Matches That Play A Starring Role in Movies and Music!

imgres-2 Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element

Did you know that a single match (=the 5th element) was responsible for saving the world at the end of the movie The Fifth Element starring Bruce Willis? For phillumenists (collectors of matches),  we recommend a great film from 1932 called The Match King that follows the real life story of the rise and fall of Swedish Safety Match tycoon Ivar Kreuger. Matches have been used as plot devices over the past 90 years in movies and in popular culture. There are even rock groups that named themselves after matches like Matchbox Twenty , The Matches , and the hard rock group Matchbook Romance - Voices [FULL ALBUM, HQ] - YouTube 

The rock musician Beck references matches many times in his music and writings. He even wrote a book titled Playing With Matches, wrote with the words "match stick strike" in "Sissyneck" on his album "Odelay" and referenced matches in the song "Cell Phone's Dead" on his album The Information. The Britpop group PULP mentioned matches in their song Dishes on This Is Hardcore. The Beatles covered the Carl Perkins rockabilly  song Matchbox in 1964 with Ringo singing vocals then Paul and John sang about "two of us burning matches...." in the song Two of Us on "Let it Be".  Elvis Costello wrote and performed his song Motel Matches. The group MGMT's song "It's Working" on their album Congratulations "....It's just like striking matches..The polish lies." The rock group PAVEMENT'S song on their '90's masterpiece album Slanted & Enchanted "Circa 1762" "....Lighting a Burnt Match", their is a country, rock and blues group named Striking Matches. The song "And No Matches was released by the German Techno group Scooter

Here are a few more famous movies that used matches as part of their plot lines: "Casablanca", "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Grifters" John Cusack's character Roy tells his grifter mother Lilly played by Anjelica Huston that he's a match salesman , Pulp Fiction “You play with matches, you get burned.” Match books have made frequent cameo appearances to light up the chain smoking characters in the AMC TV series Mad Men. Matches were mentioned in the movie The Hunger Games as a means for survival and a struck and flaming match made an appearance lighting Malcolm Beach's (Morgan Freeman) stogie when he meets Tom Cruz in the SciFi movie OBLIVION. The AMC TV law procedural show "Better Call Saul" features it's own custom matches in it's opening credits in season 1,2 and 3.

The Prop Match Book from the AMC TV Show "Better Call Saul"

What other movies or popular songs can you come up with in addition to the above that reference matches?

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The Golden Age of Match Advertising Has Returned at TheMatchGroup With Feature Matches!

The Golden Age of Match Advertising Has Returned at TheMatchGroup!

We're proud to announce that TheMatchGroup is the exclusive producer of "retro" feature matches (individually custom printed match stems).
This type of printing process hasn't been offered since the last "golden age of match advertising" that ended back in the late 1960's early '70's!

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Retro Feature Match Books with Special Printed Match Stems

 

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Individually Printed feature match stems depicting light houses

In addition to printed paper match stems, we also brought back match books that contain wooden match stems!

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15 Matchbooks with Incredible Artworks by Leading Illustrators Article From DigitalArtsOnline.UK

Excellent article from DigitalArtsOnline.UK   
              15 matchbooks with incredible artworks by leading illustrators 

Executive agent at B&A Louisa St. Pierre explains.

"Masterpieces have been created by candlelight; ideas have been shared over a cigarette; phone numbers and information exchanged by scrawling on these portable, multi-purpose notebooks," she says.

This idea runs throughout the book. As described in the intro, B&A is engaged in its "own creative recognition, spreading art like a flame".

 

Check out the article here

match book original design by by David Doran

Our friend's at Out of Print Design are selling out their stock of simulated Novels with their covers printed on our USA Made Match Boxes!

Our friend's at Out of Print Design are selling out their stock of whimsical Novel Covers printed on our USA Made Match Boxes!

They're featured as trending on the perfect Father's Day Gift Guide at PopSugar.com website!:

Out of Print Novel Cover Match Boxes

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The Movie Paterson Featured a Poem About Matches!

The Movie Paterson directed by Jim Jarmusch Features a Love Poem Inspired by Matches! 

In the opening scene in the movie paterson, Adam Driver named Paterson plays a bus driver for the Paterson NJ Transit who breaks up the monotony of his life by writing original poetry based upon observations of the world around him.

The first poem that the film opens with that he writes is a Love Poem inspired by his collection of OHIO BLUE TIP matches (that was originally written in 1979 by the real poet Ron Padgett as a love poem to his wife).

The poem goes into great detail about his collection of household's match boxes,  the construction of the match boxes and their match sticks and focuses intently on the color of  the blue tip (match heads).

 

The Original Ohio Blue Tip Match Box

I've been a big fan of Jim Jarmusch - IMDb since his first indie film Stranger Than Paradise (1984) and matches have always played a part as a plot device in most of his films!

Jim Jarmusch's first film Stranger Than Paradise

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