Let's be nice out there.... sometimes we are on the same team.
Chris Pratt's Jurassic World Owen Grady character gets badmouthed within firearm culture (Forums, radio shows) because people exclaim:
Here is a moment to reframe the situation and (hopefully) bring the firearm community a bit closer together by recognizing Chris isn't as clueless as some people make him out to be:
Ok, there you have it - a few thoughts that help reframe the situation... Perhaps now the firearm culture can label Chris as 'the guy who works a lever too fast for cameras'... and can stop talking about how he used the Lever like a semiauto!
Chris Pratt's Jurassic World Owen Grady character gets badmouthed within firearm culture (Forums, radio shows) because people exclaim:
- LEVER ACTION: Owen uses his rifle like a semiauto and he doesn't work the lever!
- CARTRIDGE SELECTION: Owen's rifle should use something more powerful than a 45-70 for a T-Rex sized dino!
Here is a moment to reframe the situation and (hopefully) bring the firearm community a bit closer together by recognizing Chris isn't as clueless as some people make him out to be:
- LEVER ACTION: In watching the DVD it is difficult to see Owen working the lever but on the Blu-Ray I can clearly see Owen works the lever between his shots.... but interestingly I had to watch frame-by-frame because Chris works the lever so fast the entire motion is only partially captured on one single video frame per loading cycle. It is apparent the film frame-rates are insufficient to properly capture Chris' lever-speed and instead of looking 'tactical' he ends up looking like his leveraction is a semiauto... If anything Chris should have slowed down a bit, like John Wayne who had many years of experience knowing how to artistically illustrate a lever being worked at film frame-rates. An additional note is that Chris is clearly working the lever in a variety of behind the scene clips and out-takes.
- CARTRIDGE SELECTION: Chris is a self-professed hunter and this has been stated within numerous articles and interviews. Chris said he purposefully selected the Marlin 1895SBL 45-70 as a good rifle for a RAPTOR trainer in case a RAPTOR went rogue... Chris did not select the rifle for T-Rex or the Indominus-Rex because Owen's responsibility was to the raptors.
Ok, there you have it - a few thoughts that help reframe the situation... Perhaps now the firearm culture can label Chris as 'the guy who works a lever too fast for cameras'... and can stop talking about how he used the Lever like a semiauto!
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