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Firearm portrayal in Hollywood. Fiction vs.reality
Ruger22
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I think most folks here are like minded patriotic Americans who believe firmly that the 2nd ammendment separates us in a unique manner from other nations and is necessary as a safeguard against tyrrany as well as the recreational reasons we all share.
I often think about how the Hollywood anti gun nuts portray firearms in films and shake my head. Although the directing and producing community is not 100% dominated by them, I think at times they objectify firearms as evil and shift responsibility from the villain to the inanimate object, which is the first sign of insanity.
The most recurring object of irritation is the constant firing without reloading and calling a gun something its not when the actor is holding it in his hand and you know its x or its function is y, but they are calling it -a- and its function is-y-. The supply of never ending ammo is ofcourse my pet peeve, and the use of cheap fireamrs with no jamming.
There are excellent films out there that I would highly recommend, they are by no way perfect, but have excellent portrayal and overall accurate depiction of firearms. They are as follows:
1. Saving Private Ryan.
2. Enemy at the Gates.
3. Tombstone.
and others.
Please tell me about your take on this.
Member: NRA,RFC, John Birch Society, American Numismatic Association.
I often think about how the Hollywood anti gun nuts portray firearms in films and shake my head. Although the directing and producing community is not 100% dominated by them, I think at times they objectify firearms as evil and shift responsibility from the villain to the inanimate object, which is the first sign of insanity.
The most recurring object of irritation is the constant firing without reloading and calling a gun something its not when the actor is holding it in his hand and you know its x or its function is y, but they are calling it -a- and its function is-y-. The supply of never ending ammo is ofcourse my pet peeve, and the use of cheap fireamrs with no jamming.
There are excellent films out there that I would highly recommend, they are by no way perfect, but have excellent portrayal and overall accurate depiction of firearms. They are as follows:
1. Saving Private Ryan.
2. Enemy at the Gates.
3. Tombstone.
and others.
Please tell me about your take on this.
Member: NRA,RFC, John Birch Society, American Numismatic Association.
Comments
Let's take a look at most movies wherein guns play a vital role in the plot. Only rarely does anyone try to solve their problems with anything other than violence, ie, they shoot first and ask questions later. That is something that every mmber here would NEVER do. Yet the popular conception is that guns can fire billions of rounds a second, never run out of ammo, and are in the hands of inherently unstable and violent individuals.
With such an image burned into the minds of the public at large, is it any wonder that guns are feared and reviled? I know of very many otherwise very sensible people who don't even want to know ANYTHING about firearms because the very notion of them frightens them.
The misrepresentation of firearms and their owners is a Hollywood staple because it's easier than the truth: that guns are not all-empowering and all-conquering and require a great deal of training and care to use properly.
Hollywood perpetuates this myth of the omnipotent gun because even the laziest and most ignorant of writers can type down "And then the main character pulls out his M16 machine gun and blows all 100 bad guys away." Lots of explosions are easier to direct than decent dialogue or a good story. It makes their jobs easier.
And because Hollywood is so lazy, we, the gun owner, get painted as a nearly psychotic rage-filled individual whose first instinct is to kill whatever's annoying us, the law be damned. But hey, it's only a movie, right?
There are exceptions to everything and it would be wrong to paint everyone in Hollywood (remember Charlton Heston?) with the same brush just like it would be wrong to say everyone here is a pinko or nitwit.
Other than movies mentioned above ... the old Spaghetti westerns came close to at least being realistic with respect to the firearms (dare I say weapons???)
Sure we could name a lot of movies that were reasonably realistic, but if we did what percentage would that be of all the movies made? Pretty small I bet...
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Of course, all these "miss" rounds end up somewhere, and sometimes kill bystanders, especially in things like gang drive-bys. This is also rarely seen in film.
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When someone is shooting at a running target they are always hitting the ground behind his FEET?
The last bullet from a spray always hits the post the guy is standing behind and never goes beyond?
The guys hiding behind empty barrels (steel and plastic),gypsum walls and other items that are EASILY penetrated by bullets, never get hit?
Cars shot in the radiator explode?
When a guy checks his ONLY magazine after fireing 50 or 60 rounds from it he still has ONE and only one cartridge left?
Good guys never "drop the mag" when they give up their gun to the badguy?
The guy withe the scoped rifle can't hit a guy 200' away but the guy 200 feet away with the pistol (snapshooting)can hit the guy with the rifle first shot?
Bad guys always step in the open to shoot?
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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