Thunderheart: Difference between revisions
Thunderheart: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Thunderheart: Difference between revisions
At least one of the GOONs is armed with an [[M16A1]] with A2 handguards.
At least one of the GOONs is armed with an [[M16A1]] with A2 handguards. FBI Agents are seen using them as well.
[[Image:M16A1wA2Handguards.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M16A1 with A2 style handguards - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:M16A1wA2Handguards.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M16A1 with A2 style handguards - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:Thunderheart_M16A1_01.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The GOON in the foreground with the M16A1.]]
[[Image:Thunderheart_M16A1_01.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The GOON in the foreground with the M16A1.]]
[[Image:Thunderheart_SP2_01.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A good shot of all the identifying features on the rifle, note the forward assist button differentiating the M16 from the M16A1.]]
Thunderheart is a 1992 mystery directed by Michael Apted (The World Is Not Enough) starring Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard and Graham Greene. Some of the weapons are anachronistic, since the film is supposed to take place in the mid 1970's, but it's hard to nail down a year. A portrait of Richard Nixon is hanging in an FBI office, indicating that the film takes place no later than 1974, yet a character listens to Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands" (released in 1978) while driving in a 1983 Ford Mustang.
The following guns were used in the film Thunderheart (1992):
Levoi and other FBI agents are armed with slab-sided M16 rifles with A2 handguards. Some GOONs may be armed with them as well, but there's not enough detail to tell.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe MGC M16 Assault rifle: a non firing metal replica built by the Model Gun Corp of Japan and one of the most used non firing replicas of the M16 in movies and television. The 'forward assist' on the early models like the one imaged here are bolt inserts to keep the receiver together. Modern MGC M16 replicas have improved by third parties over the years (like adding A1 flash hiders) making it more accurate to the real thing making it harder for 'Connoisseurs' to identifyError creating thumbnail: File missingThe GOON to the rear appears to be aiming a replica.
