"American Gun" in the works

[Cosmoline]

A 2002 film of the name "American Gun" with James Coburn followed the trail of a handgun used in the murder of the main character's daughter, with (of course) tragedy visiting everyone who touched the Thing of Evil. Thankfully the film was a STV bomb, and remains very obscure even among the antis. The only folks to have seen it appear to be Coburn buffs, as it was his last role.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270197/

But the antis in Sillywood aren't letting this bomb get them down. They've come out with ANOTHER film called "American Gun," this time with Donald Sutherland and a solid supporting cast. This film seems to be getting more buzz than the 2002 effort, and appears more overtly political and less introspective than the Coburn piece. Here's a writeup

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416471/

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000531839


Said Sehring, IFC Entertainment president: "('Gun' explores) a highly charged and relevant issue. IFC is proud to support important, pointed material and has never shied away from doing so. (Avelino's) script is along similar lines (to 'Fahrenheit' and 'CSA') in terms of providing meaningful, insightful and relevant commentary on our times through the powerful medium of film."

Added Avelino: "I'm aiming to make a powerful, topical movie that is large in scope but independent in feeling, with characters who are more honest than we often meet in contemporary film. The people at IFC are really suited to this project. They know how to make it happen, and I feel thrilled to have the opportunity to make my first film with them."

"Gun's" cast of characters includes a Virginia gun shop owner and his college student granddaughter who is pressured to work at the family business; the single mother of a suburban high school assassin; a school principal at a violent inner-city high school; and an exemplary student concealing a handgun at school.

 

[ZeroX]

I think I just vomited in my mouth a little bit.

 

[horge]

I saw most of the original with Jimmy 'Flint' Coburn in it.
It wasn't that bad from an RKBA Point of view.

Yes, in his anguish, he was tracing the history of the gun that took away his daughter, as if it were a 'thing of evil'...

But it turned partly into a journey of enlightenment, because he discovered that the very same gun had passed down through the hands of many good, decent folk, who used it to save lives... who used it as it was intended: for good.

The whole point of the movie for me was that there is no inherent evil to guns, just the people who misuse them. If its audience was supposedly the antis, there was pretty strong rebuke to the anti-gun depiction of all guns and gun-owners as evil.

Just me.

 

[mec]

There was one back in the 70s or early 80s- TV movie called " The Gun" Seems like Sally Struthers was in it. It did basically the same thing- traced one handgun through a series of owners leaving dead in injured in its wake. The televisions series were full of such things and they generally came up right before an election, just as the Democrats were pushing another gun ban and just before the series was to go off the air.

There was one show about young police people in California-had Richard Mantooth in it. A couple of inner city youts found a gun in a dumpster.
"Wow! do you know whut dis is????! Dis is a SATTIDY NIGHT SPECIAL!."

This was about the time Kennedy was trying to outlaw all handguns with less than a 14" barrel or some such.

 

[Cool Hand Luke 22:36]

The way in which Holloywood can propagandize an issue would do the Nazis proud.

You'd never guess that privately held firearms are used somewhere around 2.5 million times a year to prevent crimes and save the lives of citizens all over the US.

Amongst the new-age religionists in Hollywood, inanimate objects like crystals, stones, bird feathers, etc., have magical spiritual powers that affect people's lives, thinking, behavior, and destiny. It's not suprising that they would see an inanimate object like a pistol as something posessing a very powerfull, dark voodoo magic that can cause people to commit violence against their will.

 

[mec]

"It's not suprising that they would see an inanimate object like a pistol as something posessing a very powerfull, dark voodoo magic that can cause people to commit violence against their will...."

A premise not infrequently validated by the experiences and actions of some of the Hollywood, whackdoodle, macro-biotic types.

 

[RavenVT100]

Heh, macrobiotic is a diet. It is of Japanese origin and is basically stricter, or as strict, as the vegan diet.

You might be confusing the term since a great many people in liberal, celebrity circles tend to latch onto, and subsequently publicize, the diet ju jour. Don't even look into it if you like steak.

 

[mec]

I know. I once called Noam Choamski a "Macrobiotic Goofball" , not because he eats in the naturapathic mode but because a lot of his ilk do. I am sure that a lot of fine people are vegetarians and macrobiotics and are very healthy because of it.

 

[jefnvk]

Maybe someone should make a movie. In the beginning, a man is attempting to rape a woman. She shoots him with her legal CCW. Running the man's identity, police find he is a major felon. Continuing on, woman is brought to trial, lawyer tries to show she is a good citizen defending her life, jury gives her life for murder.

Maybe it'll make some people think about justifib;;e use of force and CCW in a good light.