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During the rooftop fight, the soldier who Trinity dispatches was holding what appeared to be an M1911A1. | |||
Revision as of 08:02, 8 June 2011
Mouse's rotary shotguns
John Bowring, Armourer for The Matrix, sent the below email to madogre regarding the guns.
"I made & supplied the guns for the Matrix
1) Mouses guns are custom made electrically driven 12g that run at 900RPM
2) I chose Beretta 84's for Trinity as you said good little sister to Nios
92's.
3) Larry & Andy the directors of the matrix asked me who uses a 50AE desert
eagle I Said " A Wanka" there reply no who are they maid for I said "
Wankers" there reply are wankers in this film want Desert eagles My reply
your film.
4) Wardrobe mistress wonted to change Switches pistol as she had and "I
quote her designed the pistols for Romeo & Juliet" my reply stick to
designing wardrobes. (Beside the funding for Romeo & Juliet was got by
doing a small section of it to show what it would be like for which "I"
suppled Stainless steel Beretta and that is what set the tone for the guns
in Romeo & Juliet)
You never know whose out there
John Bowring"
-bunni 14:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC
Any chance someone could contact John Bowring and get some better pics of Mouse's custom shotguns - i'd love to see em properly. --Sidewinder Forge 13:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
.50 Caliber
another point on the .50 Desert Eagles, the .44 mag and .357 mag desert eagles have fluted barrels (where the handle meets them and the barrels go from a box cross-section to a more octagonal cross-section) and the ones in the screenshots have none. As a source for this I would cite the official product page[1] in the product info for the mark XIX desert eagle, and possibly compare them to the .357 mag on the 10-inch below it [2]
- I thought only the .44 Magnum version of the Mark XIX had the fluted barrel? Or at least, the Mark I and Mark VII in .357 Magnum didn't have the fluted barrel, I dunno about the Mark XIX as I've never seen/handled one in .357. -MT2008 23:15, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
caliber
--I'm not too sure that these are .50AE. If anything, the agents have fired much more than the 7 rounds in a .50 Desert Eagle, and there is barely any recoil as a .50 would. I would say that it would be a Deagle chambered in .357 Magnum instead. If I am mistaken, I stand corrected. --Blemo 21:53, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
- They are most definitely the .50 AE version. That is without doubt a .50-cal bore in the third screenshot; the .357 bore is much smaller. The armorer who worked on the movie, John Bowring, has also said they are the .50 AE version in interviews. The reason there's so little recoil is because the actors are firing blanks (as you can also see in the last image), and blanks have much less recoil than live rounds. -MT2008
- Also, the fact that the agents fired many more then seven shots is irrelevant. This is the matrix, after all, where a submachine gun with a thirty round mag can fire at least a hundred shots without running dry. Acora 21:56, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
- The UMP you are referring to is just one example of a "hack" weapon that doesn't apply to the rules of Matrix, but most guns do, which is weird cause why are Neo's, Trinity's, etc. Why are their guns not unlimited or nearly bottomless. Morpheus was seen reloading his Glock twice. Excalibur01
- Exactly, the whole, "anything's possible because it's the Matrix" is a copout answer when you consider the inconsistencies related to guns. And anyway, I really don't care about that stuff anyway. This is IMFDB. We're concerned with the the behind-the-scenes reality, not the the movie universe. Save that shit for some Matrix fanboy site. -MT2008 05:02, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
M1911A1
The page is missing one more gun. During the rooftop scene when Neo and Trinity are fighting several soldiers, I noticed the guy who tries to shoot Trinity is holding what appears to be a M1911A1.
Military controlled Building's Security
Are the lobby guards and the backup soldiers are really classified as bad guys? And when the lobby guard said to send backup, was he really calling the agents?
In the film, Morpheus mentions that anyone can become an agent, which is why you see Trinity take out the seemingly innocent cops at the beginning. The security guard was just calling up the SWAT and not the agents. --Ben41 01:31, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
- To add onto what Ben said, nod, the security guards aren't bad guys. However, it's possible for them to become agents at any time, and besides, they would stand in the way of rescuing Morpheus if there weren't taken care of. Therefore, it was neccesary, and more interesting, for Neo and Trinity to fight them. Acora 22:08, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
- The stupid part is that since this is the Matrix, they never explain what they can and cannot bring with them or just simply call up. If they could bring up as many guns they could carry, why not summon a car or a helicopter. They needlessly did a drawn out shootout and ended up getting a helicopter at the roof Excalibur01
- Because it looks cool.
