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Silly Goof.

posted 14 years ago by Demarates
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What I found quite silly was the "gold". Not only did it look nothing like gold, there was another serious problem with it.

Its weight, or rather, lack thereof. Gold weighs more than 20 times what water weighs. So while it would be quite hard for a single man to lift such a coffin filled with water, lifting a coffin with gold is quite impossible.

Even more impossible than a single man dragging a coffin filled with a machine gun and ammo through muddy streets...

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[–] grrrdevin 14 years ago

Come on, he's Django. He can lift whatever he wants.

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[–] zanetheinsane 14 years ago

While I did notice this as well, keep in mind that the coffin wasn't brimming full with gold. All of that gold was in the same hefty sack that one single man was lugging around.

It only takes a small suspension of disbelief that Django could heft that coffin around. Just as he is impossibly accurate with a pistol and impossibly quick on the draw, one could imagine that he could be just barely impossibly strong.

[–] kenneth-r-close-1 14 years ago

The 'silly goof' was Django's machine gun. It had no trigger, and belted ammo was on both sides of the receiver group! The belt never moved and no brass ever ejected, no matter how many thousands of rounds he fired.

[–] x_chem 13 years ago

Guns like that weren't even available in the 1870's, which is apparantley when django is set but that doesn't bother me because you've got to remember (and this applies to all westerns) it's a film, not a documentary.

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[–] kenneth-r-close-1 13 years ago

Goofs like this are a product of lazy filmmaking, which results in bad films.

[–] x_chem 13 years ago

It's not lazy film making, every movie has mistakes. What's your favourite movie? I'd bet that it's full of them.

"You brought two too many"-Harmonica

[–] balducci2 9 years ago

I've read the movie is set in the late 1860s or early 1870s, yet the cross he hides behind in the final graveyard scene has a date of 1889 on it. So perhaps it is really set in the early 1890s or 1900s?

In any case, the Gatling gun was invented in 1861. But a Gatling gun was hand cranked. The automatic Maxim gun was invented in 1883. So by 1889 or later Django might have had such a thing.

[–] Reminisce_PartOne 9 years ago

Well to be fair it was fools gold, not real gold. I thought that was what you were going to comment on, that they were all fighting over fools gold. Clearly none of them realised.

[–] DeepFriedJello 8 years ago

It's a totally silly movie. He stands up with his big gun, fumbles with the dang heavy thing for a few seconds, shoots the town to pieces for 20 seconds, and not one of the Klan can get a shot off at him.
It seemed like he only scooped up half the styrofoam gold and left that valuable gun behind, which must have shot off 100 pounds of unobtainable bullets.