And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
ok, going to be a pedant here, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was set at the time of the US Civil War, 1861-65. The pistol Lee Van Cleef is holding is a Peacemaker, model of 1873, no, just no!
Very few movies are made where the director wants to deal with cap and ball pistols. Or counting the number of shots without reloading for that matter. What I liked about the movie Gettysburg was an deliberate scene of Chamberlain swapping an empty cylinder for a loaded one.
(soapbox on) Unless your name is Baldwin, NOTHING - repeat, NOTHING about guns is accurate in movies.
In The GB&U, the characters are shown multiple times using cartridges in their revolvers. Yet in the climactic Mexican Standoff scene, closeups of the revolvers are seen and they are clearly cap-and-ball guns with copper percussion caps on the nipples.
It's just they way it is. Historical and technical accuracy just doesn't usually match with filmmaking.
Saw it in the theater with my grandfather When it first came out. We liked it so much that we just sat there at the end and watched the second showing. I learned early on via my grandfather that anything that comes out of Hollywood is just entertainment, not documentaries.
Lee Van Cleef died young in 1989, and this looks like a picture of him, then. But in 1989, Eastwood looked a lot younger, making Pink Cadillac. Eli Wallach died in 2014, at 98, but this looks like it's a few years earlier than that. So it's either photo-shopped or A.I. Not sure what they're trying to represent with this comparison.
AI style
ReplyDeleteok, going to be a pedant here, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was set at the time of the US Civil War, 1861-65. The pistol Lee Van Cleef is holding is a Peacemaker, model of 1873, no, just no!
ReplyDeleteVery few movies are made where the director wants to deal with cap and ball pistols. Or counting the number of shots without reloading for that matter.
DeleteWhat I liked about the movie Gettysburg was an deliberate scene of Chamberlain swapping an empty cylinder for a loaded one.
Yeah, the job is entertainment, not necessarily strict historical accuracy.
Delete(soapbox on)
DeleteUnless your name is Baldwin, NOTHING - repeat, NOTHING about guns is accurate in movies.
In The GB&U, the characters are shown multiple times using cartridges in their revolvers. Yet in the climactic Mexican Standoff scene, closeups of the revolvers are seen and they are clearly cap-and-ball guns with copper percussion caps on the nipples.
It's just they way it is. Historical and technical accuracy just doesn't usually match with filmmaking.
They all grew ape hands.
ReplyDeleteWTH are "ape hands"?
DeleteThat’s not ape hair on the hands, it’s age spots.
DeleteThey are on mine.
DeleteTo me it's sad to see the comparisons.
ReplyDeleteThere has to be a time limit on everything or nothing gets done.
DeleteRust never sleeps.
ReplyDeleteSaw it in the theater with my grandfather
ReplyDeleteWhen it first came out.
We liked it so much that we just sat
there at the end and watched the
second showing.
I learned early on via my grandfather
that anything that comes out of
Hollywood is just entertainment,
not documentaries.
Lee Van Cleef died young in 1989, and this looks like a picture of him, then. But in 1989, Eastwood looked a lot younger, making Pink Cadillac. Eli Wallach died in 2014, at 98, but this looks like it's a few years earlier than that. So it's either photo-shopped or A.I. Not sure what they're trying to represent with this comparison.
ReplyDeleteIt’s just a comparison Anon- nomoose.😊 Probably AI, but an interesting one.
DeleteThree badass MF’s
ReplyDeleteOf course it's all AI. Done well enough to easily figure out who-is-who, though impossible to be a REAL picture.
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