Miss peregrine's home for peculiar children

[mso489]

With manufacturers paying major amounts for "product placement" in films, the pipe brand in this instance has missed a major opportunity not having the pipe identified. No one will ever know what it is, while everyone seems to admire it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

With the antismoking climate we live in, and this being a teen/young adult novel, I would guess they're trying to keep it under wraps to "save the children". :roll:

 

[jpmcwjr]

C-Embers: That is so right, and so sad.

 

[pipedreams86]

oh my goodness some AWESOME responses here! i totally agree with the need for a pipe lighting falcon!
thought the movie was great, and the pipe looked so nice, i was for sure someone somewhere would have some info available on who made it...it does seem like it's being 'kept under wraps'...don't see how there can be any problem with the image of Eva Green smoking that pipe
i guess its the unsolvable mystery...probably better for my PAD that way anyway!!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I saw this one a few days ago because folks were posting about it earlier. Great movie! My guess is that despite the current anti-smoking climate, a pipe company wouldn't have the same profit revenue that a candy company or even a bottled water company would have for product placement in such an expensive movie. But, my guess is that it's a Chacom. They make a huge range of "regular" looking pipes. My first thought was that she should have been smoking a more exotic looking pipe, like a churchwarden or Savinelli Clark, but... they wanted to make sure we "the audience" would assume it is normal tobacco and not marijuana. We are sort of sheltered in our thinking, being a part of the pipe community; however, the majority of the population still thinks every mention of "weed" in Tolken's work is a reference to marijuana, just like a pot smoker assumes that every word in an obscure song or piece of literature is obviously a drug reference... to them. For example, Peter Paul and Mary have stated inumerable times that their song, Puff the Magic Dragon, had nothing to do with drugs, but drug users just keep on associating the song with drugs, regardless. So, giving Miss Perigine the most "average" looking pipe possible, without being TOO male looking. A straight pipe, of course, would have looked too masculine and virile. A bent pipe, no one associates a bent pipe with virility. Nothing against them, but a droopy bent was a "safe" choice, IMO.

And, I think Chacom, because I can't think of which shape by Savinelli that it would be, and it just has that "average" look that I associate with Chacoms.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Could have also been a prop make specifically for the movie.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Yeh, ha ha, that prop guy turned out to be able to spin a pretty good pipe shape, if that's the case. I'm sure he was standing at the lathe mumbling about how much easier it would have been to just go buy a pipe, as he tossed attempt after attempt in the trash. I know I would have. But, I could see that maybe they altered a store bought cheap Chacom to vape a smoke for the movie. THAT I could expect from Hollywood.

But, if an artisan pipe maker did make it, what an awesome chance to get your work seen. I'm sure we would eventually hear about it through our rather tight-knit community. And, kudos if someone did make it. That would be awesome!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Movie productions do have access to many artists and fabricators. Don't have to have a lot of tools like a lathe to make a pipe. I made this with a drill press and a belt sander.

 

[josephcross]

In the book there were pictures of the pipe, and it was very similar to the one she is smoking above. There were differences between book and movie, but the pipe wasnt one of them.

 

[josephcross]

Very cool pipe there Embers!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Thank you very much! That was the first one I made a few years ago under the advice of Bruce Weaver. Really need to get back into it, it's a very calming pastime.

 

[drennan]

Is it one of these?

 

[toobfreak]

apart from many complaints in forums about smoking in modern movies

Well, it didn't take long for their public school brainwashing to kick in! I'm guessing that most of those kids complaining about the smoking in the movie have not ever even been near a pipe!
Is there an advocacy group against second-hand smoke for falcons now?

 

[pipedreamin]

We watched it last night, meh. Have to agree with Grue, we weren't impressed. Now Ink, that's a movie and probably done with a tiny fraction of the budget, but alas no pipe smoking beauties. I ran across this Rattray's today, similar but not quite it: http://www.ebay.com/itm/RATTRAYS-THE-DRUIDS-LIMITED-SANDBLASTED-BENT-EGG-PIPE-NEW-incl-ADAPTER-/311711214428?hash=item48936fab5c:g:~K8AAOSwYIxX8kvk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C5I1SavGyA

 

[drydock]

It's like a swan-necked bent billiard meets an egg (possibly that the falcon laid) and voila: a striking woman will smoke it.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Got to watch this in 4K, so able to get a bit more detail.

 

[jpmcwjr]

 

[jpmcwjr]

In the above pic you can start to see the stem is probably amber, and in the one below, quite apparent.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Above- Yes, she smoked it, but not so much smoke!
Tried to capture the hallmark, but couldn't.

 

[samcoffeeman]

I personally think it may be a Savinelli. Some savs don't have markings on the stem, while BC and Chacom all have stem logos.