traditional knives in movies

btb01 said:
Well, I think this might be my first animated submission to this thread. :D

Here's a traditional knife that appears in an episode of King of the Hill.

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btb01 said:
@r8shell recently posted in the Lounge about the bat colony that lives under the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, TX. That reminded me of an episode of King of the Hill that featured a bridge in (fictional) Arlen, TX with a large bat population (which I'm sure was inspired by the bats in Austin), so I went to find the episode on Hulu so I could take a screenshot. When I found the scene I was looking for, I was quite surprised to see that it contained traditional knife content, as well! I shared it in the Lounge, but I couldn't miss out on sharing it here in one of my favorite Porch threads, too! :thumbsup:

Here's Hank opening the knife:

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And you can see it in his hand here, in the screenshot I was originally looking for with the bat bridge. (Sorry for the odd screenshots with all the "stuff" on the screen; Hulu apparently doesn't like it when you try to take screenshots, that was the only way I could get it to work. :D)

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Doesn't look like the same knife Hank had in another episode of King of the Hill that I posted about here a while back.
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King of the Hill has come up a few times in this thread, and while I don’t have any new knives-in-movies content to share (not for lack of trying — I’ve been watching a lot of movies while staying at home the last few weeks), I saw this the other day and thought some of y’all might appreciate it. Social distancing, Arlen-style. :D

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I know the EO Jack from the poker scene in Titanic has been mentioned here several times, but there's another knife that appears in a famous scene (you know, that scene ;)) that has only been mentioned once in this thread, 8 years ago, with no screenshot. Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) opens a pencil roll that contains this pocket knife, which he uses to to sharpen a piece of charcoal, just before things turn PG-13 . :D

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One thing I found a bit odd was that, when Jack opens the pencil roll, the knife is already open and sitting loose in the middle of the roll, just as you see it in that first screenshot. Doesn't seem like the safest way to store it. :confused: :D
 
btb01 said:
I know the EO Jack from the poker scene in Titanic has been mentioned here several times, but there's another knife that appears in a famous scene (you know, that scene ;)) that has only been mentioned once in this thread, 8 years ago, with no screenshot. Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) opens a pencil roll that contains this pocket knife, which he uses to to sharpen a piece of charcoal, just before things turn PG-13 . :D

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One thing I found a bit odd was that, when Jack opens the pencil roll, the knife is already open and sitting loose in the middle of the roll, just as you see it in that first screenshot. Doesn't seem like the safest way to store it. :confused: :D
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All kinds of things going on in that scene, and THAT's what you noticed? o_O
 
glennbad said:
All kinds of things going on in that scene, and THAT's what you noticed? o_O
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:D :D

Maybe that's why it hasn't been mentioned as often as the poker scene knife; it's only briefly seen, then easily forgotten. ;) I noticed it today because I was looking up the scene for this post, to make sure I got the wording right, and it was on YouTube, so it ended before... well, you know. :D
 
btb01 said:
I know the EO Jack from the poker scene in Titanic has been mentioned here several times, but there's another knife that appears in a famous scene (you know, that scene ;)) that has only been mentioned once in this thread, 8 years ago, with no screenshot. Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) opens a pencil roll that contains this pocket knife, which he uses to to sharpen a piece of charcoal, just before things turn PG-13 . :D

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One thing I found a bit odd was that, when Jack opens the pencil roll, the knife is already open and sitting loose in the middle of the roll, just as you see it in that first screenshot. Doesn't seem like the safest way to store it. :confused: :D
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One of these days I should have a look at this movie! (titanic) ;)

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I’m sitting here watching Strategic Air Command. In a couple of the first few scenes when Jimmy Stewart is getting back to flying he is wearing a fixed blade hunting knife on his left hip. I couldn’t tell if it’s a Western, Case, Schrade or something else. Anyone have any info on it?
 
btb01 said:
Nice addition! :thumbsup: I’ve been curious about that show, but haven’t gotten around to watching it.
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Pretty good :thumbsup:

I've been watching Watchmen the past few nights - somebody has to watch them right? ;) Think I spotted Jeremy Irons using a Boker Gnome at one point, and spotted a Fairbairn-Sykes dagger a few scenes later :thumbsup:
 
My wife and I just finished watching the first season of the new Amazon series Upload. In the ninth episode, an Opinel No. 7 with a red handle is exchanged between two characters. You get a good look at the knife (good enough that you can clearly see the "N° 07" on the lock ring), and I thought it was interesting that, although we're shown the mark side of the knife, there's no nail nick on the blade.

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With the COVID Karen and I have. been home a lot, so we've been binge watching Outlander. Lots of very large Scottish dirks, claymores, and Skein dubh's around. Even the main female character uses one to skewer an attackers kidney during an attempted rape scene.

As a lead up to that scene, there was an interesting bit where the hard line old Scots decide that the lady, Claire needs too be armed, and a small Skein duhb is given to her and one of them teaches her to use it. He tells her to not go for the upper body as the ribs can block the blade if its not held sideways, so go for short upward jobs to the stomach. If from the back, go for the kidney. She does well later when attacked by a British soldier intent on raping her.
 
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Watched The Black Stallion yesterday, the boy uses a knife to cut the horse free after the shipwreck. Looks like a white-handled folder but hard to tell.
I notice that these days whenever a knife appears on a show I perk up, even if I don't like the movie. Thanks BF!
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Maybe someone with better screen capture skills than me can grab the scene in the last episode of season 7 of That 70's Show where Red Foreman gives his son Eric a pocket knife before he leaves for Africa. It's a dark handled traditional but thats about all I can tell.
 
Also in the BBC series 'Victoria' there is a scene I believe in season 2 episode 5 where the character of King Louis Philippe is talking with Victoria in a greenhouse and uses a pocket knife to cut a piece of fruit for the queen and says something along the lines of everyone should carry a good knife.
 
jackknife said:
With the COVID Karen and I have. been home a lot, so we've been binge watching Outlander. Lots of very large Scottish dirks, claymores, and Skein dubh's around. Even the main female character uses one to skewer an attackers kidney during an attempted rape scene.

As a lead up to that scene, there was an interesting bit where the hard line old Scots decide that the lady, Claire needs too be armed, and a small Skein duhb is given to her and one of them teaches her to use it. He tells her to not go for the upper body as the ribs can block the blade if its not held sideways, so go for short upward jobs to the stomach. If from the back, go for the kidney. She does well later when attacked by a British soldier intent on raping her.
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“Outlander” gives new life to the expression “bodice ripper”. Once that reality settled in, I had to take a break from the series.
 
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Very end of this scene from one of the all time great westerns, definitely a slipjoint. Does anyone recall if its used anywhere else in the movie?View attachment 1396976

The best screenshot I can capture it looks to be a sheepfoot main.
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It does look like a sheepsfoot. A bit long for a a Barlow?
I watched The Long Riders again recently. It looks like Cole Younger and Sam Starr both have Western Bowies in their knife fight.
 
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I've been watching allot of old westerns on YouTube movies, the free ones anyways lol. The other night I watched the original Magnificent Seven. While James Coburn's character was the "knife guy" with his switchblade, another one caught my eye. In the scene after the 7 first go to the Mexican village they're having a fiesta. Scene cuts to Charles Bronson squatting whittling a whistle, with a daddy barlow! However due to YouTube restrictions I can't screenshot that one with my phone. I've not seen the remake and I'm not sure I want to, Seven Samurai and the Original Magnificent Seven are too classic in my book to be remade. As a side note when I was younger I hated movies with subtitles, then I seen the Kurosawa movie "The Throne of Blood". Real eye opener for sure :thumbsup:
 
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