Big Trouble In Little China

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Can anyone tell me what the knife is that Kurt Russel uses in Big Trouble in Little China ? :)

(The Boot Knife) I thought it looked a bit like a Sog desert dagger but dont think it actually is ( having one of those drunk discussions / bets with a friend. you know the story!)
 
Wow. This requires use of my way-back machine, and I loaned it out to a friend. So going off memory of a movie I haven't seen in years, I seem to think that was a Gerber, wasn't it? Like a Guardian II? Or am I confusing different films?

The movie was 1987, if that helps anyone suddenly recall product lines from then.
 
I like that movie, found some trivia on imdb.com, but nothing about the knife:

* Some of the lightning forms a Chinese symbol as it disappears. The symbol translates as "carpenter". This film was directed by John Carpenter.

* The ending song is written and sung by The Coupe De Ville. A band formed with: John Carpenter, Nick Castle and Tommy Lee Wallace (second unit director on this picture)

* According to director John Carpenter, the postproduction process on this movie was merely four months.

* The first few drafts of the movie's script were known as "Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League," the proposed sequel to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984). For whatever reason, it was later decided to scrap the proposed sequel. The screenplay was heavily rewritten to become Big Trouble in Little China.

* The Chinese characters in the main title translate to "Evil Spirits Make a Big Scene in Little Spiritual State".

* The characters on the front of "Egg" Shen's bus say, "Uncle Egg's Tours Guarantee a Good Time".
 
I found this forum where it says:

"In the movie "Big Trouble In Little China", Kurt Russel carries/uses a long-ago discontinued Gerber Tac II.
 
"It's all in the reflexes."

So many great lines in that movie. Thanks for bringing up the question. Think I'll have to rent it over the weekend. Cool to now know which knives he uses, too.
 
Minor correction: The Gerber Mark 1 and 2 with the short top serated edge were the Command series.
 
I thought that other knife was a Gerber Mark I. Thanks for reassuring me that I have not quite lost my mind yet. :)

I've also heard that rumor about it starting out as a Buckaroo Banzai sequel, but I read an interview with John Carpenter where he said it is totally untrue. Jack Burton, who is kind of the antithesis of Buckaroo Banzai, was the main character from the first draft of the script.

--Bob Q

"You were not put upon this earth to get it, Mr. Burton!" --Lo Pan

"Are you crazy? Is that your problem?" --Jack Burton to Lo Pan
 
I really like this movie too! I have it on DVD so I can watch it and laugh whenever I want. Life is good.

"This just pisses me off to no end!" - Lo Pan

Something like "...2000 years and you haven't found a girl that fits the bill, come on you're doing something wrong!" - Jack Burton to Lo Pan
 
It's a little out there to say that he "Used" the knife. All he ever did was pull it out and hang on to it for a while. That was actually the funniest part of the movie. Chinese gangs are fighting outside, and he is just sitting in the cab of his truck whith his knife out. Try counting how many times he pulls it out and nothing happens. I think it's, like, 38.
-KC
 
You're right, of course. Of all the times he dramatically whips out that knife there were only two when he actually used it to hurt someone. Although he did use it for quite a few non-combat tasks.

--Bob Q
 
I love that movie!

IN HONOR OF THE FORUM :p :

Girl: "You have a gun, I hope?"
Jack: "I have a knife"
Girl: "A knife, that guy's 12 feet tall."
Jack: "7. Hey, don't worry about it. I can handle it. I took something."
 
"You know what Jack Burton always says at a time like this?"

"Who?"

"Jack Burton, ME. Ole Jack always says, 'What the Hell."
 
"What does that mean? Huh? "China is here." I don't even know what the hell that means." - Jack Burton.

So many great quotes from that movie. I always wondered what knife he used. Thank's for the info.

Jack Burton: "What's in the flask, Egg? Magic potion?"
Egg Shen: "Yeah."
Jack Burton: "Thought so, good. What do we do, drink it?"
Egg Shen: "Yeah!"
Jack Burton: "Good, thought so."
 
Ah yes, the movie that got me searching for balisongs and most thing martial. Great movie! Also the reason I was on the look out for anything Jeff Imada.
 
"what's that?"
"black blood of the earth"
"u mean like oil?"
"no,like black blood of the earth"....
or something similar
 
bquinlan said:
I thought that other knife was a Gerber Mark I. Thanks for reassuring me that I have not quite lost my mind yet. :)

I've also heard that rumor about it starting out as a Buckaroo Banzai sequel, but I read an interview with John Carpenter where he said it is totally untrue. Jack Burton, who is kind of the antithesis of Buckaroo Banzai, was the main character from the first draft of the script.

--Bob Q

"You were not put upon this earth to get it, Mr. Burton!" --Lo Pan

"Are you crazy? Is that your problem?" --Jack Burton to Lo Pan
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If you have the DVD listen to the directors commentary. Its john carpenter and kurt russell. Theyre just two old friends who talk shit about each other and talk about the movie and how it was produced. Its actually quite funny and worth at least one viewing. He talks about the bukaroo bonzai rewrite and how the studio only put 3 million into advertising unless it was supposed to be a major blockbuster, so no one knew about the movie.
 
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