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To: ansel12
That's exactly the cliche. At that point, cocking the gun is just trying to prove to the audience (and the guy they are pointing the gun at) that you're really really serious this time. But doing it then also proves you weren't serious before.

I also count the variation which isn't exactly this stupid, but still pretty bad, where the cops gather right outside the apartment door of a bad guy, and then cock the gun, once again for dramatic effect. But everyone inside can probably hear it, and think, "hey is that a bunch of police about to come bursting in here? Maybe I'd better get my own gun and be ready to shoot." How about getting ready earlier, like right after they leave their car, or in the elevator up to the bad guys? They never really know where the shooting may start.

63 posted on 09/07/2014 2:13:50 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

I’m a knife guy, and along with all the chambering of rounds and gun nonsense, when did knives start making sounds in the movies?

If you watch knife action in the movies there are lots of metallic sounds made by drawing them from the sheath and sometimes, just moving them a little while they are in your hand, I know that the whooshing air noises were the first knife noises hollywood adopted, but now the knives are making soft gun like clicks and metal on metal noises.


71 posted on 09/07/2014 2:23:13 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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