{"id":464,"date":"2011-08-01T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=464"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:50:30","slug":"art-and-disability-becker-lock-grip-hand-as-movie-prop-in-the-men-who-stare-at-goats-prop-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Art and disability &#8211; BECKER Lock Grip hand as movie prop in The Men Who Stare At Goats [prop identification]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The portrayal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?cat=120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(possibly faked or real) arm amputees<\/a> in movies matters. So I went through my DVD copy of this movie slowly to check this one out. And lo and behold we see a BECKER hand.<\/p>\n<p>Nicely immersed in the prologue of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009) movie<\/a>, there is the appearance of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?page_id=255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BECKER Lock Grip hand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be mounted on a pin lock \/ silicone liner type arm as the white plastic button of what appears to be an Icelock seems to be visible. Socket and hand have been painted black or dark brown.<\/p>\n<p>But, check for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Images (C) Copyright by Winchester Films, BBC Films and Mandate Pictures<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/goats01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/goats02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/goats03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/goats04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/goats05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/goats06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/goats07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/goats08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/goats09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/goats10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Really well done.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=swisswuff\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The portrayal of (possibly faked or real) arm amputees in movies matters. So I went through my DVD copy of this movie slowly to check this one out. And lo and behold we see a BECKER hand. Nicely immersed in the prologue of The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009) movie, there is the appearance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,67,68,16,28,29,120,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bionic","category-becker_hand","category-becker-mechanical-hand","category-brands","category-disability-public","category-media","category-movies-about-amputees","category-prosthetics","wpcat-49-id","wpcat-67-id","wpcat-68-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-28-id","wpcat-29-id","wpcat-120-id","wpcat-8-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 05:28:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11026,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/11026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}