I love when the Russian Officer gave him the buy 6 tanks get one free deal...you would think that could be a joke but you can tell from his face that he was dead serious.
@Varsity Athlete For obvious reasons. Russia would not sell out like this with a lot of problem but the government still in control, but all the former sojwet nations were in chaos.
@Varsity Athlete Except during this time they were one and the same more. They were part of the USSR back then. This movie takes place in the 1980s, NOT the 1990s. Or at least the ORIGINAL STORY did anyhow. The Russian could have been half serious half joking, a way of perhaps enticing the Lord of War, but WITHOUT having to commit in case his seniors in the vehicle objected.
Yeah Not really, a soviet army general would be too scared to steal in such quantities, that was a job for upper echelon, im telling you that as a former soviet citizen.
Not many people know that they bought Nik Cage's son for this movie and sold him afterwoards for a profit as it was cheaper than hiring a prop Son of Cage.
Fun fact: This scene was filmed in former Soviet military airfield Milovice in Czech Republic, all weapons shown here were actually from Czech Army stockpiles and 100% functional (there is not a single one AK btw. those are SA 58 simillar but diff. weapon) and those 100 T-72´s were shortly after filming sold to Libya.
@@6k911Channel True I forgot about that one in that scene. Yeah those trucks by the way are also not Russian those are Czechoslovakian Tatra 813 ... I think same truck was remade to serve as a base for Mad Max War Rig but I´m not sure if it was exactly that type.
You mean a VZ58. Its similarity to the AK begins and ends with the form factor and chambering. Its not even the same gas system nor takes the same magazines
@@ThatWolfFromHyruleGaming Yeah exactly as you said. Here in CZ we call it either vz.58, SA 58 or unofficially "Kosa" which means Scythe. Official designation is Sa vz.58 which Sa stands for automatic gun vz. is shortcut for type and 58 is year of introduction into the army. It´s just curious to me that they used those for the movie. In the aftermath of collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact AK variants were in tousands everywhere in eastern europe ... actually CZ was only member of WP which used own design and not AK so it´s really funny they picked up stockpiles of those.
@@J18Flyer Ah, I didn't know that. All I know from Czech arms is from Forgotten Weapons. I've even seen some of the weirder designs, like the pseudo M14-ish one and one rifle that required two trigger pulls to fire: one was to close the bolt, the other fired the cartridge.
Want to know the craziest facts? - firstly those are real guns. It was cheaper than getting fake guns (seriously) Even better they had just one day to film with those tanks as they were getting sold (libya if i recall)
Another funfact: the filmcrew had to inform the nato and wait for there approval to line up those tanks, bc it could cause misleading assumptions to see those on satellite
@@Ethaara They didn’t tell the Ukrainians. Wanted to have real reaction and didn’t want to cut them in on the production money. But much cheaper than CGI
Nicolas Cage has made a lot of bad movies. He has also made quite a few terrible movies. On the other hand, he has made a lot of good and even some really great movies, too. And then there's Lord or War.
This movie is likely his best in my opinion. Utterly believable in both his character and role as an arms dealer in that time period. His Russian is on point.
@@RudyBleeker With Nick Cage it's a hit or miss. He is always fun to watch if you ask me, if the director and writers fail it's not and an actors fault.
The actually bought real rifles for this movie. It was cheaper than to build a bunch of props and they sold them and either broke even on the cost or made a profit.
@@BiggusNickus That's the nature of weapons. The movie was made in 2005, just imagine how many different owners those tanks might have had before ending up in Libya?
holy shit can ANYBODY have success without envious jerks posting your jealousy all over it?? enjoy your netflix whilst high-performance people work day and night. they learned how to be comfortable being uncomfortable. their focus is always on their goals and discipline while you browse faceboook. if theres one truth, whether you believe you can or you cannot, you are right. maybe while youre watching TV a meteor full of gold will crash through your roof. thats about the only chance you have if all you can think about is your envious rage when someone successful presents themselves before you.
Producer: Hi, I would like to film a scene inside one of your gun bunkers. General: Sure, sure how many guns you want to buy? Producer: No, I just want to film inside... General: Ahh, I understand...you want tanks? You buy six I give you one for free. Producer: No, I just to film...omg I don't have time for this alright I'll buy 10k guns and a dozen tank and we'll just film that in the studio. General: Pleasure doing business with you.
@@evanjohnson1299 not only that they also had to notify NATO to not freak out when they see satellite images of all those military vehicles lined up for the scene when they were driving by them.
