Fountain Pens in Movies/TV
Paul Kuczynski
seen in movies.
As a starter: What FP did Pierce Brosnan use in the movie THE THOMAS CROWN
AFFAIR?
What FP did Jude Law use in the movie THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY?
Can anyone add to the list? or pose new fountain pen sightings in movies or
TV?
=Paul
Curtis L. Russell
Well, I once mentioned Waldo Lydecker using a made-up pen brand - and
got it wrong from memory. He actually endorsed the Wallace Flow Right
or Wallace Flo Write (actually spelling never on screen).
Points for anyone that can get the movie and three or four biggest
stars. IMO the movie had the greatest opening scene in a non-action
movie.
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
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>
> On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:44:50 GMT, "Paul Kuczynski"
> <souther...@mail.just-hawaiian.com> wrote:
>
> >As a form of entertainment... can you identify fountain pens that you've
> >seen in movies.
> >
> >As a starter: What FP did Pierce Brosnan use in the movie THE THOMAS CROWN
> >AFFAIR?
> >
> >What FP did Jude Law use in the movie THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY?
> >
> >Can anyone add to the list? or pose new fountain pen sightings in movies or
> >TV?
> >
> >=Paul
> >
> Well, I once mentioned Waldo Lydecker using a made-up pen brand - and
> got it wrong from memory. He actually endorsed the Wallace Flow Right
> or Wallace Flo Write (actually spelling never on screen).
Wallace is a well known real brand made by Inkograph. Most Wallace pens
are low cost econo pens, but they did make large oversized pens in
plastic and hard rubber that are about equal to anything made just about
by anyone in quality. I have a stunning oversized mottled red and black
HR Wallace trimed in high quality gold fill, with a large 14kt Wallace
nib. Even the barrel imprint is beautifully done with "Wallace" in large
scripted and shaded lettering, followed by "The Inkograph Company, NY,
USA." Frank
Blaine
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I usually make it a habit to catch fountain pens being used in Discovery
Channel/TLC/History Channel/A&E documentaries. I generally love it when
they completely blow it. (My oft-cited example an actor portraying Bram
Stoker writing w/a MB 146, for instance.)
The most recent sighting was in one of those "XY Factor" documentaries I
think the History Channel runs. In a sequence about the "Dear John" letter
in WW2, they had an actress writing with what looked like a Parker 21 desk
pen.... At least, it looked like there was an AWFUL big feed sticking out
under that nib...
In sticking with the nature of the post, tho... A friend pointed out a
bit of FP use on TV, in reruns of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The librarian
character was apparently using a fountain pen in a couple of episodes. (I
was informed of that with "He was using one of those pens like you like..."
<sigh>) I later watched the rerun, and couldn't for the life of me figure
out what it was. Thought it was a Phileas, but in a later shot it looked
like a MB, maybe a Diplomat...
--Blaine
so what
Maya Angelou used a modern P/B Duofold in one episode of "Touched by an Angel".
satrap
Pasha 913
Greg Burns
or
> TV?
I thought I remembered Sebastian (played by Ryan Phillippe) using a fountain
pen in Cruel Intentions. I went back and looked closer though, and I'm
pretty sure it's a Montblanc rollerball.
-Greg
Stephen Hust
> Well, I once mentioned Waldo Lydecker using a made-up pen brand
> - and got it wrong from memory.
"I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom."
> Points for anyone that can get the movie and three or four
> biggest stars. IMO the movie had the greatest opening scene in a
> non-action movie.
Otto Preminger. Oh, you wanted actors.
Well, let me see ... Judith Anderson? Vincent Price? Clifton Webb?
Gene Tierney? Dana Andrews? Am I getting warmer?
--
Steve
My e-mail address works as is.
kswitzer
I think it was a MontBlanc Dragon or something.
I would really like to know this if anyone can answer it.
--
kenSwitzer
Juan
In "Sleepy Hollow", the main character uses something that looks like
a penographic meets terminator...definitely movies are smoke and
mirrors
Juan
David WV
> Otto Preminger. Oh, you wanted actors.
>
> Well, let me see ... Judith Anderson? Vincent Price? Clifton Webb?
> Gene Tierney? Dana Andrews? Am I getting warmer?
And that wonderful song. What was it? Somebody-or-other's Theme?
Juan
> I noticed John Travolta using one in Pulp Fiction.
> I think it was a MontBlanc Dragon or something.
> I would really like to know this if anyone can answer it.
father Merrit's helper uses a parker 45 in "The Exorsist"
Juan
Stephen Hust
> As a form of entertainment... can you identify fountain pens
> that you've seen in movies.
I can't identify this pen, if it is the depiction of a real pen at
all, and I didn't see it in a movie, but today in the lobby of a
movie theater I saw a poster for the film "Gosford Park" which shows
a fountain pen used to tack the program or bill of fare or credits to
a man's (butler's?) back. There is a picture of the poster here:
<http://us.imdb.com/ImageView?u=http%3A//images.amazon.com/images/P/B
00005JKND.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg>
or
<http://makeashorterlink.com/?X5FB51241>
and another one here:
<http://www.gosfordparkmovie.com/start.html>
You can't make out much detail of the pen in these images, but on the
poster you could see that it was supposed to be (if I'm not mistaken)
a lever filler.
