"Fear and Loathing in LA" knife (screenshots)

[Lenny_Goofoff]

I've read the book recently. Quote
"…sliced it in half with a Gerber Mini-Magnum‚ stainless-steel hunting knife with a blade like a fresh-honed straight razor"
Get interested what this rather old (and sure, discontinued model) look like, mined through internet. Now picture:
http://homepage1.nifty.com/left/mono/out/knives/mm.jpg
The movie is very like the book, leave alone the knife.
In the elevator scene we see definitely a folder with brass bolsters (Buck 110 maybe)

When taking bath, crazy samoan lawyer holds somewhat bigger fixed blade. Got no idea what's this.
http://www.ljplus.ru/img/l/e/lenny_goofoff/NO_NAME-2.jpg
Then (or it was before?) in the twilight of its room, he hefted… ta-da! KaBar USMC, leather handle!
http://www.ljplus.ru/img/l/e/lenny_goofoff/NO_NAME-8.jpg
We can even see the letters on the blade
http://www.ljplus.ru/img/l/e/lenny_goofoff/NO_NAME-9.jpg
My guess that they needed meanier-looking knives for movie, othervise the script just copy the book.

Ps: found some info on Bladeforums on this knife
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=266331&highlight=mini-magnum
Thanks, Kirk_D!

PPs: another picture of Gerber Mini-Magnum added
http://www.ljplus.ru/img/l/e/lenny_goofoff/gerberminimagnum.jpg
courtesy NJedge, thanks alot!

 

[Mirror-Saw]

Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas is the only movie with Johnny Depp in it that i'll watch. Nice knife shots.

 

[Dijos]

that bottom knife reads usmc-it's a kabar. The bathtub knife is something different.

 

[Nick Hyle]

Tub knife looks like a high-ish end production skinner I know I've seen - Kodiak, I think? By Case, maybe?

 

[Paul Davidson]

My suspicion is that the tub scene knife is a dull prop department stand-in for the Kabar. From the picture it looks like the swedge is flat just like the spine.

 

[Artfully Martial]

I have no idea what happens in that movie....I normally really enjoy films that don't hand feed you the plot (ala donnie darko, photographing fairies, seLein)...but this was perhaps too much. Very quoteable though.

 

[TorzJohnson]

Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas is the only movie with Johnny Depp in it that i'll watch. Nice knife shots.

That's a shame, because "Ed Wood" was really good, IMHO. I thought Martin Landau was outstanding as Bela Lugosi, in fact I think he got an Oscar for it.

 

[Dijos]

That's a shame, because "Ed Wood" was really good, IMHO. I thought Martin Landau was outstanding as Bela Lugosi, in fact I think he got an Oscar for it.

he did; best supporting actor 1994

 

[G3]

My suspicion is that the tub scene knife is a dull prop department stand-in for the Kabar. From the picture it looks like the swedge is flat just like the spine.

Great movie. One of my favorites. I always thought they were the same knives. It's the filming that makes it look off. They made this movie in multiple styles, a different one for each "substance".

 

[Paul Davidson]

Great movie. One of my favorites. I always thought they were the same knives. It's the filming that makes it look off. They made this movie in multiple styles, a different one for each "substance".

I just think it is probably a prop knife because anytime I've read about an edged tool or weapon in a movie they have several different versions for different types of scenes. Even the folder used by Anthony Hopkins character in "The Edge" had a few different versions. If there is any type of movement by the actor(s) and no close up on the knife they tend to use a "safe" version, either rubber/plastic or aluminum with no edge.

It is a great movie. Johnny Depp is usually in movies that I either hate or are great. Nothing in between. He's gotten pretty pompous lately, but I guess that's why he and Hunter S. Thompson got along so well.

 

[G3]

I forget which one he uses on the orange or apple but that appeared sharp enough to be real.

 

[Lenny_Goofoff]

I forget which one he uses on the orange or apple but that appeared sharp enough to be real.

Grapefruits, actually and he chopped them in and out with Ka-Bar.