"10,000 Kalashnikovs for a battalion? Your stocks are dangerously depleted." Yeah, considering that a battalion might have around 600-700 soldiers, that's only like 17 guns per person. [Edit] Alright, to all the helpful shitheads chiming in saying I don't get the joke: Yes, I know that the point of this scene is that he's fudging a typo to divert 30,000 weapons from the armory. What I'm saying is that the writers probably confused a battalion with a division, because there's no way in hell a single battalion would ever require 10,000 small arms, much less the 40,000 they actually had. Even then, 40,000 weapons would still be way too many for a single division. A corps might need that many, but not a division, and certainly not a battalion. Clear?
I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure that's an intentional joke. Earlier in the film he mentions that due to the collapse of the Soviet Union the army of that country downsized massively, now all that's left is a battalion in that region and they have way more tanks, guns and ammo then they have soldiers. So an easy way to make money. A jab on military corruption so to speak.
@@drpainglove3389 yeah it was literally him being sarcastic. the way he said it its implied it really WAS 40k rifles but to have his uncle lie to who he reports to to order more for him yuri to sell in his dealings. still probably my favorite movie because it doesnt treat the audience like they're stupid. a far too common trait in most movies now :/
@@drpainglove3389 That's a good explanation that I hadn't thought about. I was assuming that the screenwriters simply confused a battalion with a division, which would also make sense. Either way, this dialogue could have been scripted better.
@@shadowbandit3975 well, it was explained somewhere in the comments that that boy was a real Cage's son so this scene was inserted to give a kid some dialog
Did you hear the story of the Russian Tank Division fighting in Ukraine that requested additional tanks from an armoury in Far East Russia? When the depot tried to find the tanks that had been in storage for the best part of 3 decades only one had a working engine. Most had their parts stripped out and no one knew where they had gone. The depot commander mysteriously committed suicide soon after. I'm not joking either.
Uncle Dimitri was the perfect Soviet. Gullible enough to have propaganda morals and timid enough to shut up when those morals are broken. Basically, he is the perfect general to follow a strongman.
The song in the background is a famous patriotic Russian folk song about rowing up the Volga ("Song of the Volga Boatmen"). It's typically sung by an all male choir.
The song playing in the background is called the “Song of the Volga Boatmen”. It doesn’t seem to be the version sang by Kharitonov, which is the first one you’ll find on youtube
the russian dialogue is actually: son, get lost before things get bad for you, to which the mechanic replies: i can take this apart with my eyes closed not the most coherent dialogue in history of dialogues but the pronunciation is really great!
It's a shame so few people saw the movie. The studios decided to market it as a black comedy about Nic Cage doing wacky things with eccentric dictators instead of the very serious film it actually was.
The writers may never have intended it, but this movie makes a great case study in decentralized systems vs centralized ones, economics, and game theory. Any student of markets or economics should make this movie a must-watch.
This scene is highly unrealistic and slanderous to the character of the Russian Military Command. No Russian officer would act this reluctant or taken aback at the suggestion of selling off their equipment to underworld arms dealers.
If someone is interested: music in the background is probably one of a many versions of Russian song "Little club" (Дубинушка / Dubinushka) which became famous in the 20th century when performed by Russian singer Fyodor Shalyapin. This song is reworked version of "Song of the Volga Boatmen" - which is famous native Russian song. Not sure about which one is used in the scene, because both songs has a number of choral performance records.
@@mmclaurin8035 my friend, who cares who wins: I am afraid of Mutually Assured Destruction, Minuteman VS Satan! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I don't care if Abrams or Leopards are superior to the T-90 or the Armata!
@@edoardobarsotti902 to be fair, he has a point. Nukes are part of the Russian doctrine. Take the nukes out and they suffer. Example is their performance in Ukraine. That said, i get the MAD. Thats pretty much the only reason why Russia is able to do what they do in Ukraine. But im willing to bet Russia will be the first to pull the MAD trigger. As long as "Nicolas Cage look-a-like" is in power.
@@renzl2337 russia has always suffered in the ground part of a war because they dont use the other half of their doctrine which is bomb the ever loving fuck out the country and then roll in. chechnya, georgia, ukraine. yeah they do some nasty bombing runs but it isnt their pre collapse battle doctrine which expects to lose to NATO airpower and tanks. so now you got a military run by guys who use equipment that is expected to lose to western tech but they dont have the other half to solve this equation which is an ungodly amount of missiles and bombs
Everyone stole everything during those times. Flats, entire apartment blocks, arms, tanks, planes, companies, people. Freaking Wild West... or more like Wild East
@@heramann6916 what are you talking about he’s 50 he’s the most connected man on the planet and there’s bullions of dollars of US arms to be sold from Afghanistan let alone the Ukraine war demand
the ukrainians are useing 500 javelins per day according to ukrainian government sources, yet their total tank claimed kills is still less than a division (~300 have been destroyed, but the ukrainains claim most of that was by artillery and drone strikes not missiles). i think its clear the javelin is over hyped.
