Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:59:51 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and Message-ID: <20000329235951.A1488@parish> In-Reply-To: <1661.000329@nc.rr.com>; from freebsd@nc.rr.com on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:52:17PM -0500 References: <200003291936.MAA23741@usr05.primenet.com> <1661.000329@nc.rr.com>
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:52:17PM -0500, Neill Robins wrote:
> >> The few times I have been in that situation, here in the States, it
> >> was a knife they pulled. I would have preferred they pulled a gun; they
> >> would have been easier to disarm with less risk. But, they don't show
> >> that in the movies, either.
>
> TL> Agreed.
>
> TL> It's also a fact that most handgun echanges take place at close
> TL> range, without anyone getting hit for an insanely large number
> TL> of rounds fired. That's isn't very exciting to watch in a
> TL> theater, either, since you are really waiting for Mel Gibson
> TL> to shoot the thugs in a subplot, and then get back onto the
> TL> main story line...
>
> I cannot remember when a movie ever well represented real life.
> And I hope they never do, that would be boring.
>
Whilst it's true that the movies and TV do portray, to outsiders at
least, America as a country full of gun-toting loonies most of us can
separate Hollywood fantasy from fact.
Obviously the Dirty Harry films, for instance, are just pure
Hollywood, however I always felt that Hill Street Blues (one of the 3
best TV series to come out of the US, IMHO) was a fairly realistic
view of life in that particular environment (big city suburb). Whilst
there was a lot of gun-play it did show the police behaving in a
sensible, restrained manner in that they always tried to negotiate a
peaceful end to an armed siege situation for example, albeit mixed with
a bit of "artistic licence" such as Belker wanting to bite everyone he
arrested and Hunter wanting to go in guns a-blazing at every
opportunity.
Was it really realistic? Comments from US citizens would be
interesting.
BTW, am I correct in thinking that it was filmed around Chicago?
> Isn't always fun to see how some white guy can simultaneously take on
> couple Ninjas?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Neill
> freebsd@nc.rr.com
>
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