This is unrelated to the subject, but some of my fellow subscribers would appreciate knowing that Sunday 16 June is Bloomsday - 120 years from the day Joyce's Ulysses was set. I cannot afford a trip to Dublin, but I plan to dress in some Light Academdemia, with a pen, a commonplace journal, and Garber's Edition of the book and drink Jamieson at my local Irish themed pub.

What fun! What a great video. If anyone wants to place fountain pens before me on a tabletop I'm available. That pen from "Ripley": wow!

I totally agree with "A Beautitful Mind". The first scene was a great set-up, as you point out and combining his aged appearance as symbolizing his struggles with the fountain pen ritual was enough for an Oscar.

This short film you've created needs to be included in your Dark Academia playlist! Chef's kiss.

Fun video! It’s still up! The opening scene of “Inglorious Basterds” where Col Hans Landa pulls out an ink well and fills his pen (which I assume is a Pelikan or Mont Blanc) going about his genocidal business with fashion and efficiency is just so compelling and repulsive!

In the John Nash pen presentation clip you shared, when there are four black pens on the table, I'm almost certain the three non-Montblanc pens are Cross Radiances. Radiances were only about $20 and would have been readily available on the market when A Beautiful Mind was produced. The double-banding on Radiance's cap was modeled after its big-brother Cross Townsend -- and I think we see a Lustrous Chrome Townsend appear on the table a few seconds later. I have many Cross Radiance and Solo pens in my collection and I've enjoyed writing with all of them. Despite their low cost, they were shockingly good-writers, and they apparently looked enough like expensive pens that they were slipped into that movie scene.

When I saw the montblanc on the Netflix show Ripley, I immediately wondered how many other people would know what fountain pen it is. I’m happy that it has been mentioned. Thank u Hemingway Jones

Wow these are movies/shows I've not seen ... so cool when a fountain pen appears!!! This video was pure fun and so awesome!!! ✒️📺

That was such a fun episode! Last night I was in our local watering hole with my wife, sitting at the bar and journaling with my Pilot Custom 743 SM. The bartender exclaimed, “Oh my goodness! Is that your handwriting!? It looks like something out of the movies! I wish I could write like that. Would you write a letter to my mom for me?” Now, how could I refuse?

HJ - You've got the only fountain pen related KZfaq channel that I'll watch any more. You've spoiled us!

Outstanding work, T-man. Very enjoyable and brilliantly executed marriage of fountain pens and cinematic endeavor. 10 on the "art" and information scale, my friend.

I agree, not a 149. John Nash and I had the same advisor at CMU (Nash was a graduate student at Princeton, undergraduate at CMU). Nash's advisor at CMU was later my PhD advisor.

I cannot afford a Montblanc fountain pen 149 Meisterstück - but I have rediscovered the pleasure of writing with these classic writing instruments that are: a pen (point B and BB) - A beautiful object + liquid ink + beautiful paper or good notebook in a beautiful binding - all (re)starting with a Lamy - other will say that a Bic ballpoint pen will suffice - that it is a useless luxury or that luxury is useless - a waste of time and money - useless pride - we will also say that it is an attitude, a posture, a spirit of seriousness or definitiveness that one adds to a moment in one's life or to one's entire life and to one's work or art

Montblanc pens are beautiful. Vintage all the way. Never seen a beautiful mind.

That was fun! Thanks for finding fountain pens in movies and TV.

According to the Thomas Harris books, Hannibal Lecter was a descendant of the Visconti family in Europe. It would have been something to have him write with the unrelated Visconti fountain pens. Tippi Hedren used a fountain pen in The Birds. Charlie Brown used one in The Peanuts Movie.

Wow. Great vid !! lol. After having lost my entire pen collection I could use a bunch of folks putting pens on my table ! 😂😂. What a shame it's not an actual tradition. It should be. ❤

Well, Andrew Scott and the 149 win my votes! I love them both! Seeing that Montblanc so many times over the course of the RIPLEY series convinced me someday I “need” that ginormous writing instrument! Great video, once again, with excellent editing and detail. Lovely to watch!