I am Norwegian, and I feel the same thing when someone on film tries to speak like a viking. I feel like they are destroying my language. I want to puke.
@@CrniWuk No, you still make the correct sounds, since you learn the sounds from your parents. Someone who grew up in US would know how to make the Russian “zak” and English “zak” both
@@peterl3417 I don't know. I grew up in Germany my parents are Serbian however. I knew how to speak it as child. But since then I forgot so much about it. I probably can't even speak everything properly anymore. People do forget stuff if they don't use it.
Nearly pornographic portrayal of BMP's and T-72's. It's sad that none of the Rambo movies had access to this much authentic equipment. Imagine what Rambo III could have been... :'[
This movie predates Ukraine and any way you wanna express it, a division is still the 3rd largest military unit, anything larger is corps and then army.
Really puts movies like Red Dawn into perspective now. No way the Soviets could ever have won against NATO if the Cold War went hot. 1945 was their high-water mark and it's been downhill ever since.
actually according to Ukraine its the flooding of the roads by the ukrainian military that caused the bogging down. the ukrainian government claim that is what caused the logistical issues with the Russians (or atleast made it have a noticeable effect on front line troops). this also explains why the Russians continue to advance in the south (where there is no flooding) despite the same people doing logistics...
A little trivia from the IMDB page: According to writer and director Andrew Niccol, the filmmakers worked with actual gunrunners in the making of this movie. The tanks lined up for sale were real, and belonged to a Czech arms dealer, who had to have them back to sell to another country. They used a real stockpile of over three thousand AK-47s, because it was cheaper than getting prop guns. :D
0:45 10 thousands Kalashnikovs is a ridiculously large amount for a batallion. That's like 10 AKs per soldier. With that amount of rifles you could equip a whole infantry division.
Not many people know that this clip is from an actual movie. The Dollar Theater figured out it was cheaper to cut a clip out of a real one than to film a clip themselves
“10,000 kalashnikovs for a Battalion, your stocks are dangerously depleted.” A battalion has like 1,000 soldiers at most. 10,000 gun would be enough for a division or two considering not everyone gets a rifle.
You take modern numbers and apply them to cold war era. That does not work very well. Especially with the russians working with temporary Batallion Tactical groups that could consist of quite a few more men.
@@tjoonatv2848 Either that or there would be reserves in case the weapons were critically over-used and they get a spare, Or arm some like-minded people over certain countries around the world. You could do a lot with AKs.
Maybe the extra guns are needed for soldiers to barter for food? I mean after all the government’s money have been blown on arming an army they forgotten that soldiers can’t eat guns and ammo.
Communist government that took all the wealth from the people gotta spend all their money somehow. That's the trick about government spending, they either spend it or lose it, so they always spend it, amassing huge amounts of waste.
Those guns, in this scene, are not AKs. They are VZ-58s that were made by then Czechoslovakia. Which has now broken up into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. No relation to the AK platform at all. They fire the same ammo and use the same muzzle break and that's it. But they are all real.
I love when the Russian Officer gave him the buy 6 tanks get one free deal...you would think that could be a joke but you can tell from his face that he was dead serious.
@Varsity Athlete For obvious reasons. Russia would not sell out like this with a lot of problem but the government still in control, but all the former sojwet nations were in chaos.
More interesting the soviet officer did a captilist move there by offering that buy 6 get one free
@@miriamweller812 sojwer
@Varsity Athlete Soviet actually. The uniform was still of the Soviet Armed Forces
@Varsity Athlete Except during this time they were one and the same more. They were part of the USSR back then. This movie takes place in the 1980s, NOT the 1990s. Or at least the ORIGINAL STORY did anyhow.
The Russian could have been half serious half joking, a way of perhaps enticing the Lord of War, but WITHOUT having to commit in case his seniors in the vehicle objected.
Fun Fact: That's the actual Nic Cage in this movie. The producers figured it was cheaper to get the real one instead of a replica
holy shit
I didn't know they sold Nick Cage replicas. I want one
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Once again, it might still be cheaper to buy a real one
holy crap i thought that was John Travolta all this time
@@yemen242 This thread is so funny, I'm laughing my face-off ;)
Yuri having to explain to a Soviet officer how corruption works, that seems a bit unrealistic.
The effect of enduring propaganda....
Plus, there's no chance in hell that this barely English-speaking Russian officer understands the expression "we'll cut them in".
Yeah Not really, a soviet army general would be too scared to steal in such quantities, that was a job for upper echelon, im telling you that as a former soviet citizen.
