Cameo GLOCKs
We take a look at GLOCKS on Hollywood's silver screen.
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Good Monster Gun
When Liz Sherman, Hellboy’s pyrokinetic girlfriend takes on supernatural baddies in the summer blockbuster Hellboy II: The Golden Army, she uses more than her fire conjuring powers—she packs her GLOCK 22. When calcium-craving Tooth Fairies swarm out of Manhattan auction house walls, Liz, played by Selma Blair (of Legally Blonde), Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) and her agents from the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (BRPD) open fire with their own issue GLOCK semi-automatic pistols.
But the squad from Hellboy’s BPRD aren’t the only monster-fighting movie heroes turning to GLOCK. Melissa George fights ravenous blood suckers in the Alaskan vampire film 30 Days of Night. A GLOCK 36 is in the hands of Nick Stahl as John Connor takes on the Cyborgs in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Stahl’s character grows up to be the John Connor character in Terminator: Salvation played by Christian Bale.
The zombie-battling survivors of Resident Evil: Extinction make their way through the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Las Vegas, NV., under the firm protection of Gaston Glock’s polymer-framed gun. When the Umbrella Corporation unleashes the mutant dogs and living corpses made popular in the two previous movies based on the Capcom video game, they are met with jacketed lead from the GLOCK.
Breaking Bad on the Small Screen
This year the GLOCK is again the weapon of choice for small-screen crimefighters such as Reiko Aylesworth on the show 24. The Show’s star, Kiefer Sutherland, used a GLOCK 19 in the two-hour special event movie 24: Redemption. They tried to resurrect the Bionic Woman last year on television, and a .45 Auto subcompact GLOCK 30 was along for the slow-motion run.
F.B.I. agent David Sinclair played by Allimi Ballard totes a GLOCK 23 in the CBS show Numb3rs. The combined lab men and women from CSI, CSI: Miami and CSI: New York take on their seemingly unsolvable crimes with GLOCK models ranging from subcompact .40 GLOCK 27s to full size GLOCK 17 9×19s at their side.
While all the CSIs, including CSI: New York, are actually filmed in Los Angeles, the detectives of the New York-based shows Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU and Law and Order: Criminal Intent film their gritty dramas on location in the Big Apple. Because of New York’s arcane firearms laws requiring “non-guns” in filming, these television good guys must carry GLOCK 19s that have been modified to not be capable of firing live ammunition. What a waste of good GLOCKs!
With more and more GLOCKs like the new G21 SF being adopted by law enforcement and specialized military units every day, you can be sure you’ll see plenty more GLOCKS on the big and small screen.
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March 26th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Just wanted to stop by and say thanks. Enjoy reading your stuff.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:10 am
[...] A banner year for Glocks in movies. [...]
March 1st, 2010 at 10:17 am
Hmm - is it me, or is the striker down (and trigger back) in the Glock in that picture?