The iconic opening scene of Inglorious Basterds also features a fountain pen. A pen being filled even, if I’m not mistaken.

WONDERFUL! This was a great video! That pen ceremony, is just SO awesome! Even if it is not real, what a moment! Have to watch that movie, now! A funny story. . .not long after I received my Pelican M800, I was watching an episode of Murder She Wrote, and someone had stolen Jessica's favorite pen. . .It was never opened, but it was a Pelikan, either the M800 or M1000! I was stoked! Another episode, she was visiting a friend in New Mexico and lost her pen. She meets a local Native American guy (who is also the local Sheriff) out in the desert, and when he leaves, there is the Pelikan lying on the rock on which he was sitting. She picks up the pen and kisses it! I had seen those episodes before, but never noticed what the pen was until I saw the green with black stripes on the barrel!

Hi. Just wonderful Hemingway, just perfectly wonderful.🤗 Cheers from Australia.🦘

Thank you Hemingway for what is one of your best videos! I certainly find the pen ceremony to be so moving. More such please.

SPECTACULAR! right down to the music and closing credits. LOVE THIS! Such attention to detail throughout! I had forgotten about the pen ceremonies being the most touching part of "Beautiful Mind" (and how young Crowe looked back then.) 'bella penna" INDEED! Everything here is bella 💯 Thank you so much... you've earned another SUPER THANKS!

I just watched Three Thousand Years of Longing last night. Near the end, when we see Tilda Swinton's character finishing a sketch in her journal with a fountain pen, I knew the pen nerd community could tell me what it was. Sure enough, reddit concluded it was a Lamy Scala, which was one I had never heard of. It is a gorgeous film, btw.

I have watched this video a few times. It is stunning! Your descriptions really draws me into the movies!

Loved this Video. Probably your best yet. I loved how you edit the picture. I felt “there” during each of those scenes enjoying the beauty of the Pen.

So well done, Hemingway! I never watched Hannibal and now I really think I should!

Thank you for another wonderful video. I always enjoy your productions and look forward to watching them! 😊

I think it’s a MB146 in “Ripley”. Giving a fine pen/pen set for a graduation gift has been a fairly common practice, probably more so in past years than more recent times. But the tradition still lives on! I did not see the Hannibal Lecturer movie you mentioned, but I think I’ll see if I can. Thanks for another great video!

I was anxious to look at this video. I loved everything about it. I love to see how some of us are particularly careful in how we dress and choose our tools to work with each day. You did a wonderful job, and i thank you. To me, everything was thoughtfully and precisely done.

Hello HJ. Wonderful video. The series, Hannibal was definitely my favorite. I owe the DVD's and have watched it many times. The elegance and sophistication of this series is second to none. Once again, you have proven to be the most imaginative pen person on U tube. Keep them coming my friend.

Great video, one of my favorites 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great selections of various pens. I particularly enjoyed the calligraphy. I am hypnotized when I watch. Thank yoso very much. It took a lot of energy and work to put this video together and I appreciate your effort.

Good sleuthing, Sherlock! Lovely video, very much enjoyed the outro as well. Thanks.

Nice video! My favorite fountain pen in a movie is still going to be the Last Crusade's the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword scene.

always enjoy this themed vids, HJ. pls continue this... tq. greetings from Malaysia.

Thank your for your wonderful pen videos!

I've only ever seen A Beautiful Mind, but it's been years and years since I've even thought about it. it was one of my favorites when I watched it. I'm going to have to watch it again soon! The Talented Mr. Ripley was a movie I always heard was good, but I'd never seen. Going to have to check it out or the Netflix show. great video Hemingway!

For sure, Ripley had me lusting for that pen when I don't consider myself a Mont Blanc girl. I think Andrew Scott has something to do with it. Hannibal is EVERYTHING! Of course, Mads Mikkelsen played the best version of the eponymous villain. I adore him in everything he has done so far. Thank you for this video. Finally, someone on the youtube fountain pen community addressed that Ripley effect....cos it is real...

A great video! I really enjoyed the new series of Ripley. That pen was such a big part of the movie. The series on Hannibal looks interesting. Thanks for the cool video!

I haven't seen any of these movies but your video makes me want to!