@@nicolasbertin8552 Its his uncle in the movie, he knows English well enough to understand that
Not everyone is corrupt within a corrupt system. The world isn't as black and white as that.
Not many people know that they bought Nik Cage's son for this movie and sold him afterwoards for a profit as it was cheaper than hiring a prop Son of Cage.
Wait a minute...
Wtf u cant buy ppl
"that's a good one"----Warlord Andre
@@andyc27 if you have the money and know where to look you can buy anything
@@andyc27 it can if the price right
as a mechanic i felt every milisecond of that last line... the acting is superb.
Fun fact: This scene was filmed in former Soviet military airfield Milovice in Czech Republic, all weapons shown here were actually from Czech Army stockpiles and 100% functional (there is not a single one AK btw. those are SA 58 simillar but diff. weapon) and those 100 T-72´s were shortly after filming sold to Libya.
Actually, there is a single actual AK used for close up shots, its the one he inspects as the trucks roll out.
@@6k911Channel True I forgot about that one in that scene. Yeah those trucks by the way are also not Russian those are Czechoslovakian Tatra 813 ... I think same truck was remade to serve as a base for Mad Max War Rig but I´m not sure if it was exactly that type.
You mean a VZ58. Its similarity to the AK begins and ends with the form factor and chambering. Its not even the same gas system nor takes the same magazines
@@ThatWolfFromHyruleGaming Yeah exactly as you said. Here in CZ we call it either vz.58, SA 58 or unofficially "Kosa" which means Scythe. Official designation is Sa vz.58 which Sa stands for automatic gun vz. is shortcut for type and 58 is year of introduction into the army. It´s just curious to me that they used those for the movie. In the aftermath of collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact AK variants were in tousands everywhere in eastern europe ... actually CZ was only member of WP which used own design and not AK so it´s really funny they picked up stockpiles of those.
@@J18Flyer Ah, I didn't know that. All I know from Czech arms is from Forgotten Weapons. I've even seen some of the weirder designs, like the pseudo M14-ish one and one rifle that required two trigger pulls to fire: one was to close the bolt, the other fired the cartridge.
The 'son' was actually Nic's real son Weston.
...
@@Kaybe23 It's true.
I didn't know that. Neat
He has Nick’s eyes.
@@equusamans and his crazy?
Want to know the craziest facts? - firstly those are real guns. It was cheaper than getting fake guns (seriously)
Even better they had just one day to film with those tanks as they were getting sold (libya if i recall)
where can i get some?
Another funfact: the filmcrew had to inform the nato and wait for there approval to line up those tanks, bc it could cause misleading assumptions to see those on satellite
@@likeaplatypus8909 ah, so the russines just filmed a movie in the past few months, now I get it!
@@Ethaara Of course! It all makes sense now!
@@Ethaara They didn’t tell the Ukrainians. Wanted to have real reaction and didn’t want to cut them in on the production money. But much cheaper than CGI
Now this hits different in so many ways...
why
So you're Ukrainian?
@@flisko123 the war in Ukraine.
@@StumpsWorth what war
@@flisko123 yeah...ok man. Im going to assume that you are just trolling. or you live in Russia where they hide all information.
I love this movie so much. I don’t see Nicolas Cage. I see Yuri. That’s how I know it’s good acting. 😏🔥
Nicolas Cage has made a lot of bad movies. He has also made quite a few terrible movies. On the other hand, he has made a lot of good and even some really great movies, too. And then there's Lord or War.
This movie is likely his best in my opinion. Utterly believable in both his character and role as an arms dealer in that time period. His Russian is on point.
@@RudyBleeker With Nick Cage it's a hit or miss. He is always fun to watch if you ask me, if the director and writers fail it's not and an actors fault.
@@dominantdaddy6939 Personally I think Adaptation is his best but yeah...this is right up there.
Since the movie mandy, when i see nicolas cage i see him saying: "You ripped my shirt !" 😂 I love that movie.
This movie is gold. Probably the one only blockbuster to tell the stories behin arm dealing
War dogs
yes.. like Blood Diamond by Leonardo di caprio. These are movies that highlight what going on behind wars. What really happened.
Winter soldier: 'arm' dealing you say?
The actually bought real rifles for this movie. It was cheaper than to build a bunch of props and they sold them and either broke even on the cost or made a profit.
They also bought some tanks which were sold back after filming and they later appeared somewhere in Libya. Pretty disturbing.
@@BiggusNickus That's the nature of weapons. The movie was made in 2005, just imagine how many different owners those tanks might have had before ending up in Libya?
@@BiggusNickus Not really that disturbing
like absolutely every US movie...
@@BiggusNickus usa fund and start many wars
Keep the good taxpayers money rolling.
