Lockpicking in Motion Pictures?

[pin_pusher]

not sure if this has been posted yet, not gonna page through forty pages to find out...but i was watching Aladdin...don't ask why....and abu picks the shackles on Aladdin

[raimundo]

the teasers and trailers for that "covert affairs" program shows some typical hpc's in a kik. The show is interesting, not at all like any reality, except that it does show that the cia gets up to its stuff on US territory, of course, thats as realistic as it gets. The nagra tape recorder is photogenic, even realistic if it were about the 1970's, but now its anachronicstic, like my mohawk migetape 300. Im sure they are using some olympus digital recorders with ambient noise filters to get through the jet engine noise or the city traffic noise.
Another show that I like sometimes is the Burn Notice show. also fantasy, but every now and then he does something interesting. If one were burned by the cia why would you care to go back to them, and why would they not pay off someone just so they don't have a pissed off ex-agent running around. just make a pile of money subcontracting for them. And most of his narration is completely wrong.
But these are just for entertainment. Its as much about the clothes and the scenery. forget the plots.

[pin_pusher]

just found out what a red box is, cheap...rented a movie: Repomen. not to be confused with repoman, from the eighties. jude law uses a pick gun to get into a house, not exactly "picking" but still worth retelling.

[raimundo]

repoman, emilio estevez, a classic, even better than the big Liebowsky

[Squelchtone]

Wild Wild West with Will Smith, the US Marshall Artemus Gordon played by Kevin Kline uses what looks like a 2 in 1 / "wind up" key to pick a mortised lever lock.

fun rainy day movie, lots of gadgets.

Squelchtone

[pin_pusher]

in the wachowski brothers film "bound" (predating the matrix movies) gina gershon uses her earrings, which are made of lockpicks, to open a briefcase full of money.

[luckylockpecker]

In the movie 'Johnny English', Rowan Atkinson tries to lockpick a lock by wistling! (Without much succes, unfortunately)

[pin_pusher]

die hard with a vengeance!!!! samuel jackson picks the handcuffs on both him and bruce willis.

[unlisted]

The new movie coming out called "The Next Three Days" - the staring character watches video clips online how to make a key that will "open any lock" (bumpkey) and than proceeds to use it to break his convict wife out of prison with it.

[Legion303]

Pretty impressive bump key.

-steve

[Klaiviel]

Not sure if anyone has seen this yet but I just recently went to see the new movie The Tourist and it featured two scenes of lockpicking handcuffs. Fairly accurate, although they took waaaaaay too long to do it.

[raimundo]

the usual use of lockpick is just a few frames/two seconds of the movie. maybe these actors insisted in doing the real thing, considering that a handcuff is often the easiest lock to open with improvised tools and they were playing amateur pickers, though Jolie probably has some skills...

[Legion303]

though Jolie probably has some skills... 8)

If you supply the cuffs, I'll ask her to give me a private demonstration. <_<

-steve

[Theist17]

I watched the MacGuyver Special episode of MythBusters last night. At the end of the episode, there was the "MacGuyver Challenge." The first stage of the challenge was to use a large lightbulb to pick a KIK system. Looked to be a Kwikset knob, and it took them almost an hour (~50 minutes) to pick it using wires and filament.

The cool thing is that they were supposedly given no forewarning about the challenges. It was all totally improvised.

[Squelchtone]

In the movie Inside Man w/ Denzel Washington and Clive Owen (about a gang of bank robbers and a police negotiator), one of the bank robbers has the guard's safe deposit box guard key, inserts it in the right nose, then sticks TWO HPC lock picks (can only see handles, they dont show which pick profiles are used) and they show her "pick" the lock in about 5 seconds using this method. Totally FAEK since it's a lever lock with god, at least 5 levers, and no way her picks would lift them high enough to work.



Good movie, lots of twists and turns,
Squelchtone