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The results were not promising for zig-zag truthers, as 54% of the zig-zag group were hit, compared to 52% straight-liners and 55% for the crouchers. One group would run in a straight line, another in a crouch position, and another in a zig-zag. Three groups would flee from experienced shooters firing paintballs out of glocks. He has no idea and also doesn’t really care.Ī few years back, Greg Ellifritz, the President of Active Response Training and also a guy who is holding a gun in his Twitter AVI, conducted an experiment to test the validity of the zig-zag theory. With good humor and only a little bit of exasperation Chestnut manages to say “I think he did it so we could have an interesting end to a movie.” That’s kind of a cop-out Morris, but the answer is revealing. Morris Chestnut, the actor who portrayed Ricky, was accosted by a TMZ camera crew, who shout-asked him “Why didn’t Ricky zig-zag!?” This happened in the year 2014, over twenty years since the young actor following the script’s directions bolted down that alleyway. What did you do in your early 20s? Did you direct Boyz n the Hood? Probably not! It seems hardly possible with the benefits of hindsight, but there is the possibility that Singleton didn’t realize that folks would one day dissect Ricky’s final run like it was Zapruder footage.
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He is after all, both the screenwriter and director, and a first time director in his early 20s at that. You can make the case this is John Singleton’s fault. But Rickon was basically a plot-device with shoes. Rickon, of course, has seemingly even less of an excuse for not boldly deciding to run diagonally for a moment or two, as he was given a head start across a massive no-man’s-land length area, and was being shot at by a single archer. Rickon’s final run, in this past season of Game of Thrones, immediately reminded basically the entire world of Ricky’s own dash to keep on living, and got us all chattering again. However, Ricky’s legacy of fidelity to the straight-line has been taken up by another Rick, the scarcely seen and even more scarcely heard Rickon Stark. Apocalypto gives us a memorable scene that features a complete lack of go-routes, as our hero and his doomed buddies flee Mayan arrows and spears with precise cuts and clear disdain for running in a straight line.
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Screaming at fictional characters to zig-zag is an old tradition, and indeed sometimes characters do seem to listen! The In-Laws features the (in certain circles!) famous “Serpentine!” sequence, in which Alan Arkin runs comical zig-zags towards a car evading several of Tijuana's worst marksmen.
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I always wondered why he didn't run in a zig zag. Why didn't Ricky run in a zig-zag? Guarantee he woulda lived.Īnd Ricky just got shot. And for nearly as long as that scene has existed, people have had certain opinions on Ricky’s final run, one in particular that comes perilously close to blaming Ricky for being shot.īest question asked in 20+ years."Why didn't Ricky at least try a lil zig zag running style?" ??????????????? It’s a great scene, one of the most memorable scenes in 90s cinema. We know what’s coming, but we’re still hoping he somehow manages to evade the blast of the shotgun and make good his escape the eponymous hood. Ricky, an amicable running-back being courted by USC, runs for his life. Ricky is curiously calm for a hunted man (a kid, really), having just pissed on a wall and now taking a leisurely stroll down the alley, trying his luck at some scratchers. Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Ricky (Morris Chestnut) have seemingly escaped from a red Hyundai carrying an antagonistic trio that mean them harm. The sun beats down on an alleyway in South Central. It’s been 25 years and many of us are still agonizing about that one scene in John Singleton’s first and best film, Boyz n the Hood.