He’s lucky he had family connections
Life is all about connections. Even Jesus had a powerful dad.
@@KAzik10001 but a dead beat one who was never there in his 'life'. Lol. Jk.
@@KAzik10001 , 🤓👍
holy shit can ANYBODY have success without envious jerks posting your jealousy all over it??
enjoy your netflix whilst high-performance people work day and night. they learned how to be comfortable being uncomfortable. their focus is always on their goals and discipline while you browse faceboook.
if theres one truth, whether you believe you can or you cannot, you are right. maybe while youre watching TV a meteor full of gold will crash through your roof. thats about the only chance you have if all you can think about is your envious rage when someone successful presents themselves before you.
@@natenero what are you even on about
Producer: Hi, I would like to film a scene inside one of your gun bunkers.
General: Sure, sure how many guns you want to buy?
Producer: No, I just want to film inside...
General: Ahh, I understand...you want tanks? You buy six I give you one for free.
Producer: No, I just to film...omg I don't have time for this alright I'll buy 10k guns and a dozen tank and we'll just film that in the studio.
General: Pleasure doing business with you.
did brandon herrera knock giggity.
you joke but they literally did that it was cheaper than using prop guns.
@@evanjohnson1299 not only that they also had to notify NATO to not freak out when they see satellite images of all those military vehicles lined up for the scene when they were driving by them.
@@Luis-be9mi No they didn't. The scene was filmed in Czechia, which has been part of NATO for six years by that time.
U could actually do that in eastern Europe in early 1990s for we had all sorts of stuff from retreating soviet troops.
"10,000 Kalashnikovs for a battalion? Your stocks are dangerously depleted."
Yeah, considering that a battalion might have around 600-700 soldiers, that's only like 17 guns per person.
[Edit] Alright, to all the helpful shitheads chiming in saying I don't get the joke: Yes, I know that the point of this scene is that he's fudging a typo to divert 30,000 weapons from the armory. What I'm saying is that the writers probably confused a battalion with a division, because there's no way in hell a single battalion would ever require 10,000 small arms, much less the 40,000 they actually had. Even then, 40,000 weapons would still be way too many for a single division. A corps might need that many, but not a division, and certainly not a battalion. Clear?
I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure that's an intentional joke.
Earlier in the film he mentions that due to the collapse of the Soviet Union the army of that country downsized massively, now all that's left is a battalion in that region and they have way more tanks, guns and ammo then they have soldiers. So an easy way to make money.
A jab on military corruption so to speak.
Wasnt that the joke?
@@drpainglove3389 yeah it was literally him being sarcastic. the way he said it its implied it really WAS 40k rifles but to have his uncle lie to who he reports to to order more for him yuri to sell in his dealings. still probably my favorite movie because it doesnt treat the audience like they're stupid. a far too common trait in most movies now :/
If my men don't get at least 30 Kalashnikov per head , i'd call that improvised
@@drpainglove3389 That's a good explanation that I hadn't thought about. I was assuming that the screenwriters simply confused a battalion with a division, which would also make sense. Either way, this dialogue could have been scripted better.
Nicolas Cage speaks Russian better than any of the "Russian" characters. There's barely any accent.
No, it is a very strong accent! Plus he has no right to give orders to a russian soldier.
@@vrokhlenko he does when he's VIP next the higherups and the russian solider has a baby face
@@shadowbandit3975 well, it was explained somewhere in the comments that that boy was a real Cage's son so this scene was inserted to give a kid some dialog
Yeah. He learned from his failed southern accent in ConAir.
Cocainum
"We'll cut them in"
30 years later in ukraine....
"Where the hell are our guns? Why are their no spare parts?!?!"
Did you hear the story of the Russian Tank Division fighting in Ukraine that requested additional tanks from an armoury in Far East Russia? When the depot tried to find the tanks that had been in storage for the best part of 3 decades only one had a working engine. Most had their parts stripped out and no one knew where they had gone. The depot commander mysteriously committed suicide soon after. I'm not joking either.
Lmaoooooo
this part of the film takes place in ukraine
@@mlc4495 source?
@@Doyle- "Trust me bro"
Can i just say how much i LOVE how Cage narrates in this movie
Uncle Dimitri was the perfect Soviet. Gullible enough to have propaganda morals and timid enough to shut up when those morals are broken. Basically, he is the perfect general to follow a strongman.
Ah yes, America's portrayal of the Soviets in Hollywood fiction is exactly what they were like...
@@themarketm8382 Yeah, pretty accurate. And not just Soviets but the entire East Bloc.
@@kavky yeah... no.
