The Thin Red Line (1998): Difference between revisions
The Thin Red Line (1998): Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
The Thin Red Line (1998): Difference between revisions
[[Image:TRLArisaka99-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Japanese soldier firing an Arisaka Type 99.]]
[[Image:TRLArisaka99-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Japanese soldier firing an Arisaka Type 99.]]
[[Image:TRLArisaka99-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Japanese soldier fires his Arisaka Type 99 at Pvt. Witt ([[Jim Caviezel]]) as he flees.]]
[[Image:TRLArisaka99-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Japanese soldier fires his Arisaka Type 99 at Pvt. Witt ([[Jim Caviezel]]) as he flees.]]
[[Image:TRLArisaka99-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Japanese soldier holds his Arisaka Type 99 on Pvt. Witt ([[Jim Caviezel]]) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeg_yWqTRKg| trying him to force to give up].]]
[[Image:TRLArisaka99-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Japanese soldier holds his Arisaka Type 99 on Pvt. Witt ([[Jim Caviezel]]) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeg_yWqTRKg| trying to surrender him].]]
==Machine Guns==
==Machine Guns==
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[[Image:TRL_t97-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Japanese soldier doesn't want to surrender and prepares to commit suicide.]]
[[Image:TRL_t97-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Japanese soldier doesn't want to surrender and prepares to commit suicide.]]
===Japanese Type 98 AA/AT===
===Type 98 20mm AA/AT Gun===
A 20mm Japanese Type 98 AA/AT gun is seen in the Japanese camp during the assault on Hill 262.
A 20mm Japanese Type 98 AA/AT gun is seen in the Japanese camp during the assault on Hill 262.
[[Image:Type 98 Japanese 20 mm anti-aircraft gun.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Type 98 AA gun at the Chinese People's Revolution Military Museum in Beijing - 20x142mm]]
[[Image:Type 98 Japanese 20 mm anti-aircraft gun.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Type 98 AA gun at the Chinese People's Revolution Military Museum in Beijing - 20x142mm]]
[[Image:TRLType98AA-AT-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Type 98 AA/AT gun is seen on the left as Pvt Bell shots a Japanese soldier attacking him with a Katana.]]
[[Image:TRLType98AA-AT-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Type 98 AA/AT gun is seen on the left as Pvt Bell shots a Japanese soldier attacking him with a Katana.]]
===Type 97 81 mm Infantry Mortar===
===Type 97 81mm Infantry Mortar===
The [[Type 97 Infantry Mortar|Type 97 Mortar]] is seen on Hill 262.
The [[Type 97 Infantry Mortar|Type 97 Mortar]] is seen on Hill 262.
The Thin Red Line is the 1998 World War II film directed by Terrence Malick and is the second movie adaptation of the James Jones novel, the first being a 1964 film of the same name. This film features a very accurate, almost complete arsenal of genuine WWII Japanese weapons, a stark contrast to the original film where not a single Japanese weapon was seen. The film is a fictional account of an engagement by the US Army to capture an entrenched Japanese position during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II. The majority of the film was shot in Queensland, Australia, in the South Pacific, far more accurate to the location of the Solomon Islands than the original film's filming in Spain. One of the notable characters in the film is Cpt. Staros (Elias Koteas), an intelligent, sensitive Army captain who refuses to send his men to their certain death on a futile frontal assault on a fortified Japanese position, which puts him at odds with the ambitious Lt. Col. Tall (Nick Nolte). Other notable characters include the cynical and shrewd 1st. Sgt Welsh (Sean Penn), Pvt. Bell (Ben Chaplin) who is heavily devoted to his wife, and Pvt. Witt (Jim Caviezel), a deserter who hates the Army, but loves the men of Charlie Company enough to rejoin them during the battle. The film's title derives a quote from Jones's book which reads, "they discover the thin red line that divides the sane from the mad... and the living from the dead..." Despite its seven Academy Award nominations, this film is often overlooked due to its release in the same year as Steven Spielberg's World War II film Saving Private Ryan.
The following weapons were used in the film The Thin Red Line:
Pfc. Doll (Dash Mihok) steals an M1911A1 hanging from a bunk in the ship carrying Charlie Company to the island. He notably uses it when he charges a Japanese machine gun emplacement and fires it at them. Basically, every other US soldier also has an M1911A1 as their sidearm, although only a few soldiers such as Captain Gaff (John Cusack) are seen using them.
Several US soldiers are seen using MK II Hand Grenades in the film. At one point we see Sgt. Keck (Woody Harrelson) straightening the folds on the pin of his grenade, which proves to be a fatal mistake on his behalf when the pin pulls too easily while still attached to his belt.
The issued sidearm of the Japanese Imperial Army is the Nambu Type 14 Pistol. One soldier is seen using it to commit suicide when refusing capture after Hill 262 is taken. Later in the film, we see Pfc. Doll (Dash Mihok) showing off a Nambu pistol to fellow soldiers in a personnel transport truck, likely taken off a dead Japanese soldier on the Hill.
