Saturday, October 26, 2013

X-Ray Images Of Guns In Popular Movies

'Say hello to my little friend'... A memorable line uttered by Al Pacino, as Tony Montana (left), in 1983's Scarface

Say Hello To My Little X-Ray Friend! From Scarface's M16 To Bond's Walther PPK, See-Through Images Of Film Guns That Deglamorise Killing Machines -- Daily Mail

* British artist Nick Veasey X-rayed firearms - from Rambo's M60 to Derringer used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
* Veasey unable to guarantee that weapons were exact models used in films as many have been handled so widely but they are all correct model
* Guns delivered to Veasey’s studio in Maidstone, Kent, by two handlers in an armoured van

From Tony 'Scarface' Montana's 'little friend' - the M16 rifle - to Dirty Harry's Magnum ('the most powerful handgun in the world'), guns and glamour have often gone hand in hand on the big screen.

But now the firearms have been cast in a new light, as these X-ray images show.

The intimate workings of some of cinema’s most iconic weapons, including James Bond's Walther PPK, have been revealed by British artist Nick Veasey in an attempt to 'deglamorise' guns - by reducing them to the status of scientific specimens.

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My Comment: Quite a collection of photos.

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