# Props from movies you instantly recognize **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410 "2011-12-16T14:27:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/81 "2011-12-16T20:29:08Z")
the crystal’s superman. not sure about the wavy blocks ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/82 "2011-12-16T20:31:54Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Wow! That is so familiar, and yet I can’t nail down the movie. Those things had to be put inside some other gizmo, right? It’s Superman’s DIY kit for the Fortress of Solitude. ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/83 "2011-12-16T20:33:46Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Here’s another: [name the movie](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JDVmK5lWrnM/Tkw_4Nh1HdI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/bQvYPyCdytU/s1600/29.png) Men in Black. You can see the kitty fur. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/84 "2011-12-16T20:34:04Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > It’s Superman’s DIY kit for the Fortress of Solitude. Ah, yes! Thanks. Now I will be able to sleep tonight. That was bugging me. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/85 "2011-12-16T20:38:41Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > [Here’s four.](http://student.cmd.hro.nl/0856000/ongesorteerd/mcguffin.jpg) I think there’s a fifth one to complete the set, but it’s [a lot more attractive](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&tbm=isch&q=leeloo+fifth+element&revid=1294955032&sa=X&ei=06vrTrDEE4WsgwejvLCICQ&ved=0CD4Q1QIoAA&biw=1440&bih=815)… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/86 "2011-12-16T20:48:21Z")
Here’s [one that’ll get lots of identification around here](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VMJpoDQrV0E/TqHwy71fkfI/AAAAAAAAGns/7G5_l6MFJVw/s1600/red-stapler.jpg). And [another that might not](http://www.tomjonestribute.com/Photo-0127.jpg), I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/87 "2011-12-16T20:48:39Z")
> [@MidnightRadio](#): > > _Gladiator_? Nope. > [@Wargamer](#): > > The Exorcist? Nope. Good guesses, though. [Here it is again](http://images4.fanpop.com/image/quiz/705000/705582_1317339378158_500_243.jpg). Hints: It’s a bracelet. Movie won best picture within the past 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/88 "2011-12-16T20:56:54Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > There isn’t a website devoted to being a central database of prop locations, is there? I’ve been wondering the same thing for some time now. About the best source I know of is the IMDb section in most movies’ details like [Plot keywords for Inglourious Basterds (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/keywords) which I picked because there’s so much going on in that movie. Surely there is such a site, but I have no clue to where it is and who controls it. **Johnny L.A.** had a link to a site that had details on all sorts of weapons and I’ll try to locate that one to post here. > **[Old West accouterments -- costuming and collecting](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=558390)** > > In the John Wayne vs. Clint Eastwood thread, Zeldar made this post regarding the Iron Mistress Bowie Knife from the 1952 film of the same name. In that thread I said that I have a bowie knife, which I made using this blade from Dixie Gun Works. ... Old West accouterments – costuming and collecting 04-03-2010, 10:14 PM Johnny L.A ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/89 "2011-12-16T20:59:27Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Here’s [one that’ll get lots of identification around here](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VMJpoDQrV0E/TqHwy71fkfI/AAAAAAAAGns/7G5_l6MFJVw/s1600/red-stapler.jpg). > > And [another that might not](http://www.tomjonestribute.com/Photo-0127.jpg), I don’t know. Isn’t that Milton’s stapler from _Office Space_? I don’t have a clue on the guitar, though. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/90 "2011-12-16T21:00:56Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > [Here it is again](http://images4.fanpop.com/image/quiz/705000/705582_1317339378158_500_243.jpg). Hints: It’s a bracelet. Movie won best picture within the past 30 years. The dirty fingernails ought to be a good clue. Indiana Jones somewhere, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/91 "2011-12-16T21:05:59Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > The dirty fingernails ought to be a good clue. Indiana Jones somewhere, maybe? No, but the dirty fingernails are a clue, as is the slip of paper. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/92 "2011-12-16T21:09:27Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Isn’t that Milton’s stapler from _Office Space_? It is. Which, for anyone who may not know, was a fictional item until Swingline started making them as a response to the requests they got from people who wanted one of their own. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/93 "2011-12-16T21:10:51Z")
[Here’s one](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/2883376983_9936ea4234.jpg) from another Best Picture winner. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/94 "2011-12-16T21:11:33Z")
Reviewing the last 30 years of Best Picture winners, my only guesses for the bracelet are _Gandhi_, _The Last Emperor_, or _The English Patient_. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/95 "2011-12-16T21:14:39Z")
And surely everyone recognizes [this one](http://cdn.pimpmyspace.org/media/pms/c/e5/5v/vc/oftheocean.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/96 "2011-12-16T21:15:44Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Reviewing the last 30 years of Best Picture winners, my only guesses for the bracelet are _Gandhi_, _The Last Emperor_, or _The English Patient_. Nope, nope, and nope. [Here it is again](http://images4.fanpop.com/image/quiz/705000/705582_1317339378158_500_243.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/97 "2011-12-16T21:16:21Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > [Here’s one](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/2883376983_9936ea4234.jpg) from another Best Picture winner. _French Connection_? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/98 "2011-12-16T21:18:21Z")
Nope ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/99 "2011-12-16T21:21:51Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > And surely everyone recognizes [this one](http://cdn.pimpmyspace.org/media/pms/c/e5/5v/vc/oftheocean.jpg). _Titanic_ > [@Spoke](#): > > No, but the dirty fingernails are a clue, as is the slip of paper. Given the difficulty everyone is having recognizing it, I wouldn’t consider it to be in the category of “props you instantly recognize.”😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/100 "2011-12-16T21:21:54Z")
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