Photography Art Direction: Iconic Movie Moments

Photography Art Direction:

Iconic Movie Moments

Staffordshire University
Graphic Design and Illustration BA(Hons)
Module Leader: Richard Mellor

Brief:
Recreate an iconic movie moment as a single image.
You can put a contemporary twist on it; create a parody; or faithfully recreate every detail.
Above all... have fun!

Finished Work:

In no particular order.

Iconic Movie Moments: Before and after

American Beauty - remake by Lucy Brodderick

Lester (Kevin Spacey): "It’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world."

A Clockwork Orange - remake by Blue Golder

Alex (Malcolm McDowell): "It's funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."

Star Wars - remake by Sophie Ormsby

Princess Leia (Natalie Portman): "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you are my only hope!"

War Horse - remake by Sean Sargent

Albert (Jeremy Irvine) to Joey: "Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home."

The Matrix - remake by Tom Latham

Morpheus (Laurence Fishbourne): "You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

American History X - remake by Ed Jones

Derek (Edward Nortan): "You see this? It means NOT WELCOME!"

The Hangover - remake by Chloe Breeze

Stu:"You f–king calm down! He drugged us! I lost a tooth! I married a whore!"

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - remake by Siobhan O'Connor

"Have you recently had a close encounter... A close encounter with something very unusual?"

Forrest Gump - remake by Melissa Condliffe

Forrest (Tom Hanks) "Mama always said 'Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.' "

The Godfather - remake by Nkululeko Dube

Don Corleone (Marlon Brando): "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

V for Vendetta - remake by Laura Whitehouse

V: "A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."

Ghost - remake by Jade Milner

Patrick Swayze: "I love you, Molly. I've always loved you."

E.T. - remake by Jenny Addison

"He is afraid. He is alone. He is three million light years from home."

Inception - remake by Conrad Lewis

Leonardo DiCaprio: "In a dream you can cheat architecture into impossible shapes."

Alien - remake by Ella Mason

"This is the worst shit I've ever seen, man. There is an explanation for this, you know."

Pulp Fiction - remake by Jamie Robinson

Samuel L Jackson: "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!"

King Kong - remake by Terrina Bibb

Jack Black: "It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."

Singing in the Rain - remake by Lauren Turner

Gene Kelly: "I'm singin' in the rain Just singin' in the rain What a glorious feelin' I'm happy again."

Goldfinger - remake by Cassie Bedson

Bond: (Over the telephone) "The girl's dead."
Felix: "Dink?"
Bond: "No, Masterson, Jill Masterson. And she's covered in paint, gold paint."

Basic Instint - remake by Sam Owen

Sharon Stone: "What are you going to do? Charge me with smoking?"

Terminator 2 - remake by Joe Hall

Terminator: "Come with me if you want to live."

Full Metal Jacket - remake by Drew McClelland

Gunnery Sergeant: "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?"

Spiderman - remake by Becca Heald

Kirsten Dunst: "You have a knack for saving my life. I think I have a superhero stalker."

The Sound of Music - remake by Matt Brighton

Julie Andrews: "The hills are alive with the sound of music!"

Jurassic Park - remake by Corey Turner

Sam Neill: "T-Rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt. Can't just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct."

Black Swan - remake by George Gibson

"It's about a girl who gets turned into a swan and she needs love to break the spell, but her prince falls for the wrong girl so she kills herself."

Apocalypse Now - remake by Liam Shandley

Ride of the Valkyries playing over the helicopter loudspeakers: "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning."

Enter the Dragon - remake by Rebecca Bull

Bruce Lee: "You have offended my family and you have offended the Shaolin Temple."

The Dark Knight - remake by Jade Jolley

Joker: "I believe whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you… stranger. Come on, I want you to do it, I want you to do it. Come on, hit me."

Silence of the Lambs - remake by Louise Hodkinson

Hannibal Lecter: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."

2001: A Space Odyssey - remake by Rebecca Roberts

HAL: "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can

ever hope to do."

The Truman Show - remake by Zoe Walker

Trumann: "Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"

Ghostbusters - remake by Emily Burton

“I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft!”