Yet Another Movie Luger

[Dwight Gruber]

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.




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




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.




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

--Dwight