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05/03/2006 Archived Entry: "Ross MacDonald's Movie Props"

Ross MacDonald, an illustrator, writer and commercial artist, has also created bunches of prop books, drawings, and documents for movies. Fascinating! For Capote: "In addition to being a cold blooded killer, Perry Smith was also an amateur artist - the only example of his actual art I had was his drawing of Jesus, which he had done in prison for the chaplain. Based on that single example, I had to imagine his style - an amalgam of sensitive slightly childlike drawing and prison art." For The Legend of Zorro: "The script originally described this book as 'thousands of years old' and 'printed on papyrus'. Since the book described events from the crusades I explained that it would actually have been hundreds, not thousands of years old, and that historically no one printed on papyrus, an early form of paper woven from reeds, used by the ancient Egyptians. I recommended doing the book in the style of the earliest printed books of fifteenth century. All interior pages were designed and composed using latin text and woodcuts from that period."

Via Hungry Tiger's LINKALICIOUS aka del.icio.us. Isn't Ross MacDonald a fannish name? Ah, I'm thinking of the mystery author.

Posted by bran @ 05/15/2006 06:36 PM PST