@@themarketm8382 if Modern Russia is anything to go by i'd say Hollywood wasn't too far off
@@kavky No they are not because in reality is much much worse.
"Built for a war that never happened"
(2022 looks about nervously...)
True, but the war was against Ukraine, not NATO
@@thegooddoctor2009 Pretty sure Ukraine wished they had these weapons right now.
@@thegooddoctor2009 not really, it’s west vs east Cold War era all over again. Just like the old times
@@thegooddoctor2009 war in ukraine is between russia and nato
If it was between Russia and NATO then our entire planet would be glowing green right now
Funfact: Instead of borrowing all those guns they bought all those guns and resold them
This movie is so damn good! The ones where you end up rooting for the bad guy usually are.
BTW - the mechanic on the Hind is actually Nicolas Cage's son.
No way! Seriously? Alright, that's a perfext excuse to watch the whole movir again
@@mnicolas9742 if may I ask you from where can I see this movie
and it was actually cheaper to buy nicolas cage real son and then later sell him after movie than to make a prop of a son of nicolas cage
The song in the background is a famous patriotic Russian folk song about rowing up the Volga ("Song of the Volga Boatmen"). It's typically sung by an all male choir.
I was looking for it for a long time.
The song playing in the background is called the “Song of the Volga Boatmen”. It doesn’t seem to be the version sang by Kharitonov, which is the first one you’ll find on youtube
This rendition is the Tatarstan Orchestra.
That’s how I sell my gunrunning business in gta online
An excellent film. One of Nic's best.
THE best.
@@Angyali There are some close ones but I agree.
And in 2022, Putin was wondering where all his equipment went....
Filmed in Czech republic. Rifles are Real guns, but not AKs, but czech vz 58s.
the russian dialogue is actually: son, get lost before things get bad for you,
to which the mechanic replies: i can take this apart with my eyes closed
not the most coherent dialogue in history of dialogues
but the pronunciation is really great!
its definitely isnt great.
That was the worst Russian pronunciation I've ever heard
@@EVLA8 haha! yes sir! im giving them the benefit of the doubt because they probably never said a word of russian before this XD
Очень сильный американский акцент
@@EVLA8 But you HAVE heard of it^^
The funny thing is 10,000 rifles for a battalion would actually be so fucking many, about 20 times too many
Because they empty mag, throw it away, take another.. quicker than reloading ))
Not a Russian battalion!
@@CrniWuk Yeah they'll go through 10k rifles in no time with all those untrained conscripts they send into war
Not if your battalion consists of men, babushkas and their pet bears :)
Not in a war condition when battalion starts depleting / remanning in cycles. Dead men don’t return guns to armory when resigning from duties.
Love movies that show a world we just never will experience.
@@martinguerra5152 60% of the world won't purchase large orders of tanks. I'm talking about illegal arms trade.
We hope.
myep
It's a shame so few people saw the movie. The studios decided to market it as a black comedy about Nic Cage doing wacky things with eccentric dictators instead of the very serious film it actually was.
ukraine says hi. U really beleive that all the weapons sends to ukr reach their adress? that whole ware is business and arming race
The writers may never have intended it, but this movie makes a great case study in decentralized systems vs centralized ones, economics, and game theory. Any student of markets or economics should make this movie a must-watch.
Can you elaborate?
can u explain your view in details? thx a lot!!
Please
we need some explanation here
@@andreybushev3020 don't worry... he's full of shit.
I believe if there's a list of 10 best actors in the last 100 years, Nicholas will be on it.
dont do drugs! are you on Crack? 🤨 lets say top80😂, even that is an achievement
and btw, there are lists 😂😂😂😂 Just type Top 100 Greatest Actors of all Time, google will help you 😘
@@christoph5191 No...and I don't take drugs..and he is amongst the 10 best not 100..and I mean it
@@muhammadzidan6679 😘😄👍
No ways He’s crap his dad got him in Hollywood
This scene is highly unrealistic and slanderous to the character of the Russian Military Command. No Russian officer would act this reluctant or taken aback at the suggestion of selling off their equipment to underworld arms dealers.
😂
"It's whatever we say it is!" meanwhile a pyscho sarge yelling at his squad "NO SLEEP UNTIL THEY ARE ALL COUNTED!"
If someone is interested: music in the background is probably one of a many versions of Russian song "Little club" (Дубинушка / Dubinushka) which became famous in the 20th century when performed by Russian singer Fyodor Shalyapin. This song is reworked version of "Song of the Volga Boatmen" - which is famous native Russian song. Not sure about which one is used in the scene, because both songs has a number of choral performance records.
