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  1. MikeKardec

    Weapons in the Movies

    I think I actually recommended that gun to him! That doesn't mean I "knew Steve McQueen" or anything else that sounds cool or exciting. He studied up on the research that went into Tom Horn in my father's library, so he was around the house for a few weeks but not in a social way; just...
  2. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    A few days ago I was having a political discussion, the nature of which is unimportant and inappropriate for this forum, but it reminded me of something I've probably said before but it could stand repeating because it is so fundamental: If you want to understand a character, if you want to be...
  3. MikeKardec

    Weapons in the Movies

    I once interviewed an old guy named Henry Donovan who produced some early TV. Earlier in his career he's been a prop man and had invented a dust pellet air gun which shot brittle plastic (or something) balls of powder these sent up a nice plume of dirt like a bullet had hit the ground. Other...
  4. MikeKardec

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    ... and many people who betray through hypersensitivity where their minds go when their buttons are pushed. The question is, in those situations, who is the racist? We have to accept a wide range of people and behavior rather than just looking at the surface that may justify a feel good...
  5. MikeKardec

    What Are You Reading

    VERY interesting. That seems to make sense in a 'cultural thematic' level as well as just a historical one ... not that I have any great regard for getting too intellectual or symbolic about things. It's just that, if it's not the absolute truth, in some way it should be because of the kind of...
  7. MikeKardec

    Weapons in the Movies

    I didn't know some of that. Thank you! To make matters worse for movie companies you can't always use the same sort of blanks. Some locations have rules about quarter, half or full load, sometimes safety rules mandate a certain approach, some directors want more or less flash or smoke. Yet...
  8. MikeKardec

    Weapons in the Movies

    Not necessarily on Titanic, but it's also common to have only a few working weapons on a set which are traded back and forth between actors who need the functioning one in that particular shot. VERY convincing molded plastic (or something of the sort) replicas are carried otherwise. Sometimes...
  9. MikeKardec

    1943-44: Driving from NYC to LA?

    A kind of haunting book, especially when you run across it in the midst of the other Ellery Queen stories. There were a number of "utopian" communities in the California desert, Llano del Rio was one and Zzyzx was another though it was created around the time this story was set. There's no...
  10. MikeKardec

    Weapons in the Movies

    I agree with you about holding the ground personally but, if I was a soldier, I'd rather have some sort of robot a 100 yards ahead of me playing "cattle dog" with the enemy. Just like using armor but on the scale of a human being; like an off road version of the Texas Police robot. The arms...
  11. MikeKardec

    Weapons in the Movies

    I totally and completely agree with you. But I didn't mean in the future or even five years from now, I was mulling over the idea of semi cheapo existing tech. I believe in one of the 19th century wars between the Turks and Russians the Turks armed up with their version of the 45-70...
  13. MikeKardec

    Weapons in the Movies

    I have a reproduction that was manufactured out of Williamsberg for a while ... it works nicely as long as you use heavy lube in the breach, which is threaded. Disconcertingly, the first time you fire it after cleaning the breach threads vomit lube but then, with all the channels plugged with...
  14. MikeKardec

    Weapons in the Movies

    I had the opportunity to visit Stembridge Guns a couple of times, they were the Western Costume of movie guns. Picture the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark full of firearms. Insane. They had thousands and thousands of guns that so far as I know never made it into any movies. I...
  15. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Not shameless ... just acting like a good AGENT!!! Exactly the right thing to do. If they aren't going to help you, it doesn't matter what they think! There is nothing about that rejection that you should believe except that they chose to be polite to you when they didn't necessarily have to...
  16. MikeKardec

    Weapons in the Movies

    Big roll of the eyes ... not that someone might want a SPAS they are kind of cool ... but with the Film Industry's obsession with Gun Porn. Ie. using certain popular military or military like yet commercially available firearms It's a pet peeve. Seriously, using the Jurassic films as an...
  17. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    ... and as I keep harping on about, there is nothing second rate or "vanity press" about self publishing these days. Self publishing or Kindle or major label E divisions like Hydra has become the paperback of the 2010s ... nothing less legit than if you published through Gold Medal or Penguin...
  19. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    My advice is usually to get the agent to tell you when they will get back in touch. Six weeks used to be a common answer. They would almost NEVER get back to you in six weeks but my feeling is that you can move on to soliciting another agent at that point with no guilt or the suggestion that...
  20. MikeKardec

    Oscars were horrible

    It's not. In fact all of Hollywood functions on a currency of internal politics far more than it does dollars. That "money ruins art" or that somehow the film biz is all about the box office trope that has built up around Hollywood is complete bunk. It's all Other People's Money, none of the...
  21. MikeKardec

    Oscars were horrible

    Yeah. I was surprised too. Their hypocrisy does not touch those who have gotten inside the circle, though how that ever happened with Riefenstahl I'll never know. Serious film maker but the appreciation by Hollywood, I'd have loved to have heard those discussions!
  22. MikeKardec

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    He needs to stop objecting and start eating. Seriously, a woman who can cook with an open fire and knows how to use a musket? He needs to 1) appreciate, 2) not piss you off.
  23. MikeKardec

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    That's so cool. I was always fascinated by the people who populate the modern "Colonial Williamsberg" and "Old Sturbridge" attractions. When I lived in Oz I was always going afoul of Aussie English and they had similar issues with me. I had to communicate often complicated social and...

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