Re: Motorcycles, Tanks

Posted by Doc from spider-wq044.proxy.aol.com on June 16, 2000 at 08:31:09:

In Reply to: Motorcycles, Tanks posted by Abner on June 12, 2000 at 15:15:08:

: I thought it would be a BMW R75 myself, so perhaps the prop people mislabled it. I think a trip the Hollywood Casino in Tunica, Mississippi is in order to find out!

: Even in supposedly "accurate" movies like "Saving Private Ryan", there are inaccuracies. Apparently the Tiger Tank was not real Tiger but a modified Soviet Tank, and one can tell from the treads.

: I think the more you get into learning about antiques, firearms, or old vehicles, etc., the more you just accept these kind of inaccuracies as inevitable. Movies, after all, are the art of deception, and if the producers can find a prop that looks the part they will use it whether or not its historically correct. They just need to fool most people, not the sticklers (like us).

: Cheers,
: Abner

Of course no one would expect the production company to actually source authentic period vehicles only to mangle them during filming. Not only is that horrendously expensive, but it's also destroying irreplaceable pieces of history (hence the use of a VW Thing rather than an authentic Kubelwagen in LC). It would just be interesting to find out what motorcycle Lucasfilm used in the movie versus what it was actually supposed to represent.

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: : I thought it would be a BMW R75 myself, so perhaps the prop people mislabled it.  I think a trip the Hollywood Casino in Tunica, Mississippi is in order to find out!

: : Even in supposedly "accurate" movies like "Saving Private Ryan", there are inaccuracies.  Apparently the Tiger Tank was not real Tiger but a modified Soviet Tank, and one can tell from the treads.

: : I think the more you get into learning about antiques, firearms, or old vehicles, etc., the more you just accept these kind of inaccuracies as inevitable.  Movies, after all, are the art of deception, and if the producers can find a prop that looks the part they will use it whether or not its historically correct.  They just need to fool most people, not the sticklers (like us).

: : Cheers,
: : Abner

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: Of course no one would expect the production company to actually source authentic period vehicles only to mangle them during filming. Not only is that horrendously expensive, but it's also destroying irreplaceable pieces of history (hence the use of a VW Thing rather than an authentic Kubelwagen in LC). It would just be interesting to find out what motorcycle Lucasfilm used in the movie versus what it was actually supposed to represent.

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