Bob's Death

I saw part of this last night, and one of my favorite scenes is when Bonney kills Bob as he's escaping.

I don't think they quite had the technology to make it work entirely, but I was kind of impressed by the blurry effect they had when Bob looks up at the sound of his name (might have worked better if Bonney had been in silhouette if the point was that Bob was looking into the sun), but the thing that struck me most about the scene was Bob being shot in slow motion. I'm wondering if this was the first use of slo-mo in a violent scene in an American movie since the only other movie that old that I remember seeing a slow motion shot in is Seven Samurai. Maybe Penn had seen it and was inspired by the hostage scene?

"How's that for Japanese efficiency?"