traditional knives in movies

jackknife said:
One can only wonder if Tom Hanks is a pocket knife person?

His characters so often display a pocket knife in the movies, it makes me ponder it.
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I’ve wondered the same thing, Carl. I do know that he’s a big typewriter collector, and I can certainly see how a person who’s into old typewriters could also be interested in old knives. Who knows?

Recently my wife and I were talking about movies we used to watch when we were kids (late 80s/early 90s), and one that we both remembered was Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (1991). The girls thought the movie sounded interesting, so I watched it with them today.

I spotted one old knife in the movie, just a quick glance at it on a bedside table. The knife is a bit out of focus, as well, so you can’t tell too much about it, but it appears to be a serpentine stockman (or other multi blade pattern) with rounded bolsters and some sort of white covers.

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btb01 said:
I’ve wondered the same thing, Carl. I do know that he’s a big typewriter collector, and I can certainly see how a person who’s into old typewriters could also be interested in old knives. Who knows?

Recently my wife and I were talking about movies we used to watch when we were kids (late 80s/early 90s), and one that we both remembered was Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (1991). The girls thought the movie sounded interesting, so I watched it with them today.

I spotted one old knife in the movie, just a quick glance at it on a bedside table. The knife is a bit out of focus, as well, so you can’t tell too much about it, but it appears to be a serpentine stockman (or other multi blade pattern) with rounded bolsters and some sort of white covers.

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Cool stuff on the table, Barrett! :cool::cool::thumbsup: In addition to the knife, I like the key and alarm clock. What's just to the left of the knife?
Is the movie the one about high-diving horses?

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Cool stuff on the table, Barrett! :cool::cool::thumbsup: In addition to the knife, I like the key and alarm clock. What's just to the left of the knife?
Is the movie the one about high-diving horses?

- GT
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I always like seeing those kinds of shots in period film. It’s like a vintage EDC pocket dump! 🤣 I was trying to figure out what that was next to the knife, too. I thought it might be a comb (perhaps you can’t see the space between the teeth because of the angle?) but I’m really not sure.

Yep, that’s the movie.
 
btb01 said:
I always like seeing those kinds of shots in period film. It’s like a vintage EDC pocket dump! 🤣 I was trying to figure out what that was next to the knife, too. I thought it might be a comb (perhaps you can’t see the space between the teeth because of the angle?) but I’m really not sure.

Yep, that’s the movie.
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Comb with a fancy handle makes sense; thanks! :thumbsup::thumbsup::)
I just noticed there seems to be a handle for something just to the right of the knife (between the knife and the folded cash).

Thanks for the confirmation on movie content. I watched that at least once with my daughter, probably in late 1990s or early 2000s. Kind of a tear-jerker with a happy ending (but I'm easily manipulated).

- GT
 
Here's a shot from S01E06 "Book 74" of the horror/sci-fi series "From" which aired in 2022.

In this scene, one of the characters is obsessively scrawling the symbol seen in the shot - but look what's on the table next to his maniacal scribblings!!

Anybody recognize make and model? Looks nice... I'd consider it suitable equipment for being trapped in an unhinged portion of time and/or possibly space! 😂

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birdsbeaks said:
Here's a shot from S01E06 "Book 74" of the horror/sci-fi series "From" which aired in 2022.

In this scene, one of the characters is obsessively scrawling the symbol seen in the shot - but look what's on the table next to his maniacal scribblings!!

Anybody recognize make and model? Looks nice... I'd consider it suitable equipment for being trapped in an unhinged portion of time and/or possibly space! 😂

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I’m a little offended that you refer to my visual interpretations of the topology of the consciousness-cosmos interface as “maniacal scribblings”, but the knife is indeed a fine companion for those of us whose intellects operate on a higher plane than those of you who have not yet been contacted:
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Can’t help with the maker, though - stamped simply “U.S.A.”
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Shell construction, chisel ground:
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Maybe not exactly the same. The pen blade in the movie still looks a little different, but that could also be due to sharpening.
 
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lambertiana said:
My wife is so used to it that if she sees a closeup of a knife, watch, gun or pen that I don't rewind, she points it out.
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For me to get my wife to that point I would have to agree to watching project runway a few evenings a week with her,all with out me injecting my personal thoughts,and that is just not happening.
 
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