Book Safe: Difference between revisions

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]'' features the classic gun in a Bible.

** ''[[Thunderball]]'' features a sound-activated listening device in a book, which Bond uses to determine if someone has sneaked into his room while he's been out.

* Used in ''[[Johnny Dangerously]]'': as Michael Keaton is being walked to the Chair, in passing each cell along the way each prisoner hands him one component of [[IKEA Weaponry|a Tommy gun which he assembles]] whilst walking. The last piece is in the Bible the priest is "reading" from. However, it's a fake gun, that falls apart mere moments after Johnny makes his escape.

* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', Neo keeps his illegal software inside a hollow copy of the real-world philosophy text "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard. A real copy of ''Simulacra'' wouldn't be thick enough to hide that much stuff (it's not a very long book), so one can conclude that the filmmakers specifically worked this reference in as a hint to the nature of Neo's reality.

* In ''[[The Addams Family]]'' movie, the first stage of the secret entrance to the family vault is accessed by pulling a book out from a bookcase. The book's title? ''Greed.'' It's worth noting that ALL of the Addamses' books were like this, and that ''Greed'' was the most 'normal' book. ''Gone with the Wind'' causes a tornado when opened, and ''The Sun Also Rises'' emits daylight and the sound of birds.

* ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'': The warden of Shawshank prison opens up the Bible to discover that this is where Andy has been hiding the rock hammer he used to tunnel out of his cell. Salvation, indeed. For that extra touch of irony, the hollow section begins halfway through ''Exodus''.

** When the warden hears the police coming to arrest him, he looks at the picture on his wall that conceals his wall safe. The picture says, "His judgment cometh, and that right soon." Andy had stolen the incriminating documents out of the safe.

* In ''[[The Game (film)|The Game]]'', Michael Douglas's character keeps a revolver hidden in a copy of ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]''.

* One can also conceal documents between the inside of a book cover and its lining without removing any pages at all, as in ''The Good Shepherd.''

* In ''[[Cat Ballou]]'', Uncle Jed, disguised as a preacher, produces a knife from his Bible and uses it to cut the rope on the gallows as it is placed around Cat's neck.

* ''[[Aliens|Alien: Resurrection]]''. A Bible contains the modem Call uses to link to the ship's computer, presumably an [[No-Paper Future|electronic book]] with a 'traditional' cover.

* In ''[[The Three Musketeers (1993 film)|The Three Musketeers 1993]]'', Aramis (who trained to be a priest) at one point pulls a pistol out of a hollowed-out Bible and shoots one of the Cardinal's guards with it.

* In ''[[National Treasure]]'', Ben's dad keeps money between the pages of Thomas Paine's ''Common Sense.''

* The lead character in ''[[Frankenhooker]]'' keeps a video tape stashed away in a copy of ''[[Gray's Anatomy]].''

 

== Games ==