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In the YouTube video for that new book coming out "The Very Dangerous Liaison," the girl pulls out a pair of Bogota's. And in the video game Skyrim, you can pick locks. You have a tension wrench and a pick, but the pick can break. So you needs lots of 'em.
Ruff_Dog wrote:In the YouTube video for that new book coming out "The Very Dangerous Liaison," the girl pulls out a pair of Bogota's. And in the video game Skyrim, you can pick locks. You have a tension wrench and a pick, but the pick can break. So you needs lots of 'em.
Oh man, someone needs to show that hot lady how to use the Bogotas properly. It's awful when a tv show or movie shows two picks being inserted into a lock and no wrench.. Also that lock looks like a Medeco, they like writing their name in a semi circle around the keyway.
Ruff_Dog wrote:In the YouTube video for that new book coming out "The Very Dangerous Liaison," the girl pulls out a pair of Bogota's. And in the video game Skyrim, you can pick locks. You have a tension wrench and a pick, but the pick can break. So you needs lots of 'em.
Oh man, someone needs to show that hot lady how to use the Bogotas properly. It's awful when a tv show or movie shows two picks being inserted into a lock and no wrench.. Also that lock looks like a Medeco, they like writing their name in a semi circle around the keyway.
The two picks thing is like..half right with the Bogotas. She just needs to flip one to the other side for the tension wrench.
Even if she flipped one to use as wrench, that's not how you hold them to use them, you hold them like a handgun or a divining rods.
Im just gonna ask, but since youre new here and managed to find a random new video on youtube with Bogotas in it for a 3 second period, are you involved with the author or production company that made the video? Its a good quality video, Bogotas used properly would have really set it apart.
Squelchtone wrote:Even if she flipped one to use as wrench, that's not how you hold them to use them, you hold them like a handgun or a divining rods.
Im just gonna ask, but since youre new here and managed to find a random new video on youtube with Bogotas in it for a 3 second period, are you involved with the author or production company that made the video? Its a good quality video, Bogotas used properly would have really set it apart.
Thanks Squelchtone
Yeah, I know how to hold them. I didn't go back to see her hold them incorrectly though. I knew they were in the video, but nothing specific like that (and also I didn't really pay attention to it). And no, I'm just new here. I'm just a guy. And I found the video via Serepick's FB page.
Not sure if it was mentioned yet as there are a lot of posts, but the movie Stand Up Guys (2012) shows Al Pacino picking locks on several occasions. He uses a tension wrench and half diamond with the correct technique but from what I remember uses way too much tension (the tensioner bent too far) and as usual with any movie the lock is open in mere seconds.
If you do not manipulate the lock, then the lock will manipulate you
Indeed it did. It really bugs me that an art which takes much practice and patience to master is merely reduced to a neat trick in movies/shows. Nothing we can really do about it though.
If you do not manipulate the lock, then the lock will manipulate you
Not lockpicking, per say, but my but there's a whole bunch of locksmith-related business in the Police Squad episode "Rendezvous at Big Gulch/Terror in the Neighborhood".
mechanical_nightmare wrote:Indeed it did. It really bugs me that an art which takes much practice and patience to master is merely reduced to a neat trick in movies/shows. Nothing we can really do about it though.
That happens with everything though. Anything which is not common knowledge is represented in a stupid way:
* Firearms in films * Computers/hackers in films * Human anatomy in films * Explosions in films * Lava and molten metal in films * Legal procedures and court room activity * Anything which involves "paperwork" in reality * Autism, and other disorders * Anything to do with historical detail
Lockpicking is just another detail Hollywood and company do not understand, therefore, it must not be important.
HerrMannelig wrote:That happens with everything though. Anything which is not common knowledge is represented in a stupid way
Some good advice I got many years ago:
1) Pick a topic you know a lot about 2) Pay close attention to news and other media coverage of that topic. 3) Judge how accurately the topic is treated. 4) Extrapolate that media coverage of topics you don't know about is similarly accurate.
The results have been pretty enlightening for me...
Last night's Person of Interest (episode "Mors Praematura") had a bumper crop of lockpicking!
First Reese enters Shaw's apartment after she goes missing. As he comes through the door he puts away some kind of tool. It's hard to tell what it is as it's only visible for a few frames and the lighting is poor, but I think maybe it's a Dyno Kwick.
Sloan, this episode's POI, is an state investigator who finds the next of kin for people who die without a will, clear next of kin, etc. He's shown picking the lock of a storage locker with Finch. It's only shown from behind, at quite a distance, but there's a side closeup as he pulls the padlock off that shows him holding a pick in his mouth. Throughout this scene he delivers dialog including: "Plenty of stuff you learn from work. My truck? Stuffed with crowbars, key cutters, and bump hammers. Never know what you're going to need for the job." (really, a truck stuffed with bump hammers?)
Next, Shaw breaks into a CIA apartment using tool(s) that Root hands her. It's shot from a high angle at a distance so it's hard to see exactly what she gets. Looks like a pick, not sure if there's a tension wrench or anything else with it.
As an added bonus, there's a scene of Shaw using a spaghetti thermal lance on a metal grate.
Other notes: - You'd think both Shaw and the CIA would use better locks on their apartment - Shaw's fridge is very well stocked.
Hard to believe nobody mentioned this yet! Just watching QI from two weeks ago (S11E08 - Keys). There's several items about lock picking, starting with the question:
"What's the best way to keep The Open Organization Of Lockpickers out of your homes?"
TCS wrote:Hard to believe nobody mentioned this yet! Just watching QI from two weeks ago (S11E08 - Keys). There's several items about lock picking, starting with the question:
"What's the best way to keep The Open Organization Of Lockpickers out of your homes?"
Barry from TOOOL shared a clip of it on Twitter, it was very funny!
