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Movie Memorabilia
Money is no object. Any and every prop imaginable is available.
What are the top three movie props You would love to have?
Would it be Indy’s hat from Raiders of the Lost Ark? Or the shower curtain from Psycho? Snow globe from Citizen Kane? Zagnut bar from Seems Like Old Times?
My top 3:
From the greatest movie ever made and I have watched thousands of times would be Doc’s mind-reading helmet from Back To The Future.
“You want Me to buy a subscription to the Saturday Evening Post.”
Next, from the greatest movie ever made and I have watched a thousand times would be the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle from Stripes.
“C’mon. It’s Czechoslovakia. We zip in, We pick ’em up, We zip Right out again. We’re not going to Moscow. It’s Czechoslovakia. It’s like We’re going into Wisconsin.”
And My top movie prop is from the greatest movie ever made and I have watched thousands of times would be Otto from Airplane!
“Elaine… Don’t panic. On the beltline of the automatic pilot there’s a hollow tube. Now, that’s the manual inflation nozzle. Pull it out and blow on it.”
Top 3 movie props You just have to have. Go!
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I figured it out. Matte painting! Many old movies used matte paintings, rather than filming abroad or computer effects, as backgrounds to set the scene. Some of those would be awesome to have.
Darby O’Gill and the Little People had a good one of an old hilltop ruin.
For my third memorabilia, the lion teeth necklace from The Ghost and The Darkness.
I’d want one classic, probably from Casablanca. Sam’s piano comes to mind.
“Play it, Sam.”
The other two are personal. The first is from Arthur, which I still think is the funniest and most quotable movie I’ve ever seen. My favorite scene is when Arthur and his future father-in-law are in the study and Arthur can’t stop obsessing about the moose head on the wall. I want that moose head.
“Where’s the rest of this moose?”
And finally, Wonderboy, the bat from The Natural. In the words of Roy Hobbs, God, I love baseball.
“I wanted it to be a very special bat.”