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枪与电影,乃是20世纪美国文化的孪生子。二者均有神话般的超拔地位。电影再现了冒险和暴行,枪则张扬了法律和公正:正像美国开拓时期的一句西大荒谚语所云,“上帝创造了人,而塞缪尔·科尔特使我们获得平等。” 塞缪尔·科尔特(1814—1862),是一位著名的美国枪械制造商,他发明的科尔特牌6发左轮手枪大显神威,并于1935年获得专利。遥想当年,荒凉旷远的西部一时闻诞生了多少杀人如麻的匪徒和除暴安良的英雄,而他们的手中便握有科尔特的发明物。双方枪
Guns and movies are the twins of American culture in the twentieth century. Both have fabulous extraordinarily high status. The movie reproduces the risks and atrocities, while the guns publicize the law and fairness: Just as the Westward Westerliest adage of the American pioneers said, “God created people, and Samuel Coulter made us equal.” Samuel Corte (1814-1862), a well-known American gun maker, invented a Colt six-wheeled revolver that he invented and was patented in 1935. In the past, how many murderous culprits and ridiculously virtuous heroes were born in the desolate and remote western part of the country, and Corte's inventions were held in their hands. Both guns