No problem, according to the interview Jim Burke did with Tim Lilley, Jim stated they had talked about him doing the entire ending. This was well into shooting due to Duke getting ill when time came to shoot the climax. He stated Duke got a lot better just in time to do the ending.
Posts from alamo221 in thread „The Shootist (1976)“
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Minor correction, Jim Burke, not "Bad" Chuck, doubled Duke for the shootout, and almost did the entire ending due to Duke's illness. Chuck only doubled Duke in the longshots at the very beginning of the film.
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Hi Alamo, I had checked this before, but just did again, for YOU, LOL. You can most definitely hear two shots first....the second almost right on top of the other.HAGO, KEITH
Thats what I meant when I said it almost seemed cut or edited-the overlapped shot along with the scene of the gunsmoke around Duke and a bit of shaky-cam. Just an awkward scene. -
that's what I always thought happened, but the way it's shown in the film, the scene seems to have a "cut" at that moment, so it looked as tho one shot was edited out for some reason, since you really only hear 2 shots ring out. In any case, RB should have had a better death scene.
Also, I don't feel The Tennesseean meant any disrespect in his comments, I had heard pretty much the same things about RB over the years as he mentioned. We're all friends, and sometimes things don't quite
come out too delicately when we're talking about our favorite actors and such. We're all fans tho, but we know these actors are human too. We all have frailties, and various reasons for them, so please try not to take our comments too seriously. We all have tremendous respect for Richard Boone and what he's gone thru, as well as all the other actors mentioned on the board. So many of our favorite stars had a lot of drama in their lives, like many of us, and sometimes mentioning these things makes them all the more human. As a side note, I loved Robert Shaw in The Sting, but I would have loved to see what RB could have done in the role. -
three times! Kp
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That was always a bit off for me. As I remember, Duke fires 2 shots at Sweeney as he approaches, but there's 3 separate holes in the table top.
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Hi Alamo,
Yep, scroll down. Talks about the new thing I found after 36 years. About Duke being ill and not sure he could finish the film.....and,then the Widipedia bit, then the sketch that shows it. HAGO, KEITH
In my case, I had to scroll BACK to see what you were talking about-LOL! Nice sketch! -
Just to clarify a point that has again been mentioned.
This taken from IMDb and is in our profile of the movie,
In the trivia section
Hope this answers the query
I didn't know that-the character has the same name in the book, which was written before the film. -
Hi there Alamo,
Yep, Peridot and I would have liked for RB to have had more, LOL!
Did you see below what I wrote for Wikipedia?
HAGO,KEITH
Howdy Hawk-I don't think it came thru- -
I thought Boone's character should have gone out with a lot more fight. Considering his feelings toward Books, they should have given him a better death scene in my opinion. Maybe due to Duke being sick, they decided not to do anything moe physical between the two (Duke stopped production for a bit due to being ill, and originally, Duke's double Jim Burk was going to do the entire shootout. Their was doubt Duke would be able to finish the film, but as we know, he did).
