A friend got some old movies on a DVD package the other night, and one of them was Papillon, with Steve McQueen. There were some knife scenes in the movie that were interesting. In one scene, McQueens charater is sneaking up and attacking a couple of the other convicts on the ship to Guiana, who were going to kill Dustin Hoffmans charater. For the life of me, it looks like an old spear point Imperial McQueen has in his hand that he pulled from under his shirt.
In another scene, they are just being unloaded from the prison ship to the dock, and one of the cons wants a knife to cut himself in the knee for when he fakes slipping on the gangplank to be taken to the prison hospital. It's easier to escape from there. He's handed a knife that looks like a Kissing Krane brown mule sodbuster type. Even stopping the dvd and taking it frame by frame it looks like a brown wood handle sodbuster.
It was unusual for the most part, a hollywood movie using some mundane every day working type knives. Nothing flashy.
But then again, in the real world, I don't think I want to get cut by a really sharp sodbuster or any other thin carbon steel blade that has a good edge.
In another scene, they are just being unloaded from the prison ship to the dock, and one of the cons wants a knife to cut himself in the knee for when he fakes slipping on the gangplank to be taken to the prison hospital. It's easier to escape from there. He's handed a knife that looks like a Kissing Krane brown mule sodbuster type. Even stopping the dvd and taking it frame by frame it looks like a brown wood handle sodbuster.
It was unusual for the most part, a hollywood movie using some mundane every day working type knives. Nothing flashy.
But then again, in the real world, I don't think I want to get cut by a really sharp sodbuster or any other thin carbon steel blade that has a good edge.
