Movies about Straight razor
I thought it would be interesting starting a post listing all «great» movies with straight razor shaving scenes, my contribution, right on top of my head:
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Leopard
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The Bitter Moon shave is obviously fake (Peter Coyote is using a completely wrong shaving hangle), even though I am sure none of them was shaving with a real straight, but were already clean shaven and were «merely» pretending to be shaving.
For DE shaves, I would use a separate post in case.
BOGARTUS
Most realistic shave I have ever seen. Obviously done by a real barber.
Edward G. Robinsons shave in, Key Largo
Steerpike
The guy in GATACA shaves with a straight, but he’s holding it at 90 degrees to the skin
I like the scene in Dracula when he shaves, it’s a little different to the book but cool all the same.
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That’s right! I had forgotten about Dracula!
There is a movie where Clint Eastwood is shaving with a Straight, which one is it? I cannot remember. maybe High Plains Drifter, or Unforgiven.
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Nikdy jsem neviděl The Leopard, although I’ve read the book (I’m assuming this is the same story).
I read yesterday that Tim Burton is currently filming Sweeney Todd starring Johnny Depp. I would imagine that straight razors might make an appearance in that film.
Tinzien
Not a movie, but there was the brief use of a straight razor as a weapon in last week’s episode of «The Unit».
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William Holden gives himself a real shave in «The Bridge on the River Kwai» (1957)
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El Topo (perhaps the sickest movie ever made).
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Lawrence of Arabia. Untouchables.
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El Topo (perhaps the sickest movie ever made).
Una pelicula clásica
SilverKarn
Casualties of War also has a short shaving scene in it
farace
Almost forgot the slicing eyeball scene in Dali/Bunuel’s Un chien andalou.
Hawkeye5
Bogart shaves with a straight in «The African Queen».
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El Topo (perhaps the sickest movie ever made).
The priest ride into the sunset with a midget and her newborn baby?
Thats nothing, You have not seen Combat Shock or Freaks or, or.
The Role Of The Straight Razor In Movies
The straight razor has played an important supporting role in some movies. Here are three examples with commentary on their usage.
The Straight Razor In Barbershop (2002)
This movie revolves around the social life in a barbershop on Chicago’s South Side. It’s filled with characters including Eddie, an old barber with strong opinions and no customers; Jimmy, an educated barber with a superiority complex who can’t stand Isaac, the new, white barber who just wants to cut hair; Ricky, an ex-con who is trying to stay straight; Terri, a hard-edged woman who can’t seem to leave her two-timing boyfriend; and Dinka, a fellow barber who is madly in love with Terri but doesn’t get the time of day.
In this scene, Eddie shows the others how to shave properly while talking about what barbering used to be:
While there isn’t a whole lot of “screen time” with Eddie actually wielding the straight razor, it does look like he’s using it properly (along with making a decent lather), though his stropping looks a bit sloppy. According to Cinema Review:
Cedric the Entertainer doesn’t cut hair in the film, but he does perform a different trick of the barber trade: the straight-razor shave. “The barber consultant on the movie worked with me about the technique and what I should do with the straight razor,” he says. “Once I had the strokes down, it was cool. I actually enjoyed it. I don’t know if the actor getting shaved enjoyed it as much, though. Only a few band-aids and some anesthetic involved.”
The Straight Razor In Sweeney Todd (2007)
An adaptation of the Victorian “penny dreadful” tale of 18th century “demon barber” Sweeney Todd of Fleet Street cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
In one part of the movie, Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) and Signor Adolfo Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen) have a shaving contest:
Again, though we don’t see Sweeney Todd actually shaving in this clip there are some interesting bits. Pirelli strops sloppily while Todd’s stropping is careful. Pirelli uses a far-too-steep angle on his razor. Todd carefully makes his lather and examines the client’s beard.
Johnny Depp was not as concerned with shaving as he was with lathering. From Contract Music: “Having worked with sharp objects before, everything was fine until I had to shave someone. The shaving cream made me really nervous. It was the most uncomfortable moments of my life. “I had to shave poor Alan. He really didn’t enjoy it, so I’m sure, in that sense, he probably hated working with me. “I didn’t go to a barber shop to learn but, at the same time, I didn’t really slash anyone’s throat, like my character does. I’ve never really experienced that full on thing.”
The Straight Razor In Skyfall (2012)
One episode of the famous James Bond movie series, MI6 comes under attack and 007 must track down and destroy the threat. This famous scene accounted for a dramatic (though temporary) spike in internet search engine queries about straight razors:
Some observations: Bond lathers with a brush (kind of poorly but it’s difficult to tell from the camera angle) but when he raises the straight razor to his face it’s obvious Daniel Craig doesn’t know how to use it.
