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Friday, August 12, 2011
Outstanding Bollywood Movie Posters
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes several regional film industries sorted by language. Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centres of film production in the world.
Fourteen million Indians go to the movies on a daily basis (about 1.4% of the population of 1 billion) and pay the equivalent to the average Indian’s day’s wages (US $1-3) to see any of the over 800 films churned out by Bollywood each year. That’s more than double the number of feature films produced in the United States.
Famous Fictional Characters Who Were Based On Real People
Beavis & Butthead
Mike Judge based the look of Beavis & Butthead on two professors he had at UCSD.
The Joker
Joker's signature look is derived from the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs. Of course, that movie is super creepy.
Quasimodo
Quasimodo gets his signature appearance from an actual historical figure, a sculptor working in Notre Dame in the 1800's.
Winnie The Pooh
Winnie the Pooh is based on Winnipeg the bear, a small black bear who lived in the London Zoo.
Dr. Eggman
The creators of Sonic based the appearence of Eggman on Theodore Roosevelt… and an egg.
The Dude
The Cohen Brothers' inspiration for Jeffery 'The Dude' Lebowski was producer and politcal activist Jeff Dowd. Apparently Dowd also enjoyed white russians.
Shrek
Shrek's appearence is based on that of pro-wrestler Maurice Tillet, a man born with a rare disease called acromegaly.
Patrick Bateman
Christian Bale said he based his performance of Patrick Bateman in the film 'American Psycho' on Tom Cruise. Bret Easton Ellis, who wrote the book, also said he considered Cruise an influence. Makes sense.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam was inspired by Samuel Wilson, a meat-packer who sold his product to soldiers during the War Of 1812.
Norman Bates, Leatherface, & Buffalo Bill
Movie murderers Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill were all based on one serial killer: Ed Gein. Gein is notorious for murdering his victims and keeping the cut-up pieces of their bodies around his farmhouse. When investigators raided his home, they found, among other things, “four noses, nine masks of human skin, a lampshade made from the skin from a human face, and a belt made from human female nipples.”
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Batmobile Limousine
The limo is inspired from the Batmobile that was featured in the 1989 and 1992 Batman films directed by Tim Burton. You can see more pictures of the BatLimo as well as a video that we discovered on Youtube after the jump.