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6 coats that steal the show to the movie stars
Some actors become famous for their expressions, their gaze or their gesture, some others, indeed, become style icons for their garment on the stage.
From the beginning of the cinema to the present days, stage costumes play an important role in the movie stories, giving a strong connotation to the setting, to the film atmospheare and to the characters themselves.
Here a list of stars and coats which made the history of the cinema.
In 1942, Michael Curtiz directed Casablanca, one of the most famous Hollywood film ever. Humphrey Bogart is Rick Blaine, an American expatriate and owner of the Rick’s Cafe Americaine. He is a man with an obscure past and with a worried gaze who became an icon of the classic cinema thank to his light colour raincoat, a kind of co-star of the film.
Simply a myth: the American Film Istitute classify him at the first place among the most important star of the history of the cinema!
Wim Wenders directed “Der Himmel ueber Berlin”, a movie halfway between poetry and science-fiction, inbued with a dramatic connotation.
In 1987 two angels, Damien and Cassiel, wandered around the city observing Berliner and listening to their thoughts. Damien was the Swiss actor Bruno Ganz who wore an oversize dark coat, tipical of the fashion of that period, and that became a symbol of the movie.
In the crime movie Se7ven, Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman had on a classic detective trench coat in order to better highlight the investigative qualities of William Somerset.
It happened in 1995, when the talent of David Fincher gave to the pubblic one of the most critically acclaimed movie.
Impossible not to mention the hero who owes most of his cult status to his black leather coat:
Brandon Lee who starred as Eric Draven in the original film The Crow, in 1994. Draven is a very dark character, drawn by James O ‘Barr, between 1988 and 1989, inspired by the 80’s underground culture and influenced by music from rock bands of the period, such as The Cure or Joy Division.
His trench coat has become one of the most used Halloween costumes in the world!
In 1999, the Wachowski Brothers gave a fundamental contribution in science fiction movies and a strong cultural impact with the Matrix trilogy.
Laurence Fishburn was Morpheus, one of the central character of the saga: the spiritual guide who revealed Neo the way to the truth.
His character, rebel and dreamer, is characterized by a leather trench coat, cool, stylish and strictly black, in line with the dark underworld in which he lived.
Last but not least a character who is always impeccably dressed and for that reason he is a male icon par excellance: James Bond.
In Skyfall Daniel Craig played the latest James Bond of the Big Screen. While he wore an elegant top coat, which gave him a professional air, the young and ambitious Q, played by Ben Whishaw, had on a large parka, which gave him a casual and hipster air.
Photo Credits
Casablanca: https://drafthouse.com
Der Himmel ueber Berlin: www.vebidoo.de
Se7en : http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Se7en
The Crow: imgkid.com
Matrix: nypost.com
Skyfall: screencrush.com
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