Tears of the Sun: Difference between revisions
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Tears of the Sun: Difference between revisions
[[Image:TOTS M4-3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Flea hands out the contents of his MRE to refugees.]]
[[Image:TOTS M4-3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Flea hands out the contents of his MRE to refugees.]]
[[Image:TOTS M4-4.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Flea takes a sniper position in a tree while the other team members raid the village.]]
[[Image:TOTS M4-4.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Flea takes a sniper position in a tree while the other team members raid the village.]]
[[Image:TOTS M4-6.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Lake fires his M4. Due to his wounded shoulder, he fires it like a complete moron.]]
[[Image:TOTS M4-6.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Lake fires his M4.]]
[[Image:TOTS M4-7.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Red, ([[Cole Hauser]]), fires Lt. Waters' M4 after he drops it.]]
[[Image:TOTS M4-7.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Red, ([[Cole Hauser]]), fires Lt. Waters' M4 after he drops it.]]
[[Image:TOTS MISC.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The team with their weapons. Doc, Lake, Lt., and Zee with their M4s.]]
[[Image:TOTS MISC.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The team with their weapons. Doc, Lake, Lt., and Zee with their M4s.]]
Revision as of 23:07, 20 December 2009
Tears of the Sun is a 2003 action film about a Navy SEAL team under the command of Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) that is sent in to the African country of Nigeria during a coup to extract Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), an American doctor. When she goes with the team to the extraction site along with the 80 some refugees from her village, the SEALs take only her. After seeing the atrocities committed on the village, Lt. Waters has a change of heart and turns the helicopters around. He and his SEAL team then become determined to get the doctor and the refugees to the border before the rebel militants can find them.
The following weapons can be seen in the film Tears of the Sun:
Lieutenant Waters (Bruce Willis), Flea (Chad Smith), and Lake (Johnny Messner) as their primary weapons. "Flea" has a Combat Military Optics LTD Marksman Series Model 100[1] scope on the carry handle, a cheek pad on the stock, a silencer, and a custom paintjob of green and black (there is no such thing as a 6x48 Sightron S33). "Lake" has a suppressor on his rifle. Both Lake and Lt. Waters both have M68 Aimpoint scopes fitted on their weapons. When the team first arrives in Africa, their M4A1's are fitted with PVS-14 night-vision scopes which are removed once morning arrives. Lt. Waters' also has a D-LAP Laser sight, essentially a more compact PEQ-2A
A few of the Marines disembarking the helicopter in the beginning of the film are carrying M16A2 rifles, as well as a few Marines at the end of the film.
Previously thought to have been an M21 SWS, the rifle carried by Silk (Charles Ingram) is in fact a M1A, as it is lacking a selector switch. Mounted onto it is a Leupold & Stevens Mark 4 LR/T 10x40 M1 rifle scope. He uses the weapon throughout the movie.
The most commonly used assault rifle on the African continent, AKM rifles are seen in the hands of militants, refugees, and Doc, (Paul Francis) who took it from a dead militant. He is never seen using it, but after the village raid, he most likely gave it to a refugee, as they acquired a lot of them then.
Slo (Nick Chinlund), the squad's designated heavy gunner and tech-guy is seen with his paratrooper version of theM249 SAW throughout the movie, until he's killed in a shootout with the rebels. Silk (Charles Ingram) then uses the weapon during the climax firefight.
Red (Cole Hauser), the team’s designated heavy-gunner is seen armed with a M60E4 machine gun without the film. Doc (Paul Francis) wields the weapon when Red runs to set-up a Claymore. Another Navy SEAL who accompanies Captain Bill Rhodes (Tom Skerritt) also wields a M60E4.
The Light Anti-Tank Weapon is seen having been carried by Red (Cole Hauser) and Slo (Nick Chinlund). The two weapons are fired by Lake and Flea, and then dropped as they are unreloadable.
The pistol designed especially for USSOCOM, the Heckler & Koch Mark 23 is used by several Navy SEALs, including Lt. Waters, Zee, Red, Flea, Lake, and Slo.
The team’s forward scout, Lake (Johnny Messner) carries both a Remington 870 and a M4A1. The shotgun is equipped with an extended magazine tube, a side saddle shell holder, and a strange compensator. The squad’s designated marksman, Flea (Chad Smith), takes the shotgun after Lake is shot, but the weapon was dropped and Flea switched back to his M4A1.
The team’s demolition man, Red (Cole Hauser), carried three M18A1 Claymores into the field with him. He uses two to ambush the militants and later uses it to hold back enemy troops.
