I'm always looking at movie props and think about how I would build them and make them somewhat functional. Here's a couple of props I like from The Saint, starring Val
Kilmer and Elisabeth
Shue. Simon Templar uses this pocket knife throughout the movie. The comedy/tragedy mask, the symbol for theatre, is appropriate considering the theme of Simon taking on disguised through out the movie and not knowing his real name.
It incorporates a blade, lock pick set, small flare/cutting torch, and camera. It also has a sort of keyboard with digital readout that is never seen in use. Maybe it's supposed to be for e-mail. At one point in the film, Simon has it stored in a hollow section of his boot heel.
I also like this retro lapel pin that Emma gives Simon at the end of the movie. It's a re-stylized version of the
tv show logo.
It incorporates a blade, lock pick set, small flare/cutting torch, and camera. It also has a sort of keyboard with digital readout that is never seen in use. Maybe it's supposed to be for e-mail. At one point in the film, Simon has it stored in a hollow section of his boot heel.
I also like this retro lapel pin that Emma gives Simon at the end of the movie. It's a re-stylized version of the tv show logo.
4 comments:
My favorite movie and thanks for posting about the props used. It's thanks to "The Saint" that I discovered the Nokia 9000 (and the later models like the new e90.)
It's a great movie which deserves more praise then it gets! :)
where can i get a pocket knife like the one in the film The Saint. thanks
I have one of the lapel pins that Paramount issued of 200, lovely pin but came without a point protector which I now have fitted. It cost me £100 many years ago so don’t know what it’s worth today because I have never seen any of sale since.
I've pondered this specific Cinematic Prop for many, many years. As of the date of this response, several decades have gone by since the Original Movie Release of "The Saint", starring Val Kilmer and Elizabeth Shue (and gratuitous cameo by Sir Roger Moore!).
I think that the advances in home workshop technology, to include 3D modelling and printing, home foundry work, etc., have finally caught up to the "Movie Tech" where I believe I can recreate ALL DESIRED FUNCTIONS in ONE otherwise innocuous-appearing pocket knife. This is in direct response to the fact that even the FILM COMPANY needed "Six Different Props" to get all the functions to work.
My foundations are a Victorinox Swiss Champ (Clear 5x magnifier std, not NEW), a Victorinox SAK CYBER Tool, and other knifes, tools, and parts that either I own already or can source readily. I've even got an old Smith & Wesson HRT auto knife with a really powerful spring action compared to it's diminutive stature that would fit well on a 91mm SAK frame. And the blade geometry would "approximate" a shortened version of the "Russian Bayonet-looking" blade on the Original Movie Props (OMPs). I'm not necessarily looking (at this time) to "COPY" the "PROP" to the micro-millimeter. I'm simply "upgrading" my EDC in the Spirit of this prop knife and POSSIBLY return to do a 1:1 Copy in all the correct materials, etc. I'll be back through here, but keep an eye out for my "published methodologies and results" somewhere else in the Either.
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