Best gun moment in cinema history

I don't remember if it was Zulu or one just like it, but the scene that stands out is the soldiers going back to the supply sgt to draw more ammo, the idiot was refusing to issue any more unless they brought back the brass.
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That's from the movie Zulu Dawn, about the battle of Isandlwana. Zulu is about the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
 
Ya just beat me Natman,,,

That's from the movie Zulu Dawn, about the battle of Isandlwana. Zulu is about the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
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I believe you are correct Natman,

I streamed the first few minutes of ZULU and never saw that scene,,,

Zulu Dawn is not available to stream so I couldn't verify it.

Aarond
 
The two movies were made about ten years apart but were about actual historical events that took place the same day. You can also see in one of the photos below that some of the men have historically inaccurate rifles, not exactly an unusual thing in movies but the others have the correct Martinis. The part where Michael Caine's hands are shaking when he is reloading is probably historically accurate, too. Michael Caine, by the way, is one of the few actors to have combat experience, in Korea.

I get the two movies mixed up but one of them was made on pretty much the original location of the events.
 
Zulu was filmed in a South African National Park, but the scenery is quite similar to the actual Rorke's Drift scenery, it's all the same geology. Zulu Dawn was filmed at Ishandlwana, the actual location of the battle. There are numerous battlegrounds in South Africa, totally devoid of statues, interpretive centers, and paid guides, which is as it should be. Both are outstanding films, although each has a flawed subplot involving missionarys and apologizing for the war. In Zulu, you can see some of the actors using Lee-Enfields, or Lee-Metfords, they removed the magazines and hoped the viewers wouldn't notice.

The new film Gladiator used part of the Zulu soundtrack for the Teutonic tribal army in the beginning battle scenes.
 
My mistake. I thought that some versions of Zulu were edited for tv viewing, much like "Midway" in which there is a version with the Battle of Coral Sea edited in as well.

Didn't know there was a second movie though. Awesome.

As far as the use of the Enfields, I read over on IMFDB that they had plent of authentic Martini-Henry rifles but there was a lack of blanks for said weapons.
 
Kraigwy said:
City Heat: Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds last shoot our, using New York Reloads, or pulling a new gun after running out of ammo, each new gun has a longer barrel.
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Actually, I found that scene somewhat insulting. The director and screen writers use the old psycho-babble about guns being a "manhood" substitute and played it up both as a visual and a psychological comment about men with guns.

ZULU:
Great movie. Quite dramatic and when I watch the movie (on DVD) I always think of these guys with brass one's hanging to face the Zulu warriors (who averaged 6'9" tall).

Blue Train said:
The part where Michael Caine's hands are shaking when he is reloading is probably historically accurate, too. Michael Caine, by the way, is one of the few actors to have combat experience, in Korea.
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Oops... That wasn't Michael "Lt. Bromhead" Caine, but Stanley "Lt. Chard" Baker who's hands were shaking. A small historical fact revealed by Lt. Chard in his personal journals.

By the way, Stanley Baker not only starred in Zulu, but was a co-producer too. He had intended to make Zulu Dawn as well.

Of interest to many here (probably) was this snippet from Stanley's IMDB bio

In a floral tribute sent to Stanley Baker's funeral, Zulu leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi who had worked with him in Zulu (1964) described him as "the most decent white man I have ever met".
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I've always been a fan of the scene in Pulp Fiction when Marvin gets shot in the back of the car. Yeah it was violent and gruesome but I liked the shock factor of it.
 
Maybe not the "best", but certainly two of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tX8qMKFbSY

"You pull on me, either one of you, I'll kill you both"
Blam Blam, BOOM
"I warned 'em"

Also, I absolutely love the first scene from this clip, I laughed so hard the first time I saw it (skip to about the 40 second mark for the beginning):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCIN56JwIGU

"You knocked my tooth out!"
"Well Colt makes a heavy firearm that's a fact"...........:D
 
Lets see ...

John Wayne in True Grit where he cocks the rifle by spinning it while riding on the horse (ok, that's pretty awesome!),

Woody in Zombieland at the end where he ejects the magazines and then slams the guns down on 2 fresh mags he had set up on the counter and keeps on shooting ... way cool! btw - I thought for sure Tallahassee was going to buy it there.

And pretty much every gun scene in Lethal Weapon with that sweet 92FS but especially the scene in the range with the smiley face. Hey yea, I could do that. :cool:
 
Di Hard - Close to final scene

Don't know if it's been said, but when John McClain goes to surrender to the terrorist and he tapes his Beretta to his back. Shoots them both and says, "Yippie ki yay, mother****er!"
 
^ Yea, and just before that scene where he pulls out the magazine and checks ... just 1 bullet left (of course there should still be 1 in his barrel too but if you over think these things, well then the movies no fun anymore).
 
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Clint Eastwood in Outlaw Josey Wales. Actually no shot was fired. It was the best depection of a Missouri Border Raider ever presented in a movie.

Just before he stabs Cpt Redlegs, he pulls out multiple pistols and all are empty. Most of the raiders carried multiple pistols. Generally, they had two on the pommel of their saddle, two in belt holsters, a couple of belly guns and a couple of hide out guns. One of Col Anderson's men was found with 32 or 36 pistols on his person and horse.

PS. One of my great grandfathers "road up to Lawrence to make things right" with Col. Anderson.

An intense hatred existed toward Kansas Senator Jim Lang and his Kansas Redlegs in the little Missouri town were I went to grade school in the late 50s and early 60s.
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There were shots fired in OJW, my all time favorite movie because it was fairly accurate and slanted against the jayhawkers slightly. Josey shoots the rope of the ferry and sends 'ol redlegs on a "Missoura boat ride". He out gunned those squaw rapists in the general store. Then he guns done those yankee troopers when that carpet bagger recognized him. And then the showdown at the end before he corners capt. Redlegs.

That town you were from wouldn't happen to be Osceola would it?

The sacking of that town by Kansas Jayhawkers is what led to what happened in Lawrence.

Members of my family served with Co. E, 1st Cavalry, 7th Division of the Missouri State Guard under General Sterling Price. Missouri was actually the 13th state admitted to the Confederacy. Though many people don't know that.
 
He meant there were no shots fired in that particular scene... the one where he keeps pulling the trigger on expended chambers, while the captain stares down his barrel, until they fight over the captain's sword and Josey kills him with that.
 
I am a big James Bond fan. I was never to enthused for him to carry the Walther PPK. But in Tommorrow Never Dies, he trades up to the Walther P99. Thus , began my love affair with the P99
 
The "Quigly Down Under" final scene

where Quigly had been captured, had his rifle taken away, and was given a gunbelt with a pistol, then challenged to a gun fight - which he won by being quicker on the draw. The dieing villian, laying on the ground, bleeding profusely, says something like, "I thought you told me you didn't have much use for pistols."

To which Quigley replied, "I don't - but I never said I didn't know how to use one".

Villian then dies.:D
 
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