One of the best scenes of any movie EVER! I truely believe that final confrontation between Walken and Penn is sad, gut wrenching and most of all POWERFUL, I have seen this movie at least 50 times and I can tell you every time that scene comes on I'm glued to the screen and I tear up, it's a sad sad scene.
shareYeah, well, it's kinda stupid, too, since it was a total impossibility (no one drives over to have a friendly chat with their pops after being shot 8 or 9 times by their pop) and it never happened.
shareThis movie is based on true events....IT DID HAPPEN! Read up on it.
shareThe scene in question did not happen, nothing reliable says that it did. Basic physiology says that isn't a possibility.
shareNot that news reports can't be incorrect, but all the major news sources described how Bruce Johnston, Jr., upon whose family At Close Range was based, indeed at the very least staggered into the house after being shot eight times in the same attack that killed his girlfriend, Robin Miller. Strange, but true. I remember the whole thing vividly, since Bruce Sr. was captured in my home city. People in my city followed the Johnston story avidly, especially since one of the Johnston gang later figured in a prison murder of a local man jailed in a murder for hire scheme.
Put puppy mills out of business: never buy dogs from pet shops!
CAUCASIAN AMERICANS IN ACTION,FEARLESS AS WELL.RURAL AMERICA HAS COUNTLESS
NUMBERS OF BRAVE,GOD FEARING,DON'T TRED ON ME "REAL LIFE PEOPLE"WHO POSSESS
EVERY QUALITY THAT THE CHARACTERS IN THIS FILM HAVE SANS THE STEALING.
PS BE VERY CAREFUL WITH ON LINE germanshephard BREEDERS WHO TRY TO SELL YOU PUPS,ADULTS,ATTACK DOGS.......AND OBJECT TO YOUR SEEING THE POOR THINGS IN PERSON. I HAVE SEEN IT ALL AND IT ANGERS ME......I TAKE ACTION .
THESE HUMANS ARE HEATLESS COWARDS.
Just watched an interview with Nicholas Kazan. That scene wasn't in his original script because it didn't happen. The kid survived the gunshots but he, of course, went to the hospital.
The studio directed Kazan to write in a confrontation between the son/father so that scene is what he came up with. The movie is a mix of true and made up events.
Also in the interview. Kazan said that Walken was nervous about the gun so he met with the prop guys a couple times to make sure the prop gun was safe. Penn knew this and brought a different prop gun to the set just to make Walken nervous and enhance his performance.
Walken was nervous about the gun so he met with the prop guys a couple times to make sure the prop gun was safe
I don't know if it's something that somebody ever gets used to.
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