Enter the Babylon System

Author:Rodrigo Bascunan [Bascuñán, Rodrigo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-36846-1
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2007-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Desert Eagle

“And now the same thing with the Hong Kong film factories and the Indian film factories and the Japanese film factories,” Risdall observed, “where they love the gun over there. And it so fits with their movies when they’re doing a contemporary piece that’s not historical kung fu or something like that. I’d like to see one where like, the space guys go back in time to World War II and beat up the Nazis with them, do some time travel and off Hitler. See, I’d like that. Arnold would be good in that.”

“So are you really friends with him?”

“Whenever he wants to put one of our guns in one of his movies, he calls up and asks for a couple of guns, and we’re happy to give ’em to him. And those don’t show up in the movies. He actually uses those and gives them to friends then. So he’s a pal, yeah.”

Risdall chose not to comment about Governor Schwarzenegger’s politics, but did feel free to discuss Hollywood’s role in driving demand for the bird. “The guys who make the [airsoft] guns at Cybergun,” he said, “we’re their number-one seller except for when there’s a James Bond movie out, and then it’ll be the Walther PPK for about six weeks. And the rest of the year we’ll be their number-one seller again.”

Airsoft Arnie confirmed the connection. “Movies do influence what a percentage of people buy,” he said. “It’s like buying replica movie props.” While the subcultures are mostly distinct, lots of air-softers and hip-hoppers share an obsession with the bird, one largely instilled by Hollywood.

“The very first movie was Mickey Rourke, in Year of the Dragon,” John Risdall remembered warmly. “Brilliant movie. And at the end, he gets a Desert Eagle out because he’s gotta handle some bad craziness. That to my mind is the classic use of the Desert Eagle: you know, when everything else has failed and now you gotta—you know, the bad guys have shown their true colours, and you gotta bring out the real goods to, like, hammer these bozos.

“And then, at the same time, we were in a couple of TV shows like The A-Team and Hunter and Miami Vice. And Miami Vice was, I think, the first one where they mentioned the Desert Eagle pistol by name on a TV show.”

I’m launchin’ rockets and SCUDs at Crockett and Tubbs

—Ras Kass, “Miami Life,” off Soul on Ice (2001)

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