Corrected entry: When Bob is shot and killed at the end of the film, the blood stain is at first small, but when the camera pulls to a wide shot as the credits are about to roll, the blood stain has suddenly become larger.
Colors (1988)
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Directed by: Dennis Hopper
Starring: Robert Duvall, Sean Penn, Maria Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks
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)
Bob Hodges: You wanna look at pussy or learn about this job?
Danny McGavin: Not yet.
Bob Hodges: Not yet.
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.'
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Correction: It makes perfect sense that a bloodstain would get larger as time goes on. The more blood coming out, the larger the stain. Think about it.