Curio: Type Is All You Need
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 10:30AM
Alexa in Blade Runner, Curio, The Usual Suspects, kiss kiss bang bang

Alexa here with your weekly art break.  Although film is a medium that makes meaning with images (with "show, don't tell" as a newbie screenwriter's mantra), it can't be denied that the words spoken in some films have taken on a life of their own; movie quotes are simply part of the vernacular. In that spirit, here are some artists that have cleverly distilled a movie down to its words, sometimes with unexpected results.

 

Kiss Bang Bang by illogicality.   

A Blade Runner moment from Jan Skácelík.

More images after the jump

 

The Usual Suspects by JoE.

Buddy the elf, made in his own words, by Skahfee Studios.

Westley's words, simply put by The Big Harumph.

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