Continuity mistake: When Larry and Rocket are about to go one-on-one in a shoot-out, the car behind Larry is empty. When the shooting starts, the car is full of people. (01:46:20)
Colors (1988)
Directed by: Dennis Hopper
Starring: Robert Duvall, Sean Penn, Maria Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks
Continuity mistake: When Louisa is following McGavin (Pacman) after the shootout, she gets to the bottom of the stairs and her hands are on her hips. The next shot, her arms are by her sides.
Revealing mistake: When Rocket and Larry face off in the shootout, there is a shot of Rocket's back, and when they fire at each other you see the blood packs being set off. Rocket does not react to being shot until a few seconds later. (01:46:30)
Trivia: When Colors was first screened in a university theater, a young film student was of the opinion that the studio who financed this film 'had no right to make a movie about a culture they knew nothing about', and that they were marketing it as a picture about black gangs when it was actually a film about 'two white cops.' This student eventually graduated, wrote a film, and directed it. That film was Boyz in Da Hood, and the writer-director was John Singleton, who at the time had had it with those 'stupid New Jack Shitty exploitation films about blacks.'
Danny McGavin: Is 21st street on our list?
Bob Hodges: Nah. Poor fuckers are professional victims. Get their ass kicked constantly. Kind of a mixed gang. You got Diamond street there, the ville, and the projects on the west so they gotta fight their way in and fight their way out.
Danny McGavin: They're fucked, huh?
Bob Hodges: You wanna look at pussy or learn about this job?
Danny McGavin: Not yet.
Bob Hodges: Not yet.
Bob Hodges: Who are you?
Danny McGavin: Rocky 6.
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