This family-friendly ’90s comedy satirized the lengths to which people had to go in the blessed pre-Amazon days, represented by Minneapolis mattress king Howard Langston’s increasingly desperate attempts to track down a prized Turbo-Man action figure for his son… on Christmas Eve!Ĭontinue reading → Written by Nick (luckystrike721) 2 Comments Posted in Casual, Movies Tagged with 1990s, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Car Coat, Casual, Christmas, Derby Shoes, Gingham Shirt, Midwest, Weekend Casual, Winter February 24, 2019
With only a few more shopping days left until Christmas, some may still be scrambling for that perfect gift to put under the tree. Indeed, Blowup‘s critical popularity and box-office success has been credited as one of the final blows that killed the restrictive “Hays Code” once and for all, in favor of the MPAA rating system that ushered in a new, uninhibited era of American cinema.īlowup centers around Thomas (David Hemmings), a stylish young photographer living the swinging London dream, though kept so busy that he bemoans “I haven’t even got a couple of minutes to have my appendix out.” Continue reading →Īrnold Schwarzenegger in Jingle All the Way (1996) VitalsĪrnold Schwarzenegger as Howard Langston, massive Austrian bodybuilder midwestern mattress sales executive and family man
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Some people are bullfighters, some people are politicians… I’m a photographer.Īugust 19 being World Photography Day feels like an apt opportunity to delve into Blowup, Michelangelo Antonioni’s enticing and meandering mystery that won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and was nominated for two Academy Awards despite its then-unprecedented sexual content that defied the mainstream movies released under the aging Motion Picture Production Code that had been enforced in Hollywood for over three decades. David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave in Blowup (1966) Vitalsĭavid Hemmings as Thomas, hip London photographerĬostume Designer: Jocelyn Rickards Background
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