Rediculous "Last of Mohicans" Scene

[Doc Rogers]

Now THAT is funny!

I had not seen that clip before. It had me laughing out loud.

Thanks for posting it!

Doc

 

[dlpowell]

Geez this forms' great! Never know what your going to find. :hatsoff:

 

[sparky911]

As anyone tried to reproduce the scene in Last of the Mohicans were the good indians and hawkeye are chasing the bad indians up the mountain. One of them is carry a flintlock in each hand by the trigger guard. raises both guns up cocks each and fires them. This trick is not possible, I've tried it - wonder just how they did it in that movie.

I too have always wondered why after Magua chased them under the water fall and Hawkeye and his father and brother all jumped into it and swam out soaking wet
they had just decided to jump because their powder was wet

so they chased Magua's group into the Huron camp where Hawkeye walks out with one sister.
Nowhere does it show them getting dry powder yet don't they fire upon Magua's group a few minutes later?

 

[rabjr]

As anyone tried to reproduce the scene in Last of the Mohicans were the good indians and hawkeye are chasing the bad indians up the mountain. One of them is carry a flintlock in each hand by the trigger guard. raises both guns up cocks each and fires them. This trick is not possible, I've tried it - wonder just how they did it in that movie.

Oh no, hold on!you said you tried this but did you try it with the two original guns that were used in that scene?? :hmm: :wink:

 

[Cosmoline]

One of them is carry a flintlock in each hand by the trigger guard. raises both guns up cocks each and fires them. This trick is not possible, I've tried it - wonder just how they did it in that movie.

If I remember the scene, those were trade guns DDL's character grabbed off dead foes. Not heavy rifles. I could hoist one in each hand, though I don't know if my thumbs are long enough to reach up and cock them. I'll wager DDL's are. He's real long-limbed.

It may be one of those things only some people can pull off. Like the Duke's patented spin-cock. If you try that and your arm's inseam is shy of John Wayne's mark you'll get a nasty bruise or shoot yourself.

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

Even the Duke had to have the barrels shortened in order to keep from whacking himself with the muzzle.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Don't know what kind of front heavy unbalanced long rifle you have, but I can do it with mine. Not easy, but can do it. Tapered 50 cal barrel almost as light as my North Star Northwest trade gun.

But then again, I can pick up 4 bales of hay at a time, by the twine, two in each hand and throw em up onto the wagon. And I'll bet any old time handmilkin dairyman can do it too. Guys who work out at the climate controlled health club just couldn't comprehend.

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

I'm an old farm boy myself. Not sure what that has to do with John Wayne having the barrels bobbed on his large lever '92 Winchesters so he could spin cock them in his westerns. I was responding to Cosmoline's post--specifically the second paragraph.

I've never worked out at a climate controlled health club either. And I'm too old and fat to start now. Around here we get our exercise by wrestling with black bears and tossing Obama supporters around as if they were beach balls. The odd thing is they seem to enjoy it. :rotf:

 

[torn moc]

well PLEEEEEESE Start throwin the Obamma supporters ALOT HARDER...Preferably INTO A BRICK WALL !

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

The problem is they seem to always land on their heads--and, as I'm sure you are aware, their brains are located in their posterior regions. :wink: They just come back for more with a sort of daffy look on their faces, a bit like the one they had on election day. :rotf:

 

[jmforge]

I'm not sure how "correct" a lot of that stuff was, but from what I have heard about Daniel Day Lewis as an actor, if the director asked him to do something and it was at all possible, he would learn how to do it no matter how long it took. That guy is apparently CRAZY serious about his craft and he only does film projects that really excite him, so you get your moneys worth when you hire him.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

I have a copy of an old black and white movie about Daniel Boone, made in the 1930's I believe. When it showed the settlers moving to Booneboro from NC, they were in wagons passing through cactus. And when besieged at Boonsboro, (1757 was the year as I recall) the settlers were defending themselves with Trapdoor Springfields in the movie.

If you watch the movie Zulu, her majesty's troops would have been armed with Martini Henry's or Sniders. And most scenes show Martini Henry rifles and drawn brass ammo for 577-450. I don't think they were making drawn brass ammo yet at that time, but coiled cases. But even more intriguing, was the scene just after the bayonet charge by the British defenders, the soldiers are clearly operating bolt action rifles, when being told to reload.

In a 1950's western movie I just watched over the weekend, in one scene that supposedly took place in the 1860's, I caught a glimpse of a high power line in the corner of the scene.

 

[mikee51848]

As anyone tried to reproduce the scene in Last of the Mohicans were the good indians and hawkeye are chasing the bad indians up the mountain. One of them is carry a flintlock in each hand by the trigger guard. raises both guns up cocks each and fires them. This trick is not possible, I've tried it - wonder just how they did it in that movie.

I too have always wondered why after Magua chased them under the water fall and Hawkeye and his father and brother all jumped into it and swam out soaking wet
they had just decided to jump because their powder was wet

so they chased Magua's group into the Huron camp where Hawkeye walks out with one sister.
Nowhere does it show them getting dry powder yet don't they fire upon Magua's group a few minutes later?

Hello... it's a Hollywood movie... action and pizazz take precedence over accuracy. Don't think, just enjoy...

 

[Darkgael]

victorianesque prose.

I agree that Cooper's style is a bit much for the modern reader. It's "romantic" as opposed to Victorian, though. The book was written in 1826. Victoria became Queen in 1837.
Pete

 

[jmforge]

As anyone tried to reproduce the scene in Last of the Mohicans were the good indians and hawkeye are chasing the bad indians up the mountain. One of them is carry a flintlock in each hand by the trigger guard. raises both guns up cocks each and fires them. This trick is not possible, I've tried it - wonder just how they did it in that movie.

I too have always wondered why after Magua chased them under the water fall and Hawkeye and his father and brother all jumped into it and swam out soaking wet
they had just decided to jump because their powder was wet

so they chased Magua's group into the Huron camp where Hawkeye walks out with one sister.
Nowhere does it show them getting dry powder yet don't they fire upon Magua's group a few minutes later?

Hello... it's a Hollywood movie... action and pizazz take precedence over accuracy. Don't think, just enjoy...

I do believe the term you are looking for is "willing supsension of disbelief" :grin:

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

Or developing a tolerance for the solid waste product of the male of the bovine species.

Still LOTM is as realistic as most of Cooper's prose... :v

 

You also have to curl your fingers and point your thumbs forward. :wink:

You mean like this ... ??

Wearing a dress takes getting used to though--well for most of us anyway. :rotf:

If the dress was hard how did you do with the high heels... :haha: :shake:

I talked to Baker after taking part in the movie, he said "the best part was Russell Means having to work out every day to make those 25 yard runs". :rotf: