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04-14-2010, 08:25 AM | #1 |
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evil luger stigma
Just watched FANTASTIC MR FOX. It's a movie where George Clooney attempts to bore everyone to death with monologue. Noted though was the main evil Farmer strutting about with an artillery luger that he has no hesitation using. Funnier yet is the farmers wife who captures one of the young foxes with a WW I trench knife and a meat cleaver.
Why is it the bad guy always carries the luger? |
04-14-2010, 08:30 AM | #2 |
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I always remember the great line from Hogan's Heroes. When Sergeant Schultz goes to report to Col. Klink that he was accosted by a plainclothes agent.
When Klink asks Schultz what the man looked like, Schultz's responds: "A German Luger" |
04-18-2010, 01:55 PM | #4 |
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You see more Lugers portrayed as bad guys guns back in the 30's era movies.
I recall one where a undercover guy is joining a mob gang. They show him a closet full of Lugers to choose from. He grabs one and sez,"What a honey of a Luger!" "That one belongs to the boss!" Is the response. |
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Study the cover art of "SGT ROCK" comics of the '50s; they always featured a Swastika and a Luger.
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04-18-2010, 02:46 PM | #6 |
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I was born in 1947. I probably owned every one of those period comics.
"The Haunted Tank" was cool-hanging from a cargo 'chute knocking zeros out of the sky. Also the French resistance gal with ze beeg headlights. One image I recall was whenever an evil nazi tank or MG nest got waxed, all you'd see was an explosian with a German helmet flying upwards. It was funny too see how crudely drawn a lot of that stuff was. No corpses or dead Americans were depicted back then. |
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Even "Desperate Housewives" on ABC has woven a Luger into their recent plots... Go figure!
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I've seen MR Fox too, funny movie (except for Clooney ). It is just so fitting to have people like that farmer carrying a luger. They are so brooding and menacing looking, just like a C96, or a tommy gun even. Intimidation extraordinairre'
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SGT Rock comics brings back lot's of memories.
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I have all 3 Fantomas movies which were made in France in the late 1960's. The henchmen of mastermind Fantomas all use a Luger. I was thinking about taking some screenshots but the guns are too small in the picture to look very spectacular.
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