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I purchased Chromecast which allows me to play YouTube content on my tv. So I'm playing a lot of YouTube content on my tv. Via a radio programme on Klara I had discovered "Nirgendheim" by Blixa Bargeld which led me on to "Soul Desert" which connected me to The Phantom of Liberty of which the sniper scene reminded me of God Told Me To.

Both The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel, 1974) and God Told Me To (Larry Cohen, 1976) feature a scene in which a sniper shoots innocent strangers from a highrise. Both scenes are probably inspired by Charles Whitman's spree killing in Texas in 1966.

In Buñuel's film, the sniper randomly kills people in the Parisian streets below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pE4KJBK9s4

Phantom of Liberty as featured in Blixa Bargeld's cover of "Soul Desert", sniper scene starts at 0:42

In Cohen's film, the sniper is perched on a water tower in New York and opens fire on the crowded streets below, killing fifteen pedestrians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIFPoQ0BefI

God Told Me To, the sniper scene starts at 1:26

See stranger killing by snipers in seventies cinema.



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