Is it moving?
I can't tell.
Yeah.
All right.
Good.
"Blain is big.
And Blain is loud.
And Blain is mouthy.
And Blain is unruly.
And Blain is us.
And just like that, with one more blast from an alien's
cannon, Blain is also gone.
Or at least the part of Blain that made Blain, Blain.
Not only the body of Blain or the body of Jesse
'The Body' Ventura is gone or quickly going.
No one quite knows how long it takes for the consciousness
to fade from a body after mortal shock.
But it's probably immediate and how quickly all that makes us,
us drains away or shifts to whatever's next.
If you believe in that sort of thing.
Will there be pain for Blain wherever he has gone?
Ol' painless, the gun that had to be artificially
lightened for Blain to carry for our enjoyment,
serves him no more.
So 20 seconds later, at 47:30, we
arrive at what is probably the movie's most famous scene.
It was not in the original script.
After Blain is killed, his friend Mac
looks around to see whodunit, sees the outline
of the alien and, enraged and incredulous,
begins firing wildly into the jungle.
He exhausts the clip on his weapon,
bends down to pick up ol' painless, the mini gun.
And having escalated things, thus
begins mowing down everything in his path.
Dutch sees him shooting and joins in.
Pancho next, with a machine gun in one hand
and his grenade launcher in the other.
And then Billy joins the team and we see the guys lined up.
Guns, right above crotch level, blasting into the jungle.
Then Dillon, shooting too.
Then Anna covering her hands, covering her ears.
They switch clips.
They keep firing.
Tree trunks explode.
Vines get shredded.
There's smoke everywhere.
All of them fire blindly at whatever.
Grenades get launched.
A lot of foliage is totally destroyed.
The team uses all their guns in the scene, including the AR-15
assault rifle.
The Mossberg 500 shotgun.
The M134 Minigun.
An M60E3 machine gun with a shortened barrel.
The Heckler and Koch MP5A3, actually
portrayed by an HK 94A3.
An M203 grenade launcher.
A custom built grenade launcher composed of an AN/M5
Pyrotechnic Discharger.
And a Heckler and Koch HK94.
And a Walther PP handgun.
And the IMI Desert Eagle Mark I. Either
the .44 or the .357 magnum.
I can't tell.
And the M1911A1.
Enthusiasts may have recognized these guns on screen.
But for most of us, the movie is an awesome advertisement
for them.
Like Jack Crain's big knife.
There's a scene earlier in the movie where Schwarzenegger
throws this giant knife into the chest of one of the guerrillas.
And says, like, stick around.
[LAUGHTER]
And, like, I mean, it's a kind of a funny one liner.
But it's like this moment in the movie
that I only realized when I read the script
and then listened to McTiernan talk about it.
It's like a technical solution to a technical problem, which
is, as McTiernan tells us, this guy Jack Crain
had somehow got the producers to buy a bunch of his giant knives
that he'd made.
And the producers now demanded that they
have the knife in the movie because they paid, like,
thousands of dollars for these stupid knives.
And all that he wanted to do is get rid of the knife
as quickly as he could.
So he and the writers--
Jim and John Thomas-- figured out OK,
we can throw the knife into this guy's chest,
say the line and then the knife is
done for the rest of the movie.
They don't have to carry it around anymore,
which is kind of amazing.
Like-- it's like one of those things you,
kind of, forget as like a writer who's kind of working,
more or less, on their own--
sometimes on your own.
But mostly on your own.
That sometimes you have to solve someone else's
technical problem.
And then they do that with this, kind of, you know,
it's an OK one liner in the movie.
So anyway, it's by Jack W. Crain who
makes these, like, special knives, which cost, like,
$1,600 if you want to buy one for the Predator loving, knife
having man in your life.
[LAUGHTER]
So like Crain's big knife, these guns
became objects of desire for me and who
knows how many other millions of men and boys.
Maybe some of us in attendance.
When I verify the list of guns on the Internet Movie Firearms
database-- a surprisingly accurate and exhaustive fan
site that rips off the look of Wikipedia and is devoted purely
to cataloging guns and their variants in films--
I'm advertised to by Ammo Shop Online and guns.com,
"hot gun summer, all firearms shipped free."
Ruger, which is a handgun manufacturer.
Case, which is a knife manufacturer.
A 20-minute video on the Smith and Wesson Performance Center
Shield Plus, which is a cool looking new handgun.
The Springfield Armory Hellcat, RDP,
"the highest capacity micro 9 millimeter in the world."
And "raid shadow legends," which is I
think some kind of freemium game.
I'm not clicking on it for obvious reasons,
but the language and the ad tells me, "if you're over 50,
this game is a must."
Meaning what exactly?
[LAUGHTER]
The ad features an attractive blonde
seen from behind naturally, in a prone position
on a grassy bluff, peering through the scope
of some kind of machine gun into a mist coming off a small lake.
It's a weird ad, and when I enlarge it on my screen
it gets weirder.
On closer look, the woman is wearing some kind
of fur-lined metal spiked shoulder pads,
on top of a sexy short copper tunic.
So that's a weird collision of medieval-ish fantasy,
and first person shooter.
And obviously we're supposed to be looking at her ass,
and so I do as I've been trained.
But when I enlarge the image even further,
it appears that where the tunic rides up and we'd
see her thighs, what we see instead is fur.
Is she an animal?
Her bare arms suggest the opposite, or maybe it's grass.
She could be a vegetable?
It's super weird and getting weirder.
And I've stared at this stupid ad now for more than a minute,
scouring it for meaning like I do Predator.
And I have to bail out of this lacuna,
before I give them all my personal information.
The scene in which the team shoots and shoots,
and shoots and shoots, and shoots and shoots
goes on for 1 minute and 17 seconds.
This version is slowed down.
That would be approximately 7,700 rounds fired by the gun
that ol' painless pretends to be.
The barrel life of the newest version of that gun,
the mini gun is 200,000 rounds.
This is a long time to only be firing on a screen.
Hold the scene against the earlier trashing
of the guerrilla camp.
That was a montage of different bits,
punctuated by jokes, bad guys, flying helicopters, exploding
stunts, and stunts, and stunts.
Hundreds of guys getting killed in different ways,
all set to sheets of overlapping gunfire sounds.
Standard action movie stuff.
This however, is intense, concentrated.
77 seconds of straight up only shooting,
a total blistering spectacle.
It wasn't like anything I had ever seen.
I was so excited by it.
The shooting only ends when the mini gun's ammunition runs dry.
We get a close up of Mac's hand locked on the trigger,
the barrels rotating empty against the whine
of the machine, as it keeps trying
to fire even if it's empty.
His fingers release the trigger.
This devastation is followed by 20 seconds of total silence,
as the smoke clears a little.
The novelization describes it this way:
"the blinding chaos was followed by the stunned silence
of aftershock, as if the whole world had
paused for a breath of grief."
And I'll stop there.
Thank you.
[APPLAUSE]
I'll leave it to you to turn that off.
All right, Logan.
[APPLAUSE]