Talk:The Pride and the Passion

The Gun Itself

I assume it was a prop gun. What was it made of? What? Anybody got any details on the monster cannon itself? 67.117.25.103 (talk) 00:21, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

It must have been a prop. In the movie the barrel was at one point removed from the carriage and placed on the stone floor of a church. While pulling it up hill it was mentioned that it weighs 5 tons. Considering the discussion, that would have meant the gun and the carriage, but the barrel itself was big enough to be measured in several cubic meters, meaning that the actual mass would have to be in tens of tons. Had a barrel that heavy been placed directly on the floor, it would surely have messed it up. Not to mention that there's no way for an object that heavy to be transported on that kind of wooden wheels, with out breaking them, or getting stuck. GMRE (talk) 17:20, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

The most comparable real cannon to the one used in the film is the Tsar Cannon, which is in the Kremlin. This enormous cannon is made of bronze and weighs 39.312 tonnes and has a length of 5.34 m. -- fdewaele, 31 August 2014, 21:35 CET.

No it isn't. The Jaivana carriage is nearly identical. The only difference is that the gun is about half the size. The Tsar Cannon looks different from every angle and even the small carriage is completely made from metal. GMRE (talk) 16:50, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Royal Navy artillery officer...

The plot section says the protagonist is "Royal Navy artillery officer, Captain Anthony Trumbull" Yeah, armies have dedicated artillery officers. But, if I am not mistaken, all Royal Navy officers of the Napoleonic period were supposed to be experts at cannons, so they had no specialist artillery officers. Geo Swan (talk) 01:12, 12 November 2019 (UTC)