As he lay seemingly shocked to death on the floor, Julia killed one guard, and then reloaded in readiness for Musgrave""s attack - she was able to successfully "point and shoot" against him and stay low to kill him, as taught.The film was a superb re-envisioning of the insightful Nicholas Ray, Eisenhower-Era melodrama about the family,Bigger Than Life (1956)- hat also critiqued the suffocating and claustrophobic conformity of 1950s middle-class life in an earlier era.Powers diverted the laser beam firing and saved the DC Capital, but Felicity died from poisonous gas.Apone (Al Matthews)wise-cracking and sarcastic Private Hudson (Bill Paxton)quiet and reserved Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn)inept platoon leader Lt.However, its idyllic view of life and example of personal film-making was overshadowed by the self-absorbent, drug-induced, erratic behavior of the filmmakers, chronicled in Peter Biskind""s ell-allEasy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and Rock ""N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (1999).