{"id":133,"date":"2016-07-07T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brentblack.com\/cart\/?page_id=133"},"modified":"2016-07-27T23:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T23:35:46","slug":"inthemovies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/hat-lore-overview\/inthemovies\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama Hats in the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Panama hats have appeared frequently on the silver screen.\u00a0Naturally, they appear more frequently in movies made during times when Panama\u00a0hats were popular, or in movies set during that period. My own hats appeared in\u00a0The Legend of Bagger Vance, reshaped to look as though they had been worn for\u00a0some time by the characters in the movie. Personally, I preferred how the hats\u00a0looked when I shipped them compared with how they looked after the wardrobe\u00a0department had their way with them.<\/p>\n

Movie makers have always been more concerned with \u201cthe look\u201d\u00a0than with the quality. Most of the Panamas I\u2019ve seen in recent movies are\u00a0not very good hats. In fact, the Panama hat worn by Hannibal Lecter in the\u00a0movie Hannibal really, really bothers me. Hannibal Lecter is the ultimate\u00a0connoisseur, a meticulous perfectionist with a passion for things exquisite.\u00a0That character would never wear the hat they have given him in the movie.\u00a0Hannibal\u2019s movie hat is an over-bleached, low quality, machine-blocked\u00a0Cuenca hat. Dr. Lecter would certainly have worn a fine quality, hand-blocked\u00a0Montecristi Panama.<\/p>\n

The clips presented here, and the movies from which they were taken, are the\u00a0copyrighted property of their respective studios. They are shown here so that\u00a0visitors to this site who might be interested in owning movies featuring Panama\u00a0hats will know what those movies are, and will be able to see a\u00a0\u201cpreview\u201d of the Panama hat in the movie. I am providing a link to\u00a0www.amazon.com<\/a> for your\u00a0convenience and to further encourage the purchase of these movies.<\/p>\n

By no means is this collection complete. If you have any personal favorites\u00a0that have not been included, please let me know and I will make every effort to\u00a0add them. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\t\t