Graffiti, doodles, scribbles, posters and artwork in films

[DaveCinzano]

Watching Danton, and there's this spunky example of Revolutionary propaganda:

LES NONNES REPUBLICAINES: NOUS AUSSI NOUS VOULONS ETRE MERES

REPUBLICAN NUNS: WE ALSO WANT TO BE MOTHERS

Got any good examples of on-screen artwork? Extra marks for specially-done-for-the-film production design

 

[Spandex]

 

[May Kasahara]

Mabel's mural in Only Murders In The Building.



And the naked portrait of Steve Martin's dad, but for some reason I can't find a pic of that.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Of course, a classic of the genre

 

[Indeliblelink]

 

[WouldBe]

Mabel's mural in Only Murders In The Building.

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And the naked portrait of Steve Martin's dad, but for some reason I can't find a pic of that.

Jimmy and Alan Carr 3rd from left bottom row?
And Simon Cowell next to last on bottom row?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Stalin's Australian son (Richard Roxburgh) is arrested by Rachel Griffiths' cop in front of some the halfest-arsed generic hippie graffiti ever produced by an art dept 15 minutes before lunch:



From Children Of The Revolution

 

[DaveCinzano]

Charlie solicits artists' impressions of the hipster who shushed them in a bar in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia:

 

[DaveCinzano]

Retribution-based graffiti from Dead Man's Shoes:

 

[Sweet FA]

Ferris Bueller x Seurat



(tho there's loads in that scene)

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ferris Buller x Seurat

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(tho there's loads in that scene)

It looks like Cameron is clenching his buttocks

 

[belboid]

Graffiti from Homeland.

Reading ‘Homeland is racist’

 

[DaveCinzano]

I think this example of impressive penmanship might be from Frank Harper's ageing hooligan film St George's Day, but I may be wrong...

 

[DaveCinzano]

Classic spunking cock graffiti from Dublin drug gang drama Love/Hate:

 

[DaveCinzano]

Juliet and Hugo admire some Stephen Conroy art in Shallow Grave:

 

[DaveCinzano]

Timeless political graffiti from Rome:

 

[DaveCinzano]

Harry Palmer contemplates a crap bust in Funeral In Berlin:

 

[danski]

Muriel

 

[RoyReed]

Double post

 

[RoyReed]

Tony Hancock- The Rebel

Aphrodite at the Waterhole

 

[petee]

Withnail has an early scene with Up The Provos or similar on the wall outside the greasy spoon, iirc.

e2a here it is!

 

[Yossarian]

28 Days Later

 

[krtek a houby]

Withnail has an early scene with Up The Provos or similar on the wall outside the greasy spoon, iirc.

e2a here it is!

Spoke to a self-proclaimed "film historian" recently who'd never heard of the film. Was slightly taken aback (although really shouldn't be, as keep telling myself that everyone has different life experiences).

 

[hitmouse]

I think there might be some graffiti in V for Vendetta somewhere at some point?

Anyway, I'm unilaterally deciding this thread can include graffiti in TV as well, cos I was recently reminded of this post, about Rimbaudian King Mob graffiti turning up in Dr Who:


King Mob also make an appearance in season 2 of Stranger Things, probably due to the mediating influence of Grant Morrison than because of the Stranger Things writers being that into situationism themselves:

 

[hitmouse]

Also, a

Charlie solicits artists' impressions of the hipster who shushed them in a bar in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia:

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Not the only time IASIP dabbled in visual art, of course:

 

[May Kasahara]

Withnail & I also features that timeless classic bog scrawl, I FUCK ARSES.

 

[Orang Utan]

Spaced has a lot of art in it, mostly Brian’s.
But there was one whole episode of it, with a Leigh Bowery type performance artist called Vulva. Daisy gets in on it too.

 

[Sweet FA]

Timeless political graffiti from Rome:

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[Sweet FA]

Do tattoos count - maybe its own thread?

 

[Sweet FA]

John Landis had a running gag with the title 'See You Next Wednesday' - Blues Brothers crash through a billboard with the poster advertising a King Kong type film; American Werewolf it's a porn film showing in Leicester Square (and there's a poster on the tube iirc); Trading Places it's a poster on a wall; Coming to America it's on a poster on the NY subway - a space film. I think it might be in all his films?


eta John Landis and See You Next Wednesday - Horror Land - The Horror Entertainment Website