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more about #willywonka LatestBy: Did we already cover my favorite, the waking up to the morning DJ who tells us the time, date, location and weather? It's like Joe Backstory came in a... more » slow_waking: What about the 'wall of clues' on Flash Forward? I consider it worthwhile, just because it's sort of the backbone of the whole story. more » Dorilys: Just realized that the newspaper said Militias occupied Cincinnati in number 5. That made me wish I knew what was happening in the US in the Children... more » SJ_Edwards: "Look, for the last time, it's not 'just an ego wall', it's not 'your hideous narcissism, made manifest', it's a legitimate attempt to bring some visu... more » EndangeredRed: My favorite is the Shack of Newspaper Crazy from A Beautiful Mind. more » Akitsu: I'm not sure it's so much a cliche or a way to show someone's fascination with a subject. As humans we're packrats... we like to collect things. In ... more » iamnomad: Actually Children of Men itself was worthless with or without the clippings. more » veeerules: All of the above are still better than the stupid spinning newspaper montage... more » Kenro199x: Newspaper clippings tell a story in a second. The beginning of The Wrestler was just a Quiet Riot track to 80's clippings of wrestling mags. It told ... more » phantasmo: ...12(.) Monkeys, anyone? ;) more » Bill-Lee: It's either that or 20 extra minutes of dialogue between Character A and Character B as they reminisce. Character A: Do you remember that time in '47... more » Frank Boisvert: I LOVE Mr. Incredibles wall. I even made a screen cap of his 'Doing Our Part!' image on the left of his wall and recreated it and printed it 16"x16", ... more » Jesse Astle: The test is wether you want to know what the articles say or not. more » Smeagol92055: Every time I see the trailer for Iron Man 2, I groan at Wiplash's wall o' clippings, not because it's cliché, but because the art department, which d... more » midgarddragon001: How about the scene at the end of Mary and Max when Mary sees all of her letters on the ceiling? Not exactly the same thing but it's close. more » lazyeight: There must be a bunch of sub-categories of Wall of Crazy, too. Like the Flow Chart of Crazy. In the end, I always vote for more info on the story, in ... more » geesejuggler: This kinda reminds me of the Incubus video for Warning. That still weirds me out. more » madog: I thoroughly enjoyed The Watchmens take on this at the beginning of the movie. more » Patrick Weber: The image from H2O is Paul Rudd and it is not H2O but Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. Not complain, just saying... more » Strakus: So the real pattern is, if you take the time to frame your clippings, you're methodical and nostalgic instead of straight up crazy. Makes sense to me. more » -
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The Ultimate Movie Cliche: The Wall Of Newspaper Clippings
Whether it's homage or insanity, the best way to skate over tons of movie backstory is with newspaper clippings, on a wall. We've collected the best and the worst of this cliché, so you can decide: worthless, or worth it? More » -
#darkknight
That's SIR Christopher Wonka Dracula Saruman Dooku Lee To You
We're over the moon with the news that genre movie legend Christopher Lee has been Knighted. The 87-year-old, and world's greatest Dracula, has appeared in over 250 films stretching over 61 years. Congratulations. [USA Today]
