Corrected entry: When Costello's hooligans drive away from 344 Wash after the shoot-out, Queenan's body on the ground is quite obviously a dummy.
Phaneron
18th Oct 2006
The Departed (2006)
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Correction: Too vague. What makes it so obvious that it is a dummy?
S. Ha
They ran over it.
And? We know they aren't going to run over the actor for real, so a dummy has to be used. That would be like saying the blood squibs and blanks from guns are obvious because the actors weren't really shot. Putting aside filmmaking techniques, what stands out from the dummy that in the context of verisimilitude, it's distinguishable from a dead body?
Phaneron ★