Guns in Movies.

[jjohnisme]

I understand the stigma associated with firearms in movies: unlimited ammo, the ablility to kill 50 guys with 40 bullets from 500 yards on full auto, and the hero's inability to take fire.

Two movies i watched recently, 'Open Range' and 'Public Enemies', i noticed something: The sounds of the firearms are almost exact to how they would sound in real life. No brakka-brakka when a guy is shooting a handgun, and firing in the distance is a dull 'pop' like how you hear when driving up to a range or something.

Just an observation. Probably slightly inaccurate, since i know what a .45 sounds like, but not a Thompson Submachine gun.

 

[infidel]

I was watching a video about the new Call of Duty video game. They said that every gun in the game they took to a desert out west and recorded the sounds it made from several different distances. Probably the same thing for some movies.

 

[Josh Ward]

Open Range is one of my favorite movies!!!! Gotta love Duval!!

 

[shooter521]

Two movies i watched recently, 'Open Range' and 'Public Enemies', i noticed something: The sounds of the firearms are almost exact to how they would sound in real life.

"HEAT" was, IMO, the best at this. The acoustics in the bank robbery/street fight scene were incredible.

"Open Range" was pretty good in this regard, too, but suffered from several classic Hollywood gunfight stereotypes, including a shotgun blowing a guy back several feet and the classic six-shooter holding *way* more than six... to say nothing of the inevitable Hollywood Ending.

 

[drgnrobo]

I was always a fan of clint eastwoods spaghetti westerns & the distinctive report that those guns always made made go into a single action phase to find a pistol that made that distinctive PA- tooie ( if you seen any of these westerns you know what im talking about) The closest I ever got to the re-creation of this was a blackpowder load in a 44/40 remington army model reproduction but wow , lotta smoke,still cool though.Now I gotta go & watch The Good ,The Bad & The Ugly again

 

[cce1302]

I was always a fan of clint eastwoods spaghetti westerns & the distinctive report that those guns always made made go into a single action phase to find a pistol that made that distinctive PA- tooie ( if you seen any of these westerns you know what im talking about) The closest I ever got to the re-creation of this was a blackpowder load in a 44/40 remington army model reproduction but wow , lotta smoke,still cool though.Now I gotta go & watch The Good ,The Bad & The Ugly again

that patooie sound is supposed to be ricochets. It's actually fairly close to the sound of a ricochet. we used to shoot rocks in fields while we were groundhog hunting with our .22s for practice and to listen to the ricochets.

 

[jjohnisme]

Now I gotta go & watch The Good ,The Bad & The Ugly again

Sounds like a plan!

that patooie sound is supposed to be ricochets. It's actually fairly close to the sound of a ricochet. we used to shoot rocks in fields while we were groundhog hunting with our .22s for practice and to listen to the ricochets.

They do this when the bullet hits concrete the right way, too. lol

 

[OneBadV8]

"HEAT" was, IMO, the best at this. The acoustics in the bank robbery/street fight scene were incredible.

Heat was the most accurate I've seen so far.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL9fnVtz_lc]YouTube - Heat Shootout Scene [High Quality][/ame]

 

[Sthunter987]

Open Range was a Great movie, but heat did have great sound.

 

[JetGirl]

I was always a fan of clint eastwoods spaghetti westerns

Now I gotta go & watch The Good ,The Bad & The Ugly again

Hulu has them.

 

[CSK22]

Main Page - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database

So I know this doesn't really apply to this thread, but this site is wicked cool! Has information on guns used in movies/games/tvshows and info on the guns and who used them

 

[AJBB87]

And...now I'm gonna hafta watch HEAT...

AJB

 

[OneBadV8]

And...now I'm gonna hafta watch HEAT...

AJB

You're Welcome!

 

[Pale Rider]

I was always a fan of clint eastwoods spaghetti westerns & the distinctive report that those guns always made made go into a single action phase to find a pistol that made that distinctive PA- tooie ( if you seen any of these westerns you know what im talking about) The closest I ever got to the re-creation of this was a blackpowder load in a 44/40 remington army model reproduction but wow , lotta smoke,still cool though.Now I gotta go & watch The Good ,The Bad & The Ugly again

The Outlaw Josie Wales was on TV saturday night... my favorite by far (have the dvd 3$ at wally world!) I watched the "special features" and they showed them shooting he film and the guns were all very quiet sounded like cap guns, audio obviously added during editing. On a side note, had a buddy at basic who's first name was Eastwood, his pops named him after the most bad A** cowboy there ever was!

 

[cce1302]

The Outlaw Josie Wales was on TV saturday night... my favorite by far (have the dvd 3$ at wally world!) I watched the "special features" and they showed them shooting he film and the guns were all very quiet sounded like cap guns, audio obviously added during editing. On a side note, had a buddy at basic who's first name was Eastwood, his pops named him after the most bad A** cowboy there ever was!

You mean he made his middle name John Wayne?

 

[Pale Rider]

You mean he made his middle name John Wayne?

That was fast!! John Wayne wasn't fit to clean the dirt off of Eastwood's spurs!

 

[ihateiraq]

john wayne was in his lower-mid 30s when ww2 started. which branch was he in?

 

[cce1302]

That was fast!! John Wayne wasn't fit to clean the dirt off of Eastwood's spurs!

I don't have an opinion on who is better. I was just stirring/poking.

john wayne was in his lower-mid 30s when ww2 started. which branch was he in?

Umm...The branch with the cowboys, I guess??? what does WW2 have to do with cowboys?

 

[ihateiraq]

Umm...The branch with the cowboys, I guess??? what does WW2 have to do with cowboys?

you cant be considered the most badass at anything when you avoided Americas greatest war.

 

[Pale Rider]

you cant be considered the most badass at anything when you avoided Americas greatest war.

Pretty sure he was in the group of film makers that were purposely kept home to make propaganda / morale films etc. But I could be wrong I just always hated in his movies how clean he always was... freakin pretty boy.