For quite a while, my running comments on wrong guns or dumb comments about guns (captions saying "cocks trigger") drove my wife nuts. However, she has finally develooped an interest in this subject.
We recently re-watched the Manchurian Candidate. There was a two piece "Soviet sniper rifle" which was really a WW II Type 99-2 Arisaka paratrooper rifle. Here's a link that shows all the weapons used in the movie: http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Manchurian_Candidate,_The_(1962)
It has always interested me to see how much extreme detail often goes into getting things right in movies, only to use some totally inappropriate firearm.
Someone once did a parody in which a welder was completely panning "Flashdance" because the welding was done wrong. I guess I may be related to that guy . . .
<edit> A few years ago there was a short lived TV series that I can't remember the name of. However, the first episode showed the discovery of a 1950s fallout shelter used by a Soviet spy and then sealed up for nearly 50 years. One of the items they found, and threw on a table in a very dismissive manner, was a Makarov pistol. Only problem was, it was a commercial model with an adjustable sight that was not available until the early 90s. As if a Soviet spy in the '50s would bother to bring in a pistol when he could buy one anywhere with no questions asked. Call me picky.
We recently re-watched the Manchurian Candidate. There was a two piece "Soviet sniper rifle" which was really a WW II Type 99-2 Arisaka paratrooper rifle. Here's a link that shows all the weapons used in the movie: http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Manchurian_Candidate,_The_(1962)
It has always interested me to see how much extreme detail often goes into getting things right in movies, only to use some totally inappropriate firearm.
Someone once did a parody in which a welder was completely panning "Flashdance" because the welding was done wrong. I guess I may be related to that guy . . .
<edit> A few years ago there was a short lived TV series that I can't remember the name of. However, the first episode showed the discovery of a 1950s fallout shelter used by a Soviet spy and then sealed up for nearly 50 years. One of the items they found, and threw on a table in a very dismissive manner, was a Makarov pistol. Only problem was, it was a commercial model with an adjustable sight that was not available until the early 90s. As if a Soviet spy in the '50s would bother to bring in a pistol when he could buy one anywhere with no questions asked. Call me picky.
