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mechanical_nightmare wrote: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.
It's movies like this that lead to people frequently asking me the question, "Why is it taking so long!?"
Saw the Equalizer tonight at the movies. It's got a scene in it where your typical Russian mafia ( and ex special forces of course!) baddie picks an apartment lock in about 3 seconds flat. To be fair he does use a tension wrench but don't see him picking or the pick he uses. And as a bigger plot hole the apartment belongs to an ex CIA black ops guy who was supposedly the best agent ever yet he only had what appears to me to be a kwik-set lock/knob (based on pictures and posts I've seen on here regarding standard door locks in the US). Surely he would at least have a dead bolt or similar on his door as well? Still a bad ass movie though!
I just saw a very old McGyver Episode, where a (bad) guy opend a doorknop-type of lock with a Screwdriver and a 20" rectangular pipe,
i guess if you got soft casing materials or only 1-2 unset pins by default you can simply shear of the pins or smear away the material by using brute force ...
Barthel wrote:I just saw a very old McGyver Episode, where a (bad) guy opend a doorknop-type of lock with a Screwdriver and a 20" rectangular pipe,
i guess if you got soft casing materials or only 1-2 unset pins by default you can simply shear of the pins or smear away the material by using brute force ...
This fascinating doc tells the story of the 1971 FBI document leak that exposed COINTELPRO to the American public, as told by the yet-undisclosed members of the underground "Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI" group that pulled it off. For those not familiar, this group of 8 people managed to break into a regional FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, extract documented proof of the FBI's illegal surveillance of anti-war activists and others during the '60s, and mail it to various senators and news outlets including The Washington Post who went on to publish it.
Most importantly, there's some great discussion by the lockpicker of the group on how he managed to get everyone into the offices. He talks about making his own tools, show him picking actual locks and talking about pins / pin-tumbler mechanisms, and on the night of the event getting temporarily thwarted by a tubular door lock
According to Rotten Tomatoes it's due to hit theaters on Feb 6, I encourage folks to keep an eye out for it.
This is not from a movie, but a music video, and I think it's terrible how they show 2 things (cant even tell if they're picks) stuck into a lock like this, I wonder if the director thinks this looks better, the lawyers make them do it this way so they don't teach a bad guy how picking works, or if they just don't know any better and that's society's simplistic vision of what picking is and should look like.
Squelchtone wrote:This is not from a movie, but a music video, and I think it's terrible how they show 2 things (cant even tell if they're picks) stuck into a lock like this, I wonder if the director thinks this looks better, the lawyers make them do it this way so they don't teach a bad guy how picking works, or if they just don't know any better and that's society's simplistic vision of what picking is and should look like.
also, that Kwikset deadbolt looks like it is mounted upsidedown, that drives me crazy! :x
"that Kwikset deadbolt looks like it is mounted upsidedown" I would like to think that the prop person was just too busy to care about it, but in real life we have all seen way too many locks in use that were installed or assembled incorrectly, it makes you wonder what people are thinking when they are doing this work -Nick
saw an episode of Allegiance last week where she picked a lock. I think she was using a tension tool, but picked it almost instantly, without a raking motion. So she must have practiced picking that 1 pin lock for hours.
I was watching the new series 12 Monkeys on Syfy (really good if you're into the whole time hopping / dystopian future genre) based on the 90's Brad Pitt movie, which everyone should totally watch and they were in a lab that was controlled by some soldiers and they got caught snooping so the head guy had the soldiers handcuff one of them to a workbench leg. The female friend of the guy who was handcuffed takes about 10 minutes to pick open the cuffs (they dont show what she does, but it looks like going into the keyhole) and then to get out of the lab, it literally takes her faster than inserting a real key into the door and it's open just like that. I guess practicing on the cuff got her warmed up for the door lock, heh.
i remember seeing val kilmer in "the saint" picking locks. always wanted to learn how after that. can't remember if it was realistic. now i have to go to youtube and check out the clip
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south town ninja wrote:i remember seeing val kilmer in "the saint" picking locks. always wanted to learn how after that. can't remember if it was realistic. now i have to go to youtube and check out the clip
Val Kilmer also picks a lock to Dr.Hathaway's house at the end of Real Genius before they fill the house with that "stuff"(dont want to spoil the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it)
The Saint was a great movie, Orbital did some of the soundtrack!
