and the cop gets out out not saying anything
lol actually,
Murph: "Nice day"
Cop: "Great day"
but anyways,
1) It was a filler for the narration of the marshal talking about murphy's file.
2) It shows Murphy's course north. (shows the sign between nevada and idaho)
3) Shows that murphy is a tougher adversary than earlier realized. (He beat the cop with a crossover draw.)
4) Also shows that Murphy isn't afraid of killing someone laying down (it shows murph shooting him in the face)
5) Gives him a cut on his left cheek to make him look even more badass.
All in all i think it was a cool scene. It was basically a scene to paint more of a picture of murph.
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They_Killed_The_Giggler
17 years ago
It also showed hiow the small town cop was just an old man who's seen far too many westerns.
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derirre357
17 years ago
My interpretation: Anyway Murphy is probably wanted so he knows he will be arested. So he walks out of the car and the cop sees his guns. "Oh, we have a armed felon here!" The cops considers himself a badass and he is not gonna take any risk going close to that guy so he decides to have a duel with him, thinking he is the better shot. He shows his gun skills to Murphy, in case he'd like to surrender and when he doesn't the cop proceeds to combat... and is shot dog-dead. To me personally the whole scene has something Lonesque in it, or Wild West if u like... but maybe I am just thinking about it that way cause I am a huge Leone fan :-)
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Exit_Music
16 years ago
It was a classic scene of an unspoken rivalry between cops and robbers, like back in the western days. Murphy knew he was a bad a'ss, and the cop knew he himself was a bad a'ss. I thought that was a great scene.
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