03-10-2005, 01:00 AM
Fantastic thread Bill, harkens back to the good old days where we had real conversation. It is funny isn\'t it? 2 people can look at a movie screen and see 2 completely different things, but that\'s part of the magic, you get enough of an image to wrap your mind around it, then your creative side takes over. Little example, not overly pertaining to this discussion, but interesting none the less. Gunnar Hansen STILL has people coming up to him saying how cool Franklin\'s death scene was, and how incredably gory it was. If you remember, all you saw was Gunnar\'s face, the saw, and a little blood splatter, but people see the rest clear as day, part of the magic of movies.
As for prop replicas, we really are trying to recreate an illusion, a uber fans vision of his favorite character in 3D, that he can hold and wear. No one want\'s the glued on rivets, or reality of what those things were, we want the mask we see trudging through the forest, ripping through a bevy of teens! We want the white faced monster, just as creepy and evil looking as we see, not the crumpled up, thinly cast, spraypainted reality. Movie props are an amazing thing to have and own, but a lot of the time, you would be pretty surprised, and in some cases disapointed with what you get.
We have really been spoiled with guys like Justin and Cropsy. Recreating these incredable pieces that we as fans, and collectors can bring out of the film, and put on our shelves, or dress up with and take pictures. Grasping that old feeling again, and for a fleeting moment become what we admire, or what scared us! That is a pretty powerful thing, and in that we of course will search out the absolute best reproduction, bringing us that much closer to that character, and that feeling they first gave us all.
As for prop replicas, we really are trying to recreate an illusion, a uber fans vision of his favorite character in 3D, that he can hold and wear. No one want\'s the glued on rivets, or reality of what those things were, we want the mask we see trudging through the forest, ripping through a bevy of teens! We want the white faced monster, just as creepy and evil looking as we see, not the crumpled up, thinly cast, spraypainted reality. Movie props are an amazing thing to have and own, but a lot of the time, you would be pretty surprised, and in some cases disapointed with what you get.
We have really been spoiled with guys like Justin and Cropsy. Recreating these incredable pieces that we as fans, and collectors can bring out of the film, and put on our shelves, or dress up with and take pictures. Grasping that old feeling again, and for a fleeting moment become what we admire, or what scared us! That is a pretty powerful thing, and in that we of course will search out the absolute best reproduction, bringing us that much closer to that character, and that feeling they first gave us all.