors of all time, imo. Cheers!
shareThe goof that mentions Barrett calling Pollack "Stanley" is made several times. I guarantee the reason why is she was thinking of the director Sydney Pollack; the only thing is she called him "Stanley" instead of Sydney. She also could have been thinking of Stanley Kubrick, who was a close friend of Sydney Pollack; even casting him in his last film "EYES WIDE SHUT". Another thing that is incorrectly stated as a "GOOD" is the one posted stating Malaysia is the 4th largest tin producer. That is NOT what Lien says. She actually states: "there are "4 OTHER TIN MINES IN THE NEXT VALLEY". Man. Someone should fact check a little bit before posting that many errors. Obviously, either IMDB doesn't do this OR they don't care. Either way, it's bad.
shareI obviously meant "GOOF" (not "good").
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