In EASTERN PROMISES they use lineoleum knives to fight in the sauna
I have never seen lineoleum knives used in other movies or tv shows. Always box cutters. What was the deal with the choice here?
Are lineoleum knives more dangerous? Easier to conceal? I don’t set it
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they look cooler
Here’s a pic of one of the lineoleum knives shown.
The story takes place in the UK, where knives are strictly regulated. Maybe it's the best available option for a gangster's "everyday" sort of weapon in that environment.
Jesus Christ. Stop listening to Cinemaphile. The UK isn’t the place you’ve built up in your mind where you need a knife license, how on earth would lineoleum knives be easier to get even if that’s true lol
Oy mate, you got your sass loicinse?
Just tired of people genuinely being moronic enough to believe Cinemaphile shit. The problem is when people joke about it enough that it somehow becomes accepted as fact. I’ve have people tell me you cannot own a tv without the tv license people kicking down your door in full seriousness because they read it online lmao.
I don’t know if this is just ignorance, a general hatred of the UK or people being dumb.
It's not about it being seen as a fact, but of it becoming true in the real world due to sum' of th' good ol 'meme magick'. Cinemaphile literally just meme'd the UK into becoming an authoritarian dystopia run by Pajeets and you're just salty about it.
Oi!, 'ughie, mah wife's son's askin' 'f you got a loicense fo' postin' at 'ose Mongolian basket weavin' forums of yeh?
>samegayging
>how on earth would lineoleum knives be easier to get even if that’s true
For the ordinary reasons. The law wouldn't be expected to treat all knives the same; it would define categories of knives, and some types could be easier to obtain than others. And it's not just about obtaining the knife, but about the consequences of being caught with one and plausible deniability, which vary depending on the type of knife.
Even butter knives are banned in the UK, m8. They catch you with one and they'll stick you a life sentence, execute the males from three generations, and toss the females to the pakis for them to sex-traffic them. This is the future dems want for the US.
*three generations of your family
books like 1984, Children of Men, A Clockwork Orange, and We were just instruction manuals for those UK frickers.
Yeah, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
What is false? Are you claiming that UK law does not define categories of knives, but instead treats them all the same? Are you claiming that plausible deniability (or "reasonable excuse" in UK law) does not vary depending on the type of knife – a utility knife as opposed to a bayonet?
a few months ago someone literally got arrested for wearing a shirt that said 97 was not enough. You live in oceania
>you live in Oceania
I live in Spain. I just happen to know more about the UK than you.
hostia!, Manolo, ¿no tendriáis que estar jugando al Final Fantasy VII con el hijo marroquí de tu esposa, tío?
I had to show fricking ID to buy a fricking steak knife when I was over there, they are absolutely oppressive when it comes to knives lmao
Sorry you look 12, maybe have a testosterone test if you’re being mistaken for a child.
because they sold knives fine without asking for a license when I was there last year.
>moving the goal posts
Why the frick are they asking in the first place you stupid c**t
>moving the goal posts
I like how you’ve changed the goal post from “knife license” to literally any license at all.
As if any ID is equal to needing separate
Incenses for everything. The UK is one of the few european countries where they’ve actively refused to force citizens to have a universal ID card in order to do the basics of life (which is not good, because it makes it a lot easier to get work as an illegal immigrant or get paid outside of the tax system etc). So the whole license meme is especially moronic
oi!, you got a loicense for seethin'?
>this made the brit-bong larping as a spaniard seethe
it really is that easy, uh?
that was before the pandemic, libtard. we're in the new normality now. i bet you're even vaxxed
>libtard
American, you have never been to the UK lol. Why do you feel so invested in your imaginary version of it?
I'm literally in the UK right now and I've been asked for three different linceses already. This place is literally 1984.
You can just buy knives without ID at all in the US and it's simply not a problem.
Yeah, and that's exactly why your shithole of a country has third-world levels of violent crimes, but at least you've your dear """freedom""".
>your shithole of a country has third-world levels of violent crimes
Not in my neck of the woods, so I don't care.
>but at least you've your dear """freedom"""
Yes, unironically, freedom is more important than anything else.
>Yes, unironically, freedo-ACK! *proceeds to get stabbed by a 12-year-old nigglet with an unregistered butcher knife*
**This post needs a Cinemaphile loicense to be unlocked**
Yeah, I agree with you. I bet that bong will seethe so hard when he reads your argument.
it's the same reason hells angels carry ball peen hammers
I thought that was because they’re actually useful to fixing parts of bikes and it gives you an excuse to have them on your bike as a weapon if the cops stop you.
Not really much excuse for having a linoleum knife on you in a bath house
Consistent with the trademark violence in much of Cronenberg's work, Eastern Promises features a graphically violent fight scene in a steam bath where the combatants wield linoleum knives. When asked in an interview about the difference between "gun violence" and "knife violence," Cronenberg replied, "We have no guns in this movie. There were no guns in the script. The choice of those curved knives we use in the steam bath was mine. They're not some kind of exotic Turkish knives, they're linoleum knives. I felt that these guys could walk around in the streets with these knives, and if they were ever caught, they could say 'we're linoleum cutters'."[13]
Would that really work? It’s not like carpenters only carry a knife on them. And lineoleum cutting isn’t some specific job separate from general construction and renovation
Cronen~~*berg*~~ was lying. He just thought the knives looked cool.
Correct, installers generally wear a pouch for the knife, along with other tools.
The closest I’ve come to being shot (so far/that I know of) involved a linoleum knife.
This fight is terrifying because it clearly expresses the fear of a man being castrated.
the linoleum knives were used because they were easy to explain away... we're floorers, coppers. frick off, lads.
>believimg floorers and coppers use linoleum knives
lmao. go outside your mom's basement for once, virgin.
well I read that on the imdb trivia page so frick off
Did they also carry around a tape measure, nailset, pencils, sidecuts, etc? Installers carry around more than knives.
yes they did. maybe watch the movie instead of making moronic questions.
>I DO Not want to discuss the film with someone who has real life experience with a plot device used in a film I like!
OK moron
>i'll just smugginly point out a flaw in this movie i haven't watch based solely on what some morons from Cinemaphile posted and expect to not get called out on my bullshit
oi! you got a loicense for bein' moronic?
That doesn’t work IRL
Source: sat in court cases for Uni degree and a lot of defendants claimed they just happened to have their weapon on them because they were on their way to do something normal with them when they bumped into the dude they beat the shit out of
Unless you’re legit somebody who work with tools daily, and are carrying the, somewhere you’d be expected to have them, no court is gonna buy that you had a knife on you for work when you use it to slide some person open
lmao. what kind of libshit Dem troony-loving court did the woke college you attended to made you go?
Can you try speaking English? The brain rot seems to have diluted your language abilities.
apologizes, sir. i was redeeming too hard and, like Icarus, got too close to the sun and burned, like Icarus, sir. apologizes, sir.
Bloody bastard Britishers
Indian is superpower we run Britishers now
Didn’t a bunch of Americans get arrested recently for making some comments about a sheriff on Cinemaphile? American “freedom” lmao
that was in CRAPifornia. here in the mountains were I live I can threaten whoever the frick I want.
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A History of Violence and Eastern Promises are Cronenberg's best movies