I just realize the mechanic has Ukraine patch on him
Yep, it was in Ukraine
Jared Leto literally lays out a map of Ukraine made of coc*ine in this film, because the action takes place there
"Built for a war with America that never happened" I HOPE SO🙄😥
Russian wouldn't last 5 days against the US now, much less NATO. Back then, it might have been a decent fight if no nukes were involved.
@@mmclaurin8035 Ok, sure.
@@mmclaurin8035 my friend, who cares who wins: I am afraid of Mutually Assured Destruction, Minuteman VS Satan! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I don't care if Abrams or Leopards are superior to the T-90 or the Armata!
@@edoardobarsotti902 to be fair, he has a point. Nukes are part of the Russian doctrine. Take the nukes out and they suffer. Example is their performance in Ukraine.
That said, i get the MAD. Thats pretty much the only reason why Russia is able to do what they do in Ukraine. But im willing to bet Russia will be the first to pull the MAD trigger. As long as "Nicolas Cage look-a-like" is in power.
@@renzl2337 russia has always suffered in the ground part of a war because they dont use the other half of their doctrine which is bomb the ever loving fuck out the country and then roll in. chechnya, georgia, ukraine. yeah they do some nasty bombing runs but it isnt their pre collapse battle doctrine which expects to lose to NATO airpower and tanks. so now you got a military run by guys who use equipment that is expected to lose to western tech but they dont have the other half to solve this equation which is an ungodly amount of missiles and bombs
for those wondering, the song that plays in the background if "The Song of the Volga Boatmen".
Yuri was stealing guns while oligarchs were stealing industries
Everyone stole everything during those times. Flats, entire apartment blocks, arms, tanks, planes, companies, people. Freaking Wild West... or more like Wild East
yuri bought them tho
@@Oreosmilkshake So did the oligarchs. But all was bought at great discount through dubious means.
Thank you brittney griner. I can’t wait for the sequel to this!
This is a top 25 movie of all time for me!
one of the best scenes ever
Can you believe this guy is now free because of Brittany Griner😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They NEED a sequel!
I mean who cares? He has no power anymore
@@heramann6916 what are you talking about he’s 50 he’s the most connected man on the planet and there’s bullions of dollars of US arms to be sold from Afghanistan let alone the Ukraine war demand
Dennis Rodman playing Brad Griner 🤣😂🤣😂
One of the best movies ever made.
...whole tank divisions destroyed by St. Javelin hahahah.
Dude this movie about Ukraine, it is a real fact their corrupt general sold whole of their tank divisions
sure mate. if u say so...
the ukrainians are useing 500 javelins per day according to ukrainian government sources, yet their total tank claimed kills is still less than a division (~300 have been destroyed, but the ukrainains claim most of that was by artillery and drone strikes not missiles). i think its clear the javelin is over hyped.
“When you’re Mafia, it’s always Family!” 😁😊☺️😌
My ears are bleeding when I hear this accent 😂😂😂😂
I am Norwegian, and I feel the same thing when someone on film tries to speak like a viking. I feel like they are destroying my language. I want to puke.
To be fair he plays someone who grew up in the United States. So you could always say, he doesn't really talk well in "his" language ...
@@ukspizzaman Så ved du hvordan vi har det når vi hører svensk :P
@@CrniWuk No, you still make the correct sounds, since you learn the sounds from your parents. Someone who grew up in US would know how to make the Russian “zak” and English “zak” both
@@peterl3417 I don't know. I grew up in Germany my parents are Serbian however. I knew how to speak it as child. But since then I forgot so much about it. I probably can't even speak everything properly anymore.
People do forget stuff if they don't use it.
One of my favorite movies of all time
The shot at 1:04 is one of the best I've seen in cinema.
Nic is unexpectedly a good narrator.
and now,they're sorry their stock are sold away.
oink oink 🐽😭
"You have to buy it now! It's used!"
An that is why my friends Russia is falling in front of Ukraine today. All the good stuff was sold a long time ago.
these are ukrainians selling their weapons tho
I can’t wait to see the sequel…
Nearly pornographic portrayal of BMP's and T-72's. It's sad that none of the Rambo movies had access to this much authentic equipment. Imagine what Rambo III could have been... :'[
Scary that the guy this is based on is free again
Whole tank divisions? That's quite a lot of vehicles
Not any more
Buddy, however much u say it, a division is still a lot of combat vehicles, let alone support vehicles.
3 tanks = platoon
Then company, battalion, brigade.
All 3s. 😂
That's a whole lotta tanks!
@@victoriaregina8344 He was making a joke about Ukraine...
This movie predates Ukraine and any way you wanna express it, a division is still the 3rd largest military unit, anything larger is corps and then army.
