I remember listening to an audio clip on the intaraweb machine about two years ago of Kiefer Sutherland (can’t remember if it was in his Bauer guise or not) talking about the noise that a pistol makes when you cock it, and how it strikes fear into people.
He goes on about how it’s unnecessary to do this to actually fire the weapon, but how you do it anyway because it sounds cool.
Bit of a long shot and a vague-ish description, but does anyone know what this is/was from/where I can hear it again?
I bet your soundbite came from the movie Phone Booth, in which Kiefer Sutherland (as the villain) says this:
“You know like in the movies just as the good guy is about to kill the bad guy, he cocks his gun. Now why didn’t he have it cocked? Because that sound is scary. It’s cool, isn’t it?”
You can download an audio file here (about halfway down the page).
Related to this, was a PSA spot Sutherland did after a particular episode of 24.
If I recall it was early on in the season (3 or 4 perhaps) and Bauer had to play russian roulette with a few security guards.
I think in order to get that on air, Sutherland had to address the audience after the show, out of character.
The message was about guns in general, and how “We” ((CTU)) can use them cause we have to, but you the citizens of US should never use them, blah blah blah.
I would just like to note that Phone Booth is a pretty good movie. In a sense it is pretty amazing how well made it is, given the small cast and limitted movement/topic. It would have been very easy for it to have had a stage-play feeling to it, but felt like a perfectly good summer suspense film.
This is a whoosh, right? In a show all about glorified violence and justifiable torture, they did a G.I. Joe after-show bit on gun control?
That’s like Rachael Ray giving a spiel at the end of her show, about how the cooking and recipes are all presented to satisfy an insurance technicality, and that the viewer should just skip the hobby and eat at McDonald’s instead.
It’s not a whoosh. I recall the episode. I was curious as to why there was a warning on gun usage after the show, and then my mother reminded me there was a Russian roulette game in the episode. I guess they didn’t want a bunch of copycat suicides like The Deer Hunter. Remember, killing others is okay. Killing yourself? That’s something else entirely.
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