LEWIS SKOLNIK AND GILBERT LOWE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA CAMPUS? BILLY RAY VALENTINE ON RITTENHOUSE SQUARE? Rocky in Philadelphia.RoboCop in Detroit. Name another movie character statue that belongs in a particular place.
New York is hard because of the volume of NYC movies, but i'm going out on a limb and putting Venkman, Stanz, Spengler and Zeddemore in front of a firehouse.
There could be a whole series on stars in transit: Cruise/DeMornay on an el car, the aforementioned Jake/Elwood in a police car, Hoffman/Voight on a bus from NYC to Miami, Kermit/Fozzy in a Studebaker....
I'm still a little saddened that the Impressionist galleries have been reaaranged, part of adding on the new Modern Wing, so that Sunday is no longer in the same place.
That's outside the scope of this question, though, which I intended to narrow down to "statues recreating scenes from film/tv/etc" and not just "statues honoring cultural achievements."
I think it has to be Beals. Striking Distance is just so horrible, alhough I will watch it anytime it shows up during channel surfing just for the Burgh views.
<span>Way out west there was this fella I wanna tell ya about. Goes by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. See, this Lebowski, he called himself "The Dude". Now, "Dude" - there's a name no man would self-apply where I come from. But then there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place so darned interestin'. See, they call Los Angeles the "City Of Angels"; but I didn't find it to be that, exactly. But I'll allow it as there are some nice folks there. 'Course I ain't never been to London, and I ain't never seen France. And I ain't never seen no queen in her damned undies, so the feller says. But I'll tell you what - after seeing Los Angeles, and this here story I'm about to unfold, well, I guess I seen somethin' every bit as stupefyin' as you'd seen in any of them other places. And in English, too. So I can die with a smile on my face, without feelin' like the good Lord gypped me. Now this here story I'm about to unfold took place in the early '90s - just about the time of our conflict with Sad'm and the I-raqis. I only mention it because sometimes there's a man... I won't say a hero, 'cause, what's a hero? Sometimes, there's a man. And I'm talkin' about the Dude here - the Dude from Los Angeles. Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude. The Dude, from Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man - and the Dude was most certainly that. Quite possibly the laziest in all of Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide. Sometimes there's a man, sometimes, there's a man. Well, I lost my train of thought here. But... aw, hell. I've done introduced it enough. </span>
For Los Angeles, Steve Martin from LA Story -- either a roller skating statue at LACMA similar to the Ferris statue suggested above, or standing below a billboard.
It's better than one memorial at the UofC quad, followed up mile marker on Lake Shore Drive as they return from the trip to Evanston for snacks on their way to NYC.
Holly, cinammon and candies. Necklace goes in box, box wrapped in ribbon, goes in plastic baf, candies poured in, holly tossed in, cinammon stick broken into the bag, and then the completely unnecessary box that's 150 times larger.
Ferris in Chicago.
ReplyDeleteA giant killer bee in Houston for "The Swarm."
ReplyDeleteMitch McDeere running across the Mud Island skybridge for "The Firm." (The Church of Scientology can pay!)
ReplyDeleteMartin Blank somewhere in Grosse Pointe, MI.
Superman in Cleveland.
ReplyDeleteSpider-Man in Queens.
Batman in Chicago (perhaps on a ledge of the Chicago Board of Trade Building, bwloe the statue of Ceres?)
Rob Gordon in both Notting Hill and Wicker Park.
Mike, Joel and the Bots in Eden Prairie, MN.
ReplyDeleteBill and Ted in San Dimas, CA. (San Dimas High School football rules!!)
ReplyDeleteGood one, though I was coming to suggest Jake and Elwood in a police car in Daley Plaza.
ReplyDeleteI was trying to think of a better Cruise statue -- on a Chicago el car?<span> </span>
ReplyDeleteDaniel La Russo and Miyagi in Reseda.
ReplyDeleteNew York is hard because of the volume of NYC movies, but i'm going out on a limb and putting Venkman, Stanz, Spengler and Zeddemore in front of a firehouse.
There could be a whole series on stars in transit: Cruise/DeMornay on an el car, the aforementioned Jake/Elwood in a police car, Hoffman/Voight on a bus from NYC to Miami, Kermit/Fozzy in a Studebaker....
ReplyDeleteI, for one, would love to be greeted by a statue of Mr. Roark and Tattoo next time I get off the airport in Kauai. Smiles everyone, indeed.
ReplyDeleteAt the Circle K!
ReplyDeleteIn Pittsburgh... Jennifer Beals? Bruce Willis on a boat? Buddy Jesus.
ReplyDeleteMetropolis is Cleveland?? I never knew this.
ReplyDeleteWould it be unsafe to put a Judd Nelson statue on a Chicagoland high school football field?<span> </span>
ReplyDeleteI'm still a little saddened that the Impressionist galleries have been reaaranged, part of adding on the new Modern Wing, so that Sunday is no longer in the same place.
ReplyDeleteSiegel and Schuster created Superman while living in Cleveland, so I'm going with that.
ReplyDelete"<span>There is no Shermer in Illinois. What kind of s**t is that?! F***ing movies are bullshit!"</span>
ReplyDeleteThat's outside the scope of this question, though, which I intended to narrow down to "statues recreating scenes from film/tv/etc" and not just "statues honoring cultural achievements."
