A ranked list of 100 things can be fun when you find your favorites on it, and enraging when you don’t. A list of movie props could be just that, but this is much more. Every one of the 100 props that made the list has a story behind it. Where the idea came from, why they selected this object, how it was made, how it was used, what happened to it after the movie was wrapped -those kind of things are covered by the people who were involved in the movie for each prop.
For example:63. The eggs, Alien (1979)
Roger Christian, art director: “The eggs were made with grips underneath where you could pull and open them up. Everything in H.R. Giger’s world is combined with female or male body parts, so the eggs had to look menacing and sensual at the same time. The membrane is a sheep’s stomach — I know, because I had to buy stuff…
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