Graffiti, doodles, scribbles, posters and artwork in films

[Artaxerxes]

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[Artaxerxes]

 

[hitmouse]

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

Oh, that reminds me of the thing where The Hills Have Eyes has a torn Jaws poster in it, and then the Evil Dead has a torn Hills Have Eyes poster in it - there's a bit more Raimi-Craven back-and-forth after that, but it's not poster-based and so less relevant to this thread.

 

[hitmouse]

Repo Man:


Jubilee:

This is England:

 

[Nanker Phelge]

 

[Fez909]

 

[Fez909]

 

[Nanker Phelge]

 

[Fez909]

Only Lovers Left Alive

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Napoleon Dynamite

 

[T & P]

Leave the World Behind has some interesting paintings and artworks visible that

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change throughought the film to reflect the developing story

 

[hitmouse]

The excellent satirical sitcom Corporate had a whole episode based around an obvious Banksy-figure called Trademarq. But unfortunately it seems impossible to find any images of his actual graffiti online, so instead here's a scene with a graffiti/street art person but no graffiti in it:

 

[Nanker Phelge]

 

[blossie33]

From the Bond film Dr No....

...was particularly amusing as Goya painting of the Duke of Wellington had been stolen from the National Portrait Gallery not very long before the film was made (later recovered).

 

[hitmouse]

Actually, here's the totally-not-Banksy Trademarq graffiti from Corporate:

We also find out that one of the characters used to be a street artist in their own right:

 

[krtek a houby]

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But there was one whole episode of it, with a Leigh Bowery type performance artist called Vulva. Daisy gets in on it too.

David Walliams, mind

 

[Orang Utan]

David Walliams, mind

I deliberately left his name out of it!

 

[Orang Utan]

From the Bond film Dr No....
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...was particularly amusing as Goya painting of the Duke of Wellington had been stolen from the National Portrait Gallery not very long before the film was made (later recovered).

And that story was a recent film - The Duke - with Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren

 

[Sweet FA]

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When I fell down a Warriors rabbit hole, there was a site that had documented all the rl graffiti artists' work that appeared in the film...

Eta Legendary graffiti writers seen in WARRIORS the movie

(I can't see the pictures but I'm on a phone in the middle of nowhere)

Rembrandt

 

[Sweet FA]

Any gritty NYC movie in the 70s/80s I guess...

 

[Orang Utan]

This of course:

 

[hitmouse]

Of course, all this NYC 1970s stuff is all well and good, but we all know what the greatest ever fictional portrayal of graffiti is:

 

[hitmouse]

Was trying to think of squatting films, Was tun, wenn's brennt must have a fair bit of graffiti in:

 

[Indeliblelink]

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Catchfire - Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Bob....

 

[hitmouse]

Catchfire - Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Bob....

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HOW was I unaware of the Dennis Hopper Jenny Holzer film until now? Looking it up on wikipedia I see the original script was by Rachel Kronstadt Mann, Kronstadt Man is a great name as well.

 

[Sweet FA]

Catchfire - Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Bob....

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Which kind of puts me in mind of They Live...

 

[scifisam]

Hobo With a Shotgun has lots of plot-relevant graffiti as well as more general "this is a hellhole" type stuff:

 

[MapWatcher]