Cinematic Spyderco

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There have been threads about knives in movies, but I want to see if anyone else has noticed the seeming predominance of Spydercos in movies and TV. I've now seen them in the following: "Jennifer Eight" (Police), "Anaconda" (Delica), "Out of Sight,"(Jess Horn), "Point of no Return"(Delica), "Payback"(Delica or Viele?), "Millennium" (Delica or Endura). "The Avengers" (Police). I think there's more, but I can't think of them right now. Any others? Jim
 
The Client (police)

One of the Boz films (hunter?)

Strange Days (Endura)

There is more, I just thought of those off the cuff

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I believe that Police models were also used in "Needful Things" and in "The Client". One was also used in a "Murder She Wrote" episode many years ago.

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Well, I know that the Endura used in "Cliffhanger" was used by a good guy, but most of the time it's bad guys waving them around. I'm sure some of the other members can come up with some more positive examples.
 
In Daylight Stallone frees himself from certain death. good

In Sudden Death Van Damme defuses a bomb with it. good

In Strange Days Fiennes pulls it out of his back and cuts his tie to keep himself from falling death, doing so kills the bad guy. bad, good and poetic

A quick tally tells me more bad than good, but serrations scare people, unfortunately. But teeth scare people, so it makes sense.



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In "The Client", the knife was used by a very bad guy. "Needful Things" is a Stephen King story, so you figure it out. The Police in the "Murder She Wrote" episode was used by a bad guy to murder someone, but the details escape me.

I posted elsewhere of an experience where I used a Police to discourage some potential muggers. It is a very intimidating item and, as such, makes an impressive scary device for villains.

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Often the knives are seen only briefly in a movie, and even then you have to "look" for it. In "Out of Sight" Michael Keaton slices an apple with one. In "Anaconda" a Delica is lost in the Amazon before being used on a villain. In "The Avengers" a bad guy tries to kill Uma Thurman with the Police model. In "Jennefer 8" a killer "threatens" a blind girl with a Police. In "Millennium" a Delica or Endura is used to carve up a Halloween Jack O'Lantern. I guess kind of 50-50 positive/negative portrayals. I like seeing the knives portrayed in a variety of uses. After all, they're knives, neither good nor evil in themselves. However, I can't help thinking back to the paranoid response of lawmakers to the nunchaku after the Bruce Lee movies came out you-know-when. Oh, well...
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In the movie "the usual suspect" you can also clearly see a spyderco police and in the video "sabotage" from the beastie boys, there is a knife fight involving a endura or delica.

Unfortunately, both times used by bad guys...
 
The SpyderCo Civilian made the movies in the film called:
`Only the Strong'
A school kid carrying it, so he was a bad guy that became a good guy by the end of the movie.

Pretty good movie too, South American fighting style.
my .02
G2

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In Black Dog, Patrick Swayze uses a serrated Delica(?) to cut cloth to make a tourniquette for a bloody wound. Good guy use. Jim
 
I believe that a Rescue was also shown in "Strange Days". There was this character in there that either looked like a buff girl, or a guy dressed up like a girl.
 
Hi,

Got a movie update...Mission Impossible II is filming in Australia. Spyderco sent Howard Viele C42 knives for Tom Cruise and crew. Heard yesterday that they chose to use a Kershaw model (not sure which one) instead.

We try to get our knives in the hands of the good guys. Controlling that isn't always possible since production companies can buy them just like anyone else.

The show Profiler used a Civilian last year to...well lets just say make someone sing in a higher key?

Joyce
 
Hello,

A little update.
A Civilian will be shown in the film "Nada Zwei", shot in mid october !
I should know, I am the director
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Cheers,

JM
 
BTW,

the guy's name with the SPyderco Police in "The Avengers" is Eddie Izzard.
He's a excellent stand up comedy man.
I recommend him to everybody who wants a big LOL. His last VHS tapes (recorded in the US) are "Glorious" and "Dressed to Kill".
He will be our guest (Fred Perrin and I) for the Starmate review, inch'Allah !

(His "associate" in "The Avengers" (very bad movie!) is the singer of the Happy Mondays...)

cheers,

JM
 
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