Photography in movies!

<p>Hi all,<br /> I'm sure this subject has been breached and broached repeatedly and in depth, but I thought I'd start it again.<br /> Movies that you like with cameras in them (please exclude the blue titles....)!<br /> In no particular order:</p>

<p>The Year of Living Dangerously<br /> Road to Perdition<br /> Shutter<br /> Memento<br>

I forgot Prison Song. Not much for plot but he has a Leica!</p>

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<p>Rear Window.</p>

<p>Blow Up (David Hemmings as a David Bailey like character in singing mod London)<br>

Funny Face (Fred Astaire plays a character based on a young Richard Avedon)<br>

Under Fire (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086510/)<br>

Salvador (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091886/)<br>

Blood Diamond (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/)<br>

Everlasting Moments (making the art house circuit right now) (http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/403338_everlasting13q.html)<br>

Memento (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/)</p>

 

<p>Bonnie & Clyde (67') - ("...get the Kodak.")</p>

<p>Fur</p>

<p>"The Edge" - 1997, brief scene of Alec Baldwin with Nikon F5.<br /> "King Kong" - 1976, some scenes of Jeff Bridges with a Nikon F2.<br /> "Gotcha!" - 1985, Anthony Edwards college movie with scenes including a Nikon FE/FM series + motor drive. A classic line is:</p>

<p>"Dad, can I borrow your camera?"<br /> "It's not a camera, it's a Nikon...and it's out of the question."</p>

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<p><em>The Public Eye</em> - 1992, Joe Pesci playing a character based on Weegee. Gotta love the scene at the shootout with the 35mm camera (Exacta?) on a little skateboard doodad he rigged up to slide in and out of harm's way.</p>

<p><em>Johnny Skidmarks</em> - 1998, Peter Gallagher, Frances McDormand, and some outrageously bad over acting by John Lithgow that's still amusing.</p>

<p>How about "The Killing Fields"? Not a fun movie, but, if I remember right, there was a scene in there where they tried to smuggle an interpreter out of Cambodia with a forged passport; they had built the photo with some improvised methods, and that affected how things unfolded. <br>

"Entering Space" a nonfiction film made by NASA, actually featured, I think, a Hasselbad floating around inside the cabin of the space shuttle; the movie and the book was almost entirely about views of space travel and the view from space.<br>

"We Were Soldiers Once and Young," for the portrayal of a combat photographer on LZ X-Ray (Calloway?). <br>

"Apocalypse Now!" with Dennis Hopper's portrayal of a lunatic reporter at the end of the trail of insanity from Heart of Darkness.<br>

"Full Metal Jacket". The protagonist is a military photographer in the Marine Corps. </p>

<p>Le Mans, cause I love racing and its fun to try and identify the hundreds of cameras used in the movie.<br>

And yeah John, Dennis Hopper in Apocolypse Now was fantastic!</p>

<p>À L'intérieur (Inside), EOS 3. Also a darkroom.<br /> (European gore/horror kicks newer US flicks to the next week ;)<br>

<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0856288/">IMDB<br /> </a></p>

<p>The Mechanic-- Charles Bronson uses a Nikon F in the opening sequence.<br>

LA Confidential-- Tabloid reporter with a camera played by Danny DiVito.<br>

North by NorthWest-- Cary Grant is caught on camera "murdering" a UN official.<br>

Sixteen Candles-- Anthony Michael Hall has his friends take a photo of him with the hot girl from school (she's passed out drunk) but the photo ends up with the girl cropped out in camera. </p>

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<p>Leicas in the movies:<br>

<a href="http://nemeng.com/leica/005ea.shtml">http://nemeng.com/leica/005ea.shtml</a></p>

<p>The Bridges of Madison County</p>

<p>Top Gun. (Ok, it was only a polaroid, but it was good scene)</p>

<p>Best relatively recent film for classic cameras--"The Notorious Bettie Page"-- chock full of Anscos, Rolleiflexes and especially those big beautiful Crown Graphics.</p>

<p>Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.</p>

<p>The girl reporter has only a basic camera with 36 frames. Near the end she is saving her last frame, and uses it for one last picture of her hero.<br>

It goes something like:<br>

he says "there's something I've got to tell you", she clicks the shutter, and he says " the lens cap is still on"</p>

<p>PAPARAZZI. I'm surprised no one mentioned this one.<br>

HARD CANDY. For me, a surprisingly good movie.<br>

THE PHOTOGRAPHER. The plot is hard to believe.<br>

FEMME FATALE. A sexy movie with a strong photography theme.<br>

PECHER It's okay, worth a look.<br>

BLOW UP. A good Alfred Hitchcock type movie. </p>

<p>La Dolce Vita, the character Paparrazo gave birth to the use of "Paparrazi".</p>

<p>more...<br />LOST IN TRANSLATION. Giovanni Ribisi plays a photographer in the movie.<br />SPIDERMAN movies. Peter Parker's (Spiderman) occupation is a photographer.<br />DELIRIOUS. A movie I've been wanting to see. Steve Buscemi plays a paparazzi.</p>

<p>Fools Rush In<br>

Straight from the Heart</p>

<p>In both of these, the female romantic lead is an upcoming photographer.</p>

<p>I want to see Everlasting Moments!</p>

<p>I cannot believe no one mentioed Smoke (1995) with Harvey Keitel (details here: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114478/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114478/</a>). Great movie with a fantastic script. It makes you think long time after you turn the TV off. Not sure what camera he uses in the movie, possibly a Pentax Spotmatic but I would like to hear other oppinions as well. Cheers</p>

I can't believe that no one has mentioned that John Waters "classic" about the young kid from Baltimore that has the title of "Pecker"

<p>Harvey Keitel uses a Canon AE-1. Or, at least that is the one he steals from the old lady at the end of the movie while the end credits play.</p>

<p>One Hour Photo</p>

<p>Never mind, i didnt read the OP.</p>

<p>Yes Man was amusing :P</p>

<p>Yeah, thaks Marc. Now I remember that part. I have to see this movie again.</p>