Ahh...the joy of statistsititttiistics

[H2SO4]

Hmm. The gun kata has been introduced in the film as a statistically (geez i hate saying that word...) developed form of martial arts + guns. But, surely as a statistic, there is the chance that return fire will hit you?

And surely not EVERYONE has the same firing angle, return fire etc...It's called "aiming" chaps, great tool when you're trying to hit something whilst firing this loud heavy weapon of sorts that fires lead.

Obviously for purposes of the film gun kata is treated as a road to invincibility (if it wasn't, we'd see dead Prestons all over the palce in the movie )

But, i am a brave enough to challenge the theory behind it...(or, rather stupidly). Don't get me wrong, i definitely think that gun kata has been the coolest concept to emerge in the recent years, like bullet time (i'm not making any relation between the matrix and equilibrium, merely that they had cool concepts) but is it possible that it is flawed and can be defeated?

Of course its hard to say, as this is all theoretical really...

And also...what happens when you match a cleric with another one? =P

p00nage!

[JenGe]

H2SO4 said:

And also...what happens when you match a cleric with another one? =P

From the original script...bullets collide. (see page 100)

It was also mentioned in the Production Notes but never actually made it into the final cut...

Special effects supervisor and coordinator Uli Nefzer created EQUILIBRIUM'S wild barrage of physical effects ranging from flamethrowers, exploding pillars and breakaway walls to trapdoor mechanics, catapults and gun flashes. Perhaps the most unusual effect Netzer created is displayed in the climactic showdown between Preston and DuPont, He explains. "When they start fighting in Father's Boudoir, they can both anticipate each other's every move, so the bullets they fire collide in mid-air, shatter and spray out in a disc of fragments. While the colliding is a visual effect, the discs of shrapnel are physical realizations and took a lot of working out. It looks amazing and for me, is one of EQUILIBRIUM's visual highlights."

[H2SO4]

Prolly cos it cost too much to do...and then there was the reality factor of the guys being torn apart by the colliding bullets' fragments and other stuff

Would've looked cool though

But what if you matched two clerics at long range? They'd both be fighting with the same style and dodgint the same statistically proven return fire and returning fire according to a specified style etc... you get the drift

[ebime]

The one who would be wise enough to really study his style, as opposed to simply train in it, could develop an "anti-form" in order to shoot exactly where a trained cleric would move. Otherwise, they would simply be subject to statistics as well...

[TetraGrammaton]

Clerics would adapt style to situation, I'd assume.
At hand-to-hand close range, you'd prolly end up with the gunpush situation re: endscene.