Near the end of the movie when Lunk points the gun at the Professor
why didn't it fire? Was the chamber empty, but the gun was loaded so
the next time it did fire? Did not really understand that unless I am
over thinking it!
First it was Huggy Bear. Then it was IBS (Pancake...see the irony in the name?). Then it was chopsticks. You probably knew it was going to be Chuckles in the end, so the blockhead had to buy the farm. So, they did him in via stupidity, which was cliche, but in line with the darkish humor.
shareIt's not difficult. When you pull the trigger of a gun, and it fails to fire, that does not mean it is safe to point the gun at your own head and pull the trigger. Lump does not realize this, because ... well ... he is not too bright.
Either the gun was not properly loaded (leaving one empty chamber), or it was properly loaded, but it mis-fired the first time.
Even as dumb as Lunk was, he would know not to point the gun at yourself if the gun doesn't shoot with the first click.
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But the plausibility of Lump's action put aside, I liked the visual link to his introduction into the film by a point of view shot, thus linking him to "inside man" Gawain, and hence, on a more general level, linking white and black lower-class.
Unlike all the other guns in the movie, that one was a revolver. While it was more prevalent with older single action revolvers, they can go off if dropped in such a way that the hammer strikes the cartridge. Many revolver owners will leave one chamber empty, beneath the hammer, for added safety.
"Leave the gun, take the cannoli"
Isnt it because the Professor forsaw this whole scene before hand, and knew that leaving the first chamber empty, Lump was surely going to do exactly what he did.
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