The Interview

The Interview is a 2014 action-comedy film. The film stars James Franco and Seth Rogen as talk show host Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport respectively as the CIA use the two in a plot to assassinate Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un (Randall Park) in a live interview. The film released to mixed-to-positive reception and was also the center of a North Korean cybercrime attack and terrorist threat, leading to the film's distributors, Sony Pictures, giving it a much more limited release than initially planned.
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=Pistols=
==Makarov PM==
Aaron Rapaport (Seth Rogen) and Park Sook-yin (Diana Bang) carry Makarov PMs as their sidearms. They use them to take over the broadcasting center. North Korean soldiers can also be seen with this weapon.
thumb|none|600px|Aaron Rapaport (Seth Rogen) takes a Makarov PM.
=Submachine Guns=
==Unknown MP5 Variant==
SEAL Team 6 members that rescue the protagonists can be seen with an unknown variant of the Heckler & Koch MP5, fitted with UMP stocks and ACOG scopes.
=Rifles=
==AK-74==
In one scene, a North Korean soldier can be seen armed with an AK-74, pointing it at the protagonists when they meet North Korean Director of Communications Park Sook-yin (Diana Bang). It is a stand-in for the North Korean Type 88 variant of the AK-74.
thumb|none|600px|A North Korean soldier brandishes an AK-74 as the protagonists meet Director of Communications Park Sook-yin (Diana Bang). Note the lack of a side scope mount and, amusingly, the rear sight is flipped completely up (presumably to allow the sling to hang over the rifle, judging by the actor's pose).
==Norinco Type 84S-1==
One North Korean soldier can be seen armed with a Norinco Type 84S-1, distinguished by the hooded front sight and lightly-curved 5.56mm magazine. While the North Koreans use the Chinese AK clones, they use the 7.62mm Norinco Type 56, not the Type 84S.
thumb|none|600px|A North Korean soldier armed with a Norinco Type 84S-1 as Park Sook-yin disembarks from the helicopter.
=Light Machine Guns=
==RPD Light Machine Gun==
In one scene, an RPD light machine gun can be seen being taken from a hidden compartment and fired at North Korean soldiers by Director of Communications Park Sook-yin.
thumb|none|600px|Park Sook-yin opens fire with an RPD light machine gun.
==Type 73 Light Machine Gun==
In promotional material for the film, such as the poster shown above, North Korean soldiers can be seen brandishing Type 73 light machine guns.
=Mounted Machine Guns=
==DShK Heavy Machine Gun==
A DShK heavy machine gun can be seen mounted on a T-55 tank that Kim Jong-un (Randall Park) shows off to the protagonists. The film claims the tank was "a gift from Stalin" despite the fact that the earliest T-55 model entered production in 1958, and the starring T-55A entered in 1961, nine years after Stalin's death, and well into the process of de-Stalinization within the Soviet Union. The T-55A used in the film in fact belongs to the 1966 ZTS-Martin production from Czechoslovakia and currently resides in the collection of the Chilliwack Military Education Centre.
thumb|none|600px|A DShK heavy machine gun mounted on a Czechoslovak, pretending to be Soviet, pretending to be in North Korea, T-55 tank.
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