Actress Neomie Harris really did learn to use a straight razor for the movie, though. Here she reminisces about shaving Daniel Craig for the movie:
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There have been some famous shaving scenes in movies but few of them “get it right.”
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In Mississippi Burning, there is a scene where R.Lee Ermey is getting a traditional straight razor shave in a barbershop. In a later scene, Brad Dourif begins to get straight razor shave but instead gets cut and beat up by Gene Hackman.
In the Series 3 premiere of Sherlock, Sherlock is getting a straight razor shave from a barber after having grown a full beard.
The first episode in Season 5 Outlander has Roger trying to shave for his wedding and can’t use a straight. Jamie takes over and is flicking the razor on his face in quite an alarming way!
Miss Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) in “The Color Purple” used a cut throat to shave Mister (Danny Glover). There’s a pivotal scene where he demands a shave from her, not knowing that she found the letters from her sister that he hid from her for years. As she strops and lathers him up, he berates her mercilessly. Her friend, Shug Avery (Margaret Avery), gets word and races back to the house just in time to stop Celie from possibly slitting his throat. Great scene.
Also, there’s a movie from the mid 70s called “JD’s Revenge”, starring Glyn Turman as a law student who gets possessed by the spirit of a 1940s gangster named JD Walker. JD’s specialty is slicing up his enemies with a straight razor. There’s a scene where Turman (under JD’s influence) razor slashes a dude who came home and caught him sleeping with his lady.
Check out Woody Harrelson in “War for The Planet Of the Apes, shaving his head while addressing his troops.
Check out the movie “Wrestling Ernest Hemingway”. First, a very good movie. But second, great, touching shave scene by Robert Duval near end.
From the excellent series Westworld, Season 3, where Emma Thompson shaves Ed Harris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-WbmUyLFwc
There’s also a shaving scene in Season 1 with Ed Haris and Evan Rachel Wood, but I couldn’t find Youtube footage of it.
A lot of people-shaving-someone-else scenes appear to be about exercising control over people.
Steve Carlson says
The scenes in High Plains Drifter, where the barber’s hand is shaking so badly from fear that he can barely even hold the razor. Hilarious and terrifying at the same time.
Maury Marcus says
An oldie but goodie: In “Gunfight At The O.K. Corral”, the barber runs out, and Kirk Douglas, as Doc Haliday, finishes the shave himself.
Also: In “The Untouchables”, a barber shaves Al Capone (Robert De Niro), starts a brief weeper, freezes as Capone’s men pull their weapons, and then calms a little as Capone says it is OK.
Thread: Straight Razors in Movies
Not a movie, but a cartoon. Crazy Mixed Up Pup, 1954, Walter lance productions.
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03. 08. 2013, 07:07 # 122
Ah, Walter Lantz, the «Woody the Woodpecker» guy!
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03. 08. 2013, 09:51 # 123
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I didn’t read through the entire thread, but one of the worst straight razor shaves in film has to beat the end of the movie The Avengers. After the heroes save the day and they are showing news broadcasts, there is one man in a barbers chair getting his beard shaved like Iron Mans. The barber is holding the razor at 90degree angle to his cheek.- FACEBOOK
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03. 19. 2013, 02:31 #124
Just got done watching Maximum Overdrive and I have seen this movie a hundred times and never noticed the girl traveling with the bible salesman carried a straight razor in her boot.
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03. 19. 2013, 04:21 #125
I am always on the lookout for straight razors in the movies, even before I thought about using one myself, but do you know what surprises me any more? It’s watching an old movie from the 40s or early 50s and seeing the lead character using an electric razor. Křížová palba (Robert Young, 1947), Road House (Cornell Wilde, 1948), Prowler (Van Heflin, 1951).
To keep my post on topic, in Křížová palba, Robert Ryan uses a straight, and the guy Robert Young uses to get evidence to convict the Ryan character for murder uses a DE razor.
It might be worth noting that Robert Young (electric razor) is the police officer working the case; the DE user was targeted by the Ryan character as being a stupid Southern boy; and Ryan was blinded by his anti-Semitism when he killed a Jewish man.
The cop used the newest razor (electric); the guy who helped convict the murderer used the next newest razor (DE); and the bigot used the oldest style razor (straight). I wonder if that’s intentional. It’s really unusual to show three men shaving in a movie.
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