I happened to watch a movie titled: “Three Days of the Condor” in which a free-lance assasin named Joubert ( Max von Sydow ) was shown painting lead ( 54mm? ) military figures in his hotel room.
( One figure looked a bit like von Hammer, BTW [;)])
This movie is the only one I can recall which depicts someone modeling as a hobby.
Is this movie unique or can anyone else recall something similar in another movie?
I’ve seen movies where somone in them was doing some modeling but I don’t remember what they were!
Another movie which features a character enjoying our hobby in “Ronin” starring Robert DeNiro. Great movie BTW, and one of the best car-chases on the big screen!
In 40 days and 40 nights,Josh Hartnett takes up modeling to relieve his pressure.
Two movies I can think of are 40 Year Old Virgin and Murder at 1600. Both distinctly different movies and both depict modeling in, well, different manners as you could probably guess by the titles if you haven’t seen them. Modeling is also featured on several episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as a murderer leaves a small scale representation of the scene of the crime at the scene of the crime.
In In the Line of Fire, John Malkovich produces a small pistol he intends to use to assassinate the president with out of resin.
I have to agree with Daywalker about Ronin,if your into car chases all I can say is wow,watch it.Plus its a great movie that you have to watch more than once to catch on to everything
John
In the Chuck Norris movie ‘Hitman’ he builds jet fighters when he’s not whacking bad guys
In ‘Easy Money’ with Rodney Dangerfield he takes up modeling after he quites drinking and smoking. One scene shows him working on a 109 at the kitchen table. When he leaves for work he asks his wife if she could pick up the Mess-A- S#%t he left on the table.
And in ‘The Good Shepherd’ Matt Damon builds ships in bottles.
The movie ‘Sunshine Cleaning’ (Cleaners??) is about a woman who gets into the crime-scene cleaning business. She becomes friends with a guy who runs the shop where she buys most of her supplies. He has a model bench in the back of the shop, with an impressive stash. Oh, yeah, he also has one arm…[8-|]
Chuck Norris doesn’t build the models, he stares at the box full of sprues until they assemble themselves…[whstl]
No, he kicks the box and the model lands, fully assembled and painted, on the workbench. You’ve got Nuck Chorris confused with the other Kung Fu guy…[whstl]
Not sure about the remake a few years ago, but in the original Flight of the Phoenix, one of the characters reveals that he designs and builds model airplanes.
Charlie’s brother Alan takes up building model cars in an episode of Two & a Half Men…
LOL…I could see Manny doing that. (No, not murdering people, but making models of the scene of the crime.) Hahaha.[:P]
First, what ever Chuck Norris stares at for more than a few seconds melts.
Second when Chuck Norris kicks something it doesn’t land[;)].
That stare is known as the “Oh crud, I forgot my line,” stare. It’s true, Chuck can do anything…except act. But his martial arts skills are real, and what he kicks does land, either in pieces (hence my original post on him—a true master does not only destroy) or it doesn’t get up again.
This is getting off topic. We should start another thread on how famous (or infamous) actors, actresses, and other “personalities” assemble models. All in good fun, of course. In fact, I think I will. [prte][6]
Great now we are going to have to take one of the stars off all our flags, once Chuck reads this Illinois will be a hole, just a great void in space. [:D]
And that would be a very good thing! (as you should be able to tell by reading my location!)
But now we are sliding down the slippery slope into the cesspool of politics…[:XX]
Move along, folks! Nothing to see here! Move along![cptn]
In Sweet Dreams, a biopic about singer Patsy Cline, her husband Gerald Cline is depicted as a model ship builder. In one scene he’s bringing her up to date on the progress of one ship, and the implication is that he’s an utter bore of a husband (she divorces him later).
If anyone remembers the TV show JAG, Lt./Lt. Commander Bud J. Roberts, Jr. played by Patrick Labyorteaux built ship models on the show.