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Question about final fight scene in the church


Maybe I'm using my video game mentality but when the SS officers were storming up and we're getting picked off 1 by 1, WHY DIDN'T the Czech fighers take the guns of the dead SS officers?

They were running VERY low on ammo and were down to hand guns.

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They never know when the next bunch of German soldiers would enter the church, therefore they must always to stay in cover...

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They might have done that in real life, as it says at the end of the film, the shootout lasted six hours.

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Yup i agree. But i wished the film would show us that. Because it was a very frustrating experience to watch the actors not picking up enemies' weapons that were within reach.

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lol yeah exactly! I shared the same sediments as well

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Becuase in real combat unlike video games that rarely happens esp given issues of cover and also knowledge or not of enemy weapon functions

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When the SS officers were storming up and we're getting picked off 1 by 1, WHY DIDN'T the Czech fighters take the guns of the dead SS officers?

Because, since it was a true story, it was a known fact that everybody would get killed in the end. So why postpone the inevitable in the movie?

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