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k_cous

This topics was started back in 2005 and I'd like to bring it back because there have been some more movies with architects as the lead role or one of the supporting roles.

So what movies have the main character or one of the supporting characters as an architect/ landscape architect or 'designer'????

Something's New, Simon Baker plays a landscape architect

Click, Adam Sandler and David Hasselhoff play architects

My Super Ex-girlfriend, Luke Wilson architect

there's a few semi new ones to get it started

 
Feb 20, 09 9:59 am
archiwhat

Californication and that stupid movie with Jude Law.

Feb 20, 09 10:13 am  · 
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vado retro

how about the fountainhead? i heard its really realistic...

Feb 20, 09 10:19 am  · 
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archiwhat

Is it recent to you?

Feb 20, 09 10:25 am  · 
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k_cous

LOL no the fountainhead is not recent but that's alright I've yet to see it or read it.

umm Closer is the movie with Jude Law

Feb 20, 09 10:28 am  · 
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BlueGoose

The Lake House-2006 (Keanu Reeves)

Feb 20, 09 10:47 am  · 
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parkerd

You me and Dupree (Kevin Dillon). I've also noticed "architecture offices" used frequently in commercials.

Feb 20, 09 12:01 pm  · 
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mfrech

right on, parkerd: they're all over the damn place in commercials...especially ones that focus on small businesses. i think any time they need to spruce up a ad shoot they dust off a model (presumably from an arch. school dumpster) and put it on the desk in the back.

of course, it's nothing new : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Mwbh9Dejk

Feb 20, 09 1:41 pm  · 
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flipside

The wife of Tim Allen in the new "Shaggy Dog" was an architect
Richard Gere's paramour in the "Breathless" remake was an architecture student
Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle
And since Vado opened the door for older films, "The Towering Inferno" where the parther has a king sized bed in his office (for consultations, of course)

Feb 20, 09 2:04 pm  · 
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archiwhat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u07J92RN6Po

She doesn't know how to use a computer - in 2008.

Feb 20, 09 2:15 pm  · 
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parkerd

Charles Bronson in Death Wish as a New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad...

Feb 20, 09 2:23 pm  · 
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Cranky Pantz

the namesake. it's about indian immigrants with cal penn. he is an architect in that movie. good movie by the way.

Feb 20, 09 2:45 pm  · 
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Cranky Pantz

maybe it's kal not cal.

Feb 20, 09 2:46 pm  · 
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drums please, Fab?

michael keaton was an architect in 'white noise'

Feb 20, 09 2:56 pm  · 
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bucku

Jude Law was a landscape architectect in "Breaking and Entering"

Feb 20, 09 3:18 pm  · 
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bucku

"Entering" looks funny when you spell it out.

Feb 20, 09 3:18 pm  · 
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strlt_typ
Firewall

2006
Virginia Madsen as Beth Stanfield

She had to escape with her children from the intruders using the crawl space of her house.



Feb 20, 09 3:54 pm  · 
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strlt_typ
"Entering" looks funny when you spell it out.

so does "architectect"

is that NCARB-proof?

Feb 20, 09 4:04 pm  · 
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fays.panda

how i met your mother

Feb 20, 09 6:09 pm  · 
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tagalong

if you watch the deleted scenes in love acutally, you see that Liam Neeson is an architect...it explains the ultra contemporary kitchen.

Feb 20, 09 8:33 pm  · 
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heavymetalarchitecture

Ya parkerd, the Death Wish Pentology!

# 1 Death Wish (1974)
# 2 Death Wish II (1982)
# 3 Death Wish 3 (1985)
# 4 Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
# 5 Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994)


I can't believe there are actually five of these. How ridiculous, but I love them somehow.

Feb 20, 09 9:45 pm  · 
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come on? Was it really necessary to start a new thread for this. All of these movies where mentioned in the previous thread, most notably this one

Feb 21, 09 12:22 am  · 
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mfrech

well true, but it seems that the movies on that thread were ones that are well suited to architectural examination, versus this thread, which is focused on characters who are architects. a bit of a different tack, i think.

i mean, i don't think anyone would put any of the death wish movies on the same list as blade runner or city of lost children, right?

