I didn’t say he was the basis. I said that there was a little bit of Jerry Sage in the character.
Although it’s noy military per se, but every single gladiatorial fight is wrong.
A) 1962, when “Dr. No” was released.
B) 2002, when “The Bourne Identity” was released.
C) I’d say 1962, in “The Avengers” with Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale. Though I personally thought Dianna Rigg as Emma Peel was much hotter then Miss Blackman.
Yeah, my biggest problem with most war type movies. Most of the time I think they use a dab of dynamite and a gallon or two of gasoline. I suppose this gives a decent size explosion without much danger of shrapnel. I never saw any flames, except for napalm, in any of the gillions of explosions (mortars, grenades, artillery, rockets, claymores, and bombs up to 1,000 pounds) that I saw in Vietnam.
In a real bomb, for instance, there’s a brief flash which is quickly gone in the dust and dirt. Smaller explosions like grenades have dust and gravel jumping straight up into the air from the shock.
The Hollywood explosions just seem silly to me.
They sound wrong, too. Real explosions are more like a short, dull THUD.
Explosions also have this sharp concussion that you feel in your teeth - but I don’t know how they would put that in a movie
Lots of bass in the THX surround sound subwoofers.
Real grenade explosions apparently look fairly mundane on film.
Less than that. That was EOD exploding an old grenade. They probably used a couple pounds of C4 to do it.
To return to early comments RE: uniforms, one of the easiest pet peeves of mine is when movies feature officers wearing their Class A uniforms (aka the jackets, and often the hats) at work, inside, particularly in places like the Pentagon.
For one, you don’t wear the jacket or hat in side. For two, you don’t wear the jacket unless you’ve got a big official function. For instance, at the Pentagon, the only time you’ll see someone wear a jacket is if they’ve got to go to Capitol Hill for a briefing or hearing, or to someplace like the White House. Otherwise, you’re just wearing the uniform of the day, which can be anything from the Class B’s to BDUs (the military often has their own version, ess-you-not, of “casual Fridays” and allows/encourages servicemembers to wear their BDUs/ACUs/ABUs/flight bags/etc.).
As for the hat, no one wears cover inside. And sometimes even outside (the Pentagon courtyard, for instance, is a no cover area- ditto many courtyard areas at bases and such).
Oh, and yeah: no one salutes anyone inside, either. If they did, they’d be saluting all day long and never get any work done.
Thus, anytime you see a Hollywood movie or TV show where you’re seeing some 4-star general walking into his office wearing his full Class A’s, his cover, and saluting everyone in sight, you know that you’re watching complete fiction.
Related: if your TV show or movie features an Army officer, there’s a 98% chance they’re a veteran of the First Cavalry Division and/or a Ranger. For some reason, Hollywood determined those patches are the most photogenic so every uniform appears to have them.
I thought sci-fi was usually a good place to find inaccuracies in the treatment of rank.
Was Harry Kim correct to address Captain Janeway as ma’am, sir or captain? (Can sort of remember a scene where he tried all three, or at least two).
Starfleet practice was to address *all *senior officers, regardless of gender (which could be problematic for some species), as “Sir”.
Nor did I from a childhood spent in Northern Ireland. Just a thud and some smoke from the explosive blasts, a thud that travels a very long way indeed.
If a movie wants to get it right all they have to do is hire Dale Dye.
I don’t know if it’s the same in the US (I’m assuming it is) but most brass-heavy areas are also no saluting areas or you’d be saluting, or returning salutes all day.
Where was the kaboom?! There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
I had a roommate in the Army who worked at the Pentagon as his prior assignment. He said the steps outside were made a no saluting zone because of the hazard of saluting on stairs. he said he got a kick out of watching officers who were just assigned there getting snippy because none of the enlisted were saluting them.
I read that somewhere myself (IMDB, I think) - I think having a “proper” uniform was considered “impersonating a member of the Armed Forces” - but then I came across this:
And there was a court case (I’ll try to find it when not on my phone) which nullified the “discredit” part. First amendment protection.
Schacht v United States. Found it.
I don’t know about the other branches of the military, but in the Marine Corps, you’re not allowed to salute if you’re not “wearing cover”(meaning a hat of some sort). You’re also not allowed to wear cover inside so there’s no saluting inside.