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Why did Beau Durn shoot the young guy?

posted 20 years ago by Hang_All_Drunkdrivers
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I thought he was supposed to shoot the tom selleck character, rafe covington when he saw the gang out there on the ranch. Instead he shot the young friend of rafe. WTF was that all about?

[–] chargermyke 19 years ago

I can understand by your handle why you wouldn't "get it". He shot the young friend to enrage Rafe and draw him into town where he could try and ambush him...

BTW..Terrorezza H. Kerry belongs in a freekin asylum.

[–] tomcataviator 18 years ago

I can understand by your handle why you wouldn't "get it".

LOL chargermyke. My sentiments exactly.

[–] mazalhamidbar 18 years ago

There's no need for name-calling ... but, anyway, it was done for the reason stated, to surprise the audience and just to show how evil the character was (shooting a young innocent just for the hell of it basically) to both the protagonist and to the audience.

[–] wordsampersand 18 years ago

It's also possible that Beau wanted to wittle Covington's gang down a bit, and Kane was the first one he ran across.

[–] A_Distorted_Reality 17 years ago

Kane is fit!!!

“Is this gonna be a thing with you, jumping out on people or do you just not have an office of your own?” - Gunn

[–] rogerscorpion 15 years ago

Well, that explains why Beau shot him, X.

Carpe Noctem

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[–] chipe 10 years ago

Right, I was going to say the same thing. I thought the ending of the movie was poor in many respects, like the poorly directed shootouts and the Mark Harmon character going crazy.

The main reason Durn didn't shoot Selleck is that they wanted to extend the movie into the planned timespan. And it was very dramatic/surprising that Durn was firing at the kid, not Selleck; I give them high marks for that.

And yes, everyone in the world though Durn should have hung around and shot others who gathered at the kid's body.

While I am at it, another complaint is that the guys should start spending mucho time and work and days building up the ranch, while Selleck didn't tell the girl anything -- that he was working at the ranch, why he was doing it, that it had oil, etc. And you'd think Selleck would ask the girl what her current plans were for the ranch, like if she wasn't ridding herself of it,

[–] sevenhawk 10 years ago

Google Tom Horn. That scene is directly out of the history books.

[–] sevenhawk 9 years ago

Thank you I was just about to post this.

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