Thread: Name a movie where someone shaves with a straight razor

Originally Posted by Tonsor

If I remember correctly, they called str8s "britvas" in the book. I don't remember the movie much.
Dave

interestingly enough, that is the russian word for razor. wonder why burgess picked that.

Roman Polansky's Bitter Moon - Peter Coyote uses a str8, there is a scene, where Emmanuelle Seigner tries to shave Peter Coyote, and nicks him.

Good movie, good scenes

Originally Posted by jockeys

interestingly enough, that is the russian word for razor. wonder why burgess picked that.

I read the book "Clockwork Orange" around 1970, so it's a little hazy now. The book was written in the gang's lingo, a quasi-English/Russian dialect. There was a glossary at the back of the book that was well used. It was about 100 pages before I was used to the lingo and my friends said about the same. It was a "horrorshow" (good) read.

Dave

The Color Purple

Woopie Goldberg shaves Danny Glover with a straight. When you first see it, you just know she is going to lop his head off!

Chuck

U-571 - in one of the scenes a crew member can be seen lathering up, I guess that could be implied shaving.

Rounders - Matt Damon and Edward Norton get shaved at a barber shop.

Un Chien Andalou - Luis Buñuel and Salvador DalÃ. An utterly mad surrealist short film including an infamous straight razor moment. If I'm not mistaken someone here uses a still of the film's stropping scene as their avatar.

Jean-Claude Van Damme shaves Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's head in the movie Legionnaire when they both get to Africa.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Dances with Wolves
The scene just before his horse was stolen.

Str8's are also fairly common in Anime, usually as weapons

Its been a while since Ive seen it but the cops in First Blood shave John Rambo (Sly Stalone) with a straight, which sends him into flashbacks.