[ARCHIVED THREAD] - MAGNUM FORCE Shooting Match Scene (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/18/2017 11:17:08 PM EDT
Did Harry shoot the last cop target intentionally? I always thought he did it to send a message to the the rookies that he was on to them. My Dad thinks it was an accident, but still meant as foreshadowing for the rest of the film.
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Intentional. he wanted a chance to try david soul's colt, to see if the round matched a round from a homicide. so he threw the last round shooting the python too, so he could go back and recover it. Sorry, I didn't mean the very last shot with the rookie's Python, I meant the shot with his .44 that lost the match for him. |
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Sorry, I didn't mean the very last shot with the rookie's Python, I meant the shot with his .44 that lost the match for him. he threw the match, intentionally, to put them at ease and take a turn with the python. at least that's my interpretation... the guy was feeling pretty good about himself, he's not going to suspect harry's motive in trying the python.. |
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he threw the match, intentionally, to put them at ease and take a turn with the python. at least that's my interpretation... the guy was feeling pretty good about himself, he's not going to suspect harry's motive in trying the python.. |
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OBVIOUS and 100% intentional... part of the film, I thought that was painfully obvious to everyone? Agreed, but I remembered him giving a slight pause before he shot the cop target, making it obviously intentional. This is the first time I've watched it in many years. |
Police range scene was pretty of cool too.
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Subconsciously intentional, Harry was still working over in his head about the case he was on. His subconscious automatically fired on the cop target due to his suspicions that the bad guys "could" be cops.
After the match was done, he figured out the way to get the slug from the Python. 
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The aircraft carrier scene was filmed at Point Molate in Richmond. That is the Richmond- San Rafael bridge in the background. You can see the City in some shots to the South.
And Harry shot the "good guy" on purpose. Plus he also got a chance to shoot Officer Davis's Python into a target to extract a fired slug from later. edit: beat by basicone |
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The aircraft carrier scene was filmed at Point Molate in Richmond. That is the Richmond- San Rafael bridge in the background. You can see the City in some shots to the South. And Harry shot the "good guy" on purpose. Plus he also got a chance to shoot Officer Davis's Python into a target to extract a fired slug from later. edit: beat by basicone We tried to find the quarry pond from the final scene when I lived out there. I can't remember if it was filled in, fenced off or if we just didn't have as much info as is available now. |
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Intentional.
Harry blows the match, Rookie wins, then gets Harry whom he respects and admires trying out his piece. Harry's having an off day. Too bad, so sad. Hot shot Rookie is big man with his friends. "I seem to have lost one there". "You get used to it". Doesn't suspect a thing. 
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Agreed. Winning or losing would not have mattered. I think he just plain screwed up on that last no-shoot target. Quoted:
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He could have just asked to shoot the python after a victory. Agreed. Winning or losing would not have mattered. I think he just plain screwed up on that last no-shoot target. Wrong; Harry had to demonstrate that he was fallible in order to throw the last shot with Sweet's gun so that he could retrieve the bullet later. Had he performed perfectly, it might have raised suspicion when he threw that last shot. it also made the bad guys overconfident. |
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Wrong; Harry had to demonstrate that he was fallible in order to throw the last shot with Sweet's gun so that he could retrieve the bullet later. Had he performed perfectly, it might have raised suspicion when he threw that last shot. it also made the bad guys overconfident. Very good point. |
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We tried to find the quarry pond from the final scene when I lived out there. I can't remember if it was filled in, fenced off or if we just didn't have as much info as is available now. Quoted:
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The aircraft carrier scene was filmed at Point Molate in Richmond. That is the Richmond- San Rafael bridge in the background. You can see the City in some shots to the South. And Harry shot the "good guy" on purpose. Plus he also got a chance to shoot Officer Davis's Python into a target to extract a fired slug from later. edit: beat by basicone We tried to find the quarry pond from the final scene when I lived out there. I can't remember if it was filled in, fenced off or if we just didn't have as much info as is available now. She couldn't figure out my fascination with that trellis in Larkspur. |
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Wrong; Harry had to demonstrate that he was fallible in order to throw the last shot with Sweet's gun so that he could retrieve the bullet later. Had he performed perfectly, it might have raised suspicion when he threw that last shot. it also made the bad guys overconfident. Very good point. |
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Intentional. he wanted a chance to try david soul's colt, to see if the round matched a round from a homicide. so he threw the last round shooting the python too, so he could go back and recover it. This. Except he only shot a few with the .357 after the kid had won. He pulled the last one on purpose. |
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It was Davis's Python that he shot. Quoted:
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Wrong; Harry had to demonstrate that he was fallible in order to throw the last shot with Sweet's gun so that he could retrieve the bullet later. Had he performed perfectly, it might have raised suspicion when he threw that last shot. it also made the bad guys overconfident. Very good point. |
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Yeah, I always understood the part about getting the slug from Davis' .357 for evidence/proof, I've just had a little back and forth about Harry actually losing the match. America-first made a good justification for that. Davis even seemed a little suspicious when Harry hands his gun back to him. Quoted:
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Wrong; Harry had to demonstrate that he was fallible in order to throw the last shot with Sweet's gun so that he could retrieve the bullet later. Had he performed perfectly, it might have raised suspicion when he threw that last shot. it also made the bad guys overconfident. Very good point. |
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Did Harry shoot the last cop target intentionally? I always thought he did it to send a message to the the rookies that he was on to them. My Dad thinks it was an accident, but still meant as foreshadowing for the rest of the film.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtj6hsByDYkOn purpose. |
I prefer the pistol match scene from Sledge Hammer.
 Sledge Hammer's invention, a loudener |
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Davis was the first cop at the Guzman shooting scene. Also where Harry's friend McCoy was assassinated. Quoted:
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Wrong; Harry had to demonstrate that he was fallible in order to throw the last shot with Sweet's gun so that he could retrieve the bullet later. Had he performed perfectly, it might have raised suspicion when he threw that last shot. it also made the bad guys overconfident. Very good point.  Magnum Force - Police Pistol Competition part 1/3 |
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Yep, Frank and Harry talk about it in the first part of the competition scene. By then Harry pretty much knows it's the rookies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWFMT3Qgkq0Quoted:
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Wrong; Harry had to demonstrate that he was fallible in order to throw the last shot with Sweet's gun so that he could retrieve the bullet later. Had he performed perfectly, it might have raised suspicion when he threw that last shot. it also made the bad guys overconfident. Very good point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWFMT3Qgkq0
Fucking Bobby Maxwell. |
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It may have been a ruse to try Hutch's revolver, but I think he was pretty sure on his hunch at that point, and was illustrating that he would do it, if it came down to that. The look on the face of Holbrook's character kind of confirmed IMO. That has always been my take on it. |
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Intentional. he wanted a chance to try david soul's colt, to see if the round matched a round from a homicide. so he threw the last round shooting the python too, so he could go back and recover it. Right here pay fucking attention to the movie...why do think he was back at the range digging out the bullet...fuckin pay attention...holy crap 
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Right here pay fucking attention to the movie...why do think he was back at the range digging out the bullet...fuckin pay attention...holy crap Quoted:
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Intentional. he wanted a chance to try david soul's colt, to see if the round matched a round from a homicide. so he threw the last round shooting the python too, so he could go back and recover it. Right here pay fucking attention to the movie...why do think he was back at the range digging out the bullet...fuckin pay attention...holy crap Holy crap, fucking read and comprehend the OP. We aren't talking about the shot he obviously threw with Davis' Python, we're talking about the "good guy" target he shot with his M29.
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