After such stunning cinematic successes as an appearance in The Expendables 2 and serving as a major plot element in Korea’s top soap opera, Montegrappa pens can claim another indicator of their importance as cultural icons. European detective stories and crime melodramas have never been more admired than in 2013, so it is with great pleasure that Montegrappa reveals its presence in a European political thriller that has taken Bulgaria by storm.
One of the most important pen releases of the season, the award-winning Brain Pen from Montegrappa has appeared in the new TV series, Fourth Power, a political thriller broadcast on BNT (Bulgarian National Television). It earned a scene of its own, described here for your enjoyment:
Two of the main characters are playing a card game, discussing some political figures. One of the them wins the game and the other opens a luxury box and takes out the Brain pen, saying the words: “OK, you deserve it. One of the most precious pens in the world.”
The man who “wins” the pen answers: “I know, the Brain pen. It celebrates the complexities of the organ. Besides, as they say, writing nourishes the brain. Thanks!”
Trivia buffs will note that the actors in the scene with the Brain pen are Vladimir Penev, the current Bulgarian Minister of Culture, and the other is Hristo Shopov, famous for his role as Pontius Pilate in the movie The Passion of The Christ, directed by Mel Gibson.
Winner of the 2013 Reader’s Awards for Best Metal Mastery and Best Interpretation of a Theme from Pen World Magazine is a collaboration with renowned authority on cerebral matters than Dr. Richard Restak, M.D., the author of more than 20 books on the subject. Represents the complexities of the very organ it celebrates, the pen’s most basic structural elements act as a parallel to a human being’s body: the pen’s body is simple, while the top part of the pen is rich and elaborate, as in the brain itself.
Adorning the top of cap is a cross-section of the brain, based on an ancient illustration. The cap features an overlay made up of neurons, with the pocket clip representing the spinal cord. The clip has a spring-loaded mechanism and its tip is lacquered in red or black, to differentiate the fountain pen from the roller ball.
Clearly, the characters in Fourth Power know their pens!
For over 100 years, since 1912, Montegrappa has been manufacturing high-quality writing instruments in the same historic building in Bassano del Grappa, North East Italy.