There’s a minor hoo-hah response to William Friedkin having done a George Lucas on the recently-released Sorcerer Bluray. Longtime HE reader Bobby Cooper explains: “Did you notice Friedkin added a little capgun pop to the final shot of the thugs entering the cantina looking for Roy Scheider at the very end? [This] seems to put too fine a point on the existential gloom and hopelessness of it all, as if David Chase had inserted a stock gunshot noise to the Sopranos finale before the cut-to-black. It goes against Friedkin’s whole ethos of embracing ambiguity, and yet who else would have okayed it? Not an egregious blunder but irritating all the same. Again, the IMDB comment thread.”
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