Lockpicking in Motion Pictures? ( Picking in Movies & Film )

[Squelchtone]

Law & Order SVU had an episode recently were they were looking for a safe cracker that could get into any Mosley safe... Haha. They should have just said Mosler, its not like the company exists any longer, unless of course Diebold still flexes their muscle if someone uses the name commercially.

They talked about glass plate relockers, it was a good episode.

[TCS]

Barry from TOOOL shared a clip of it on Twitter, it was very funny!

Yes, and we learned Tim Minchin thinks that lock picking skill and font selection taste are mutually exclusive

[Squelchtone]

here's the sauce:

[GWiens2001]

Now that is some funny stuff! Good advertising for TOOOL, and am very glad he put such emphasis on the morals and ethics.

Gordon

[Raymond]

Just saw a new movie - Robot and Frank. Its about an elderly cat burglar with dimensia that teaches his medical guardian robot how to pick locks and "brute-force" combination locks so he can do a job. A little sad but not a bad movie.

[KPick]

There is also this movie called Assault on Precent 13 where the bad guys get into an old jail house using a snap gun. This was done also without a tension wrech, which I pointed out to my girlfried.

[HerrMannelig]

At work (on break in the breakroom with a TV), I saw a partial episode of Smallville where someone "picked" a lock. It was done from the perspective of the inside, but the guy holding the indistinct tools did not seem to be holding them properly for any picking. Probably just a quick way to shoot the scene.

[mechanical_nightmare]

In the Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne, with exceptional mastery and swiftness, picks the lock to a CIA safe house in Madrid disguised as a bank. Supposed picking tools can be seen for about a fraction of a second. One would think a high-security lock would be in order for such an important application... He also bypasses and disables several alarms throughout the series.

Earlier in the same movie he somehow surreptitiously enters his (dead) ex-girlfriend's brother's apartment in Paris, to inform him of his sister's death. He could not just simply walk up to him on the street and say it; no, he has to expertly impression/decode/pick the lock, enter, lock the door behind him, have a sit down and wait for the guy to arrive so they can have a chit-chat.

I really like the movies. Jason Bourne is allowed to do such things

[Achyfellow]

In the Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne, with exceptional mastery and swiftness, picks the lock to a CIA safe house in Madrid disguised as a bank. Supposed picking tools can be seen for about a fraction of a second. One would think a high-security lock would be in order for such an important application... He also bypasses and disables several alarms throughout the series.

Earlier in the same movie he somehow surreptitiously enters his (dead) ex-girlfriend's brother's apartment in Paris, to inform him of his sister's death. He could not just simply walk up to him on the street and say it; no, he has to expertly impression/decode/pick the lock, enter, lock the door behind him, have a sit down and wait for the guy to arrive so they can have a chit-chat.

I really like the movies. Jason Bourne is allowed to do such things

Yeah, I was actually surprised he wasn't waiting for the girl in a rotating office chair with a cat on his lap.

[GWiens2001]

Watched The Italian Job with my wife a couple of nights ago. Let's see here. Starting with underwater manipulation of a safe filled with gold, followed later by a manipulation without ever checking contact points, and when the combination is entered, they never turn the dial to retract the bolt. They just get to the final number and turn the handle.

But it was a halfway decent movie, by today's standards. At least you don't have to worry about some kids learning how to manipulate safes open from that movie.


Gordon

[mechanical_nightmare]

GWiens2001 wrote: At least you don't have to worry about some kids learning how to manipulate safes open from that movie.

And if they did show the proper procedure, my bet is most kids would get bored and turn the movie off, and hence learn nothing either way

[KPick]

I watched it as the guy who pickpockets people for a living opens a door under 3 seconds with no tension wrench. Also, by the end he seems to open an American style padlock in about 3 seconds which made me kind laugh a little.

[bembel]

A German "science" tv show about burglary and how to protect against it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuHKKPNOdFE#t=55

Please note that you don't need tensioners and all that crap - the door opens even without turning the lock.
(In case the link doesn't work correctly, the interesting part starts at 1.00)

P.S. And if some crappy Hollywood director reads this: I'm tired of seeing bodyguards or secret agents touching their ear every time they receive a mysterious message from their headset. Nobody in the real word would do that. But yes we got it: He's receiving a message.

[GWiens2001]

Please note that you don't need tensioners and all that crap - the door opens even without turning the lock.

I like how the part that would touch the pins in a normal pin tumbler locks is put into a dimple lock in a way that would not even touch the dimples. And the lock plug is not even turned, nor is the cam.

Gordon

[Squelchtone]

A German "science" tv show about burglary and how to protect against it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuHKKPNOdFE#t=55

Please note that you don't need tensioners and all that crap - the door opens even without turning the lock.
(In case the link doesn't work correctly, the interesting part starts at 1.00)

P.S. And if some crappy Hollywood director reads this: I'm tired of seeing bodyguards or secret agents touching their ear every time they receive a mysterious message from their headset. Nobody in the real word would do that. But yes we got it: He's receiving a message.

or showing up on scene and racking their pistol slide, which is already loaded, but heck, let's eject the bullet and just load a new one. as bembel said, yes we got it.. they have a gun and it is loaded.

=)
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