DovR
seen in movies.
movies or TV?
> =Paul
A suggestion in response to the developing thread. Maybe an enterprising
acp-p'er, zosster, penlover or pentracer could start a site on this film pen
theme with pix and streaming video, footnotes. Pensfor a doctoral
disertation ;-)
Jim Mamoulides, you there? Jim's list is the ultimate Pen list. Hope I did
not mispell your name.
Seriously though it is a nice and intersting subject which crops up from
time to time.
Paul Kuczynski
guess:
In The Thomas Crown Affair I believe he uses a Caren D'Ache to sign a
contract where Mr. Crown makes a cool $14M profit over what competitors
would have paid for the company that he bought.
In The Talent Mr. Ripley, I believe Jude Law is using a Schaeffer Balance.
Regards,
=Paul
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Dik F. Liu
<shNO...@a1.net> writes:
>I can't identify this pen, if it is the depiction of a real pen at all, and I
didn't see it in a movie, but today in the lobby of a movie theater I saw a
poster for the film "Gosford Park" which shows a fountain pen used to tack the
program or bill of fare or credits to a man's (butler's?) back. There is a
picture of the poster here:<
I saw the movie poster in a video store a few days ago. I examined the pen
closely; and the best that I can tell is that it is probably a Waterman
filigree. I tried to verify the exact brand, but couldn't see the clip.
Dik
Stephen Hust
> As a form of entertainment... can you identify fountain pens
> that you've seen in movies.
Here's another film-related one, didn't catch the flick, didn't spot
it on a poster, but I did see it on the movie tie-in edition of the
paperback book: "Bridget Jones's Diary."
<http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0330375253.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg>
It looks a lot like a Parker Reflex:
<http://www.parker.de/deutsch/p-reflex/prod-reflex-blau.htm>
Curtis L. Russell
>And that wonderful song. What was it? Somebody-or-other's Theme?
Uh, Lara's Theme is from Dr. Zhivago. The theme from Laura was IMO the
better song. Moderately unique in that the words were written later,
when several singers, including Frank Sinatra, voiced an interest in
doing the song.
Blaine
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It's a MB 164 Classique ballpoint. If you notice, Swoosie Kurtz's
character (the psychiatrist) at the beginning of the film is using the very
same pen. (When she writes the line "Charge for book $" on her notepad.)
My favorite MB ballpoint appearance is the MB Agatha Christie that
Johnny Depp's character, "Dean Corso", uses in _The Ninth Gate_. (The film
nowhere near lives up to Arturo Perez-Reverte's excellent novel, _The Club
Dumas_, but it's still such a fun watch.)
And no, I have no life...
--Blaine
Paul Kuczynski
=Paul
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Blaine
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You know, it is actually an interesting idea, just for the devil of it.
It's something I'd love to do it, if I had the time. (Again, that whole
"You have no life" thing keeps coming up!)
Isn't it strange that we look at what pens characters in movies are
using? I shouldn't say anything, tho. I have watch collector friends who
do the same thing. (Case in point, on a recent HBO movie about the Johnson
presidency, a friend of mine derisively pointed out that the Rolex that
Donald Sutherland was wearing while playing Clark Clifford was of the wrong
vintage...)
--Blaine
Paul Kuczynski
all had fun with it.
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Paul Kuczynski
or a movie... and an FP shows up... you suddenly sit up and take notice...
I think it's a compliment ... the finer things of the world mean
something... and in this case it's the manner and form of writing - whether
it's business or a love note or greetings to someone we care about.
(now who needs a life?)... NO NO .. I stand by it... I'd rather associate
with someone who appreciates the details of life than someone who walks
carelessly over our lives and doesn't pay attention to subtleties.
=Paul
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David WV
> Uh, Lara's Theme is from Dr. Zhivago.
Uh, not to get pedantic, but, uh ...
http://www.net4music.com/asp/N4MASP_edito.pl
?IDPARTNER=n4m&article=_2301_mi_laura.html
the theme from the movie "What's-Her-Name" is
commonly called uh, "What's-Her-Name's Theme,"
even by the, uh, composer. Or, if you insist, uh,
"What's-Her-Name's theme."
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Guild/4708/laura.html
Although the title of the song is indeed, uh, "What's-
Her-Name," the uh, theme, is indeed a true theme,
in the musicological sense, so the common usage is
even, uh, propriate.
Will Isaac
"interrogation" (no posts about my spelling please....) featuring of all
pens, a Red Esterbrook.
-Will
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Curtis L. Russell
>Although the title of the song is indeed, uh, "What's-
>Her-Name," the uh, theme, is indeed a true theme,
>in the musicological sense, so the common usage is
>even, uh, propriate.
You left out the second uh on your last word. To be pedantic, it
should be 'uh, uhpropriate.'
MICHAEL G. ELLIS
so what
This is not on TV or in movies, but on the cover of a junior high writing
handbook! No, I didn't put it there, but I did steal the book.
"Writing and Language Handbook" by McGraw-Hill School Division.
Upper left corner, picture of a PELIKAN!!!! Transparent green colour, but the
pic shows only the bottom 3 inches of the pen, and I am not Pelikan-savvy
enough to know the model. But the nib is clearly marked "Pelikan", bird and
all.
satrap
who knows the bic-using school administrators probably never saw this book, no
matter what john cline ii says!