Your favorite Movie Knife moment

From the movie "Chinatown" when Roman Polanski sticks his Italian stiletto type switchblade up Jack Nicholson's nose and says-"You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat. Huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh? No? Wanna guess? Huh? No? Okay. They lose their noses." slice

------------------
Ciao

Mike Melone
memelone@yahoo.com
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1796

 
James, I remember that scene in Shogun Assassin. The character who asked for his kozuka back gestured with his sword hilt facing Ogami Ito as if expecting that the knife be sent flying back into its proper slot in the saya. Sure enough, Ogami obliges him. Another memorable scene in that movie was when Ogami comes face to face with two ninja and his son is dangling above a well. He dispatches one bad guy by cutting through his sword as he blocks a downward strike, effectively splitting the bad guy's head open.

-Greg
 
For the knife....

Bishop doing the "trust me" thing in Alien

For the sword....

Highlander
 
For swords, the Chinese movie "Blade"(not the abomination recently made): The protagonist has only half a sword, and only one hand. He attaches the sword to his good hand with about 3' of chain, and fights many BG's by twirling the sword. The final scene has him fighting a BG with 2 double swords chained to his wrists!
Aaron


------------------
amacks@nist.gov
Don't forget to pay your taxes...they eventually become my knives:)

 
Mine is also from "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid", when Butch is challenged for leadership of the Hole in the Wall Gang.

"O.K., Butch, Guns or Knives?"

"Look, Harv, I don't want to shoot with you."

Pulling out good sized Bowie, "Whatever You say, Butch."

For sword fighting scenes, the Duel on the Cliffs of Insanity between the Man in Black and Indigo Montoya ("You killed my father. Prepare to die.") from "The Princess Bride" is my favorite.

Both films happen to be written by William Goldman, who also wrote the incredibly bright and funny book of "The Princess Bride." The duel scene in the book, including the full tale of Indigo's past, is worth the price of admission.


------------------
James
 
Hmmmm.....let's see now-

"Annie Caulder" (sp?) - Richard Crenna as a bounty hunter trains Racquel Welch how to be a gunfighter. Bad-guy Earnest Borgnine (sp?) throws a knife in a slow-motion knife-vs.-pistol scene.

"Big Trouble In Little China" - The three Furies, in their first appearance, use khukuri's to dispatch some Tong members.

"Eiger Sanction" - Clint Eastwood uses a SAK to cut the rope he's dangling from, while belayed by a man he was sent to terminate.

"Saving Private Ryan" - Bayonet scene near the end. Not really a favorite of mine; too gruesome for my taste.

"Rambo" / "Predator" / "Commando" - Lotsa scenes; take your pick.
 
"Chinatown" has certainly the best switchblade scene ever, but "Rebel Without a Cause" was great. I also liked the opening scene of "Black Rain" where the bad guy uses a Cold Steel tanto.
 
Jeff It was Charles Bronson with the knife in the Mag.Seven.

------------------
Those who beat their arms into plowshares will plow for those who do not
 
Favorite John Wayne movie "Big Jake"

John wayne saves a guy who is about to be hung. He pulls out a little switchblade (maybe Hubertus?) and flicks it open.

Bad Guy says "Go ahead and try to cut him down mister"

Duke says "No, you got me scared now" (cups hand and throws knife "thwack" into tree inches from Mr. Badguy's head) "YOU do it"

Gotta love the Duke!

------------------
"May you live in interesting times"

AKTI - A000389
 
Coburn had the switchblade in Mag. Seven. Bronson had the village kids, they got him killed in the end.
 
Well I'll tell you one of my least favorite moments.

Just got back from Deep Blue Sea. There's a scene where the hero is trying to pry open a watertightdoor so the shark wouldn't eat him.

I think it was a SOG, and anyways, it broke. Or should I say the SOG look alike prop broke. See, he should have listen to Cliff Stamp before he bought his knife.



[This message has been edited by tallwingedgoat (edited 29 July 1999).]
 
