Mad Mac wrote:Kiwigunguy wrote:I've heard a lot about The Fan but I have yet to see it. It does sound interesting, though.
Too bad they couldn't get some better knives for the movie... :spyder:
If I had a knife company, I don't think I would want any of my knives in that movie. It's a "hatchet job". It's an anti-knife movie, like the Hollywood anti-gun movies. Knives spawn madness and evil, the same way exploding mobile homes create tornadoes, another well known scientific fact.
In one scene, the sales manager slams a car door on the conference table and ice pick style stabs the door many times in a frenzy using a tanto blade. Supposedly this is to show the quality of the knife and motivate the sales force. In the process, he cuts himself.
It is a good thing there are no Spyderco products in the movie.
I don't think there is such a thing as bad publicity in that sense.
Most of the movies and tv shows mentioned on this thread involve Spydercos being used to threaten, injure, or kill people, and yet none of them has tarnished Spyderco's reputation in any way. On the contrary, they have served to greatly increase Spyderco's reputation and sales. Everyone wants a Harpy because of the movie Hannibal, where the titular character uses one to murder three people-he even eviscerates one of them!
As for stabbing car doors with knives, there are countless people who enjoy watching Cold Steel's videos and their sales are through the roof.
The only real way a film could hurt Spyderco in any way would be if it clearly showed a Spyderco being ineffective or breaking under normal use(highly unlikely) or if it was about the company itself and sought to expose its unscrupulous business practices, which are conspicuous by their absence in Spyderco's case. Either would put the film producers at risk of being sued for libel.
The movie "The Runaway Jury" tried to do the latter with firearms companies but failed miserably. The John Grisham book of the same name on which it was based was about a tobacco company and had a very plausible and realistic story that would have worked well on screen, except that the movie wasn't released until 2006, when the superb movie "The Insider" had already put that story to screen. As a result, the film had a totally unrealistic and ridiculous plot. The fictional gun company behaved in a way that no real firearms company ever would and is portrayed as a stereotypical evil organisation. There are some major legal inaccuracies, which is the opposite of the book-John Grisham is a former lawyer and always portrays legal proceedings realistically. The movies so-called hero is a man who moves around(under false names) trying to get selected as a jury member in cases involving gun companies, just so that he can manipulate the jury into finding against the gun company because his girlfriend's sister died in a school shooting. Against unfathomable odds, he manages to do this, and the film ends with the gun company losing despite the fact that they were never proven to be negligent despite doing a number of things that were very stupid but totally legal. The theme of the movie is that emotion should win out over evidence and legal precedent, which is totally out of character for a legal thriller. In real life, gun companies just aren't corrupt and slimy like that, although the Freedom Group and Remington are really trying these days...
Basically what I'm saying is just watch "The Insider." It is very well written, directed, and acted, and you are pretty much guaranteed to like it. :)
"An experienced shooter of limited skill and dangerous enthusiasm." -Hitman: Blood Money newspaper
"Stop having a boring knife, stop having a boring life." -Shamwow Guy in Jail
"Also, I think knives are a good idea. Big, f u c k-off shiny ones. Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile. Knives are good, because they don't make any noise, and the less noise they make, the more likely we are to use them. S h i t 'em right up. Makes it look like we're serious. Guns for show, knives for a pro." -Soap in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