ReplyDeleteI think it has to be Beals. Striking Distance is just so horrible, alhough I will watch it anytime it shows up during channel surfing just for the Burgh views.
ReplyDelete<span>Way out west there was this fella I wanna tell ya about. Goes by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. See, this Lebowski, he called himself "The Dude". Now, "Dude" - there's a name no man would self-apply where I come from. But then there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place so darned interestin'. See, they call Los Angeles the "City Of Angels"; but I didn't find it to be that, exactly. But I'll allow it as there are some nice folks there. 'Course I ain't never been to London, and I ain't never seen France. And I ain't never seen no queen in her damned undies, so the feller says. But I'll tell you what - after seeing Los Angeles, and this here story I'm about to unfold, well, I guess I seen somethin' every bit as stupefyin' as you'd seen in any of them other places. And in English, too. So I can die with a smile on my face, without feelin' like the good Lord gypped me. Now this here story I'm about to unfold took place in the early '90s - just about the time of our conflict with Sad'm and the I-raqis. I only mention it because sometimes there's a man... I won't say a hero, 'cause, what's a hero? Sometimes, there's a man. And I'm talkin' about the Dude here - the Dude from Los Angeles. Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude. The Dude, from Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man - and the Dude was most certainly that. Quite possibly the laziest in all of Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide. Sometimes there's a man, sometimes, there's a man. Well, I lost my train of thought here. But... aw, hell. I've done introduced it enough. </span>
ReplyDeleteLloyd Dobler with a boombox over his head in a leafy Seattle neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteWhere strange things are afoot.
ReplyDeleteThen I revise my Batman to a statue on the top of the Sear Tower, a shot that still makes me fear for the stunt man's life.
ReplyDeletePhil Connors in Punxatawney, PA. (There are already plenty of tributes to him in Woodstock, IL, where they filmed.)
ReplyDeleteJohn Blutarsky at the University of Oregon.
Harry's yellow car should be enshrined on the quad at the University of Chicago.
Marge Gunderson in Fargo.
ReplyDeleteI would rather put them running out of the library.
ReplyDeleteAlready exists. Made of woodchips.
ReplyDeleteI was going to put him, defeated, next to any stand-in-for-the-Gas-n-Sip gas station. She's wiggin man, she's wiggin!
ReplyDeleteI was going to put him, defeated, next to any stand-in-for-the-Gas-n-Sip gas station. She's wiggin man, she's wiggin!
ReplyDeleteI was going to put him, defeated, next to any stand-in-for-the-Gas-n-Sip gas station. She's wiggin man, she's wiggin!
ReplyDeleteYou'd have to bronze a Chevy Malibu, too.
ReplyDeleteHe got dissed in the Malibu - He doesn't know just what to do!
I love this country. Ron Burgundy (and Baxter) in SD?
ReplyDeleteMichael York and Jenny Agutter in a DC Metro station.
ReplyDeleteNah--at the Fort Worth Water Gardens.
ReplyDeleteFor Los Angeles, Steve Martin from LA Story -- either a roller skating statue at LACMA similar to the Ferris statue suggested above, or standing below a billboard.
ReplyDeleteLloyd, Lloyd, all null and void...
ReplyDeleteHarry and Sally saying goodbye at the Washington Square Arch.
ReplyDeleteIf you're doihng TV characters, then you have to have the original McGarret on top of the Ilikai.
ReplyDeleteI suppose he is a legend, as he got more action as a UofC undergrad than 99+% of his classmates.
ReplyDeleteBenjamin Braddock in some anonymous Southern California suburb, preferably at the bottom of a swimming pool.
ReplyDeleteIt's better than one memorial at the UofC quad, followed up mile marker on Lake Shore Drive as they return from the trip to Evanston for snacks on their way to NYC.
ReplyDeleteKevin Costner at the Pentagon!
ReplyDeleteSteve McQueen at the German-Swiss border.
ReplyDeleteWhen I went to Los Angeles, I would have visited that if it existed.
ReplyDeleteIf we're going esoteric - Harold and Maude and a shovel next to a tree in a forest.
ReplyDeleteAnd if we're going really weird, a flickering hologram of Joel and Clementine on the beach in Montauk.
A Rowan Atkinson statute behind the counter at Harrods pouring a constant stream of (whatever the hell that was) into a bag.
ReplyDeleteHolly, cinammon and candies. Necklace goes in box, box wrapped in ribbon, goes in plastic baf, candies poured in, holly tossed in, cinammon stick broken into the bag, and then the completely unnecessary box that's 150 times larger.
ReplyDeleteWow, I've seen this movie too many times.
We've already got Captain Kirk covered. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2081
ReplyDeleteThis. 1,000 times this.
ReplyDeleteat the Zoo?<span> </span>
ReplyDeleteThe Hanson Brothers in Johnstown, PA.
ReplyDeleteMoe Greene in Las Vegas (to correct the omission that Hyman Roth noted)
ReplyDeleteVincent Vega and Jules outside a diner in LA.
ReplyDeleteChris Knight at Caltech.
ReplyDeleteWow -- I really thought a Dude statue would get more support in these parts!
ReplyDeleteHolding a six-inch spike hammered through a board.
ReplyDelete