My favorite in Croc Dundee is where the bloke is in the hotel room and put his laundry on a rope. He has the rope tied with one end to his Bowie which is stuck in the wooden wall. Here you can clearly see to what good use you can put a big blade
wink.gif


Another excellent - and more intense scene - is in "The Yakuza" where Robert Mitchum cuts off his left pinky and then gives it to Ken Takakura in order to apologize for all the mischief he has brought him. Besides that of course tons of fine Katana wielding in this movie.
 
What a fun thread, really some great memories. I especially love Coburn tossing that stiletto when they first meet him in "Magnificent Seven"... almost makes up for the lack of Toshiro Mofune...

My favorite scene is when Brandon Lee fights Al Leong near the end of "Rapid Fire." The knife is a P.O.S. Hibben/United Double Shadow and Al ridiculously ends up with it in his own gut, but it's a great scene anyhow. Brandon (sob, sob) uses a clothes rack in some interesting ways, and Al... well, I always like Al. Most underappreciated martial artist / stuntman in all of Hollywood... even though everyone recognizes "that Chinese guy with the moustache."

View


------------------
-Drew Gleason
Little Bear Knives
 
A lot of the fights in Rapid Fire were copied from the Jackie Chan film "Police Story", the first one.
I also loved the scene with Steven Seagal and Tommy Lee Jones in Under Seige.
A funny scene I like is in a little-known old (1982) Hong Kong movie, "Legend of a Fighter," where the hero is standing with his back to a Japanese sword fighter walking crablike/sideways toward him, sword drawn. The hero quickly snatches a second, short sword from the sword fighter's waist, does a quick movement and replaces the sword in the other guy's scabbard. Then the swordsman's hakama (skirt) falls down and he trips only in his loincloth. The movie's been re-dubbed in English as "The Secret Master."
I also liked various scenes in "The Edge" where Anthony Hopkins uses the lockback knife for survival purposes.
Jim
 
The scene in "High Art" where Peter Coyote trains knife fighting from a master (I forgot, he also acted a trainer in "Nikita" ). At first Coyote wasn't allowed to hold his Randall model 14, but just a metal scale of about a foot length.As he advanced in his skills,one day came he equipped his Randall under his right arm (a southpaw)... The two guys danced around each other, or it showed like, but it's the final training. How beautiful but dreadful it was!
So impressive

------------------
\(^o^)/ Mizutani Satoshi \(^o^)/
 
Not exactly my favorite scene but I will never forget the horrific scene from Reservoir Dogs where Michael Madsen uses a straight razor to torture a cop, while dancing to a happy tune on the radio. The camera turns away when he cuts of his ear, brrrrr, chilling. I believe that this scene got the movie banned in the UK for a time, but I'm not sure.

A movie moment I would call favorite is from Predator, when Arnie throws his knife to pin a bad guy to the wall and says in his unique accent "hey, stick around". My adolescent mind found that quite funny back then. And of course the mugging scene from Crocodile Dundee I is a classic.
 
The Rock, BG throws Nicholos Cage to the ground, pulls out a large knife and says"i'm gonna take pleasure in guttin you boy".
Mike Copeland
 
All the talk of "Crocodile Dundee" reminded me of one of my all time favorite scenes. Here is Croc, shaving with a Bic disposable. He hears the woman reporter coming, so he shoves the Bic into his belt and pulls out his Bowie to finish. The really funny part is that you can still see the Bic in his belt.

------------------
Walk in the Light,
Hugh


 
My favorite moment was in "The Iron Mistress" when Allen Ladd squared off against the dude with the sword at night in an upstairs room--no light, except for the lightning flashing, lighting them up during the fight. The other guy, who thought rules meant something, said, "We'll meet in the middle," to which Bowie replied, "We'll meet when we meet."

 
"Sharkey's Machine" has a scene where the bad guy does some manipulations of a butterfly knife, then uses it it on one of Burt Reynolds fingers.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top