Vantage Point: Difference between revisions
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Vantage Point: Difference between revisions
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-10.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Veronica drops her Beretta when the ambulance crashes.]]
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-10.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Veronica drops her Beretta when the ambulance crashes.]]
== Glock 17 ==
==Glock 17==
A [[Glock 17]] is used by the former special forces soldier Javier ([[Edgar Ramirez]]) who kidnaps the real President. The one shown in the film features a stainless steel slide and a suppressor.
A [[Glock 17]] with a chrome slide and fitted with a suppressor is used by the former special forces soldier Javier ([[Edgar Ramirez]]) when he kidnaps President Ashton ([[William Hurt]]).
[[Image:Glock 17.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Glock 17 9mm with stainless steel slide]]
[[Image:Glock 17.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Glock 17 with chrome slide - 9mm.]]
[[Image:VP-Glock17-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Javier fires on Secret Service agents with his supressed Glock 17 with a chrome slide. Here he has a grip rather fitting for a formal special forces soldier (aside from not keeping the gun eye level), although his thumbs are a little high here.]]
[[Image:Glock 17 Screen 01.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Javier walks the hotel hallway armed with a Glock 17]]
[[Image:VP-Glock17-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Here his grip is improved.]]
[[Image:Glock 17 screen 02.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Here he takes out several guards as well as the chief of staff with his Glock 17]]
[[Image:VP-Glock17-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Javier loads up his Glock 17, seen here without the suppressor.]]
[[Image:Glock 17 screen 03.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Javier forces the president to go with him using the Glock 17]]
[[Image:VP-Glock17-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Javier does a mid-mag reload, although he unecessarily racks the slide, which would extract the round in the chamber in real life.]]
[[Image:VP-Glock17-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Javier approaches President Ashton with his suppressed Glock 17.]]
[[Image:VP-Glock17-6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Javier holds his suppressed Glock 17 on President Ashton.]]
==Glock 30==
==Glock 30==
Revision as of 02:50, 12 July 2010
The following guns were used in the movie Vantage Point:
'Vantage Point' is a 2008 action thriller focusing on an assassination attempt on the President of the United States Henry Ashton (William Hurt) as he promotes a treaty to fight international terrorism in Salamanca, Spain told from the different view points of Global News Network producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver), United States Secret Service Agents Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox), video camera owner Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), Spanish police officer Enrique (Eduardo Noriega), deadly terrorists Suarez (Said Taghmaoui) and Veronica (Ayelet Zurer), and blackmailed former special forces member Javier (Edgar Ramirez). Due to principle filming being done in Mexico City, some of the firearms in the film (notably the Beretta 92FS pisols) are reproduction blank replicas instead of blank converted registered firearms, likely due to lack of availability.
The issued sidearm of USSS agent Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) is a SIG-Sauer P229 pistol chambered in 9x19mm, instead of the correct .357 SIG ammunition chambered for the real life USSS SIG pistols.
The most commonly used gun in the film is the Beretta 92FS pistol, seen carried by Spanish police officer Enrique (Eduardo Noriega), as well as all of the terrorists in the film. USSS Agent Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) is curious seen using a Beretta as his sidearm, instead of the correct SIG-Sauer P229 pistol typically issued to Secret Service. Many of the Berettas appear to be Bruni Model 92 8mm stage firing blank replicas. Many of them have the proper Beretta logo grips though, so they could have been installed on the props, or actual Berettas may have been used depending on location of filming.
A Glock 17 with a chrome slide and fitted with a suppressor is used by the former special forces soldier Javier (Edgar Ramirez) when he kidnaps President Ashton (William Hurt).
Suarez uses a Beretta 92FS throughout the film, but when Agent Barnes (Dennis Quaid) rescues President Ashton (William Hurt), Suarez pulls a Glock 30 for a brief moment. After Barnes shoots him, It is a Beretta 92FS again.
A Heckler & Koch PSG-1, mounted on an automated platform, is used by the terrorists to conduct the initial attack on the President. The PSG-1's distinctive wooden grip is featured during the scene when agent Taylor disassembles it.
The Remington 700PSS rifle appears in the hands of Secret Service snipers in the film, fitted with folding bipods. A few rifles actually may be M40's, but most of the close-up shots use R700's.
