"Band of Brothers" gun bloopers

[stellarpod]

Is the series available on DVD?

Yes, and I'd gladly pay twice the going price.

stellarpod

 

[MrMurphy]

His name was Guarniere.

And yes, i saw brass fly from a Thompson several times. As to someone noticing a .30 carbine going off over an MG firing, odd stuff happens in wartime.

 

[Browns Fan]

Ooops! Saw it last nite and one or two guys had the "dial-a-death" rotating buckle on their parachute harness before the combat jump into Holland.

 

[hansolo]

Being the son of a veteran of WWII, I enjoy the show, overall, but, if you've seen "old" WWII films that were produced in the Forties or Fifties,
the language and mannerisms were very different than in BoB: I guess the BoB writers are too young to incorporate WWII era's lingo into the dialogue. I don't see a lot of character developement, either....call me overly critical, but this show just doesn't "feel" like the mid-Forties. Flame-on.

 

[bamf]

hansolo,

The mid 50's WWII movie feel, the mannerism and language is due to more censorship and constraints put on the film makers and writers of the time and not how people actually talked or acted.

If you believe the old films, no one ever swore, it was all gosh gee willy darn....now we know these guys were young soldiers, far away from the constraints of home, you better believe these guys cussed like crazy.

And you don't see character development...hmmm, I don't know what to say...did you see the entire series?

 

[forvrin]

101st / Camp Tocooa trivia

I went to school / grew up not far from Curahee mountain (and spent camping trips at the top of the mountain). During my capstone Thesis class for history, my professor mentioned an anecdote from his Graduate thesis class, wherein a student was doing a paper on the 101st and Toccoa, and discovered that they were mightily unpopular with the older Toccoans, esp. the baptist preachers, who would rant and rave about their liquor loving ways and their foul mouths.

This suprised my professor, who asked his father, who, like most of that generation, was in the military during the war. He said that everyone had a mouth like a toilet.

So yeah, I think the whole "Gee whiz" and "golly" crap was just that.

 

[Silent Bob]

Another difference between BoB and the old '40s & 50's war movies: when someone in BoB gets shot, blood splatters everywhere and they scream and thrash around, in the old movies, there's no blood, their buddies light a cigarette for them in their dying moments, and they say, "Do me a favor, take my son to a Yankee's game. Promise me!" And then their eyes close.

 

[Justin]

One other blooper - firing M1s with no perceptible effect of the recoil on the shooter. Looks more like they were firing 10/22s.

Basic Newtonian physics. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You will get much more recoil firing a real bullet than you will firing a blank.

 

[PinnedAndRecessed]

FWIW, in the episode "Crossroads", when Easy is setting up to ambush the Krauts, they aim their Garands at their targets. At that time they decide to adjust the windage on their rear sight.

Reminds me of the first "Jackal." He spotted his target through the scope and then started adjusting for windage and elevation.

Hate it when they do that.