traditional knives in movies

scrteened porch said:
I've flipped past that. I assumed it was about cars.
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There’s actually very little car content. He does buy a Lamborghini tractor, for which he is endlessly mocked by the actual farmer helping him out, because it’s too big for basically everything.

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In the John Woo-directed cops-and-gangsters movie Hard Boiled (1992, Hong Kong), starring Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung, there is a scene in a hospital basement where the two protagonists are removing the gunpowder from bullets to make an explosive to try to open a huge steel door. Tony Leung’s character uses the pliers on a Victorinox SAK to open the bullets, while Chow Yun-Fat uses handcuffs as a wrench.

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Here's one from an episode of American Horror Story: 1984 (the ninth season of AHS). You’ll have to forgive close-cropped screenshots, the scene in which the knife appears is fairly graphic and not porch-friendly.

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No need to play knife detective on this one (although I think it would be a fairly easy one); one of the characters specifically mentions that its a Buck 119.
 
In Major League, Pedro Cerrano uses an interesting looking fixed blade to shave his head before a game.

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A little googling turned up some photo results of similar knives described as "vintage Mexican Bowie knives," but they were low quality photos from the kind of sites that seem to catalogue old eBay listings and don't really provide much useful information. After that I did a little BladeForums searching and found a few threads where similar knives were discussed. Most were old threads with missing photos, but this post had some great info. Looks like it's an inexpensive Mexican tourist/import Bowie knife. The knife in the movie actually looks very similar to the one in this ad. (Credit to T tltt for all the info and the photo of the ad).

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btb01 said:
Here's another from the current season of Fargo, from episode 9 ("East/West"). Rabbi Milligan (played by the excellent Ben Whishaw) hands this pocket knife to the young boy he's looking after, Satchel Cannon. Based on the wide, rounded end of the handle (with end-cap) that you can see in his palm if you zoom in, I'd say it looks like a trapper.

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Satchel later opens the knife in a closeup shot, and you get a decent look at the clip point blade, as well as a quick look at the backspring (looks like two springs) and what appear to be stag (or imitation stag) covers.

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I watched that episode last night. I am pretty sure that’s a camillus trapper with delrin stag handles, based on the blade shape and somewhat domed bolster pins. Certainly a knife that is anachronistic for that season which is set in 1950, but it’s a very minuscule detail and I’m not surprised they didn’t catch it. The show does an excellent job on the time setting.

I did catch a mistake in episode 8 where there was a rather conspicuous modern exit sign above a doorway. :D
 
Pension Vanilos (based on Hickory Dickory Dock ), Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie's tv program series 2/8 . Automatic again.
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Probably a non-period Italian knock-off of Bargeon's.

This one (or the larger size) would have been more correct.
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This is a tad off-topic. In Truffaut's Small Change/Pocket Money (L'Argent de poche) no blade of any sort . Just the story happens in Thiers at the beginning of the 70s. For the curious mind a nostalgic trip in a small French town, quite 50 years ago.
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Jolipapa said:
This is a tad off-topic. In Truffaut's Small Change/Pocket Money (L'Argent de poche) no blade of any sort . Just the story happens in Thiers at the beginning of the 70s. For the curious mind a nostalgic trip in a small French town, quite 50 years ago.
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My favorite Truffaut movie and the first I ever saw. I introduce kids to foriegn cinema with first The Red Balloon, The Bicycle Thief and then Small Change. Later on comes 400 Blows. Didn't know Small Change was set in Thiers.
 
I was watching the Pixar movie Up with my five-year-old the other day and had forgotten about the Swiss Army-looking knife that Russell, the Junior Wilderness Explorer, has hanging from his backpack.

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I don’t know if Victorinox or Wenger have ever made a Swiss Army Knife with a spoon and fork like that, but I had a knockoff SAK when I was a kid that had those utensils situated in the same way they are on Russell’s knife. The knife I had was thinner, though, only a couple layers.

Later in the movie, Carl uses Russell’s knife to cut some rope.

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You get another decent look at the knife when Carl sets it down on the rock here.

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This next one is from a 1987 movie called Dudes. I’m going to be honest, I’m not really sure how I ended up watching this movie, and I can’t say that I’d recommend it, but hey, at least there was some knife content I could post here! 😁

The knife looks like a military-style fixed blade, a bit like a KA-BAR, but maybe not quite.

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