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Modellers in movies and TV
Topic Started: Aug 28 2016, 03:26 PM (1,603 Views)
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Whenever there is a character on TV or film who is a modeller he always turns out to be a psycho. I was reminded of this watching Diehard again. Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber says "I always loved building models when I was a child "
There used to be a list of characters who are modellers somewhere on the interweb but I can't find it.
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There is the kingpin in that action movie - Ronin _ who is busy painting figures in a large Japanese diorama when Depardieu arrives.

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Andy Williams was also a keen modellers.
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SRAM Models 1/144 SIA 7-B (Resin)
Valom Models 1144 A pair of Sopwith Pups
MSD Models 1/72 Vickers Vimy 66 Commercial
Revell 1/72 Fokker D.VII conversion to a two seater
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Ever proper 'Nazi' movie has scene of Hitler and Speer drooling over scale model of Germania in it...
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John Malcovich played a man who wants to kill the US President in the film "In the Line of Fire".

Think there was a scene set in a model car group? He also made his weapon from pouring resin?

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Prenton
Aug 28 2016, 05:35 PM
There is the kingpin in that action movie - Ronin _ who is busy painting figures in a large Japanese diorama when Depardieu arrives.

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By Depardieu you mean De Niro, right?! Great movie that.

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Didn't Lester Freamon have a side job making miniature furniture (which he sold for a lot of money) in The Wire? That was basically scratch building I suppose...

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Graham - cannot remember whether it was De Niro or Depardieu, actually - I was more interested in the diorama!!

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Aug 29 2016, 10:26 AM
Graham - cannot remember whether it was De Niro or Depardieu, actually - I was more interested in the diorama!!

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Could have been Jean Reno
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Aug 28 2016, 11:50 PM
Andy Williams was also a keen modellers.
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There are loads of famous modellers but it seems to be used as a clue to an obsessive personality in scriptwriting.
There was an episode of CSI where the killer was making scale models of the crime scene and sending them to Grissom.
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Yeah, the lazy media view of model makers tends to lean towards quiet, lonely, socially awkward men with no friends and therefore they are serial killers...

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Aug 29 2016, 10:08 AM
Didn't Lester Freamon have a side job making miniature furniture (which he sold for a lot of money) in The Wire? That was basically scratch building I suppose...

J.
Yes that's right b&m t the fact that it was dolls house furniture took the psycho quality out of it. If he'd been making war duos it would have had a different spin.
Commander Taylor in The Closer and Special Crimes has US plane models on his desk which he is very fussy about which mark him out as a less sympathetic character
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Aug 29 2016, 02:01 PM
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Aug 29 2016, 10:26 AM
Graham - cannot remember whether it was De Niro or Depardieu, actually - I was more interested in the diorama!!

Philip
Could have been Jean Reno
I think it was both of them. De Niro had been shot and Reno took him to see the guy who was painting the Japanese mini-figures. The figures and diorama were very impressive.

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In one episode of ST-NG, engineer Geordi La Forge is featured building a model of HMS Victory.
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There is a Denzel Washington film where he plays a charachter building a model of Gettysburg or some other famous American Civil War battle. Much of the scenes in Bettlejuice are played out in an diorama of the town where the newly deceased husband and wife lived.

And just to give the topic a nudge to the left ....... what celeberities are modellers ?
The late great Ian Kilmister Lemmy of Motorhead was a modeller. I think that Tom Fishcer of Celtic Frost /Tripytkon is an avid Luftwaffe modeller.

Anybody else more trivia?
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Aug 31 2016, 09:18 PM
There is a Denzel Washington film where he plays a charachter building a model of Gettysburg or some other famous American Civil War battle. Much of the scenes in Bettlejuice are played out in an diorama of the town where the newly deceased husband and wife lived.

And just to give the topic a nudge to the left ....... what celeberities are modellers ?
The late great Ian Kilmister Lemmy of Motorhead was a modeller. I think that Tom Fishcer of Celtic Frost /Tripytkon is an avid Luftwaffe modeller.

Anybody else more trivia?
Are you sure you're not thinking of Wesley Snipes in Murder at 1600?

There's a list of celebrity modellers somewhere. I know Mike Myers buys and paints toy soldiers as a hobby.
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BKirwan
Aug 31 2016, 09:18 PM
The late great Ian Kilmister Lemmy of Motorhead was a modeller......
Lemmy was keen on his militaria and military history too, which is interwoven through the Motorhead discography and iconography.
Filip . . . .

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Prometheus.

I'm a big fan of the Alien franchise. I could go in to all sorts of reasons ranging from childhood nightmares (thanks Dad!) to teenage trips to the cinema and girls. But I won't bore you with the details. Suffice to say the movies have had an impact on my memories of past times.

I enjoyed Prometheus even if the critics didn't. So whilst watching some of the Blu-Ray extras today I came across a part where the Weyalnd Corporation were developing an android. Whilst teaching him (Michael Fassbender) all things human one of his lessons involved:

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That was a long winded way of saying there was a tiny glimpse of modelling in the extras of Prometheus.

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Aug 31 2016, 10:18 PM
BKirwan
Aug 31 2016, 09:18 PM
There is a Denzel Washington film where he plays a charachter building a model of Gettysburg or some other famous American Civil War battle. Much of the scenes in Bettlejuice are played out in an diorama of the town where the newly deceased husband and wife lived.

And just to give the topic a nudge to the left ....... what celeberities are modellers ?
The late great Ian Kilmister Lemmy of Motorhead was a modeller. I think that Tom Fishcer of Celtic Frost /Tripytkon is an avid Luftwaffe modeller.

Anybody else more trivia?
Are you sure you're not thinking of Wesley Snipes in Murder at 1600?

There's a list of celebrity modellers somewhere. I know Mike Myers buys and paints toy soldiers as a hobby.
Rod Stewart is a phenomenally good railway modeller .His scenery work (buildings etc ) has even made the front page of magazines

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Look at this !

http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/toys-in-the-attic-rod-stewart.aspx

Neil Young also invented a model railway control system and is part owner of a model railway company (Like Lord of the Rings director Jackson's (?) involvement in Wingnut Wings ) ...However my mind is most blown after a spot of net browsing by the fact that Barbara Cartland invented military gliders and Hedy Lamarr a torpedo guidance system (which its claimed was a progenitor of wifi!!!)
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Sep 3 2016, 11:42 PM
Hedy Lamarr a torpedo guidance system (which its claimed was a progenitor of wifi!!!)
Wasn't it the Nordern bomb sight?
To go on a complete tangent Hedy Lamar was at one stage married to an actor called Robert Loder who started life as Robert Lowe. He had been an officer on the western front in Ww1 and had been captured by the Germans and remained in Germany after the war and adopted the surname Loder.
Before he went to the western front he had been sent to Dublin in 1916 where he accompanied his father General Lowe when he accepted Pearses surrender on Parnell street.
While in Germany he became an actor moved to Hollywood where he was married to Hedy Lamar and appeared in several films with Irish Actor Arthur Shiels who had been an Irish Volunteer in 1916 had fought during the rebellion and was interned in Frongoch prison camp
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