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Firearms in film
Monday, December 01, 2008
If you’re a gun nut, or just someone who’s interested, you may have wondered what weapons are being used on screen during your favorite action film. Well wonder no more. Now you can zip over to imfdb.org a.k.a. Internet Movie Firearms Database.
Take The Matrix as an example:
Closing out the opening shot Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) unleashes twin Beretta Cheetahs on the assembled police and agents as she makes her escape. While rescuing Morpheus, Trinity kills an Agent with her Beretta M84 Cheetah, managing to get close enough for a point-blank shot to the head which the Agent was unable to dodge. [more at source]
Personally I’m more of a Scarface man myself:
Tony Montana (Al Pacino) has an M203 grenade launcher mounted on his M16A1 during the final battle. In one of the films more memorable moments Tony yells out “Say hello to my little friend!” and blows a door down with a 40mm grenade, killing several of Sosa’s men. [more at source]
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Posted at 4:47PM by Mike
