Family-Friendly Firearms: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
m (clean up) |
Kawaiiotenba (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 96: | Line 96: | ||
** Yeah, but the movie happens not more than a few decades before ''[[Return of the Jedi|RotJ]]'', by which point blasters are common and slugthrowers (what projectile weapons are called in canon) are rare, so using blasters is perfectly acceptable. |
** Yeah, but the movie happens not more than a few decades before ''[[Return of the Jedi|RotJ]]'', by which point blasters are common and slugthrowers (what projectile weapons are called in canon) are rare, so using blasters is perfectly acceptable. |
||
** On the subject of ''[[Star Wars]]'', the laser guns and lightsabers are already guilty of this trope; [[Word of God]] says ''[[Star Wars]]'' is intended to be a kids' series. |
** On the subject of ''[[Star Wars]]'', the laser guns and lightsabers are already guilty of this trope; [[Word of God]] says ''[[Star Wars]]'' is intended to be a kids' series. |
||
** The franchise as a whole on the other hand, deliberately invokes the "lasers" that look ''very'' similar to normal firearms part by making all props [http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Star_Wars based on real weapons] with some sci-fi bits glued on in order to create a "lived in" sci-fi setting. |
|||
* The 20th Anniversary Edition of ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' (in)famously substituted guns held by police with walkie-talkies. This was parodied mercilessly in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Free Hat", where all of [[Steven Spielberg]]'s thugs carry walkie-talkies in such a manner that suggests they were "originally" carrying guns. They cock their walkie-talkies to threaten the boys ("Hold it! Don't make me use this walkie-talkie!"), and Spielberg himself at one point steals one and threatens to "shoot". |
* The 20th Anniversary Edition of ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' (in)famously substituted guns held by police with walkie-talkies. This was parodied mercilessly in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Free Hat", where all of [[Steven Spielberg]]'s thugs carry walkie-talkies in such a manner that suggests they were "originally" carrying guns. They cock their walkie-talkies to threaten the boys ("Hold it! Don't make me use this walkie-talkie!"), and Spielberg himself at one point steals one and threatens to "shoot". |
||
** Even more so, the same episode has an edited version of ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'', featuring US soldiers being graphically killed by machine guns, while returning fire with walkie-talkies. |
** Even more so, the same episode has an edited version of ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'', featuring US soldiers being graphically killed by machine guns, while returning fire with walkie-talkies. |
||
| Line 103: | Line 104: | ||
* ''[[Bugsy Malone]]'': The "splurge-guns" and the pies. |
* ''[[Bugsy Malone]]'': The "splurge-guns" and the pies. |
||
* ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'' has the HYDRA soldiers using energy rifles powered by the Cosmic Cube. The allied soldiers do still use real guns, though for obvious reasons they are less than effective.... |
* ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'' has the HYDRA soldiers using energy rifles powered by the Cosmic Cube. The allied soldiers do still use real guns, though for obvious reasons they are less than effective.... |
||
== Literature == |
== Literature == |
||