Checking the Crown must be interesting

Beautiful video Hem. Just racing home from Britain I’ve been thinking about a favorite film of mine: 84 Charing cross road. More about books than fountain pens… but a vibe I believe you and Helen would both love.

How inspirational, awakens the artiste.. love attention to detail, with style and quality displayed. You have made me want to watch all these films. I have a MB 145 from what i can see, i think you are correct in your observation. Having a look at some films from the 50s and 60s with an eye for fountain pens would be fun, and perhaps Sean Connery Bonds perhaps. Evokes warm feelings of the finer things in life. All the best H.J.

Besides the Ripley productions you mentioned, in a future episode don’t forget the 1960 French film adaptation PURPLE NOON, with ALAIN DELON as Ripley. That was an excellent one directed by René Clemént. There’s at least one scene that I recall where Ripley is forging Greenleaf’s signature either on a check or hotel registry with (what’s supposed to be, and perhaps really is) a fine fountain pen. There may be other such shots. There’s a famous scene in which he’s practicing the forgery on a wall over and over, but I think that’s with a marker. Thanks Hemingway!

Many film nior movies have scenes showing a character writing a quick note with a fountain pen.

At the beginning of Three Days of the Condor, a man is checking off the names on a list of those to be killed and he uses a Mont Blanc 149. Impressive but probably impractical; although assassins can have taste, I suppose.

Thanks for this wonderful video! I'll have to try to see Hannibal, since it is a show I've not seen despite seeing Silence of the Lambs on opening night. A Beautiful Mind is the movie with the best use of fountain pens in my opinion. That touched me when I saw the film at cinema.

I’ve not watched the third mention, but the first two are great. Max Von Snowden’s character in Three Days of the Condor used a Montblanc 149. Could have been a bic though the way he used it.

Really good video! I have to go watch A Beautiful Mind now!

I agree the beautiful mind is my favorite part. One film that shows a fountain pen is The Iron Lady. The scene where Margaret Thatcher is writing the mothers of the fallen of the Falkland Islands.

What a beautiful video movie clips and fountain pens HJ you have out done yourself, love,love this!!

A lovely, well put together video!! Bravo! From this English major who started writing the diss. with two Watermans. Have you seen the film _Love in The Time of Cholera_? Writing letters is a huge part of that film; I don't recall whether fountain pens were used (or some earlier equivalent), though.

I can see why you are so proud of this video. Very professionally done! It is quite a work of art in its own right. Bravo!

Yes, great video! Fountain pens and handwriting in film are great topics. Thanks, HJ!

Thanks for the recommendations!

I’m not giving away my 149 to someone at work😂😂😂

Brilliant video !

For a MontBlanc clone, I think the Yongsheng 630 in one of the Black Piano Fence window options would be just as good if not better in the banding.

Excellent excellent video,thanks.

Great video!

Have you seen the original film adaptation of the Talented Mr. Ripley? It's from 1960, called "Plein Soleil" or "Purple Noon", and the movie also opens with a Montblanc Pen, which is interesting because I don't think that Highsmith specified "Montblanc" in the book, but it seems pretty settled in everything that followed. I think she simply referred to it as "the black fountain pen with gold initials" or something similar. Nice work on the video... I enjoyed it!

The movie that always stood out was mentioned in your video, A Beautiful Mind. I really was sad when I found out that wasn’t an active practice because I found it so charming! Great video!

First comment! Awesome video! I'll have to watch Hannibal now.

Nice video, HJ!

Glad that Princeton had the respect to give John quality fountain pens. If it was up to the fountain pen community, you would see a lot of ballpoints given out to co-workers, smh. I would give away a Jotter.

Great video,montblanca,frank in Oswego ,ill.

I have a MB 144/Classique, which is quite slender in my hand. Based solely on what is shown on screen, I would have to say that he’s probably using a 146. I’m no expert, of course, and my pen is second hand, so I can’t be certain.

Really enjoyed this video! Fountain pens always look so elegant on film. I must watch A Beautiful Mind, it's the only one I haven't seen. I would certainly love to be bestowed with all those pens, but I also can't help but wonder if they've got backups. I'd hate to give away my Montblanc! I keep thinking of getting a 149, but I think I might try out the Jinhao first to see if I like such a large pen.

