Guns in The Dark Knight

[kentucky_smith]

Surprised a thread hasn't been started yet, so here goes.

What's the pistol the Joker is carrying? It's supposedly an full auto, has a stainless slide. GLOCK 18 w/Caspian slide? Definitely not a 92R. Maybe just a prop.

One of the Batman doppelgangers had a mini14.


Lot's of PGO shotguns.

Two-face seems to have a SW 66 snubby, or something similar. Looked bigger than a j-frame.

 

[teflonbilly0]

looked like a G18 with large mag to me.

best quote
Joker: "They are only as good as the world lets them be."

 

[Wopasaurus]

Wanna see a trick?



not a gun... but that part easily had the best "weapon"

 

[mr.trooper]

Never though i would see batman with a mini-14! LOL

 

[kingpin008]

Yeah, looked like a G18 w/stainless or chromed slide.

What was the quote from Dent in the courtroom after disarming the mafia thug on the stand? Something about a "28 caliber, made-in-china polymer pistol". Thought that was pretty funny.

 

[PotatoJudge]

Yeah, the pencil scene was shocking. Pencil deaths tend to get creative (see From Dusk till Dawn).

Something I've always liked about Gotham is that it's the 1920's gone bad. Sort of an art deco/gothic setting where the criminals suit the architecture. It's for that reason that revolvers have always been prominent in Batman comics. The guns help set the tone of the city.

I also liked the part where Bruce takes the double shotgun from one of Joker's thugs and disassembles it in about a second, just pitching the parts to the side as he walks. Pop the lever under the forearm and remove, break gun in half.

At one point he Joker talks about how the gun is an impersonal weapon that distances people from the kill and results in a lack of understanding of what it means to kill a person. This is essentially what Batman says about guns in The Dark Knight Returns, right before he breaks the Joker's neck.

Dent's gun looks like a S&W K frame.

I'm looking forward to "The Guns of Watchmen" thread. Should be awesome.

 

[Vaarok]

During the street fight, Joker had a MP-40.

 

[dscottw88]

If i had to guess, I'd say joker was using a glock 18 with a stainless slide. And on the street, are you sure joker was using a MP40?

 

[chris in va]

Just got back from seeing the movie. Doesn't surprise me everyone on here would examine firearms in the flick.

I'd have to say that's not an MP40. Looked a LOT more like this one, with the wire frame and all. S&W Model 76.

MP-40. Note the lack of barrel shroud and no wire stock.

EDIT: Yup, Model 76.

http://www.yourprops.com/view_item.php?movie_prop=19189

 

[Mumbles_45]

I was gonna guess a Swedish K or a Carl Gustav. The S&W never even occurred to me.

 

[Vaarok]

When Joker crawled out of the overturned big-rig and was flopping around, he most certainly had a MP-40, the fin on the underside of the front sight was unmistakable.

He did use a M76 during the chase, but it was an MP-40 he had after the crash.

 

[Kharn]

There were several SBSs in the movie, looked like they were using Speedfeed witness/birdshead grips (0390's the part number for the 870, but I'm not sure on the exact shotgun they used). Another Batman imitator had an Uzi.

Kharn

 

[LiquidTension]

I certainly saw the 76, never saw an MP40. Guess I'll just have to go back and watch it again

 

[Matt King]

Some cops had what looked like 870's.
The prison guards on the boat had mossbergs.
I'm pretty sure two-face had a j-frame.

 

[XD_fan]

When he bent the barrel of the Mini-14 up my wife turned to me and said, "He didn't."

 

[smithwr3]

The swat teams had either MP-5A2's or MP-5A4's. Additionally during the fund raiser party Bruce Wayne threw for Harvey Dent, one of the Joker's goons had a Beretta PM-12S submachine gun.

 

[BlackJackal]

L-O-L saw this last night, best part that made me laugh.. "A 28 caliber carbon fiber pistol" HA HA HA , when did they start making these? looks like a glock-compact model to me

 

[MaterDei]

My expectations overall were too high for this movie I guess. I was very disappointed. The gun play was OK. I'm not sure why Batman didn't use the guns on the motor bike and/or run him over. Clearly the guy was a threat. Batman has gone soft on us.

 

[Landlocked Pirate]

I noticed Harvey Dent's gun right away. It appears to be a 3" S&W model 65 .357 just like mine, but it could be a model 64 .38 special.

 

[arthurcw]

It appears to be a 3" S&W model 65 .357

Yep. +1

 

[Piedmont Plinker]

L-O-L saw this last night, best part that made me laugh.. "A 28 caliber carbon fiber pistol" HA HA HA , when did they start making these? looks like a glock-compact model to me

Funniest part was the line, "Made in China"

My expectations overall were too high for this movie I guess. I was very disappointed. The gun play was OK. I'm not sure why Batman didn't use the guns on the motor bike and/or run him over. Clearly the guy was a threat. Batman has gone soft on us.

Batman didn't kill people in the first movie, remember? I don't think Bale's batman is soft in any way. As a matter of fact, he lays down some serious whoop@$$. Remember George Clooney in his muscle suit? That was Batman gone soft.

I loved the movie. Heath Ledger was amazing as the Joker. Great gunplay, and some cool knives, too.

 

[chris in va]

Now maybe I was just seeing things, but one of the knives the Joker was using...looked like a potato peeler. The one with a hole in it.

Toward the end of the movie it looked to be concave, like something you'd find in my drawer in the kitchen.

 

[Funderb]

My expectations overall were too high for this movie I guess. I was very disappointed. The gun play was OK. I'm not sure why Batman didn't use the guns on the motor bike and/or run him over. Clearly the guy was a threat. Batman has gone soft on us

apparently you are not privy to the batman series at all.

Batman does not kill people. End of discussion.

Heath ledger did and amazing job, and it was nice to see him carrying something not in plastic.
The second subgun was an mp40 for sure!

 

[Thernlund]

Heath Ledger was amazing as the Joker.

He was. Heath Ledger was an awesome actor. It's rather upsetting that he can't reprise the role in the future.

They probably should have killed off the Joker when Ledger died.

I think the only way the salvage the role will be to find an unknown who can give the same intensity and conviction to it that Ledger gave. I mean, right down to how Ledge was constanly licking his cheeks the same way someone with such scares might do.

ANYBODY with ANY kind of a "name" in that role will wreck it for me I think.


-T.

 

[Seancass]

man, i was way off on this stuff. I thought the revolver was a ruger, sp101 or so, and that the machine pistols where majic auto springfield xd's. the stainless slide over black makes me think xd.

oh and Ledger was Perfect as the joker. i thought 2-face was very well done also, but unfortunate that he was presumably dead.

also, the joker is not done. Remember this is about the first time Batman characters have carried over from one movie to the next. I don't know how any one else could do it as well as Ledger did. I thought the scene outside the hospital where the bomb didn't go off correctly was awsome too.