Favorite movie knife scenes

In "Face-off" when John Travolta ask the girl if she has protection, then pulls out the Balisong with the wave-blade!
 
Veeg, the Muppets Take Bosnia? Is that from the same film company that brought us films like "Bambi Goes Crazy Ape Bonkers with His Drill and Set" and "Littlefoot Finds a Mate" (oh wait, that's a real movie)?...
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In Seven, Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) flicks out a cute little automatic to cut through the paper backing of a painting, much to the surprise of his partner, Mills (Brad Pitt).
Mills: What the **** is that?
Somerset: Switchblade.
I just love that scene, largely because Somerset's so matter-of-fact about it. There's no macho posturing, "I have a big mean eeeevil switchblade, I cut you, I cut you like a fish", it's just "switchblade, duh."
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The scene in the very beginning of The Seven Samurai, where Kanbei (Takashi Shimura) shaves his head. I guess I just like scenes in which guys shave their heads -- in Pitch Black, Riddick (Vin Diesel) also spends one scene doing so, at one point explaining that the curvy chunk o' steel he uses is not a weapon, but a personal grooming appliance. Or something.

The scene in Desperado with Danny Trejo and the throwing knives is one of the only ones I remember from that movie. I also liked that crazy butler with the retractable wrist blades from Hudson Hawk (yes, I liked that movie, leave me alone). The psychotic Russian assassin in episodes 2&3 of Gunsmith Cats uses some pretty interesting ballistic knives.

In Lock, Stock, & 2 Smoking Barrels, Soap (Dexter Fletcher) produces a roll of fixed blades, which he displays to Eddie (Nick Moran) in the bar. Eddie's reaction is more or less what you'd expect. In another Guy Ritchie film, Snatch, Boris the Blade (Rade Serbedzija) uses a big fixed blade to chop off a dead guy's hand. There are a couple of Japanese-looking swords that emerge as well -- Bullet-Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) and Errol (Andy Beckwith) brandish them at several points during the movie. A sword also makes a brief appearance in The Big Lebowski (during that movie's hysterical confrontation between the protagonists and the nihilists).

As long as I'm veering off-topic and talking about swords, that part in every episode of "Abarenbo Shogun" where Yoshimune (Ken Matsudaira) does that dramatic "I'm turning my blade around" thing with his sword and starts cutting people up instead of smacking them around. Anybody know if that show is available on DVD? Also, the fight scene in the dojo during Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. 'Nuff said, really.
 
Personally, I love the scene at the very end of "Legends of the Fall" where Brad Pitt encounters the Grizzly and whips out his fixed blade to take it on. He carried that knife his whole life. I believe he even chopped off a bear's claw/finger (do bears have fingers?) as a kid with the knife. What a great movie!
 
My favorite scene is where the 3 guys pull out humungous bowies and go after the other guy who only has a stockman. They chase him and he can't get the stockman open cause he always bit his nails. They finally corner him in an alley and really carve him up but good. screaming and laughing the whole time how they bet he wished he didn't bite his nails now.
Bob
 
It was in a John Wayne movie, I think it was called Big Jim. He's sitting on his horse and stops some guy from hanging a sheep herder ( using only his tough reputation and an easy hand resting near the big iron on his hip
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) he calmly flips a little gent's style auto into the tree and tells the bad guy to cut the sheep herder down. 2" plain edge blade swipes through a lariat like paper
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I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer... but I've got the sharpest knife in the room.
 
Mission Impossible 2 in the big climax fight scene when Tom Cruise is on his back, and the baddie tries to ice pick a double edged dagger in to his face, and the knife stops about 1/2" from his eyeball. They do about 15 seconds, with the two struggling, and the knife point brushing through his lashes before Tom (of course) gets the upper hand.

In the DVD "How they did that" feature, John Woo says that they suspended the knife from a cable, so that it would look super realistic, with the blade point so close, and the baddie struggling to push it home. They were still scared to death for Cruise, because the margin for error was so small on the suspension rig.
 
An old John Wayne movie called "El Dorado".

Cole Thornton (Wayne) sits in a cantina and watches as this greenhorn named Mississippi strolls in and calls out some hosehead for killing his friend Johnny Diamond. Strange, because this feller is packin' heat, and Mississippi appears unarmed.

The villainous type jumps up and goes for his gun. Mississippi (his real name being Allen Bedillion Trahern, IIRC) Flicks his hand behind his shoulder and produces a knife, which he promptly flicks into the midsection of the would-be gunman.

He uses it again to cut Robert Mitchun's pantleg off, with much surprise to Mitchum. Neat old flick, that one.