Great job HJ👍

A more mundane use of a fountain pen in television (after they'd went out of fashion, mainstream) would be by Peter Falk as Columbo. Not to mention all of the vintage movies in the 1920s through the 1950s. 😉

_ Love your work!

Although FPs are central neither to the plot nor to character development, they turn up regularly in the Netflix series "The Crown". It is just that each and every scene in which a FP appears would have looked ridiculous featuring anything other than a FP..

My fav is A Beautiful Mind. It and Proof take me back to uni where I endeavored to achieve an understanding if 'dif e.q.' And a couple of friends who were diagnosed with bipolar or schizophrenia at that time. The stress of academics was a huge challenge for some of us. Would Nash give up his accomplishments for a 'healthy' mind? I don't know. Like the movie Proof, Nash showed that brilliance can toe the line with mental instability. The scene with the pens is epic. I wish it actually happened. Each pen scribed brilliance and all that was touched by the character Nash. Such a touching scene. But Ripley I have to disagree. Jude Law is easier on the eyes. I never noticed the acting... ever. I feel better about my 146 now. We might have something in common, me n Jude. 😂

Pianists always try to guess what piano is being used, same for guitarists. Serious clothing people are trying to guess designers. I’m always trying to read the title of any book in view. And so it goes.Good set designers know that some people care about the details.

HJ : I understand that the man sitting with Russel Crowe ( playing the part of John Nash) was, in fact, the real John Nash!

may not be a fountain pen but the pen in "sell me this pen" in the wolf of wall street is striking for me. It is gorgeous.

I need to watch A Beautiful Mind. It's the only book in my entire life that I have dnf'd and I have tried to read it 3 times.

I've watched your beautiful, meaningful video, so if you get booted off KZfaq, at least we'll have this last memory. 😅

Sir which pen should I buy for better writing experience lamy safari medium or pilot metropolitan medium

Can you do a comparison video of a vintage Conklin Crescent Filler and the modern Mark Twain series Crescent Filler. It would be great for if you do another famous author’s pens video.

Product placement, paid for by the featured company. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Levis, they all did it in the past, and perhaps many still do. One wonders how much Montblanc paid for their brief appearances.

‘White Tiger’ Russian 2016? Sort of Moby Dick on the Eastern Front - Field Marshalll Keitel signing the surrender. ‘Battle for Sevastopol’ Russian 2016? Biographical drama of the Soviet woman sniper with 309 kills and penpal with Eleanor Roosevelt- the army doctor slapping the medical statement on the hood of truck and signing the medical release.

Dear Hemingway Jones, here in Brazil the doctors and lawyers are the people that uses fountain pens. Is this the same in United States and other parts of the world?

I have a question, has anyone seen a Parker Sonnet fountain pen in any movies?

In Octopussy Q modifies a Mont Blanc fountain pen as a gadget for Bond, the movie combines my love for fountain pens with my love for Backgammon.

These are the videos I love! My vote is going to have to be for a Beautiful Mind! All of those pens❤ The Talented Mr. Ripley brings back a very specific memory. I saw the film with my mother-in-law and husband’s aunt in the theatre. I recall my husband, father-in-law, and husband’s grandfather saw a different film. We rarely go to the cinema, and his aunt would have been visiting from out-of-state. 1999 was the year we were married (25 years very soon)!

Montblanc pens are WAAAAY overrated! Too many pen reviewers know only one luxury brand it seams, and that is always Montblanc. But sorry, you should take the challenge and compare these objects of pen worshipers with REAL luxury pens: the ST Duponts are far more beautiful and sophisticated, and there's simply no comparison in the smoothness and reliability they embody compared to everyone's favorite brand. It also would seem that Montblanc paid quite a bit to have its pens featured in these cameo clips from renowned films. If you want style, beauty, sophistication, reliability, and an incomparable writing experience, get yourself a high-end ST Dupont and never look back. "Defi" is NOT high-end; Line D Eternity is. And NO, I do not work for Dupont.