Over and over in movies, TV shows and the like, the hero or heroine is being pursued by evil pursuers, who may or may not be police officers or government agents. Tension builds as our hero looks like all is lost, but then somehow manages to overcome or disable their attacker, and the hero or heroine is able to flee. And almost always, there is a gun lying on the ground that the evil attacker had with him, or on his person, but our hero just runs rather than taking a few seconds (remember the bad guy is already down and at least temporarily unable to harm them) to pick up the gun and/or the ammunition available for the later and inevitable confrontation will be happen. Even in the rare case where they take the gun, I cannot recall a single case where the good guy searches through the clothes or whatever of the unconscious or dead bad guy for additional magazines, loose rounds whatever. So even when they take the gun, you can be sure that later on they will be in dire straits yet again and will run out of ammo and have to find another way to survive.
I thought of this while watching a Netflix limited series from Australia last night, "Wanted". The two women who have to survive by their wits and skills while being pursued by crooked cops intent on killing them, or a professional killer hired by the bad cops. Just in the first two episodes that I watched, the two women have several occasions in which they could have easily picked up one or more guns. In one situation, one does pick up the rifle that is available, and uses it to get away from where the two of them are, but abandons the rifle momentarily afterwards when keeping it would have likely made their survival a lot easier.
Maybe its just for the plot to advance that the main characters cannot be armed and somehow permanently dispatch their adversaries. But I find myself almost yelling at the screen "Pick up the damn gun!", much to my wife's chagrin.
Anyone else ever notice this?
I thought of this while watching a Netflix limited series from Australia last night, "Wanted". The two women who have to survive by their wits and skills while being pursued by crooked cops intent on killing them, or a professional killer hired by the bad cops. Just in the first two episodes that I watched, the two women have several occasions in which they could have easily picked up one or more guns. In one situation, one does pick up the rifle that is available, and uses it to get away from where the two of them are, but abandons the rifle momentarily afterwards when keeping it would have likely made their survival a lot easier.
Maybe its just for the plot to advance that the main characters cannot be armed and somehow permanently dispatch their adversaries. But I find myself almost yelling at the screen "Pick up the damn gun!", much to my wife's chagrin.
Anyone else ever notice this?
