Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[Deanfromoz]

not sure if hasa been mentioned already,

the Aloe Blacc song "If I" has one at the start.

cheers Dean

[SimonOW]

I remember an episode in the final series of The Guardian where a boy steals Simon Baker's Sheaffer Targa and uses it to stab someone. Perhaps that'll be the new market for fountain pens, when knife ownership eventually has to be regulated...

[themotherlandrussia]

I am ever vigilant in current (and vintage) movies and TV for fountain pens, vintage cameras and typewriters. An episode of Law and Order featuring pre-spin-off show host Stephen Colbert as the murder who wrote the letters the police found with forgeries with various dip and fountain pens as well as prominent ink bottles and high-quality paper. I think there was an episode of CSI where someone was stabbed with one. If not, that is a hell of an idea! New TV shows like Portlandia prominently featured an early 40s maybe mid 30s typewriter. NCIS regularly features a Noiseless Remington for McGee; he writes a few books throughout the series. Another NCIS episode had a letter with the plague in it with a note on 32 cotton paper, featuring calligraphy, and a nice dark ink.

[kp288908]

In the opening scenes of Resident Evil Milla Jovovich walks over to a desk and uses a fountain pen (an overlay of some kind) to cross out something on a note pad.

 

i just noticed that recently also. That was a nice pen, too.

[bluejay]

I think in the opening of "THE GREY" the character uses a fountain pen to write a letter which he keeps the entire movie.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Someone already mentioned Casino, with a character being stabbed to death with a fountain pen, but he wasn't actually killed, just very badly hurt. He crudely insults Ace Rothstein (Robert DeNiro), when Rothstein asks if a valuable looking fountain pen belongs to him. Rothstein's friend Nicky (Joe Pesci) takes this amiss. I was not all that interested in fountain pens at the time, but I remember thinking this had to be bad for the nib.

 

There is a very prominent shot of a gold nibbed pen in The King's Speech, when the ailing George V, just before his death, signs a document giving authority to Prince Edward, who briefly succeeded him before his own abdication. I don't know enough to identify it; perhaps someone else could.

[hendrixstrat]

I think in the opening of "THE GREY" the character uses a fountain pen to write a letter which he keeps the entire movie.

 

Yupp, Liam Neeson uses a Lamy Safari to write a letter in "The Grey"

[ravantra]

In the movie K-19 Widowmaker Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson write in their logs and journal with a black fountain pen.

 

In the TV show Parenthood, Mae Whitman works in a coffee shop and uses a yellow VP to do crossword puzzles.

[MIHCK]

In "Monty Python" animator Terry Gilliam's 1985 black comedy science fiction film Brazil (a movie people either love or hate; I'm one of the former), fountain pens appear frequently; for example, the representative of the Ministry of Information hands Mrs. Buttle a honking big vintage pen to sign a receipt (in triplicate) for the arrest of her husband. I know it's supposed to be a dystopia, but with everyone using fountain pens, really, how bad can it be?

[Shawn Ghost]

Another pen spotting on Monday in the show 'Alcatraz' the female psychiatrist was seen writing with a great-looking pen. Being new to fountain pens, I was unable to identify it, but as soon as it showed her writing with it, my wife turns her head to look at me with a goofy grin on my face.

[brim]

Another pen spotting on Monday in the show 'Alcatraz' the female psychiatrist was seen writing with a great-looking pen. Being new to fountain pens, I was unable to identify it, but as soon as it showed her writing with it, my wife turns her head to look at me with a goofy grin on my face.

 

Missed this one! I caught the "FP as a weapon" scene a couple weeks ago, but this one slipped through, nice catch!

[sheafferchief]

wonder what pen pierce used in TCA..

 

i'm sure there have been threads on this.

 

it's obviously a twist cap.

 

sucks that i don't have any of those.

 

Edited February 17, 2012 by sheafferchief

[Deb T]

Also Deniro was in Casino where someone was stabbed to death in the neck with a fountain pen (what a way to go)

 

I wonder if the nib would have been damaged?

 

 

 

[Deb T]

In that old movie Heathers, Winona Rider used some kind of Montblanc pen to write in her journal. I wasn't much into FPs then, but I knew enough to know it was an expensive pen.

[PatientType]

Donald Sutherland, who played Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton in the TV show Commander in Chief (circa 1996) is seen to be using a fountain pen that looks like a modern Parker in one of the episodes. Maybe episode 12 or 13?

 

Richard Boone, as Paladin in the late 1950's & early 1960's show Have Gun Will Travel, penned notes and letters dipped a steel-tipped, wooden handled, desk pen from the Hotel Charleton when he wrote notes & letters on screen.

[sheafferchief]

wonder what pen pierce used in TCA..

 

i'm sure there have been threads on this.

 

it's obviously a twist cap.

 

sucks that i don't have any of those.

 

 

Anyone know?

[subbucal]

Hi All,

 

Here is the link to the advt of a famous Gold Jeweller. In this advt the Character a very famous indian composer and musician signs an autograph with a fountain pen.

 

Any guesses on the pen?

 

http://www.mymalabargold.com/ta-IN/advertisement

[tonydent84]

In the beginning scene of the recent Omen remake, the priest is writing with a fountain pen. For some reason I keep thinking it's a Duofold, but the scenes go by too fast to be sure. Simply know that the nib is two-toned with silver at the point side with gold behind it toward the pen itself. The feed (from a side view of him writing) is pretty flat, like a second layer beneath the pen. The pen was black with gold trims. Looked like a real nice pen too, too bad I can't find identify it and haven't really came across anything online that fit those criteria (flat feed, two-toned nib with the silver part toward the point, black with gold trims, etc.). Not sure if it was overly large though.

 

Oh, and I think that De Niro is using a Waterman Laureat in Hide and Seek.

[lamchan]

In the 2011 movie "The Iron Lady", Meryl Streep who played the part of Margaret Thatcher wrote to the families of dead soldiers using a Montblanc 146.

[rx170]

Pual Edington as Jim Hacker in the wonderfull British sitcom Yes minister (later Yes Primeminister) writing with what seems to be Parker...