Chief Brody Jaws Pistol?
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2ndAmendmentNut
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Do you have a screen shot?
The Last Standing Knight
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If I remember correctly, a standard S&W four inch Model 10 taper barrel 38 Special.
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Almost sure it was a Model 15/Combat Masterpiece.
I have the movie, but no time now to watch it to check that.
Did you check the Moviegun database? They are USUALLY correct. Varies, though.
I don't think Peter Benchley mentioned the gun model in the book, which is better and more complex than the excellent movie.
What's the name of that Jamie Lee Curtis movie where you see her with a blued Model 10, std. weight bbl.? "Blue Steel"?
BTW, I'd read all of those shark books that Brody was looking at in the film. Some newer books are even better, if sharks interest you. If Joerm sees this, did you read those books? They're pretty good.
I have the movie, but no time now to watch it to check that.
Did you check the Moviegun database? They are USUALLY correct. Varies, though.
I don't think Peter Benchley mentioned the gun model in the book, which is better and more complex than the excellent movie.
What's the name of that Jamie Lee Curtis movie where you see her with a blued Model 10, std. weight bbl.? "Blue Steel"?
BTW, I'd read all of those shark books that Brody was looking at in the film. Some newer books are even better, if sharks interest you. If Joerm sees this, did you read those books? They're pretty good.
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Texas Star
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Yeah, he was adding mercury to the bullets, I think. Doubt it'd affect the shark enough to do much good, surely in the short run. You have to shoot a shark in the Y-shaped brain for a quick kill. Quint's Garand would be better, but a shark that huge...
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Check IMFDB.
I am thinking 15 or 19 because I remember an adjustable sight. Just a guess.
Mark
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I'll second the Mod. 15. I recall making a an ID and mental note of that when I first saw the movie.
I'm only going....
I'm only going on memory here but does the m15 have a beefier barrel than the model 10? Seems like when Brody was extending it the barrel looks heavier.
I'm only going on memory here but does the m15 have a beefier barrel than the model 10? Seems like when Brody was extending it the barrel looks heavier.
I'm also sure it was a Model 15, had the adjustable rear sight, but no barrel under lug of the Model 19.
T.S. is right the book is WAY better than the movie, if not a little dark. Mrs. Chief was having a fling with the out of town shark pro.
T.S. is right the book is WAY better than the movie, if not a little dark. Mrs. Chief was having a fling with the out of town shark pro.
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Yeah, she used to date his older brother, too. The characters in the book were classier than in the movie. I used to know a guy who I imagined the icthyologist looked like. No way did I imagine him looking like that little jerk Dreyfuss. I can't say here why I think Spielberg cast some roles, if not most.
The chief's wife invited the shark expert to dinner and Brody was out of his league in studying the wine labels. His wife came from a higher strata of society than he did, and she sometimes felt that she'd married beneath herself.
I was pretty amused when Brody saw that one wine was a famous white burgundy named Le Montrachet. He pronounced it as Mount Rachet!
I'm quite sure the wife was younger and prettier in the book. I was very disappointed in the casting, apart from Brody and Quint.Did any of you recognize the cameo role of Peter Benchley as a TV reporter on the beach?
BTW, the book warned about restaurants serving fake scallops that were really just punched-out globs from fish. I've been cautious about that since, although Red Lobster here never cheated me that way. The practice may be more common back East, the book and movie being set on Long Island.
Scallops aren't fish, nor are oysters. What are they; gastropods? Been awhile since college Biology 101...
Anyway, read the book and Benchley's other novels. He was a quite good writer.
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Straightshooter2
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According to IMFDB, it was a model 15. Also, a still shot shows a silhouette of the gun while Brody has the cylinder open. Old Bear is correct. No barrel under lug.
Well, an oyster is a mollusk, I am pretty sure. I suppose a scallop must be, too. They come in those large, very flat, fan-shaped shells. Had some on the BBQ the other night.
I, too, have heard of large skate "wings" being punched out with circular "cookie cutters" to make fake scallops. Dunno if I ever had any of those or not...
I, too, have heard of large skate "wings" being punched out with circular "cookie cutters" to make fake scallops. Dunno if I ever had any of those or not...
I was going out ocean fishing in Florida one morning, on the dock our boat was on there was a guy that had just come in who had caught a shark I think he said it was a Mako I do remember it was around 8 feet long a blue.
Anyway this thing had 3 bullet holes in its head that the fisherman said were from a .357 (and why should I doubt it?) and it was still alive.
Is the book ever not better than the movie?
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The book also had some Mafia overtones and at one point someone broke Brody's cat's neck right in front of one of his kids to "send a message"
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Scallops and oysters are bivalves...and I too have long heard the urban legend that scallops were "punched" out of skate or stingray wings. I don't know if there is a stingray that you could actually do that with and get away with it. But, I can tell you for a fact that the ones I bowfish for around here {So. Md.} wont do. We have both southern stingrays and American cow nosed rays.
"Jaws" was a good movie and an even better book. Consider that Spielberg was in his 20's when he directed it. I doubt he had a lot of influence on the cast at the time...Ms. Brody was one of the producers wives. Robert Shaw initially turned down the role and maintained until he died that it was the "stupidest thing I ever did, getting eaten by a fish." It was also the most lucrative. I was lucky enough to get some neat photos from the set and have several of Shaw's autograph's, including one with Shaw, Dreyfuss and Scheider all in the same picture.
"Jaws" was a good movie and an even better book. Consider that Spielberg was in his 20's when he directed it. I doubt he had a lot of influence on the cast at the time...Ms. Brody was one of the producers wives. Robert Shaw initially turned down the role and maintained until he died that it was the "stupidest thing I ever did, getting eaten by a fish." It was also the most lucrative. I was lucky enough to get some neat photos from the set and have several of Shaw's autograph's, including one with Shaw, Dreyfuss and Scheider all in the same picture.
In the book Hooper claims they are Flounder cut with a cookie cutter
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After the shark bites through line holding the barrel, Brody gets his bag from the cabin and almost falls in the water as he comes up on the front deck. He opens the bag and pulls his gun, a blue S&W Model 15 with 4 inch barrel, from the holster, opens the cylinder to check for rounds, then closes the cylinder. In the next scene, you see him with his duty belt on, gun holstered. BTW, Jaws was on AMC Monday and I watched it for probably the 100th time.
The movie Bladerunner was far better than the book it was based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick. I have no idea how they got such a great film out of such a crummy book.
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