favorite knife movie

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raptor99

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just wondering what everyones favorite movie where a knife has a substantional role is. Personally mine are The Hunted and Spartan
 
Easy: "The Edge", starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.

Shows rather eloquently how the knife is the original tool, the one that set us above the beasts; the knife as the key to suurvival, and not in some Ramboesque militaristic fashion, but as a tool to be used together with wit and skill.
 
My above response may have been a bit impulsive.

And may not have been at all, the intent of raptor99's question. I'm sure it wasn't!

Personally, my only intent in carrying a sharp edged instrument (a knife) is for self defensive purposes.....only! Period!

In fact, I will admit that I have never needed the use of a knife in my entire life, (and I go back a very long time) outside of a dinner table.

(I stopped whittling when I was twelve years old: and I do not hunt.)

Unless to defend myself (a cop) against an assault, and I needed to resort to my very last resort (the knife)..... I would only do so ......very reluctantly!! But I'd do the "Anthony Perkins" thing in a minute after having exhausted all other means.

It looks very bad for law enforcement people to use a knife against an aggressor. Shoot them over and over.....do not cut them!

I personally would never need the use of a a knife that I carry (excepting to cut people loose from a burning vehicle) other than for self defense reasons.

What exactly, do knife lovers do with their knives?

Yes, a crazy question indeed: but one that a lot of non-knife people would love to know the answer to.

Dan
 
By far The Edge, a film that demonstrates the simple need we all have for an edged tool, and how far the Human Mind has taken us with its invention.
 
Spartan (not the vic). The movie's name is the same as the knife. Easy to remember. Thank you Val Kilmer for the understated performance. Terrific back-up knife by all accounts. Are they still being made?

Best,

oregon
 
A Grande Arte (1991) - aka Exposure

An American photographer in Rio de Janeiro becomes involved in the world of "knife culture" when he sets out to find the killer of one of his models.

Some excellent knife fights and an interesting training segment. Well worth watching.

B.
 
stjames said:
By far The Edge, a film that demonstrates the simple need we all have for an edged tool, and how far the Human Mind has taken us with its invention.
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That is definately true. Of course, that movie also illustrated the folly of going into country like that without a rifle. Or at least a rather large revolver.
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RAMBO FIRST BLOOD
THE ALAMO.I know the knife wasn't seen much but the intimidation factor was worth the price of admission.The Billy Bob,Jason Patric Alamo.Even bought a knockoff.
 
My vote goes to The Edge for its portrayal of the knife as a bona fide tool, and not just as a weapon for de-animating your enemies.

My other nod goes to The Hunted, in its depiction of how a knife can be used to de-animate your enemies.
 
ALAMEDA said:
What exactly, do knife lovers do with their knives?

Yes, a crazy question indeed: but one that a lot of non-knife people would love to know the answer to.

Dan
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Answering for myself, I work at a newspaper in the packaging department. I often have to cut plastic wrap, plastic straps (ranging from soft to very hard), packaging tape, and thred. This is rarely hard work for a knife (though the hard plastic straps can be), but without a knife, it would be *MUCH* harder work for me. Even a cheap, dull POS knife can make my job vastly easier.

Answering for other people, the uses of a knife as a tool are endless. Some people hunt, some people go camping (which requires cutting everything from twine for your tent, rope, wood, and meat), some people gut fish, there are some rescue workers here that need to cut seatbelts and such, and soldiers here that need knives as general tools in the field, and of course there is always the possibility of self defense.

In addition to using my knives at work, I also carry them for SD. I work the graveyard shift and often walk across the street to 7-11 for lunch. When I am at 7-11 at 3am, I want a knife on me. We also have to hire a bunch of temps on most Saturdays, and these are not "office temps". They are people down on their luck, many of them are on drugs, homeless, gangmembers, excons etc... I hate to stereotype people, but there have been a few instances of "almost violence" with some of these temps (not with me, but my coworkers), and I want to be sure that if my life is in danger, I have some way to give me an advantage.

A SAK or stockman isn't a great SD knife, but it is better than nothing, so I at least have something like that on me.
 
For a knife movie I was always partial to "The Pride And The Passion" with Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren and Cary Grant. There's alot of navajas about, and a decent fight scene between Grant and one of the Spanish partisans using a couple of foot long navajas.
 
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