Talk:Blood Diamond

Weapon used by DiCaprio

There is no way to be M4 the barrel lenght is 11.5 inches while the M4 barrel is 14.5 inches so I change it to CAR-15 . --Max Mayr 19:52, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm fascinated to hear how you're so sure a gun in a movie has an 11.5 inch barrel. 86.154.209.238 (talk) 22:53, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Obviously you don't have much knowledge about the M4/M16 family. The M4's upper receiver can be changed to have different barrel lengths, common barrels are 10, 14.5, 16 and 20 inch barrels. However you may be correct in assuming the rifle he uses in the last scene is a CAR15/XM177. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.27.152.66 (talk) 08:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

No. The rifle at the end of the film is the M4, without a doubt. --67.172.13.176 (talk) 14:36, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

No, not an M4 specifically, but most likely some kind of hybrid judging by its unusual combination of features. Similar carbines were seen in Black Hawk Down, which had the same armorer (Bapty & Co.) as Blood Diamond. Even the IMFDB crew can't make a definite identification of it as any specific model. I would say, by looking at the receiver, it most resembles an M727 or 733. Barrel length is never the best way to identify an AR variant, always look at the receiver. The civilian world uses "M4" as a generic term for AR-15 carbines, both military models and civilian models, but an actual M4 or M4A1 has a flattop upper receiver, A2-type lower receiver, collapsible stock, and 14.5-inch barrel with M203 groove. The lower receiver may say "Colt M4 or Colt M4A1, but changing receivers essentially makes it an entirely different weapon. E.G., putting a fixed A2 carry handle upper like in the movie makes it essentially a 727 because that's what a 727 is. I think it more appropriate to just call it "CAR-15". Spartan198 (talk) 16:06, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

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Nation of origin?

I get that American-German is sourced by Metacritic. From what I understand though, (and this information may be outdated) we used to not use Metacritic for this sort of detail, because they were pulling it from IMDb, thus making it inherently unreliable. AFI calls it American-South African. I don't have any further information on the subject, so I'm not sure what should be done here. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:59, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

I'm way late to the party here, but I was unable to find much calling it anything other than American, thus I removed Germany from the list of nations and release dates in the infobox. There was no mention of Germany in the article body at all. ~ JDCAce | talk ~ 06:41, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Genre

@NEDOCHAN: This may have been the state before the TA got involved, but that doesn't mean it's a good state to keep going forward. Per MOS:FILMGENRE, only the primary genre should be included. Additionally that edit causes a sea of blue problem. Also not seeing a reason to revert the ref fix. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:25, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't tend to get involved in genre debates, but I do think it's important to restore articles to their state before users who were subsequently blocked started messing about. NEDOCHAN (talk) 12:49, 31 May 2026 (UTC)