Tropic Thunder: Difference between revisions
Tropic Thunder: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Tropic Thunder: Difference between revisions
[[Image:TTSporterII-9.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Speedman seems inclined to rack the action on the Sporter II even when the gun is already chambered.]]
[[Image:TTSporterII-9.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Speedman seems inclined to rack the action on the Sporter II even when the gun is already chambered.]]
[[Image:TTSPorterII-10.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Speedman with his Sporter II.]]
[[Image:TTSPorterII-10.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Speedman with his Sporter II.]]
[[Image:TTSporterII-11.jpg|thumb|none|600px|"I'm a lead-farmer, motherf*cker!"]]
[[Image:TTSporterII-11.jpg|thumb|none|600px|"I'm a lead-farmer, motherfucker!"]]
[[Image:TTSPorterII-12.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Lazarus fires two Sporter II Carbines akimbo style at the Guerillas, depsite the guns being loaded with blanks.]]
[[Image:TTSPorterII-12.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Lazarus fires two Sporter II Carbines akimbo style at the Guerillas, depsite the guns being loaded with blanks.]]
[[Image:TTSporterII-14.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Lazarus crosses his Sporter II Carbines.]]
[[Image:TTSporterII-14.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Lazarus crosses his Sporter II Carbines.]]
Revision as of 20:31, 21 November 2008
The following guns were used in the film Tropic Thunder:
Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), along with various other characters, uses a 16" barreled AR-15 Sporter II Carbine throughout the film, which is anachronistic for Vietnam . The original AR-15 Carbine was an SP1 (sold between 1978-1985)), so there was no forward Assist on the upper receiver. Stiller's gun is the A1 version, or what Colt called the "Sporter II version" in U.S. sales. The Colt Model 653 based weapons came after 1973. He should be using an XM177 variation to be accurate to the era. It may be an homage to the movie Platoon since the characters of Barnes (Tom Berenger) and Elias (Willem Dafoe) used the Phillipine export Colt Model 653 rifles. This film uses what is available in the United States, which happens to be the Sporter II carbine, since most of the movie was filmed in Los Angeles and Hawaii.
Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel) and Alpo Chino (Branon T. Jackson) both carry M16A1 rifles fitted with the older style M16 muzzle flash reducers throughout the film.
Jeff "Fats" Portnoy (Jack Black) wields an M60 Machine Gun as his weapon in the film. Jack Black commented on how he got stuck with the M60, which he knew was nicknamed "The Pig", and was tolds he was a natural with it, something he found disturbing. Some other random soldiers are also seen firing M60s during the opening scene.
Lazarus is seen using an M1911A1 as his sidearm in the film and uses it several times. Portnoy later gets his hands on it and uses it to hold Tran (Brandon Soo Hoo) hostage.
