Blades at Work: in Television and the Cinema

Whenever I think of a knife scene in a movie, I default to the Tommy Lee Jones and Steven Seagal scene in Under Siege as was portrayed in the vid.

I also like all of the scenes from The Hunted.

Crocodile Dundee. "That's not a knife...."
And we all know the rest of the quote.

EDIT: Guess I should have watched the video first..

The 1955 movie that supposedly got switchblades banned in the US, "Blackboard Jungle". With a young Vic Morrow, Glenn Ford, and Sidney Portier.





Before that I remember them being sold in candy stores in NYC, a dozen on a cardboard display.



And who could forget James Colburn in "The Magnificent Seven"?

Or the movie that copied, "Seven Samurai", with sword work by Toshiro Mifune?

The duel, again with Toshiro Mifune in "Sanjuro"

From the greatest Sci-fi movie of all times, possibly the greatest piece of cinema EVAR!!!1!!

Looked like some Randall's there, wonder how long they had to wait to get them? lol

I see on Randall's site the current wait time is 6 years!

The end fight in the Revanent was brutal

The John Wick series has some good knife fights and even a sword fight

The fight in Young Guns 2 between Lou Diamond Phillips and Christian Slater was cool.

And while not a knife fight per se, the 2004 Alamo movie where Jim Bowie is being bayonetted by Mexicans while reaching for his legendary blade is somber

Solomonson said:

Yeah, 6 years! Amazing! I was thinking about putting down the required $50.00 down payment and then just forgetting about it, until the bill comes due. As it is now, they can always be sold for more.

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Lock in the price now, hope for inflation...

I kind of skipped through the video, so I might have skipped over it if one of the scenes was from the movie "Braveheart." Some of the scenes demonstrating "blades at work" in that movie were quite intense, and bloody.
Another "blade at work" scene that I like a lot is right at the end of the movie "Legends of the Fall." As the movie comes to a close, Tristan (Brad Pitt) is shown from a distance trying to use a knife to fend off his lifelong enemy - a giant grizzly. "He died a good death" the narrator says.

I know the zombie show Walkkng Dead seems to prominently feature ColdSteel knives and axes

Rob Roy is a good one.

hso said:

That was the Gerbers (paid product placement). https://www.amazon.com/Gerber-Zombie-Apocalypse-Survival-30-000601/dp/B00842AIX0

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Your right, looks like I got it mixed up with Z Nation

My favorite knife scene is when Alton Brown harvested wild mushrooms with a Spyderco police model.

Gangs of New York has some good ones.
I like the one where Bill the Butcher taps his glass eye with his knife

Dan

Both Alton and Anthony are firearms enthusiasts. Anthony also uses something with orange scales that match his glasses. Anyone know what that is?

Alton went on a motorcycle road trip and stopped to eat some local sausage which he carved up with a black bladed 'tactical' folder and said - kids, don't try this at home.