Feb 21, 09 8:54 am  · 
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poop876

Why is there always a drafting desk in most of these?

Feb 23, 09 9:43 pm  · 
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Jamchar

Matthew Brodericks character in "Cable Guy"

The daughter in "father of the Bride"

Feb 23, 09 10:26 pm  · 
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bucku

my bad dammson. but thats pretty funny. perhaps i'll place that on my business cards.

Feb 24, 09 9:15 am  · 
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k_cous

architechnophilia
I started the thread for more RECENT movies if you read the top post!

:D

Feb 24, 09 10:09 am  · 
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vado retro

yeah techno learn how to read dammit and quit hijacking this valuable thread.

Feb 24, 09 11:59 am  · 
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la_la

has anyone heard anything from UCLA? i heard a rumor...

but i'm really gullible these days

Feb 25, 09 6:36 pm  · 
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la_la

oops! wrong board, sorry

Feb 25, 09 6:36 pm  · 
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ih1542006

Sally Fields in Mrs. Doubtfire

Feb 25, 09 7:09 pm  · 
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Stasis

The Architect (2006): Anthony LaPaglia ,is blamed for housing blocks he designed that turned into slums.

Feb 25, 09 7:16 pm  · 
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silverlake

Frank Gehry plays an architect in Sketches of Frank Gehry

Feb 25, 09 8:54 pm  · 
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SIDA

It's a real life drama...

Some architectural firm fired so many in this recession that they have to hire temporary workers to pretend working on the desk when important clients come for visit.

Now-a-days architects have to master many skills in order to survive...

Feb 26, 09 6:09 am  · 
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Cranky Pantz

mike brady in the brady bunch...of course.

Feb 26, 09 2:37 pm  · 
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bowling_ball

Probably mentioned, but Kevin Klein's character in My Life As A House (or maybe just Life As A House). He's a model maker in a firm, for a slightly different take.

Also... Maybe this is only of interest to me, but the dad character in One-Hour Photo is an industrial designer. I can't think of any other movies with industrial designer characters.

Feb 26, 09 5:33 pm  · 
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otis151

Michelle Pfeiffer in "One Fine Day" with George Clooney....this is the one where her son destroys her skyscraper model and she runs all over nyc trying to get it fixed

Feb 27, 09 1:50 pm  · 
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parkerd

the boyfriend in "in the bedroom" is an architecture student

Feb 28, 09 10:10 am  · 
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parkerd

sam waterson in "hannah and her sisters". i know it's not recent, but it is a notable portrayal of an architect.

Feb 28, 09 10:18 am  · 
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YBaggili

Well.. not a movie nor recent, but why not:
"Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place"
Pete: a neurotic architeture student

Feb 28, 09 10:43 am  · 
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passerby1ce

^^^^...turned fireman

Feb 28, 09 5:05 pm  · 
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asiatic

ashton kutcher was an arch student in the Butterfly Effect

Mar 5, 09 12:01 am  · 
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k_cous

No he isn't!!!! ^^^^^

Mar 5, 09 8:19 am  · 
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strlt_typ
Mar 5, 09 10:39 am  · 
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drums please, Fab?
Mar 5, 09 12:16 pm  · 
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drums please, Fab?
Mar 5, 09 12:25 pm  · 
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k_cous


Mar 5, 09 12:28 pm  · 
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insomniac

Two for the Road

Mar 8, 09 12:52 am  · 
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Uhm recent movies, Two for the Road was released in 1967

Mar 8, 09 1:45 am  · 
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liberty bell

Isn't there a ridiculous commercial out now, for a phone I think, where a designey guy is busily taking advantage of all our new-fangled phone technology to upload and send a work-related video - and right under the phone you see a circle template sitting on his desk?

My husband and I saw it simultaneously and laughed out loud. But I've not seen the commercial again.

Sorry, I know it's not a movie, but it IS recent! And yet another ridiculous portrayal of architectural practice!

Mar 8, 09 8:17 am  · 
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BOTS

Just resurrect the old stuff next time.

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Mar 11, 09 8:14 pm  · 
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