The Straight Razor in Film

**DerekC** · 05-16-2009, 05:42 AM

Ouch! Man, that's hurts!

I enjoyed the Tim Burton version of Sweeney Todd. Having said that, I also enjoy Theatre and Musicals, in general. I appreciated the artistic license that Depp/Burton brought to the tale. Even if it was different that other versions of the original story...I like to think of it like the story Beowulf...

The original story of Beowulf cannot be found...or at least, can't be decided. It's one of those stories that has been told and retold and retold by many generations and slightly skewed/altered each time. I, personally, enjoy that aspect of it. When I watched to recent installment of the Beowulf story, I was immediately upset that they changed the story. Then I watched to behind-the-scenes making-of stuff and really came to appreciate that the screenwriters knew the original story, but wanted to tell Beowulf as they saw it, or wanted to see it. It's like when I tell my children stories of my father...the fish was 3 feet long and weighed in at over a thousand pounds!

I do rather enjoy musicals, too. Singing Theatre was one of the earliest forms of the Performing Arts, and I'm glad it's still being honored today, even if the audience is on a much grandier scale.

Just my opinion

-Derek

**DerekC** · 05-23-2009, 03:27 AM

So I come home from work and my wife shows me this picture. "Does shaving with a straight razor make you look like this?"

If only, if only.

**drmoss_ca** · 05-24-2009, 10:48 AM

Another obscure find - Roman Polanski's 1965 black & white movie "Repulsion" starring a very young Catherine Deneuve. We have a glimpse of a straight shave, a shaving brush (I have one just like it on the Wall of Shame) but then the razor gets abused - to chop off a rabbit's head (don't worry, it was dead) and to solve a problem with the landlord (he wasn't dead, at least, not at the start of the scene....).

Chris

**bulldog** · 05-24-2009, 11:57 AM

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet but in "Child's Play", Chucky cut's the barbers throat with a straight.
Also, I think it's "Babe" where the farmer uses a straight to shave with.

**kenneyty** · 05-26-2009, 04:45 AM

Didn't look to see if it's already in here, but there's a shave at the beginning of Our Man Flint

**jockeys** · 05-26-2009, 01:59 PM

Cain shaves with a straight razor (not correctly) in Tin Man (the wizard of oz remake)

**Pyment** · 05-26-2009, 04:31 PM

Memorial Weekend is always pretty good for SR shaving. A lot of WWI and WWII films get shown with the occasional SR shave. I watched a fair number this weekend, noticed a few, but didn't keep track.

**Seraphim** · 05-26-2009, 04:50 PM

In "Gran Torino" Clint asks his barber pal for a striaght shave, but it never is actually shown.

**bpave777** · 05-31-2009, 11:30 PM

The movie Casper has Eric Idle about to be shaved by two straight razors.

**kevor** · 07-12-2009, 08:06 PM

The Postman

The Postman (1997)

One of the badguys has a razor, some girl nearly cuts Kevins head off with it! :O

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