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     Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.171.197.37 |
Presumed Innocent, the '90's Harrison Ford thriller was on TV last night. In one scene Ford is standing in front of a bookcase, talking to his wife. On the shelf, over his right shoulder, is The Hungry Moon - the MacMillan hardcover. Probably not worth a thread, but I was excited!! | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.79.168.190 |
That is pretty cool! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
Ha! I love things like that. I always try read the book titles on the shelves in movies and on TV shows. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Lynchy old chap - I do that, too. Comforting to know we are either excruciating company to be in when watching a film, or simply disgustingly anorak like in our pleasures  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
Sad, isn't it? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.194.128 |
Well, in a Kubrick film, for instance, it pays to look at the bookshelves. There aren't just random titles put on them. Eg, check out the prostitute scene in EYES WIDE SHUT for revealing character detail. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.186.23.171 |
I once spotted Straub's Koko in Ken Barlow's house in Coronation Street. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.194.128 |
Should have been 'Salem's Lot really . . . | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.179.36.225 |
Well, in a Kubrick film, for instance, it pays to look at the bookshelves. There aren't just random titles put on them. Eg, check out the prostitute scene in EYES WIDE SHUT for revealing character detail. I know that scene. There's a well-thumbed copy of JLP's "Wicked Delights" in the background. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Steve - that line is worth its weight gold  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.194.128 |
Especially since we all now know what you like to watch. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
A trade paperback copy of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars was floating around a character's bookshelves on Emmerdale, I once noticed. (No, don't make a habit of watching Emmerdale: it was in someone else's house I spotted the book.) | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
It's not quite the same thing, but I also once spotted Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood and Lavondyss on Thru The Keyhole. On the shelves of TV presenter Jenny Powell. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
And I do remember some nutter from one of the fascist parties decided to be filmed in front of his bookshelves for a party political broadcast, presumably to look brainy, and he'd a bunch of Stephen King and James Herbert novels. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
Another 'cheat' would be an episode of Rosemary and Thyme, written by Stephen Gallagher, during which one of the lead characters spends much of her time reading a copy of Gallagher's own book Oktober, albeit with a redesigned cover that was integral to the plot. | ||
| Alexicon (Alexicon) Username: Alexicon Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 88.106.17.224 |
'And I do remember some nutter from one of the fascist parties decided to be filmed in front of his bookshelves for a party political broadcast,presumably to look brainy,and he'd a bunch of Stephen King and James Herbert novels.' Uhmm,I would point out that the above interview took place before I became Prime Minister. Consequently,I had my advisers beaten up and consigned to one of our flagship ConDem work camps. |