Ever notice how they always throw away the gun in a movie?

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Mr. Pub

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Have you ever noticed how the good guy often throws away his gun after shooting the bad guy in the movies? Especially the westerns.

I always cringe when I see this. First of all, what if the gun goes off after it hits the ground? Second, what if the bad guy is not totally dead (the good guy never seems to check and make sure)or there is a second, unseen bad guy. Finally, what a waste of material.

I'm just wondering, would anyone, even a MMM who shot in self defense ever throw away a gun right after a shooting?

I know its just the movies. But I wonder why the directors still go for this unrealistic staged reaction.



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Thank God Sgt. Alvin York and Sgt. Audie Murphy didn't throw their guns away. :)

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This may be urban legend, but I had heard that in the first season of Miami Vice, Don Johnson's character was using a Bren 10. The magazines for those pistols were constructed of pure "unobtainium", and shooters were always on the lookout for them. Seems he was seen in one episode ejecting empty mags into the shrubbery. Alert veiwers went to the location and recovered 2 magazines. Sort of a handgunner's scavenger hunt. Imagine a guy following the movie characters around and running through sets like the bat boys at baseball games, picking up discarded weapons in scene after scene!
 
Hey but thats Hollywood. They have to show their real feelings sometime (throw them away).

I was always taught, its a winner take all outcome.
and destroy what you cant haul off.

But I guess thats my infantry training showing through
 
my fav is when the guy/gal throwa the empty or jammed gun at the BG. i guess if you scored a real hit with a gun on a head or in the face it would hurt pretty bad. but get real. the BG usually just ducks it.

so goes Hollywood. nobody ever said the movies were to learn pistolcraft from.

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Hey I kinda like it, I am on the set and get to pick, and keep, any gun that touches the ground!!! I am one happy camper ;)

Hell wouldnt you love to beable to do that? :D

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Well as far as the Miami Vice thing, these shows are shot MONTHS ahead of the air date. So I would dare say this is probably a myth, otherwise the mag survived all the property masters forgetting and months of weather.

In one of the Steven Seagal movies I remember he cast aside his 1911 when it locked back and pulled another from his waistband. Another more extreme example was Chow Yun Fat in Relacement Killers where he casually discards about 6 Berettas :bigeyes:

What does hollywood do with all those guns that are dropped thrown and kicked along on the concrete? :) Send em to me!
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mr. Pub:
Have you ever noticed how the good guy often throws away his gun after shooting the bad guy in the movies? Especially the westerns.[/quote]

HEY! That's BULL! I've never thrown a gun away for any reason, although I've owned a couple of POS's that I felt like taking a torch to. :D


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"I'm just wondering, would anyone, even a MMM who shot in self defense ever throw away a gun right after a shooting? "...no cause they would have to explain how the gun MADE them shoot the bad guy!

"What does hollywood do with all those guns that are dropped thrown and kicked along on the concrete? "...those are usually made out of a rubber substance made fom a mold of the real gun, and painted.
 
A mental association is made with throwing a weapon away.
That message is that the weapon is a Saturday Night Special. It must be, cause only a lunatic, or a criminal, would throw away a weapon that cost several hundred clams. (So you have three suspicions about the character, a cheap gun only good for killing and they're nuts, and/or criminal).

Even if in the mooveezz, the GG has taken out the garbage, he's tagged as either of the two (basket case, or a thug)... Trickery at work there.

Any handgun is, by their hand/eye mis-coordination trick, a SNP then. You see this happen on the screen, and the idea is set.

Kind of like waving your finger in front of a captive chicken. After half-minute of that exercise, a chicken will set right there, until after the hypnotic state dimishes..

No chit, I've done this to some chickens just for laughs... I think it's the same with sheeple too.
Any slow thinking, lethargic, drooling creature that depends upon someone, or something, for it's sustenance exhibits this characteristic.

Kinda like a liberal sheeple with the me-2 handout syndrome.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by riddleofsteel: my fav is when the guy/gal throwa the empty or jammed gun at the BG. i guess if you scored a real hit with a gun on a head or in the face it would hurt pretty bad. but get real. the BG usually just ducks it ...[/quote]This reminds me of the old Superman show with George Reeves ... BGs are shooting .38's at him and he just stands there as the bullets bounce off of him but when the BG's gun is empty and he throws it at Superman, the actor ducks so he won't be hit by the prop.
 
Mr. Pub,
Can you imagine how it would look in the movies if the good guy start stuffing all the guns into his pants? Like any good CCW person should do...or at least render the piece useless before you move on.
I mean you've stuffed four or five guns into your waistband all at one time, haven't you?
Then either you have to have really good suspenders or a load bearing vest, right?
Anyway, since the good hero is usually a svelte dude, you can't have a bunch of guns sticking every which way out of his waistband to make him look less heroic...
:o :eek: :o :eek: Might even pull his pants down and turn the movie into a comedy.
 
No...no...no....

You guys are missing my point entirely. I'm not talking about tossing a gun that jammed. That, I can understand.

What I'm talking about is when a good guy (not the TFL one) shoots a bad guy and then tosses the weapon away as though it is an evil gun that needs to be turned into a plowshare or melted into a cross - ala Finestein.

This, I always thought was kind of ridiculous. Instead of throwing the pistol in the river, I would be thanking the gun for saving my bacon.




[This message has been edited by Mr. Pub (edited September 26, 2000).]
 
Mr. Pub, you mean as Obie did at the end of "The Shootist"? And John B. Books (John Wayne) nods that he did the right thing, tossing away the hog leg.

J.B.
 
What I love even MORE is when the BG is out of ammo, or somehow disarmed, and then challenges the armed GG to some sort of fight...so of course the GG does the HONORABLE thing and THROWS AWAY HIS GUN!! No no no don't do it you fool!

(of course after he does that the bad guy aways pulls a knife or little backup gun...but never wins because he/she is sooo bad) if only life were this way :)

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