Post by Woody Williams on May 26, 2007 16:25:09 GMT -5
I finally decided to track down this Mel Gibson's line from the movie The
Patriot. I had never hear it put that way before. Our's was always "Pick a spot".
From the trivia section of the Internet Movie Database ( www.imdb.com ):
"When teaching Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger how to shoot a muzzle-loading
rifle, technical advisor Mark Baker gave them the advice to "aim small, miss
small", meaning that if you aim at a man and miss, you miss the man, while
if you aim at a button (for instance) and miss, you still hit the man.
Gibson liked this bit advice so much he incorporated it into the movie, just
prior to the ambush scene."
Sort of like pick a tuff of hair on the deer...
Patriot. I had never hear it put that way before. Our's was always "Pick a spot".
From the trivia section of the Internet Movie Database ( www.imdb.com ):
"When teaching Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger how to shoot a muzzle-loading
rifle, technical advisor Mark Baker gave them the advice to "aim small, miss
small", meaning that if you aim at a man and miss, you miss the man, while
if you aim at a button (for instance) and miss, you still hit the man.
Gibson liked this bit advice so much he incorporated it into the movie, just
prior to the ambush scene."
Sort of like pick a tuff of hair on the deer...