- For everybody's information, the "backup" the security guards called up when Neo and Trinity made their entrance into the Government Building's lobby were in fact soldiers, not SWAT officers. If you look carefully, you will see that there is a significant differences between the two groups e.g. SWAT officers having the word "POLICE" on their body armour while the soldiers had no markings on the front of their body armour (excpet for their nametapes), the soldiers having knife/bayonet scabbards on their webbing while the SWAT officers did not, the SWAT officers at the hotel wore armoured gaiters around their shins while the soldiers did not etc etc. If one can look over the hotel scenes and the lobby shootout scenes, you'll know what I'm talking about. - Roughneck Jase 20:10PM AEST 19 October 2010
- Yes that is correct. In the original script (although it is not the final draft) Neo and Trinity had a less dramatic lobby fight with marines, although it is difficult to tell whether these were the same characters who were in the lobby shootout from the final film, and on the rooftop too. So I have always thought they were marines, well actually just computer programs resembling the marines, I tend to believe that neither them nor the guards were actual human beings who had families at home, but were simply just computer programs designed to defend the Matrix, only as "human" as programs such as the agents, how would the marines have entered the building in less than a minute after the guard called backup if they were human beings? It is worth noting, though, that in the Matrix Path of Neo game Neo and Trinity fight only SWAT members in the lobby and the rooftop, which is a difference from the movies. 69.43.65.35 04:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
- If you watch the film carefully the lobby guards and the soldiers in the government building WERE human beings with the military helicopter pilot and the soldiers guarding the floor Morpheus was being help prisoner being "taken over" by the Agents - Roughneck Jase 22:26PM AEST 22 November 2010
- But agents could take over other programs as well, such as when Smith took over Agent Thompson in the Reloaded burly brawl scene. How did the soldiers just arrive in the lobby less than a minute after backup was called? They wouldn't have gotten there that quickly. 69.43.65.35 18:18, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
- Agent Smith in The Matrix Reloaded was no longer an "agent" and was "unplugged" as a result of his battle with Neo in the first film. By the second film, Smith had become a computer virus and was able to take over both humans and programs. - Roughneck Jase 11:37AM AEST 23 November 2010.
- Thanks, and I have indeed read now that "agents" could only possess bluepills. 69.43.65.35 02:48, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
- Agent Smith in The Matrix Reloaded was no longer an "agent" and was "unplugged" as a result of his battle with Neo in the first film. By the second film, Smith had become a computer virus and was able to take over both humans and programs. - Roughneck Jase 11:37AM AEST 23 November 2010.
- But agents could take over other programs as well, such as when Smith took over Agent Thompson in the Reloaded burly brawl scene. How did the soldiers just arrive in the lobby less than a minute after backup was called? They wouldn't have gotten there that quickly. 69.43.65.35 18:18, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
- If you watch the film carefully the lobby guards and the soldiers in the government building WERE human beings with the military helicopter pilot and the soldiers guarding the floor Morpheus was being help prisoner being "taken over" by the Agents - Roughneck Jase 22:26PM AEST 22 November 2010
- Yes that is correct. In the original script (although it is not the final draft) Neo and Trinity had a less dramatic lobby fight with marines, although it is difficult to tell whether these were the same characters who were in the lobby shootout from the final film, and on the rooftop too. So I have always thought they were marines, well actually just computer programs resembling the marines, I tend to believe that neither them nor the guards were actual human beings who had families at home, but were simply just computer programs designed to defend the Matrix, only as "human" as programs such as the agents, how would the marines have entered the building in less than a minute after the guard called backup if they were human beings? It is worth noting, though, that in the Matrix Path of Neo game Neo and Trinity fight only SWAT members in the lobby and the rooftop, which is a difference from the movies. 69.43.65.35 04:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Mouse's Shotguns
