Why is Cosmo's hand wet with blood at the end?
I couldn't find the cause... Could someone please explain.
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he got shot when he was running out of the bookie's house. remember the scene where he lies down on the bed at the black dancer's house and her mom opens his shirt, it shows the wound. he's running around with a gunshot wound the whole rest of the movie. cassavetes kind of leaves it open at the end, whether he lives or dies. watch it again
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shareThis bothered me a bit. If Cosmo was shot we didn't see it. Was it by the two guys who ran in after he wacked the Chinese bookie? The audio was so horrible it's difficult to tell what Cassavetes was trying to do half the time.
So he notices the blood in his pocket. Why didn't anyone else notice it? Generally liquid flows down not sideways, so you'd think it'd be on his pants rather than in his pocket. Because the lighting was so bad I thought he just spilled the drink he was holding. And if he had blood on his hand what was he doing shaking hands on his way out?
It wasn't horrible, but this movie is just plain sloppy.
I am pretty sure it is when hes running away from the killing. But you are right the audio is so shotty that it could have just been interpreted as some other kind of noise. When I heard it, I was still only 50% sure he got shot, until he was bent over in pain in the street.
sharerepete66211 --"So he notices the blood in his pocket. Why didn't anyone else notice it? Generally liquid flows down not sideways, so you'd think it'd be on his pants rather than in his pocket"
I noticed this too but then thought the blood must have been seeping through a bandage instead of dripping from an open wound.
it's pretty obvious he dies from the gunshot wound. he didn't go to the hospital did he? He didn't die right away because the bullet stayed in him.
if it had gone thru he probably would be dead already.
he has to die in the end, or the story of this perpetual loser was wasted.
The wound might have been aggravated by his jumping down from the stage after his short monologue.
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He was shot after killing the bookie, I mean thats pretty obvious isn't it? He lay down on the bed with a great big wound right after the shooting, it doesn't take a genius to put them together
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Also notice that when he jumps off the stage before the show starts in the end, he tocuhes his side... it seems to me like the jump moved the bullett... or maybe it's just me.
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People tend to BLEED when they've been shot...
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Hey, his question was answered already. No need to get up on your high horse.
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Idiotic question. Next time they watch a film it should be with their eyes open. Or maybe intelligence tests should be administered before watching anything other than Action/Adventure.
Sheesh.
In the last scene the blood all up and down his jacket looks like painted stripes not blood.
shareGo f ck yourself matey.
It's people like you that make the others think that the watchers of movies like Cassavates are pretentious. Fact is movies like this are, by design, not as easy to absorb as more simplistic mainstream rubbish especially if you have been conditioned by the latter. Maybe instead of being and elitist ass wipe you could answer the question and not be all high and mighty because your so fantastically reserved in your cinematic taste
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What you just read was probably a bit of a rant. Sorry
I think that somebody would have to ask this question shows that there are a lot more holes in the script than Cosmo's body. It's a bit bizarre that he can keep running around for hours with a hole blasted in him...and not so much as wince MOST of the time. He does have a bit of perspiration on his forehead by the end but c'mon, he'd be leaving a trail of red behind him where ever he went, right?
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yeah he was most definitely shot-the camera shows the tip of a gun barrel firing as he runs away from the house of the "bookie". what do y'all think? did he live or did he die?
shareI'm guessing many here must have just seen the shorter re-release version. In the original, it's pretty obvious that he was shot getting away from the killing. He does in fact whince in several scenes and when he goes to Mom's and lies on the bed, you can see the blood stain on his shirt.
shareI thought he was grazed by the bullet (the shot on the bed made it look that from what I remember) so its possible he bandaged it himself if it just grazed him and that would explain how he still walking around for the rest of the movie but still has a little blood and pain (gazzara was really good in this role btw, especially the early stuff in the poker room)
shareIt clearly comes down to which version of the film the OP had watched.
Not only do we see that Cosmo was shot, as he lies on his girlfriend's mother's bed, but when he talks to her later in the film (in the full version , not the *beep* 109 minute version) she says, and I'm paraphrasing, "you really need to see a doctor because that bullet can't stay inside you forever".
Case closed.
Use your eyes and use your ears when watching films. And always watch the full length version of a film.
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That line is in the shorter cut as well.
To match the tone of your post, I'll rephrase it:
That line is in the shorter cut as well, dumbass.