[rktman]

Just for kicks and grins. Interesting in some aspects.

[bicyclerepair]

I still have an empty chair out front.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Scene

[the_Watchman]

It’s amusing that one of the later episodes of Death Valley Days of the 1950’s featured a mid-western sheriff who would not carry a gun. I believe that the episode ended after he was shot and the implication was that he was too far ahead of his time.

The sheriff was played by Ronald Reagan. :)

[relictele]

The economics of Hollywood have more or less been laid out: they are more reliant than ever on overseas revenue, particularly China and to a lesser extent Russia and Eastern Europe.

Due to linguistic and cultural differences, as well as a lack of education, films with intricate plots, nuances in dialogue, etc. do not perform well abroad. Action and violence are, for better or worse, universally understood.

The timing isn’t good for film buffs, either, since CGI has made sci-fi and comic adaptations a piece of cake for filmmakers (but still expensive due to reliance on for-hire animation houses).

In sum, the entertainment biz must pump out more mindless whiz-bang frenzy and lots of gunshots in order to sell tickets.

[moovova]

I hope they’ll do a remake of “The Magnificent Seven”...without the guns.

Better yet...”Saving Private Ryan”.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry

[Jeff Chandler]

Books, too.

LIst of guns in Collateral Crimes:

Berreta Bobcat
1911 .45ACP
AK47
M16
Ruger MK II
Colt Python
S&W 642
9MM Springfield XDM
Thompson submachine gun
Spencer Reapeating Rifle
CZ52
Ruger Redhawk
Glock 62
Savage Rascal.

I hope I haven't left any out.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Eastwood is awesome! Any scene in Unforgiven after he gets beat up and starts drinking again is an instant classic. One of my favorite movie lines ever is when he's staring down the barrel of the rifle (or shotgun) and tells Gene Hackman's character "Deserve's got nothing to do with it" and pulls the trigger. And the scene in the rain as he's starting to leave town, where he gives the "you'd better bury Ned right..." speech. Such a badass!

[al_c]

Now days, Harry Callahan would be suspended while being investigated for shooting a black man. There would be videos of the shooting all over social media and the BLM would be calling for his death.

Sometimes I miss the 70s.

[zeugma]

One of my pet peeves about firearms in movies and TV, is that if you see a character with a gun, at some time during the course of the show, you can be sure it will be fired. There is not a single movie or television program where there is a character that just casually arms up in the normal course of his day, and goes about his life without actually using it.

This is the reality of modern life. There are millions of us who are armed every day in the normal course of our life. I never leave the home without being armed. Don't care where I'm going, or what I'm doing, I'm armed. Yet, somehow, I have never had occasion to pull it out even as a warning, much less actually fire the thing, except at a range.

Yet, the media is so obsessed with violence, that they can never show that. They can never acknowledge that a man just being a normal human being can be armed without coming up with some reason to destroy something or someone. It is sickening, and shows their heart clearer than anything else.

[B4Ranch]

>>Researchers also found that gun violence in PG-13 films has more than tripled since 1985; in recent years, it has even exceeded the violence of R-rated films.<<

Programming America for gun control via the movies.