I feel like in the scene where Furiosa is showing Max the killswitch sequence, he moves to to turn the safety back on on his gun. Is this just me? I could have sworn I saw/heard it. bonehandledknife primarybufferpaneloneangryshot
So I watched that part maybe 6 times and I still can’t tell what he’s doing.
The problem is the Grip Safety is very near the Hammer, and they would mean two completely opposite things.
This would have to be a dvd commentary thing unless someone can Elliot Spencer that shit and tell us if that’s the very distinctive sound of a hammer being cocked or the very distinctive sound of a safety being put back on.
Unless a gun is a revolver, I think, having to click back the hammer manually when you haven’t just reloaded is a Hollywood myth. So if we’re trusting this movie to be realistic about weapons use, it would be the safety.
Well from what I understand you need to always set the first shot, and it should be down for the following shots.
So I went ahead and tried to find a good side-angle on the gun from before the kill-switch sequence:
If so, would mean that, yeah, he’s probably putting the safety back on, great catch!
The safety features are pretty specific to the type of gun. This one is a Glock 17 (if someone corrects me – they’ll be right – but I’ll be sad if I screwed up recognizing a freaking Glock!) and the safety mechanism are as follows: http://ift.tt/1O3Lnn2
It’s a semiautomatic (each pull of the trigger fires one shot and loads the next round) and has a firing pin rather than a hammer one cocks manually.
After watching more videos of people loading and unloading Glocks than I ever thought I would…
Not having access to the movie I can’t check to see what is being referred to, but the Glock’s “safety” is built into the trigger. Pulling it activates several internal mechanisms. That is, the gun is “safe” because it CANNOT accidentally fire by being dropped, bumped, etc – it can only fire by the trigger being pulled. It does not have a lever/button/dial like some handguns that renders the gun inoperable unless it’s turned off. You can order them with a “internal locking system” (I think this is because of certain police forces requiring such a thing) but it looks like this: http://ift.tt/1L8PsGH And has an actual key that needs to be turned. Pretty sure that’s not what you guys are referring to Max doing.
The only way to “deescalate” (hee) a Glock is to take out the magazine, and then eject the chambered round. And obviously that’s not what happens in this scene.
Errr? Okay so what is he doing? Because there was a very intentional click added to the sound.
Just rewatched to confirm, and yeah, there’s definitely a click sound added that coincides with Max doing something with his thumb around the back end of the gun.
At the risk of sacrilege, is it possible this is an intentional “goof” added for storytelling purposes? That is, the filmmakers wanted to show Max deescalating in response to Furiosa’s giving him the code, so they employed an unrealistic sound effect to make it look like Max was uncocking the (hammerless) Glock?
I know of at least two other examples of them doing something like this in the movie. In some of the BTS material (can’t remember where) there was a discussion of adding CGI bodies pinwheeling through the air, and how the artists intentionally didn’t show that realistically, with limbs rigidly outstretched in a “starfish” manner. Audiences are used to stunt people who wave their arms around and exaggerate those motions to make it more visually interesting, so the artists animated it the same way.
The other example I’d noticed is when the People Eater’s war party is approaching and Capable and Angharad are looking at them through binoculars and a telescope. In the view we see through Angharad’s telescope (I assume), it’s clear (if you understand optics) that the People Eater swelling to fill the frame is an unrealistic effect of him being much closer to the camera than depicted. But audiences have been conditioned to expect/overlook such inaccuracies, and it helps the storytelling by emphasizing the menace of the approaching war party while giving a close-up that introduces the People Eater’s character.
I love the lengths to which the movie goes to be realistic. This is a big issue for me with a lot of movies; I have a hard time getting past the unrealistic physics of pretty much every comic book movie of the last decade, for example. Ultimately, though, it’s about telling a story. When Fury Road strays from a realistic depiction it does so with restraint, saving it for situations where it a) helps the story, and b) is unobtrusive enough that even an obsessive viewer who notices will be inclined to forgive. I’m not sure that’s what’s going on in this case, but if it is I think I’m okay with it.
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