Caught on camera: Movie stars as you've never seen them before

1. Hugo Weaving on the set of The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Agent Smith “ Heads I win…Mr Anderson”

2. Christian Bale, Tom Hardy and director Chris Nolan The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Bane gets up close and personal and Bruce Wayne gets the giggles.

3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Who would have thought that John Cleese was good at ‘keepie-uppies’

4. Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace (1999)

Martial Arts expert and actor Ray Parks limbers up between takes with full Darth Maul face make up. Parks also appeared as the character Toad in the original X-Men (2000) movie.

5. Halloween (1978)
One of the original ‘Slasher’ Horror Movies to spawn a franchise and made director John Carpenter a household name for movie goers. A psychiatric patient Michael Myers escapes from hospital after being detained there for life for the murder of his own sister when he was 6-years old. During his rampage the character constantly wore a white expressionless mask throughout the film and the audience never see his true identity.
Hence this unusual photo of the actor Nick Castle (Michael Myers) who was later to become a director in his own right.

6. Boris Karloff the original Mary Shelley Monster in Frankenstein (1931)
It can be a busy life for a monster, ripping off limbs and dealing with the angry townsfolk with their burning torches. Sometimes you just have to stop for tea!

7. Ghostbusters (1984) (Spoiler)
Who would have thought that the classic comedy about an organisation who charge for the disposal of problem Ghosts and Ghouls is 30-year’s old this year?
Remember that scene when Dana Barratt (Sigourney Weaver) relaxes in her armchair, only to be grabbed by an array of grisly clawed monster hands and dragged into another dimension? Here’s how it was done!

8. Hook (1991)
Steven Spielberg setting up a shot with the grown up Peter Pan (Robin Williams)

9. IT (1990)
At the time I thought this was one of Stephen King’s most disturbingly scary movies (I hate clowns). Personally, the first half of the film when the main characters were still young kids had the most impact. Although Richard Thomas (AKA ‘John-Boy’ in The Waltons) was very well cast as the tortured adult “B…B..Billy Boy!”
Here’s the evil monster clown Pennywise (The brilliant Tim Curry) talking a break.

10. All The President’s Men (1976)
Robert Redford at the height of his career and Dustin Hoffman as The Watergate journalists Woodward and Bernstein in the very serious real life political scandal that saw the downfall of Richard Nixon. You can see how seriously they both stayed in character from the expression on Hoffman’s face.

11. The Godfather (1972)
Marlon Brando as Don Corleone with director Francis Ford Coppola.
Regarded as one of the best movies ever made. This was one of those rare events when not only did the film win Best Picture Academy Award Oscar but so did the sequel The Godfather 2. Best we don’t talk about The Godfather 3.

12. Wayne’s World (1992)
A classic 90’s comedy that made sure that nobody could ever listen to Bohemian Rhapsody again without going into a full ‘head-banging’ routine, even when driving your car.
This photo of Dana Carvey (Garth) having his face touched up with make-up,  just goes to show that by just wearing a simple pair of glasses (as per Superman / Clarke Kent) you can change your whole appearance.

13. The original 1968 Planet of the Apes
The Hero Taylor (Charlton Heston) rehearsing the “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” scene. Or maybe he was just having a quiet chat with a mini-me Cornelius?

14. Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Sean Connery (who was 41 playing 007) learning his lines in the bath.

15. Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund) probably listening to Alice
Cooper.

16. Norman Bates, Psycho (1960)
Anthony Perkins, the original Norman Bates rehearsing for ‘Psycho The Musical.’

17. Goldfinger (1964)
Sean Connery once again as 007, with actress Shirley Eaton who’s character Jill Masterson suffers death by paint suffocation.

18. An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Actor David Naughton is the unlucky American tourist David Kessler who is bitten by large beast on the Moors and is cursed to become a Werewolf. The Metamorphosis scene where David changes from human to werewolf form won an Academy Award Oscar for Outstanding Achievement in Make-Up by acclaimed special effects king Rick Baker. This was pre CGI and you can see how some of the changing effects were quite simple but effective.

19. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
This time Roger Moore as 007 clowning around with Richard Kiel as the metal toothed villain Jaws.

20. Nuking The Fridge or Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull (2008)
I think we have all heard the phrase ‘Jumping the Shark’ which was born when Fonzie in a Happy Days episode jumped over a shark with water ski’s while wearing his leather jacket but sporting some swimming shorts. That was the time when the producers should have called it a day. Another JTS entry was the introduction of Scrappy-Doo in the Scooby Doo cartoons.

This phrase has now been replaced with Nuking the Shark when Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) avoids a radioactive explosion by shutting himself in a refrigerator. Then it gets blown into the air and crashes to the ground with Indie totally unharmed.

More fascinating pictures to follow.

Images courtesy of Imgur

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