Hi. The actor’s name was Ben Murphy and if you go back and watch an episode you will see that you never actually see him make the draw. It show’s him about to draw, cuts away and cuts back and the pistol is already out. Clear sign that the actor was too slow to draw on camera.
Actor Ben Cooper’s extreme fast draw.
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Agreed. For better and worse, in 'take' shots a lot of the time for actors they don't get a say, which is sensible from the perspective it's work, but also kinda disappointing.
I worked a little in PA stuff in my 20s - some of the stuff the actors, even the 'day player' types, would learn like at a pro level and then absolutely nail just to get told they were doing another shot for like a close-up of the hands and stuff - you could see how pissed/heartbroken some them were - one woman, I won't say who because she's now well known, had taken like a 3-month crash course and actually learned how to play the piano - and then on-set the director told her "Oh don't worry we'll just add that in post, we didn't even tune this old thing."
Yeah that must be frustrating When cuts like that get made. Interesting tidbit. Sam Peckinpah had Bruce Gellar write a script specifically for Ben because of his gun handling abilities, for his series The Westerner. It was called Hand on the Gun. You can find it on YouTube if you are interested.Agreed. For better and worse, in 'take' shots a lot of the time for actors they don't get a say, which is sensible from the perspective it's work, but also kinda disappointing.
I worked a little in PA stuff in my 20s - some of the stuff the actors, even the 'day player' types, would learn like at a pro level and then absolutely nail just to get told they were doing another shot for like a close-up of the hands and stuff - you could see how pissed/heartbroken some them were - one woman, I won't say who because she's now well known, had taken like a 3-month crash course and actually learned how to play the piano - and then on-set the director told her "Oh don't worry we'll just add that in post, we didn't even tune this old thing."
When I ordered an Ojala gun rig in 1985 I talked with Arvo Ojala a couple times over the phone and he said it’s his hand in the closeup fast draw and gun spinning in a new movie called”Three Amigos”. He said he’s doing the closeup fast draw and gun spinning in it. He also said he was supposed to do closeups for Kevin Costner in “Silverado” in New Mexico but got in a car accident so Costner had to do it himself. And Costner, who he coached, was great at it.Agreed. For better and worse, in 'take' shots a lot of the time for actors they don't get a say, which is sensible from the perspective it's work, but also kinda disappointing.
I worked a little in PA stuff in my 20s - some of the stuff the actors, even the 'day player' types, would learn like at a pro level and then absolutely nail just to get told they were doing another shot for like a close-up of the hands and stuff - you could see how pissed/heartbroken some them were - one woman, I won't say who because she's now well known, had taken like a 3-month crash course and actually learned how to play the piano - and then on-set the director told her "Oh don't worry we'll just add that in post, we didn't even tune this old thing."
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