There has been some debate regarding the pistol Leon used to shoot Bladerunner Holden during the interrogation scene. The debate was whether the gun was silver or black. The pistol, a COP 357 mag., is usually seen in blurry photos or photos with lighting/shadow issues or reflecting the flash from the pistol firing.
I recently received a studio publicity still of Leon (Brion James) aiming but not firing. I believe it is an original still, not a repro. I have enlarged the pistol part of the image. It would appear that the pistol is a two-tone. Note that the lower receiver / trigger guard seems to be silver up to the hinge area, the rest of the pistol seems to be black.
It was written somewhere that the prop pistol was modified to fire all four barrels at once (the real one fires one at a time) for flash effect, and maybe when they were tinkering with the barrel assembly they mated a black upper to a stainless (silver) lower.
Here is a picture of my COP airsoft:
Here is a closeup of the COP from the publicity still:
Bear in mind that the photo hosting service I'm using limits the size (resolution) of the photo so it is not as clear as the original but I think it still shows the clean demarcation of silver to black. I realize this is not conclusive and that this photo may also be subject to lighting, shadows, resolution as well but ... this is the clearest photo I've personally seen of the screen used gun.
I recently received a studio publicity still of Leon (Brion James) aiming but not firing. I believe it is an original still, not a repro. I have enlarged the pistol part of the image. It would appear that the pistol is a two-tone. Note that the lower receiver / trigger guard seems to be silver up to the hinge area, the rest of the pistol seems to be black.
It was written somewhere that the prop pistol was modified to fire all four barrels at once (the real one fires one at a time) for flash effect, and maybe when they were tinkering with the barrel assembly they mated a black upper to a stainless (silver) lower.
Here is a picture of my COP airsoft:
Here is a closeup of the COP from the publicity still:
Bear in mind that the photo hosting service I'm using limits the size (resolution) of the photo so it is not as clear as the original but I think it still shows the clean demarcation of silver to black. I realize this is not conclusive and that this photo may also be subject to lighting, shadows, resolution as well but ... this is the clearest photo I've personally seen of the screen used gun.
