True, and it was silly, but Desperado was really meant to be a parody of a revenge themed movie. And, of course, EVERY cowboy movie made since TV started did that whole "sling the bullet" maneuver. I once read that budgets were so low in some of those old TV shows that there weren't even blanks, so the actors had to fake recoil, but since there was no smoke, they also waved the gun forward and back quickly to emphasize their shooting.Skiprr wrote:Here’s one I forgot about: “cowboying,” as in flinging a handgun forward as you shoot to, I suppose, help the bullet along by throwing it out of the barrel.It’s most commonly seen when the actor is using two handguns and firing them in an alternating, reciprocating action, a la Antonio Banderas in the big shoot-’em-up bar scene in Desperado.
We need to have the Mythbusters team do something to prove this :)