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Breakfast and a Movie
20 June 2013 09:00 pmThe Hollywood Theater has a monthly Breakfast and a Movie event and this Father’s Day was “High Noon” with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. In a future posting I will be writing a review of that film but for now I am blogging about what it was like to attend this event on behalf of local steampunks.
I showed up a little bit early in my full gear. Frock coat. Boots. Hat. U.S.Marshal’s badge. Gunleather. The people running the event were thoroughly impressed and called me “their favorite person” because I dressed up rather than just showing up. I was myself a little disappointed that I was unable to convince any of my fellow steampunks to come out. Maybe it’s because “High Noon” is merely a western and not a steampunk western. I recall that I dressed up to see “Doctor Dolittle” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and couldn’t get anyone interested in going to those either. Maybe it’s older movies. Or Dormont..
“Are you a good guy or a bad guy?”
“Well, I AM wearing a badge but I suppose that doesn’t necessarily answer your question, does it?”
One moviegoer approached me and asked about my revolver. I showed him that it was a softair replica even though I owned actual firearms. He also owned a single action army and we talked about how it is probably impossible to perform the fan-fire as seen in the movies.
As I write this, I remember playing “Savage Worlds – Deadlands” and that the fan-fire in that RPG was fairly effective. Of course, in the movies it is used to tremendous effect as well but I am curious how such a thing would behave in the real world. I should think that the recoil of full power ammunition would make it very difficult to have any sort of accuracy. It would probably chew up the side of ones hand if it were not protected by a glove or calluses. When the pros do it they must use extremely light target loads, highly modified mechanisms that smooth the hammer and probably have an extended trigger. I imaging slamming the hammer back like that would strain the hammer pin and the back of the frame. The pros probably use blanks to show how fast they can fire. Near zero recoil.
“Are you an actor?”
“I’m not an actor but I play one on TV.”
The Hollywood Theater would certainly like to have me back if only they have an appropriate film. Maybe I can convince them to put “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” or “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” on their schedule.
I showed up a little bit early in my full gear. Frock coat. Boots. Hat. U.S.Marshal’s badge. Gunleather. The people running the event were thoroughly impressed and called me “their favorite person” because I dressed up rather than just showing up. I was myself a little disappointed that I was unable to convince any of my fellow steampunks to come out. Maybe it’s because “High Noon” is merely a western and not a steampunk western. I recall that I dressed up to see “Doctor Dolittle” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and couldn’t get anyone interested in going to those either. Maybe it’s older movies. Or Dormont..“Are you a good guy or a bad guy?”
“Well, I AM wearing a badge but I suppose that doesn’t necessarily answer your question, does it?”
One moviegoer approached me and asked about my revolver. I showed him that it was a softair replica even though I owned actual firearms. He also owned a single action army and we talked about how it is probably impossible to perform the fan-fire as seen in the movies.
As I write this, I remember playing “Savage Worlds – Deadlands” and that the fan-fire in that RPG was fairly effective. Of course, in the movies it is used to tremendous effect as well but I am curious how such a thing would behave in the real world. I should think that the recoil of full power ammunition would make it very difficult to have any sort of accuracy. It would probably chew up the side of ones hand if it were not protected by a glove or calluses. When the pros do it they must use extremely light target loads, highly modified mechanisms that smooth the hammer and probably have an extended trigger. I imaging slamming the hammer back like that would strain the hammer pin and the back of the frame. The pros probably use blanks to show how fast they can fire. Near zero recoil.
“Are you an actor?”
“I’m not an actor but I play one on TV.”
The Hollywood Theater would certainly like to have me back if only they have an appropriate film. Maybe I can convince them to put “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” or “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” on their schedule.
