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Fictional Architects In Movies
3rd September 2010 (Updated) | Category: Architecture Humour
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Image and source via DanStewart, Ajolote Boletin, Archinect, ArchiExplotion, and more. I’ve managed to add a few more based on original list, anymore?
Barack Obama wanted to be an architect, so did Brat Pitt. You got to read this article – And now let us praise hot architects. Hollywood can’t get enough of them.
“Architects once were portrayed as sophisticates and what has happened to them both in reality and on film is that they are now seen as just ordinary folk, kind of a hack or bumbler,” says one longtime San Francisco architect, who has observed that the field no longer attracts the best and the brightest because there are so many other avenues to be creative that are far more lucrative. Source: sfgate.com
Why is there always a drafting table and a t-square in most of these movies?
Paul Neuman in “The Towering Inferno”
Keanu Reeves in “The Lake”
Steve Martin in “HouseSitter”
Woody Harrelson in “Indecent Proposal”
Michael Keaton in “White Noise”
Frank Gehry (Voice) in “The Simpsons”
Gary Cooper in “Fountainhead”
Jude Law (Landscape Architect) in “Breaking and Entering”
Adam Sandler in “Click”
Liam Neeson in “Love Actually”
Wesley Sinipes in “Jungle Fever”
Luke Wilson in “My super Ex-Girlfriend”
Ashton Kutcher (Archi Student) in the “Butterfly Effect”
Matt Dillon in “You, Me and Drupree”
Tom Hanks in “Sleepless in Seattle”
Charles Bronson in “Death Wish”
Michelle Pfeiffer in “One fine Day”
Matt Dillon in “Something about Mary”
Tom Selleck in “Three man and a Baby”
Henry Fonda in “12 Angry Men”
Zach Braff in “The Last Kiss”
Virginia Madsen in “Firewall”
Matthew Broderick in “The Cable Guy”
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blip
on August 25th, 2009Richard Gere interpreted a successful architect in “Intersection” with Sharon Stone, a remake of the French film LES CHOSES DE LA VIE.
dani
on August 29th, 2009Hi,
two more: Kevin Kline in “House As A Life” and Ewan McGregor in “The Serpent’s Kiss”.
It’s a really nice post anyway, thanks.
Will
on August 30th, 2009Also –
Jeff Bridges as Max Klein – “Fearless” (1993)
Albert Finney as Mark Wallace – “Two For The Road” (1967)
Kirk Douglas as Larry Coe – “Strangers When We Meet” (1960)
Richard Gere as Vincent Eastman – “Intersection” (1994)
Helmut Bakaitis as The Architect – “The Matrix Reloaded” (2003) – I know it doesn’t fit the ‘celluloid architect’ type since he isn’t really an architect but still worth a mention.
Tarek
on August 31st, 2009Mat Dillon played a fake architect in that movie, he just pretended to be one!
Anyway this was an interesting post.
Homer
on August 31st, 2009If i remember right, Ashton Kutcher was a Psychology student in “the butterfly effect”
franck
on September 1st, 2009And David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) in The Invaders
Filinho
on September 1st, 2009not to forget Jason Alexander as George from ‘Seinfeld’ who “always wanted to pretend that he’s an architect”
marbledcloud
on September 1st, 2009didn’t realize that many architects in the movies. Nice one :)
bk2000
on September 2nd, 2009don’t forget Brian Dennehy in Belly of an Architect…
http://www.cooper.edu/facilities/library/vrc/pix/picks_pix/greenaway-architect.jpg
suze
on September 18th, 2009…. and most recently Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom in (500) Days of Summer. Tom studied architecture but didn’t realize his dream of practicing til Summer (or Autumn.)
Ernie Bayles
on September 26th, 2009I seem to remember that Billy Crystal was an architect in “Sleepless in Seattle”? Or is old age just getting to me.
kenn Young
on September 27th, 2009Don’t forget the iconic designer of “raised ranches” Mike Brady from the “Brady Bunch Movie”
Jim Bradberry
on October 27th, 2009Wilbur Post in Mr. Ed. He had the drafting board right there in Mr. Ed’s stable! Would you hire an architect who talked to his horse?
Sam
on March 12th, 2010Bob (David Duchovny) in “Return to Me”
Bella
on May 2nd, 2010and Keanu Reeves in The Lake House….
Yumna
on July 17th, 2010Inception (2010) – Ellen Page, and pretty much every one else in that movie was an architect
ex. Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt
Boojes
on July 20th, 2010let’s not forget the latest additions Ellen Page and Lukas Haas as Ariadne and Nash, respectively as “Architects” from INCEPTION.
Nick Hendrickson
on August 10th, 2010John Cassavetes in “Tempest” (1982) is a New York architect going through a mid-life crisis. He drops out, moves to a Greek island and starts building a Greek theater, along with the help of his teenage daughter (Molly Ringwald in her film debut). The movie is loosely based on the Shakespeare play so there are many subplots, but the portrait of an architect and the beautiful Greek scenery in this movie are part of why I became an architect.