Recognizing "your" guns in movies...

[rpenmanparker]

Because the authors aren't the ones who determine which guns will appear in the movies. The producers decide that.

Gun manufacturers pay a lot of money to producers for "Product Placement" in movies

Okay, okay. I yield. But then why not Ruger paying to the movies? It is still a valid question. Just shift the recipient. Why is Ruger letting the European brands dominate action/thriller MOVIES?

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I spotted a Ruger Mini-14 in an episode of Monk. It was being shot by the bad guy with the usual tv Mini-14 "accuracy"...

 

[9mmepiphany]

Why is Ruger letting the European brands dominate action/thriller MOVIES?

Maybe because they don't want to spend tens on millions on a movie...that is the rumored amount Henieken spent to have Jame Bond drink a beer rather than a martini...or even $250k for a spot placement

 

[MedWheeler]

I posted number three in this thread, and now can't believe I left one out.

I saw Robert Duvall make good work with the NAA mini .22 revolver he was stuck with in "Assassination Tango."

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Okay, okay. I yield. But then why not Ruger paying to the movies? It is still a valid question. Just shift the recipient. Why is Ruger letting the European brands dominate action/thriller MOVIES?

George Clooney uses a Mini14 sniper rifle (!) in "The American."

I think, often, gun manufacturers want no part of a movie production if it portrays their particular firearm or gun owners/usage in general in a negative light.

Sometimes the choice of on-screen weapons is no more thought out than what happens to look cool to the prop guy or what particular weapon feeds blanks more reliably- or just what the budget and or shooting location allows. Film productions overseas will often limit the choices of prop guns to locally available models.

 

[JR24]

The NRA museum currently has the Die Hard 1 Beretta in it's collection, it is the very same prop gun from Lethal Weapon 1.

Kinda funny since Lethal Weapon has blatantly anti NRA posted all over their precinct.

For Ruger, I recall the mini 14/AC556 in lots of 90s shows and movies. Recently I recall a few in Justified.

The P series got some time in the 90s too in movies like Desperado and Truen Lies, and Ive been rewatching the excellent HBO series The Wire, quite a few sugars show up.

I always like to try to ID which brand/model of 1911 I see on TV (assuming it's something more exotic than a Colt Government).

 

[JR24]

Sometimes the choice of on-screen weapons is no more thought out than what happens to look cool to the prop guy

I always wondered why on End of Watch, Gyllenhall while describing his obviously Glock 22 as a "Glock 19", in the camera shot the 22 is right there, in front of his face. He can't have not noticed it... right?

 

[9mmepiphany]

He can't have not noticed it... right?

Sure he could have as he was likely just speaking the lines he memorized. He doubt he paid much attention to the gun they handed him

 

[JR24]

Sure he could have as he was likely just speaking the lines he memorized. He doubt he paid much attention to the gun they handed him

While I agree, it was extra odd as the scene was him chronicling his duty gear and I guess I would expect an actor to have enough pride in their craft to get a role "right".

Naive I know.

 

[9mmepiphany]

I would expect an actor to have enough pride in their craft to get a role "right".

That isn't his responsibility...that falls on the "gun wrangler" to get the "right gun" in place

 

[theotherwaldo]

Yeah, I occasionally think that I see my gun in a movie or TV show.

I collect prop guns.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Yeah, I occasionally think that I see my gun in a movie or TV show.

I collect prop guns.

My RKO Pictures marked Krag.

 

[Middletown]

I have a couple 3rd Gen S&W semi's. I see these quite often. Pretty sure that is what Danny uses for Blue Bloods.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

I have a couple 3rd Gen S&W semi's. I see these quite often. Pretty sure that is what Danny uses for Blue Bloods.

In the first couple seasons, then he switches to a Kahr K9.


And of course, his costar Tom Selleck is well known for carrying his own personal 1911's on screen. The "Quigley" and "Sabre River" guns were his as well, they are in the NRA museum now.

Andrew Lincoln was given the Walking Dead Python after the season 1 wrap party by the producers too. Too bad he can never take it home to England.....

 

[3Crows]

Well, hmm, the Marlin SBL has started in the Jurassic World, Wind River and Kingsman-Golden Circle.

 

[doubleh]

When I watched "Atomic Blonde" I didn't pay nearly as much attention to the firearms as I did to Charlize.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

In The Terminator, when Ahnold asked for the 45 calibuh longslide wit laza sighting, and the shopkeeper says, "We just got these in. That's a good gun," it still makes me laugh, as it's an AMT, which gave me absolute hell back around that time, in the guise of it's Government model. In all fairness though, the Longslide was likely it's most reliable model, but I didn't have that, and had soured on the company by then.