Category: Movies

Halloween Starring Captain Kirk & Boss Hogg

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The Halloween figures above are customs made by Dan Polydoris.  Dan who runs the Chicago Toy Collector Blog explains how he made the figures…

Admittedly, Captain Kirk and Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard seem like an unlikely team. But they actually ended up being the perfect models for my new customs. Best of all, each one required very minor “plastic” surgery…
Myers is just Captain Kirk with a white face and new hair. He’s wearing a Planet of the ApesAstronaut outfit without the zipper. Loomis is just Boss Hogg with a goatee and a slight haircut (in the back). His trench coat is a modified Barbie trench made for 12″ figures.
You can read the full construction explanation here.  Well done, Dan!
Source: Chicago Toy Collector and Retroist.

Alfred Hitchcock or Saul Bass: Who Directed the “Psycho” Shower Scene?

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Who directed the Psycho shower scene?

Most folks would say, “Alfred Hitchcock” since Hitchcock is the director credited with directing Psycho.  Add to the fact that Hitchcock says he directed the scene and it would seem like case closed.

Ah, but things are seldom that easy, are they?

You see Hitchcock hired Saul Bass, the famous graphic artist, to storyboard the shower scene.  And Bass was on the set for the seven days it took to shoot the scene.  And Bass claims he directed the scene.

Vashi Nedomansky lays out a case to show that whether or not Bass directed the scene…

…it’s quite clear that the Saul Bass storyboards were followed explicitly to create the indelible images that made this spectacular scene.

Nedomansky’s Who Directed the PSYCHO Shower Scene? should be required reading for all movie fans.

Well done, Vashi.

Josh Cooley’s Movies R Fun

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Josh Cooley is a storyboard artist for Pixar.  In his spare time Cooley works on personal projects.

His latest is Movies R Fun described as a “children’s picture book parody for grown-ups.”  

If you check out the trailer (yes, the book has a trailer) for Movies R Fun you’ll see that Cooley’s fun children’s book drawings of “age restricted” movies aren’t for children, but instead for the kid in all of us grownups.

Adrian Brody is Harry Houdini

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The February 21, 2014 issue of Entertainment Weekly presented a First Look at Adrian Brody as Houdini.  Brody will play Houdini in a four hour mini-series that will premiere in May on the History Channel.

I’m looking forward to this.  I like Houdini (who doesn’t) and Brody is an interesting actor.  Brody is also a Houdini fan (who isn’t) and said Houdini is…

“…probably the original superhero.  Nobody (else) dared to do the things he dreamed up.” 

Sources: Entertainment Weekly and Wild About Houdini