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shooting (spoiler)

posted 9 years ago by denham
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Good film. As a quibble, there are rather a lot of shots fired from two double barreled shotguns without, it would seem, much reloading. Before the last four shots, when I think Jeanne's gun has neither barrel loaded and Sophie's has just one, you hear some kind of reloading sound but there is no corresponding arm movement. I imagine that in post-production it was realized that the later shots didn't square with the previously emptied barrels and sound effects were dubbed in to make it seem more plausible.

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[–] MikeLeighFan 8 years ago

Gun usage is unrealistically portrayed in most films and this one is no exception. Novices would be fumbling when reloading these break-action shotguns as well as being startled by the substantial recoil - which would have given at least a couple of the victims time to make a run for it. This might actually have added a little more drama to the scene. Pump-action or semi-automatic shotguns would have been more realistic, but I'm not sure those are available in France. Showing the ladies skeet shooting together in an earlier scene would have set them up as experienced shooters but would've ruined the surprise of the ending.