Last updated on 2012-04-25, by Tony

3 “Zipper” Movies To Watch On Gideon Sundback’s Birthday

Gideon Sundback, a Swedish-American electrical engineer, has brought revolutionary improvement to zipper, one of the most influential inventions in history. In honor of Gideon Sundback’s birthday, Google doodle is designed as a zipper.

The interlock teeth design of zipper is widely used in pants, boots, backpacks, and dresses. Though Gideon Sundback originally intended to design the zipper for shoes, he probably wouldn’t image that it would be of great importance at present.

Frequently used in clothing, it now becomes an element of fashion. Designers are trying to make their works outstanding with unique design of zipper. The influence of zipper also extends to other fields like film industry. This post will show you 3 “zipper” movies to watch On Gideon Sundback’s Birthday.

1. A magic zipper

Do you want to know where the magic zipper lies? It is in a pair of pants in the movie of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. This movie mainly tells you about how four teenage girls manage to find their lovers. We call the zipper magic because those girls are wearing the same pair of pants when they meet their Mr Rights.

Actually, those girls are all fond of this magic pants and they reach an agreement to wear it in turn. Coincidently, they all find their lovers during the time when they are wearing that pants. So it is called magic pants which can help you find true lover. To this extent, the zipper of this pair of pants can also be called magic zipper.

2. A funny zipper

Friends, an American sitcom, has received positive reviews throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Characters like Rachel, Joey, Rose and Chandler have brought audiences too much happiness with their excellent performance.

Therefore you may still remember the scene when Ross failed to wear and zipper his leather pants in The One with All the Resolutions. As he asks Joey for help, Joey tells him a lot of bad ideas which only make things worse. This scene is viewed as one of the funniest scene of Friends. Of course, the zipper is viewed as funny as well.

3. An invisible zipper

In order to prevent you from talking too much or leaking a secret, others may warn you to zipper your mouth. This is an invisible zipper to restrain your behavior. Usually it is just a word. However, when it is relevant to your life, it will be a powerful invisible zipper.

In A Thousand Words, a man who used to be a chatterbox has to zipper his mouth all the time because he is told that as long as he finishes one thousand words, his life will end. As his life is menaced, he has to zipper his mouth. In this movie, the invisible zipper that locks Eddie Murphy’s mouth forces him to express his opinion with gestures all the time.

Those are the magic zipper, funny zipper and invisible zipper in the films. If you want to watch them with iPad, you can convert those DVDs to mp4 file for iPad with DVD Ripper.