In the movie Murder at 1600 Wesley Snipes had a diorama of the battle of Gettysburg in 1/72 scale in his apartment
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I’ve had to endure Stuart Little several times(the joys of fatherhood eh) The basement is full of models…
The story goes that it was not a mere prop. Apparently it was a valuable model rented from a museum. This was unknown (at the time) to Edward James Olmos, who swept it off the table in an improvised action in the scene. Fortunately the model was insured.
In the movie “Sunshine Cleaning” there is this one-armed man who runs a supply store and also makes amazing model airplanes. You can see a seperate room with his workbench and a bunch of models. Pretty sweet looking room. In seperate scene you seee him actually working on an airplane. Very cool.
Does “Spider Man” count?
We didn’t see him building them, but Peter Parker ends up knocking over some of the rockets from the 1:200 “Man in Space” ( I think that was the name, forget the manufacturer ) set when practicing his webslinging in his room.
HEY ,! DOOGS ATX , is that a future modeler your holding in your avatar space . Cool! I always enjoy reading your comments .Keep it up ----- tankerbuilder
Yep, that’s the kiddo. He’ll be three later this month. Still not sure about the whole modeling thing, but he is VERY aware of vehicles of all kinds, so that bodes well!
I’m surprised, nay, shocked that no one has mentioned the pivotal role Model building plays in the greatest action movie ever, Die Hard. Remember the key scene in which Hans professes his admiration for models and how he loved building them as a child? We were able to infer from that scene that the attention to detail required to build models as a child was the keystone of his development into the sinister mastermind that was Hans Gruber. No models = no Die Hard. 'least that’s how I see it.
Totally forgot about Die Hard!
Greatest Christmas movie ever made.
Random fun realization - I was born in 1979, twenty years after the release of my favorite movie, Ben-Hur. Now, to me, Ben-Hur seems like pure old Hollywood. The kind of film they just don’t make anymore.
When my son was born, I started wondering…what movies game out twenty years before he was born? Die Hard.
One, that made me feel old. Two, I wonder if Nolan will grow up looking on Die Hard as an old-timey classic the way I see Ben-Hur?
Random fun fact - Crocodile Dundee II outperformed Die Hard at the box office.