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

[GWiens2001]

Yet how rarely does the sound match chambering a round? In the movies, I normally hear the ***snick-snick*** of a slide being racked without a round, rather than the ***snick-schlick*** of a slide being jacked and a round being stripped from the magazine and into the chamber.

Gordon

[YouLuckyFox]

Totally true, also I am getting tired of the gory sound-effects of some of the movies I've seen. Every time I see a scalpel used it sounds like Michael Winslow from Police Academy .

[mechanical_nightmare]

Also in the Italian Job, I think the relockers of those safes would most likely fire when they fell from a height like that. I am by no means a safe technician, but the force of the impact might even jam the door/boltwork completely.

I watched this Korean movie on a transatlantic flight last March: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330866/

In one scene one of the female protagonists unlocks a glove compartment practically as fast as you would with the key. Maybe even faster.

[YouLuckyFox]

I was... aherm .... ...a friend of mine...was watching "Gnomeo and Juliet" with his wife . Gnomeo, who is probably between 1 and 2 feet tall, bypasses a laminated padlock from the ground using a metal rod that is probably 4 feet long.

[Divinorum]

Not sure if anyone posted this one yet. I searched for it but didn't find anything. I was watching Now You See Me, the movie about magicians with Morgan Freeman. On two occasions the magicians need to get passed a locked door/gate and one of them says "Nothing is ever really locked" and sticks a pick into the lock and it opens within 2 seconds. Can't really see the tools that well it's over in a flash. I got a good laugh from this.

[KPick]

Not sure if anyone posted this one yet. I searched for it but didn't find anything. I was watching Now You See Me, the movie about magicians with Morgan Freeman. On two occasions the magicians need to get passed a locked door/gate and one of them says "Nothing is ever really locked" and sticks a pick into the lock and it opens within 2 seconds. Can't really see the tools that well it's over in a flash. I got a good laugh from this.

Yeah. I posted about those scenes. He seemed to do it in about a second and laughed about it. My fiance, who knows how to pick locks, pointed it out to me.

[GWiens2001]

Your fiancé knows how to pick locks, and you have not married her yet? Are you nuts???



Gordon

[fgarci03]

Your fiancé knows how to pick locks, and you have not married her yet? Are you nuts???



Gordon

Hahahaha
+1000 on that one

KPick, I'm happy for you

[KPick]

Your fiancé knows how to pick locks, and you have not married her yet? Are you nuts???



Gordon

Hahahaha
+1000 on that one

KPick, I'm happy for you

I might be nuts. Thanks fgarci. That is one of the many reasons why I'm engaged to her.

[C locked]

I know its an advanced topic. But in the season3 premier of bbc's sherlock. He bypasses a panic bar in less time then it takes to blink.

[njcanderson]

I did a search but couldn't come up with anything.

My girlfriend and I just started watching the show Leverage last week and we got to maybe the 7th or 8th episode last night, one of the protagonists picks a few locks in the episode to infiltrate a mobsters house. It looked sort of realistic, she used a tension wrench and all that, but I had my doubts a mobster would have a lock on his door that could be picked in a few seconds. She even looked down at her watch as if she was timing herself.

[reverendus]

Last night's NCIS had a little about locks on it. There was one door DiNozzo said he couldn't pick because it was a "Pin and Tumbler lock: highly resistant to picking and bumping" as if the front door lock that he asid he picked wasn't also a pin and tumbler.

Then later in the episode, Abby and McGee were opening a safe. She drilled a hole, inserted a scope and turned the dial while she had McGee using a stethescope to listen for a click.

[Squelchtone]

Last night's NCIS had a little about locks on it. There was one door DiNozzo said he couldn't pick because it was a "Pin and Tumbler lock: highly resistant to picking and bumping" as if the front door lock that he asid he picked wasn't also a pin and tumbler.

Then later in the episode, Abby and McGee were opening a safe. She drilled a hole, inserted a scope and turned the dial while she had McGee using a stethescope to listen for a click.

sigh... this is the kind of nonsense that makes me want to write letters to the producers... I know they don't want to give away actual methods to protect the public good, but to muddy the water this much is ridiculous. McGee should have gone out for an extra caffeinated slurpee for Abby while she just scoped and opened the safe.. how is she suppose to stay awake if she doesn't have a 60 oz gas station drink?

This is the kind of thing that leads to people going to home depot and reading that a master padlock is a pin and tumbler lock and thus must be pick proof and tough under fire..

Sad that NCIS has fallen into the trap of complete misinformation while the majority of their audience lap it up.

Squelchtone

[KPick]

LoL trust me this is a good thing that they are misinforming people. There are EVIL PEOPLE out there who would abuse this information. ;| I'm glad this information is suppressed in the media.

[Divinorum]

Last night's NCIS had a little about locks on it. There was one door DiNozzo said he couldn't pick because it was a "Pin and Tumbler lock: highly resistant to picking and bumping" as if the front door lock that he asid he picked wasn't also a pin and tumbler.

Then later in the episode, Abby and McGee were opening a safe. She drilled a hole, inserted a scope and turned the dial while she had McGee using a stethescope to listen for a click.

sigh... this is the kind of nonsense that makes me want to write letters to the producers... I know they don't want to give away actual methods to protect the public good, but to muddy the water this much is ridiculous. McGee should have gone out for an extra caffeinated slurpee for Abby while she just scoped and opened the safe.. how is she suppose to stay awake if she doesn't have a 60 oz gas station drink?

This is the kind of thing that leads to people going to home depot and reading that a master padlock is a pin and tumbler lock and thus must be pick proof and tough under fire..

Sad that NCIS has fallen into the trap of complete misinformation while the majority of their audience lap it up.

Squelchtone

This show also unrealistically portrays computers and hacking too. Most t.v. shows and movies do. I get such a laugh when they show people "hacking" a network. It's so obviously fake its incredible. They are always using some fake matrixy looking OS with shell or program open and with the click of a button or a few lines they get in. The other day I saw a commercial for Slomins house alarms and McGee was doing the pitch and he actually said one reason to buy the alarm system was because "he can't hack it". I almost choked on my food. See it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg58jcw7bdw

Sorry didn't mean to derail the thread. I feel you Squelch it's frustrating how off it is. Back to picking. /ENDRANT