...where Otis holds the gun to the cop's head for what feels like forever. It just shows how *beep* up Otis really is by prolonging the inevitable. Kinda like he is just playing with him before killing him.
shareYeah it's not that bad but it shouldn't have been that long because the song ended and it just seemed odd and lost it's effectiveness. It would have been very effective if he would have held it for 3-4 seconds in silence. I don't know how long it was but it seemed like an eternity.
I'm Gonna Bar-B-Q Yo' A$$ In Molasses!
im not sure what the intention was, i loved the whole scene with 'I Remember You'
but it could be viewed either way, either Otis holding the gun for a long time for the purpose of fear, or the shot was just a freeze frame being zoomed out
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I counted 20 seconds
shareYeah that's about 15 seconds longer than it should have been. I'll have to time it on a handlheld and see for sure. lol
"Ehhh, I don't think those were Lincoln Logs"
it wasn't a freeze frame. i seem to remember on the dvd commentary rob says something along the lines of feeling sorry for the guy with his face in the puddle, having to hold his breath for so long.
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Honestly, I think it is one of the best moments of the whole film. Zombie plays with the audience in what could have been yet another kill, however he makes the audience wait...and wait, and wait until you get so frustrated that there is no release. Just when you think that, the kill happens.
I think it is perfectly timed and it gets the reaction that it was designed for. It is the antithesis of kill sequences in general. However, when compared to the rest of the film, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
If you think it's long and drawn out, think how Steve Naish must have felt!
Maybe, in his mind, it was taking way too long, and maybe it wouldn't happen. Maybe it got to the point where he was beginning to get comfortable with the gun in his face just when it happens.
I hadn't really considered any of those options before. I somewhat assumed that Otis was preaching/rambling to him that whole time, but we're not meant to hear it. I felt the audio is cut off for the song, but doesn't pick up until the blast of the gun.
I think you missed the point. He did this so that by the time you'd drifted your attention away from the inevitable, it erupts the complete silence and takes you off guard. Everyone in the theater jumped when I first saw this happen. Zombie succeeded in one of the most daring and creative scenes in film history.
shareit seemed like an eternity.
I honestly thought that i sat on the remote or something, only to try to unpause it..which in return actually paused it.
"I keep thinking about old times. Like when you was a f'in baby." <--- now that is love
i was not stating that the shot itself was a freezeframe...but a live action freeze frame if that makes sense, where the camera is moving and still live, but the actors are still representing the time in the movie being one or two seconds long
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One of my favorite scenes. Gotta love Walt Goggins.
"I was bit by a cocker-spaniel as a kid!"
Especially love the song Pus sy Liquor right after
SEX?! He's a man. We wrestled.
I thought that seen was in slow motion? Would explain the pause. What took 20 seconds on the film was probably only 5 seconds in real life.
shareAm I the only one who thought the bullets smoke-trailed trajectory was bizarre?
I can understand the bullet curving because Otis makes a fancy little hand gesture after he fires, but it IS after he fires the weapon. The shot shouldn't have been curved?
Possibly my favourite scene in film ever. So uncomfortable and awkward. Brilliant
stupid like a fox!
It's one of maybea handful of genuinely clever moments in the film. Zombie isn't always the best when it comes to building suspense, but that was an exception.
"What I don't understand is how we're going to stay alive this winter."
Yeah I know, I got it the first time too.
It's a statement to the sickness and lack of mortality that the character has.
Like the OP said, he may have been toying with the cop, but what I think is more likely is him pausing because he was enjoying everything that just happened and that he had won in the end, so much that he didn't want the moment to stop.
Kind of like if you were at an amusement park and you didn't want to leave so you walked slowly to the exit. Him killing everybody and watching them panic was his Disney Land.
"...watching them panic was his Disney Land" - Great quote.
shareI though it was a great scene; unsettling as hell!
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