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I started watching Gattaca, a 1997 film on Netflix starring Uma Thurman, Jude Law and Ethan Hawke. It's a future dystopia film and features art-deco locations and props, like Frank Lloyd Wright's Marin County Government Center, a Studebaker Avanti and appropriately enough, a Wahl Eversharp Skyline!
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Snaps by iPhone of corner of TV screen.
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Carl Jung and Sabina Spielrein's fountain pens (the former a safety, perhaps?) and Sigmund Freud's dip pen in A Dangerous Method. The cigar, of course, is just a cigar.
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The cigar, of course, is just a cigar.
Are you sure? ;)
A cigar might is not the same thing depending if it's Freudian or Jungian analysis :D
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The cigar, of course, is just a cigar.
Are you sure? ;)
A cigar might is not the same thing depending if it's Freudian or Jungian analysis :D
:D
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A dragon (voiced by Jane Fonda) with a fountain pen in Luck.
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@catbert, that looks like a Jinhao 450
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@catbert, that looks like a Jinhao 450
I think the animators were going for an archetypal cigar-shaped pen and so was Jinhao. :) To my eye, the fictional pen has a more traditional vintage-Duofold-like section than the X450.
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In Spencer, set at Sandringham from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day 1991, a fictional equerry, formerly a military officer, uses a Montblanc with a hooded nib and a gold cap. (Maybe a 72 or 74? The ink window isn't visible and the nib seems more exposed.) Perhaps the choice of a German pen was related to the German filming locations.
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The actor Timothy Spall caps the pen very gingerly, releasing it into the cap then giving a slight twist to the piston knob as if to suggest a screw cap.
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Metal cap?
Looks gold to me.
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In King Charles III, the new king’s refusal to sign something …
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… sets off events which force him to sign something else.
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The pen gets flung aside in disgust, then used by several others. Maybe that influenced the choice of a relatively robust Waterman Hémisphère (looks like).
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Note artful framing in the final shot. Pen geek cinematographer?
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Wings of Desire, the classic film by Wim Wenders, opens on a poem being written with a fountain pen:
When the child was a child
It walked with its arms swinging,
wanted the brook to be a river,
the river to be a torrent,
and this puddle to be the sea.
When the child was a child,
it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.
When the child was a child,
it had no opinion about anything,
had no habits,
it often sat cross-legged,
took off running,
had a cowlick in its hair,
and made no faces when photographed.
Since the pen point is moving, it's hard to get a close look. I assumed, given the film's German origin, it must be a Pelikan with a two-tone nib, but after considerable searching, I couldn't find a match.
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But I knew I'd seen the like, so I tried other makes, finally looking at Montblanc. I think that fits.
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It's a lovely film, if you enjoy artsy spooky stuff.
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In Paul Schrader's film, The Card Counter, Oscar Isaac writes in a notebook using a fountain pen, likely one of these two. (It's an effort for me to get a screenshot, alas.)
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In Look Who’s Back, Hitler arrives in 2014 Berlin and writes a book with the same title about his experiences, the filming of which becomes part of the film.
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@catbert, that was one frighting movie...
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@catbert, I'll have to look this one up…
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@catbert, that was one frighting movie...
And it seems to have become even more relevant with time ...
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@catbert, I'll have to look this one up…
Now I'm looking for the original novel ...
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And it seems to have become even more relevant with time ...
It is: a quote from Night and Fog:
With our sincere gaze we survey these ruins, as if the old monster lay crushed forever beneath the rubble. We pretend to take up hope again as the image recedes into the past, as if we were cured once and for all of the scourge of the camps. We pretend it happened all at once, at a given time and place. We turn a blind eye to what surrounds us and a deaf ear to humanity's never-ending cry.
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A bottle of Parker Quink is clearly visible in several scenes in Godard’s La Chinoise.
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The fountain pen it feeds is harder to spot.
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Mikhail Gorbachev appeared briefly (with a Montblanc 149) at the beginning of Faraway, So Close!, the 1993 sequel to Wings of Desire.
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His voiceover monologue:
"Yes, the age-old question. The meaning of life. Why is mankind here? Such a short moment, compared with eternity. I wonder, is it better or worse for people not to know their fate? Better, I think, since they search throughout their lives and ponder the purpose of their existence.
Here are some very moving verses by our fellow countryman Fyodor Tyuchev, poet and diplomat.
Unity, as proclaimed the world over
can only be forged with blood and steel.
We shall let love show us the way.
Then we shall see which one lasts longer.
I'm certain that a secure world can't be built on blood. Only on harmony. We humans — politicians, philosophers, actors, workers, farmers, people of all creeds — we must agree on this. If we can agree only on this, we will solve all the rest."
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