Would one of the admins mind linking this article to (The Matrix) - Mouse's Shotguns? I'm trying to cut down on the number of orphaned and dead-end pages.--PistolJunkie 14:36, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Picture Caption
Whoever wrote the caption on the last Desert Eagle picture is probably not aware of the magic of film editing. Assuming he is talking about the shot in that picture, the probably simply took a shot of the Desert Eagle firing and then edited it in to make it look like he was getting shot. As I recall, the movie never actually showed Keanu next to the Desert Eagle in that scene. -- K98.118.59.151 16:47, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, whoever wrote that comment obviously had no idea what they were talking about, so I edited it out. -MT2008 10:25, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
SPAS 12
Someone must have locked the page because I can't edit the thing. I have a better picture for the SPAS 12, the ones used in the movie have fixed stocks and pistol grips, I have a picture uploaded that shows the SPAS 12 with this furniture, I think it'd be better than the picture with a folding stock. Here's the picture:
If there's any way to do so someone insert it instead of the folding stock one. Just use "spas12_fixed.jpg" Thanks. --Camden Hennis 15:58, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
- I think the page is locked to admins only. In any case, I disagree with your idea for a picture change, that is no more accurate than the other picture - While the guns do have fixed stocks (Like your image) the SPAS's in the Matrix also have extended magazine tubes and barrels like MPM's image, and unlike the SPAS in that picture. Plus, and not to put you down, but that looks to be a jacked image, and a poor size/quality one at that. The SPAS image being used is one of MPM's high-quality ones which are taken just to be used on the site. In the end, I don't see any reason to change it myself. But I guess it's not up to me. As an alternative, you could ask MPM if he could get a SPAS with a fixed stock to image for the page. StanTheMan 16:04, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey you know what dudes, maybe someone should add this never before seen SPAS 12 shotgun picture into the talk section of the Franchi SPAS-12 page.
Skorpions
I think they might be a different model other than the Vz. 61's. The magazines are longer and less curved.BurtReynoldsMoustache 07:49, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Leetspeak wrong
The article says: Bowring named the guns "Andy" (serial no. A1169 - Leet Leetspeak for Andy) and "Larry" (serial no. L2779 - Leet Leetspeak for Larry)
This is clearly wrong. The "11" in A1169 cannot be an "n" or a "d". The "77" in L2779 cannot be an "r". A "7" usually means a "t", but the wikipedia page also explains how it could be used as "7_" to mean "z" or "|7" to mean "p". Anyone should be able to tell how these symbols look sorta like the letters they represent. However, the "7" does not look at all like an "r".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Editing
Can someone please lift the protection on this page so I correct some of the images and a few descriptions, especially the Skorpions. Don't worry I won't screw any thing up. :) - Mr. Wolf 16:29, 27 April 2011 (CDT)
You can put the pictures and corrections here and they will be placed in the page. --Ben41 17:45, 27 April 2011 (CDT)
Here: - Mr. Wolf 19:24, 27 April 2011 (CDT)
(Bold shows new)
- Beretta 92FS
Neo (Keanu Reeves) takes at least four pairs of Beretta 92FS pistols with him on his mission to save Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). The reason he carries eight pistols instead of just one or two with spare magazines is that it's faster to drop the empty ones and pull out "fresh" ones, than it is trying to reload them and possibly fumbling.
- I didn't see that as bad logic, I tried it myself and it IS faster to drop & grab than it is to reload (especially when your holding two pistols at the same time), you also don't have to worry about fumbling and botching while reloading. Plus it's the Matrix, they don't have to worry about money or having to retrieve the weapons.
- Micro Uzi
During the lobby scene, Neo and Trinity both use Micro Uzis with bent trigger guards, Trinity using one to kill one of the first guards and Neo using two to keep the soldiers behind cover.
- The Micro Uzis in the movie have bent trigger guards.
- Skorpion SA Vz 61
Neo fires a pair of Yugoslavian made Model 61(i) Skorpion sub-machine guns fitted with muzzle shrouds and 30-round magazines during the lobby shootout. (p.s., Don't forget the link to the Skorpion page.)
Hope this is all clear enough for you. - Mr. Wolf 19:24, 27 April 2011 (CDT)
Thanks. :) Should I delete all this stuff now? - Mr. Wolf 14:44, 28 April 2011 (CDT)
During the rooftop fight, the soldier who Trinity dispatches was holding what appeared to be an M1911A1.