I think that’s the Thompson Contender; that’s on the page. And totally not a derringer. You’re probably not even a patriot like the Boss is, pinko.
Wow, that was dissapointing. After reading how well they skewered the anachronisms and inaccuracies in Lord of War, I was hoping to see Hard Boiled get a similar treatment, as they pointed out which guns didn’t have 500 round magazines. Ah well.
‘It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty in both the weaponry of war and the violence and devastation which the weaponry was capable of inflicting, and yet it knew that attractiveness stemmed from a kind of insecurity, a sort of childishness. It could see that - by some criteria - a warship, just by the perfectly articulated purity of its purpose, was the most beautiful single artifact the Culture was capable of producing, and at the same time understand the paucity of moral vision such a judgement implied. To fully appreciate the beauty of a weapon was to admit a kind of shortsightedness close to blindness, to confess to a sort of stupidity. The weapon was not itself; nothing was soley itself. The weapon, like anything else, could only finally be judged by the effect it had on others, by the consequences it produced in some outside context, by its place in the rest of the universe. By this measure the love, or just the appreciation, of weapons was a kind of tragedy.’
-Iain M. Banks, Excession
That might be it. It’s been a looong time since I’ve seen Hard Boiled. I never liked it as much as The Killer. I never thought ‘man, this awesome firefight has gone on too long’ 'til I saw the hospital scene.
Yeah, I’m misusing the word derringer. I’m just using it to mean any single-shot pistol which is, of course, wrong.
Well, who is?
Have to bump this thread because I stumbled on the website tonight. I’m stunned at how detailed it is, and I’ve never seen it before. How long have people been working on this??
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