What Is That Pen?

[Cryptos]

Okay, in the film "2046", the central character - played by Tony Leung - is a journalist/novelist. In many scenes he is shown using a fountain pen. The following picture is ( a poor one) from one such scene. Can anyone identify this pen?

 

At first I thought it was a Sheaffer Taranis, but later in this scene - which I have been unable to find a still shot for - the rest of the pen appears to be mostly gold coloured and with a Parker-style arrow clip.

 

Let the guessing begin.

 

ps. If anyone can positively identify this pen it will save me having to write to Wong Kar-wai to ask (yes, I have his contact address).

[Kenlowe]

I think that this was covered in a previous topic

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/225159-fountain-pen-in-movie-2046-by-wong-kar-wai/

 

And also in 2015 when you said that you had written to the actor asking about his pen

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/294836-famous-movie-pen-identity/

 

Did you have a response?

Edited March 6, 2017 by Bagdatapolous

[ink-syringe]

Boy that does look exactly like a Sheaffer Taranis. Is there anyway that the later scene is a different pen. The only other pen that I know looks like that is the new Visconti thing, which is obviously too new for that.

 

It looks just like the Sheaffer Taranis in profile (which is how it looks best imo). It looks like a phonograph arm/cartridge/needle.

[chromantic]

Looks like a snake in the picture. If it's a Taranis, did they bend the nib downwards a bit or is that just the angle of the shot? The pictures on ebay show the upper side to be straight.

[NinthSphere]

I'm inclined to believe it's a modified Taranis if the later pen is the same as this one. The Visconti was a thought, but the nib is different on that one. I'll have to watch the movie later, maybe grab a few screeshots.

[Cryptos]

I think that this was covered in a previous topic

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/225159-fountain-pen-in-movie-2046-by-wong-kar-wai/

 

And also in 2015 when you said that you had written to the actor asking about his pen

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/294836-famous-movie-pen-identity/

 

Did you have a response?

 

It was covered but not answered.

 

Never received any reply from the actor. The director may be a better shot.

[NinthSphere]

Having watched some of the movie, there are still two problems with the Taranis.

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ymCBl3eat2s/VE-FIeRUHoI/AAAAAAAAAF0/hJiZDlpwt-c/s1600/Sheaffer-Taranis-Fountain-Pen.jpg

 

1) In the early shot coming from behind, the pen is definitly shiny rather than matte & I'm having trouble remembering the scene lighting, but it did look to be gold.

 

2) The hood. Those two bumps in the op shot are not reflections as I thought they might be. The bottom lip of the metalic bit doesn't come all the way down to the edge of the hood like the Taranis either.

[inkstainedruth]

 

It was covered but not answered.

 

Never received any reply from the actor. The director may be a better shot.

 

I'm thinking that instead of the director, you might have better luck with the props person and/or the art director/set decorator. I suspect you can find the names of those people on the IMDB page for the film. I was thinking in those terms, because a friend of mine has worked as a set decorator for a number of films and TV shows filmed here in Pittsburgh (she worked on a TV mini-series called The Kill Point, about a Downtown Pittsburgh bank heist which turned into a hostage situation, starring Jon Leguizamo and Donnie Wahlburg, and she gave my husband and me a tour of the set before it wrapped; didn't see any of the major stars, but we did see a bunch of extras dressed as SWAT team cops).

Whether or not you can actually get hold of them is of course another matter entirely....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[SpecTP]

I leave it to you to decide..

 

 

[Bat Masterson]

(Just got the Criterion blu-ray, so I'm scanning for details.)

The film came out in 2004 and the fountain pen scenes are set in the late 1960s. The Taranis, so far as I can tell, debuted in 2013.

Given the setting. I'd say it was some type of Parker 45. Maybe a Hero version? The pen Faye Wong uses is definitely golden in that light, and could have an arrow clip. The semi-hooded nib one sees in the iconic "needle drop" scene is just an odd beast, though. I, too, thought the "eye bumps" were just reflections, but they have uncanny depth and steadiness. Still hunting!