traditional knives in movies

btb01 said:
In Into the Wild, Christopher McCandless (played by Emile Hirsch) uses what appears to be a Buck 110 throughout the film. Rather than the usual dark wood, the knife appears to have some sort of blue handle material, maybe synthetic, or dyed wood or bone.

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There are a few scenes that will make knife enthusiasts cringe, including some haphazard sharpening (hard to capture in just a screenshot, but the actor really just slaps the blade back and forth across the stone a couple times in this scene)…

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…and, worst of all, the use of the tip of the blade as a screwdriver. 😖

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The knife’s last appearance in the film is actually the scene in which it is given to McCandless, along with some other gear, by the last friend he makes before heading to Alaska, Ron Franz (played by the wonderful Hal Holbrook). This means that the scene with the license plate is a continuity error, as it takes place more than a year before he is given the knife.

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Interestingly, I did find mention of a “blue-handled knife” in an article published in The New Yorker in 1993. The author (Chip Brown) visited the bus about five weeks after McCandless’ body had been discovered and removed, and described some items that had been left there:

Apart from a few items that the troopers had removed with the body, Chris McCandless’s meager wherewithal was lying as he had left it: on the front table, his frayed toothbrush and tube of Colgate, a blue-handled knife, the crown of a molar; on a chair, his dungarees; by a barrel stove, his Great Lakes boots; on a cot against the wall, his blue pack with the foam pad still rolled and tied, and his little library, including a coverless copy of “Walden.”

I own and have read the Krakauer book, but it’s been a few years, and I can’t recall if it mentions any other details about what kind of knife McCandless might have had with him.
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Is that a 110 or a clone? In the closeup on the sharpening stone, the bolster and the blade grind don't look like a 110.
 
Going by just the blade and bolster I’d say its probably an Old Timer lockback or maybe a Schrade
 
btb01 said:
Jack, I found your scene from Belfast… sort of. I don’t think we’ll be accurately identifying the knife from this, though. 🤣

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That’s from a Behind the Scenes video on YouTube. The part with that scene starts around 3:20.

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Wow Barrett, you're incredible! 😎 From.what I could see on the big screen, it was a small paring knife 👍
 
lambertiana said:
Is that a 110 or a clone? In the closeup on the sharpening stone, the bolster and the blade grind don't look like a 110.
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I should have said “Buck 110-style lockback.” I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t actually made Buck.
 
I spotted a couple of traditional folders in movies I've seen recently, but wasn't able to get screen shots :(

In Doctor Sleep, during an early scene in a movie theatre, Emily Alyn Lind uses a small MOP-handled Penknife, with tip bolsters.

In The Last Movie Star, Burt Reynolds picks a lock with the clip blade of a small Jack knife (with half-stops).
 
I know some of the old Irish Springs commercials have been mentioned here before, because they always seem to feature someone cutting into a bar of soap with a traditional pocket knife. Well, their Super Bowl commercial from this year is no exception. You can see it around the 0:12 mark. Hard to tell much about the knife as there’s no closeup like the old commercials, but it looks like it could be an Opinel or MAM or something like that.

 
btb01 said:
I know some of the old Irish Springs commercials have been mentioned here before, because they always seem to feature someone cutting into a bar of soap with a traditional pocket knife. Well, their Super Bowl commercial from this year is no exception. You can see it around the 0:12 mark. Hard to tell much about the knife as there’s no closeup like the old commercials, but it looks like it could be an Opinel or MAM or something like that.

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Oh, what did I just saw... 😂

It actually doesn't look like an Opinel though, handle seems to be squarish. Maybe MAM really.
 
I apologize if this has been posted, but my search turned up empty.

My Italian-American grandparents watched Moonstruck whenever it was on - and they hated everything!

Well I tried to watch it the other day when it was on, and, while I didn’t get far, I did catch this plumbing scene where Mr. Castorini scrapes at a couple’s pipes with a slipjoint (looks like maybe multiple blades), and then tries to convince them to go with copper.

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Nature Boy said:
I apologize if this has been posted, but my search turned up empty.

My Italian-American grandparents watched Moonstruck whenever it was on - and they hated everything!

Well I tried to watch it the other day when it was on, and, while I didn’t get far, I did catch this plumbing scene where Mr. Castorini tests a couple’s pipes with a slipjoint, and then tries to convince them to go with copper.

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Nice addition. :thumbsup: I certainly don’t remember seeing it mentioned here before. I’ve never seen the movie, but that looks like a man who talks with his hands a lot. 😁
 
Anybody noticed what knife James Bond use to cut his apple in No Time To Die? We can see it closing it with two hands (classic traditionnal way) and it happened so fast i just realized it once he put it back in his pocket (watched it at cinema).
 
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