 
Matt, that movie is "Big Jake", one of my favorites also, I forgot about that one. I like the later seen also where he uses that knife to eat some peaches(nice none violent uses).
 
Velitrious,
Just watched that movie again a few hours ago on AMC. The guy that played Mississippi was a very young James Caan. Good movie.
 
I hate to say it...but all of First Blood gave the most thorough use of a knife throughout the entire movie. Weapon and survival tool in one.

The first Rambo installment was a great one....after that they became comic book-like
 
My favorite knife scenes are from Hannibal. The bowels in or bowels out scene with the Harpy and the one where he flicks the knife open quick and slashes the kidnappers throat.

Gotta give a nod to good ole Norman Bates in Psycho, Crocodile Dundee (Now that's a knife) and of course Rambo.

ZG
 
In "The Marathon Man", Sir Laurence Olivier stabs Roy Scheider in the stomach with a fairly good-sized spring loaded blade that was somehow strapped to his forearm under his sleeve. Anyone know if that was based on a real device? How would it work?
 
I love bali's. So I would have to say since I havent seen to many movies featuring them being used "well", that in "Payback when the chinese gangsters threaten to castrate the ummm....(the main character just forgot his name DARN!)Also when Imada opens Cheech and Chong's wine using one.

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Velitrius/Lifter-

El Dorado is my all-time favorite John Wayne movie. I even had my wife talked into naming our last boy Cole Thornton McCullough until my stupid brother and his wife named their dog "Cole". She said that there was no way that she was going to have her son have the same name as their dog. We ended up with Colton. Close, but no Duke. My secret plan is to shorten it to Colt so I can tell people that he is named after one of the greatest firearms makers. (My other boys name and birthdate is my handle.)

Jim McCullough

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The best knife movie ever made is "Exposure". I have seen it probably 20 times. However I don't understand why the guy selling knives in the movie called Randall #18 a "classical Randall". I always thought classical Randall is model 1.
The scariest knife scene for me ever is part when american soldier gets stabbed through the heart slowly in "Saving private Ryan".
The other interesting movie was with Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid, where Danny Glover plays a serial killer who kills people by cutting femoral artery. Does anybody know the name of the movie? There was a nice knife there. However I think the victims in the movie were dying too fast. I have seen people with severed femoral artery and it takes much longer.
Another interesting knife work ,including throwing is in the opening scene of " Natural born killers".
And of course ,who can forget nice closeups of Harold Corby's "Cobra" knife in the "Cobra" movie with Stalone.
The best knife throwing scenes are probably in the movies "The Crow" and " Desperado"
The best use of the crappy knife goes to the movie which I think is called " The revenge". In this movie Kevin Costner gets beaten up almost to death by people sent by Antony Quinn and when he is saved by old mexican guy, the mexican gives him very ****ty knife. Right after he meets in the washroom one of the guys who beat him and stabs him in the stomach.
The knife work in the " Under siege" is too fancy in my opinion.
 
The Glover/Quaid movie is Switchback. I totally agree about Exposure, if you haven't seen it, it is a GREAT knife fighting flick! BUT I do disagree with you about Undersiege. Having trained in SpecOps, the work Siegal does is great. I especially love the scene where enters a small room and dispatches 3 guys with like 4 cuts. Only problem is where he cut them they would have bled out like in 1 minute(femoral/subclavian arteries) and there literally would have been blood ALL over, walls, floors, Steven. So it was too clean, as for the moves, I'd say someone with SF experience coached him and Tommy Lee quite well.

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Paul
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I just think that Seagal and Tommy Lee make too many unnecessary movements in Undersiege.The mark of the professional is the economy of movement. Sometimes one just does not have the energy to jump around the room with knives for 10 minutes. Specifically in the situation if you are wounded and bleeding, so you can loose consciuosness any second. I train with Vladimir Vassiliev who was teaching hand to hand combat to Russian Special forces. He is somewhat hesitant to show us knifework, maybe for liability reasons, I do not know. But sometimes I manage to get him started on the topic of knife fighting. He told me that high level professionals in special forces work with knives almost at the point of contact of your opponents blade with your body. Vladimir made a video about knife fighting earlier. If anyone is interested you can order one from him. Sorry, I know I got off topic. Anyway, back to movies. Someone mentioned sabers. There was a cool display of sabers in the movie "The Crays".
 
Fandorin,

Would a professional get themselves into a duel in the first place? I've always considered a professional to be the type of character that will let you find out about their knife only when it is sticking out of your back (E Tu Brutus, etc.). So lets add Shakespear's Cesar as one of the best known knife stories.
 
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