Yet Another Movie Luger
 

The movie: Congo, 1995. An -awful- Michael Crichton movie: young scientist takes his talking gorilla back to Central Africa, accompanied by former CIA operative looking for her former fiancee and an adventurer searching for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. They and their armed escort find all they seek, all in the care of mankiller white gorillas.

Its all really quite absurd. In the penultimate conflict, when the heroine is about to unleash the mother of all diamond-powered laser slicer-dicers on the hapless apes, in amongst the soldier guard contingent firing away with their AKs, FNs, Uzis, M-16, Colts, Glocks, etc., our young scientist hero pulls out--his Luger!--and fires away.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/congoluger1.jpg


The Luger is shown mostly as a hand-carry prop, one shooting sequence including a closeup.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/congoluger2a.jpg


The ironic part of the Luger presentation is that it is a -huge- continuity error. As the group is about to enter the city and discover the diamond mine, a scene makes the explicit point that the heroine hands the scientist a gun to use. It is clearly a Glock-like handgun, and is seen in the next scene.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/congoglock.jpg


In the following scene, however, the gun has magically transformed into the Luger and remains so through the rest of its scenes.

--Dwight

I like the way he hugs the guy(or what ever it is) with his finger still in the trigger gaurd.

Just remember: He is only an actor, and we have learned a lot about the intellectual skills of actors since Iraq . . . . . not to mention their abhorrence of anything military.

It is not for no reason that Hollyweird has not produced a decent movie in about a decade...the place is dominated by intellectual pygmies, no disrespect to pygmies intended.

Tom A

Note in the left hand photo no magazine in the gun.

"Note in the left hand photo no magazine in the gun."

Lots of mistakes, not that particular one...

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/congomag2.jpg

--Dwight

4th photo down on the left

The small pic above is a dozen or so frames past the one in the composite. I've added an arrow to point out the mag base just visible sticking out of the butt of the gun. -Way- too detailed an analysis going on here... :eek:

Dwight

I saw this movie and I couldn't understand how it could be written by Michael Crichton. All this is, is a high tech remake of the movie King Solomon's Mines with Stewart Granger, which is a color remake of an even older version. Most of the ingredients are the same, just a few high tech add ins. I think they must have paid him to lend his name to the movie to make it look more appealing to audiences...