I just know what speeches were used in the film and know he received a musket as a gift at the Charlotte rally. If it's not a still from the movie, it could be from anywhere other than the annual meeting in Denver after Columbine (where he did not receive a musket as a gift and did not give his "cold dead hands" speech).
It's not a line he came up with. It's a common NRA thing that far predates Heston's presidency. It's just used as a rallying line to underline the dedication for what they believe to be an unalienable right. Just like The Rock has to ask if people smell what he's cooking, the President of the NRA has to give that line at rallies. It's a bumper sticker kind of a line. I think it's a silly line, but it's been around for a long while, and I don't think it's offered in a truly paranoid way.
I'm just gushing at the thought of all those stuffy, uptight, web developing conservatives ready to launch their blog-review/critiques/smearcampaigns/attackads/etc. Watching them type-type-type away in their pettiness is even more entertaining than Moore's work. But not by much.
I'm ready to die before my guns are taken away...That is how strong I believe in my right...The fact is that will never happen, but if it should, America as we know won't exist...and if they take them it will be out of my COLD, DEAD HANDS!... My uncle is still alive when these words were uttered: This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future! - Adolf Hitler, 1935 ...and you see the 6 million man slaughter when guns were disallowed...After this, the Jews found a penchant for the gun and in Israel, they vowed never to be undergunned ever again...The rest is history. The point is it happened in a person living today's lifetime, when it was incredulous that it could ever happen...Nobody believed it was actually happening till it already happened...I don't believe in violence, but I believe in the gun,...I'd rather have, than have not in this crazy world...
Excellent trailer. Can't wait to check this movie out once it his theaters. I wonder if it's going to be restricted to the artsy theaters though.
See what you can do by taking bits and pieces of what people say/write? Well, Moore did the same thing.
It won't be restricted to such screens. They're thinking it will be on 1,000 screens. While that's not a huge number (roughly 2/3 of the screens that Soul Plane debuted on), it's a larger release than just the art houses. At its height, Bowling for Columbine was on about 250 screens.