The BTS of this scene is crazier than the movie
...and the irony is that things like this (and poor logistics) are why the Russian army got completely bogged down in Ukraine
Really puts movies like Red Dawn into perspective now. No way the Soviets could ever have won against NATO if the Cold War went hot. 1945 was their high-water mark and it's been downhill ever since.
actually according to Ukraine its the flooding of the roads by the ukrainian military that caused the bogging down. the ukrainian government claim that is what caused the logistical issues with the Russians (or atleast made it have a noticeable effect on front line troops).
this also explains why the Russians continue to advance in the south (where there is no flooding) despite the same people doing logistics...
Such an underrated film this.
Fun fact those aren’t actually aks, but are Czech vz 58s
Well .. who would have thought that pathological corruption on a state wide level would have any sideeffects ... tough luck, i guess?
Fun fact: When I run really fast, I get out of breath and have to slow down after some time. Fact.
I wish I could just get one... The history behind these things is crazy!
A little trivia from the IMDB page:
According to writer and director Andrew Niccol, the filmmakers worked with actual gunrunners in the making of this movie. The tanks lined up for sale were real, and belonged to a Czech arms dealer, who had to have them back to sell to another country. They used a real stockpile of over three thousand AK-47s, because it was cheaper than getting prop guns.
:D
I'm calling bullshit. You can't get 3,000 AK-47s in the Czech Republic.
I'm calling bullshit too those are VZ 58s, not AK 47s
Who’s here after that Griner Bout Trade?
Николас Кейдж говорит по-русски лучше,чем сами русские в этом фильме!)))
0:45 10 thousands Kalashnikovs is a ridiculously large amount for a batallion. That's like 10 AKs per soldier. With that amount of rifles you could equip a whole infantry division.
a masterpiece .
And 30 years we see how this results.
Lining up so many tanks for the filming, the production crew had to let NATO know an invasion wasn't imminent
Buy 6 get 1 for free now thats a good fucking deal
This is the guy they traded a womens basketball player for...
Yuri: Most sophisticated fighting machines
M1A1 and Apache: Am I a joke to you?
10% for the big guy
Not many people know that this clip is from an actual movie. The Dollar Theater figured out it was cheaper to cut a clip out of a real one than to film a clip themselves
This man is the reason Ukraine have no weapons left
Just so he could sell them more weapons!
Uncle Dimitri was so happy to be corrupt, in a wholesome way. rip.
Rest In Paradise
Fun fact all the fun facts in this comments section aren't fun at all...
Baryaktar says BOOM!
ukraine farmers with tractors: all mine for free!
The use of the Song of the Volga Boatman in the background makes this scene to me.
Fun fact all the guns in this scene are real, it was easier to sell off real ones then prop ones
This was in the Ukraine SSR?
“10,000 kalashnikovs for a Battalion, your stocks are dangerously depleted.”
A battalion has like 1,000 soldiers at most. 10,000 gun would be enough for a division or two considering not everyone gets a rifle.
You take modern numbers and apply them to cold war era.
That does not work very well.
Especially with the russians working with temporary Batallion Tactical groups that could consist of quite a few more men.
Yeah…this explains Ukraine
"10 000 Kalashnikovs for a batallion? Your stocks are dangerously depleted Yurij! "
1:42 is that a Ukrainian flag?
Yes it's supposed to be a few months after their Independence so I imagine the flags and symbols were slowly changing.
This is life i dont cry why you
Imagine trusting your nephew that much with your life
Who is here after Brittney Griner released from Russian detention?
The funny thing is a battalion is rarely more than 800 soldiers. So 10,000 would be an absurd number of rifles to have for a battalion
Perhaps they were thinking of conscripting new troops in the event of a hot war with NATO. The dead won't bring their weapons back.
@@tjoonatv2848 Either that or there would be reserves in case the weapons were critically over-used and they get a spare, Or arm some like-minded people over certain countries around the world. You could do a lot with AKs.
More like an entire division or two lol.
Maybe the extra guns are needed for soldiers to barter for food? I mean after all the government’s money have been blown on arming an army they forgotten that soldiers can’t eat guns and ammo.
Communist government that took all the wealth from the people gotta spend all their money somehow. That's the trick about government spending, they either spend it or lose it, so they always spend it, amassing huge amounts of waste.
Probably not far off the mark of what happened with Russia's inventory in the real world, only things hadn't had a chance to rust yet.
Now you know where the 1.5 million Russian winter army suits went.
Those guns, in this scene, are not AKs. They are VZ-58s that were made by then Czechoslovakia. Which has now broken up into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. No relation to the AK platform at all. They fire the same ammo and use the same muzzle break and that's it. But they are all real.
I like the overcoat with peak lapels
This scene needed so many tanks that NATO thought there was a war coming.
They are working it out now...