# Wheezy overused plot device: Oops, I dropped my gun. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheezy-overused-plot-device-oops-i-dropped-my-gun/272433 "2004-11-01T22:56:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheezy-overused-plot-device-oops-i-dropped-my-gun/272433/61 "2004-11-04T23:04:14Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > It’s been widely reported that Connelly had her breasts reduced so she could get cred as a serious actress. Serious actresses, Oscar contenders and such, don’t have big tits. Sad but true. Christina Ricci went the same route for the same reason. You’re making baby Jesus cry. And also me. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheezy-overused-plot-device-oops-i-dropped-my-gun/272433/62 "2004-11-04T23:19:00Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > I don’t know if it is actually a ‘plot device’, but I am sick of horror movies in which ‘Character A’ goes into the bathroom, peers into the mirror on the door of the medicine cabinet and sees their reflection, opens the cabinet, then shuts it - and the mirror shows a creepy evil face right behind Character A. God. Do the directors of these movies don’t realize we know these bits are coming, as soon as Character A walks through the bathroom door? I hate that. Also Character A wakes up in the middle of the night, sleepily shuffles to the fridge, opens the door, then when they close it creepy person is standing there. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheezy-overused-plot-device-oops-i-dropped-my-gun/272433/63 "2004-11-05T01:07:47Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > It’s been widely reported that Connelly had her breasts reduced so she could get cred as a serious actress. Serious actresses, Oscar contenders and such, don’t have big tits. Sad but true. Christina Ricci went the same route for the same reason. I doubt that very much. Breast reduction surgery leaves heavy scarring and both Connoly and Ricci have flashed their breasts since they shrank. They’re both skinny as rakes now which also shrinks breasts without causing scar tissue, so I’m sure that’s the explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheezy-overused-plot-device-oops-i-dropped-my-gun/272433/64 "2004-11-05T01:41:02Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > I doubt that very much. Breast reduction surgery leaves heavy scarring and both Connoly and Ricci have flashed their breasts since they shrank. > > They’re both skinny as rakes now which also shrinks breasts without causing scar tissue, so I’m sure that’s the explanation. Oooh, oooh, Where? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheezy-overused-plot-device-oops-i-dropped-my-gun/272433/65 "2004-11-05T03:00:01Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > In the immortal words of Tuco (Eli Wallach) in _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_, “When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.” > > DD Die Hard did something similar early in the movie. And, yes, I realize that the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly came 20 years earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheezy-overused-plot-device-oops-i-dropped-my-gun/272433/66 "2004-11-05T03:29:35Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > A retired police officer friend of mine tells me that the first rule taught at the Acadamy is “never give up your gun”. If you keep your gun, the situation _might_, however implausibly, be resolved in your favor. If you give it up, it certainly won’t. If nothing else, you can shoot the sumbitch after he shoots the hostage… and if you tell him that is what you will do, he is much less likely to do so. I was watching Godfather III and thinking that. Andy Garcia has disarmed one intruder and is holding a gun on the other, who has a knife at his girlfriend’s throat. Suggested more realistic line for Andy: “Your buddy is disarmed. Cut her and she may live, but neither of you will from the gaping head wounds you’ll have inside three seconds. Let her go, and I’ll have some incentive to let you live.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheezy-overused-plot-device-oops-i-dropped-my-gun/272433.md?page=3)