Guns, guns, guns...
Watching the movie a panicking Windows rushes to a case filled with shotguns and rifles.
Now given they're situated a thousand miles from the coast in the antarctic, why do they have so many guns?
It's a research base run by the US military, so you'd expect them to have an armory on site, just as you'd expect the base commander (Garry) to be armed.
The scene I found amusing was Blair pulling a revolver out of his desk drawer next to his bottle of vodka, implying that he probably smuggled his own gun onto a military base. The law may have been different in the early 80's, but until recently it was quite difficult for civilians to get clearance to carry a firearm on a military base.
If the base were manned by soldiers you would certainly expect an armoury, but the military arming civilian contractors and scientists? You might expect a couple of weapons in a secure locker, but a glass guncase with at least half a dozen weapons just seems like complete overkill -- though to be honest I have a feeling someone in the production team was thinking polar bear.
Blairs gun seemed reasonable enough. Hard to imagine they'd have gone through any military checks on the way to Antartica. That's assuming he didn't obtain it after arriving -- after all it could have already been there when he arrived.
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though to be honest I have a feeling someone in the production team was thinking polar bear.
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Indeed, nothing threatening at all in Antarctica. No need for guns at all in fact.
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Gotta disagree. Any military base (especially in the 80s during The Cold War) would have guns.
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Any military base with a compliment of soldiers would have guns, no doubt. But given the types of weapons -- hunting rifles and shotguns, rather than pistols and assault rifles -- it didn't appear to be military ordnance. And the personnel were civilian.
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Unbelievably there are 52 gunshots fired in this film... Crazy trivia from www.outpost31.com
shareUnbelievably there are 52 gunshots fired in this film... Crazy trivia from www.outpost31.com
That is interesting. Except for the Norwegians chasing the dog, I can't think of any other scenes where guns were fired in the movie.
Were they shooting at Palmer when he was morphing? I can't remember.
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Leopard seals can be pretty dangerous, but I think Outpost 31 was quite a ways from the coast.
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