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Added by Gia on 7 Jul 2015 01:28
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Norman Rockwell on Film

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People who added this item 1711 Average listal rating (1146 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.8
Director Wes Anderson cited Rockwell paintings (particularly those of Boy Scouts) as an influence on the film:

People who added this item 77 Average listal rating (39 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.3
Contains an explicit recreation of Rockwell's 1964 painting "The Problem We All Live With," which depicts Ruby Bridges on her way to school, accompanied for her own safety by four U.S. Marshals.

People who added this item 380 Average listal rating (240 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.7
People who added this item 108 Average listal rating (57 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.6
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People who added this item 63 Average listal rating (44 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 6
Cinderfella (1960)
People who added this item 1029 Average listal rating (599 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.4
Writer, director, and Rockwell collector George Lucas modeled both Debbie (Candy Clark) and the mysterious Thunderbird-driving blonde (Suzanne Somers) after the girl in Rockwell's painting "The Flirts":


People who added this item 1482 Average listal rating (816 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.7
Steven Spielberg (who also owns several Rockwell originals) based the shot of Jim's parents putting him to bed on "Freedom From Fear" (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lucas-and-spielberg-on-norman-rockwell/):

People who added this item 9522 Average listal rating (7010 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 8.8
Forrest Gump (1994)
The shot of young Forrest waiting for his mother outside the principal's office was directly inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting entitled (appropriately enough) "Outside the Principal's Office":

People who added this item 6266 Average listal rating (4500 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 8.2
Director Peter Weir based Seahaven on Rockwell's famous Saturday Evening Post covers, hoping to capture "a small-town America that may never have existed but was certainly mythologized in movies and other media."
(http://www.avclub.com/article/peter-weir-13526):


People who added this item 2105 Average listal rating (1444 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 8.1
Rockwell, Maine is named for the artist, and its appearance was influenced by his work:

People who added this item 2969 Average listal rating (1887 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7.2
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
One of the snapshots on Lilo's wall at the end of the movie is a recreation of Rockwell's "Freedom From Want":

People who added this item 2118 Average listal rating (1377 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.8
Ridley Scott pays homage to "Freedom from Want" in the Thanksgiving scene:


Six movie posters illustrated by Rockwell, followed by a selection of later films that pay homage to his work.

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