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Zen Elder to write ‘Score of Scores’ for Hullywood Icons

| Quentin Budworth

Zen Elder is to to write the Hullywood theme music desribed as a ‘Score of Scores’ his brief is as follows:

‘It needs to be cinematic, quirky, references but don’t replicate themes – homage – a score of scores – Hullish- humorous – fun – serious dramatic – both tongue in cheek and very earnest – strings – orchestral – piano – that kind of thing – all things Hullywood – a northern british version of Hollywood. No woolly jumpers or granola – showbiz and sparkles please… apart from that it’s up to you’.

Zen Elder is the pseudonym of Zebedee Budworth. He studied Music Technology and Popular Music Performance at University of West London graduating with a first in 2013. He engineered the debut album (and associated singles) by Best Friends and Logs, plays the drums in Night Flowers, and everything apart from the drums in The Silver Reserve. Occasional Medieval Entertainer, Brewer of Beer and Rider of Bikes.

Misery

| Quentin Budworth

Camilla McAllister got in touch with me about recreating a scene from Misery with her brother Sean who is creative director of the opening event of Hull’s City of Culture Year ‘Made in Hull’.

Misery is a 1990 American psychological thriller film based on Stephen King’s 1987 novel of the same name and starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth, and Frances Sternhagen about a psychotic fan who holds an author captive and forces him to write her stories.

Directed by Rob Reiner, the film received critical acclaim for Bates’s performance as the psychopathic Annie Wilkes, and Bates won the 1990 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role, making Misery, as of 2016, the only Stephen King adaptation to be an Oscar-winning film.
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Gregory’s Girl

| Quentin Budworth

Gregory’s Girl is Alison Whitfield’s favourite film she enlisted husband Gary Whitfield to play Gregory which he did with much aplomb. Here Alison talks about why she loves the film.

‘Gregory’s Girl is pretty much the perfect film. Great individual performances and sublime comedy moments. it highlights how friends can create good things for each other and that the best fun in life costs nowt. Gregory although previously besotted with Dorothy, embraces his unexpected date with Susan with positive results’.

Here we recreate the lying down dancing and whistling moments from the film…l67a2804

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Brief Encounter

| Quentin Budworth

Helen Marie Smith got in touch with me about recreating the iconic farewell scene from Brief Encounter at Hull’s Paragon Station. Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean about British suburban life, centring on Laura, a married woman with children, whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated because of a chance meeting at a railway station with a stranger, Alec. They inadvertently but quickly progress to an emotional love affair, which brings about unexpected consequences.

Helen enlisted the services of her friend Gary Crossman to play Trevor Howard in the shoot.

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Here are some other shots from the session.

Taxi Driver

| Quentin Budworth

I arrived at Mark Pollard’s house and he said let’s pop around the corner to my mate’s house we need to pick up the shooter…  Let me explain we were recreating a scene from Taxi Driver  a 1976 American vigilante film with neo-noir and psychological thriller elements, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Set in New York City following the Vietnam War, the film stars Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle who Mark portrays admirably in the ‘are you looking at me scene’.

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Mean Girls

| Quentin Budworth

Eleanor Churchill contacted me about recreating the mall scene from Mean Girls with her friends and work colleagues. Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. The film is based in part on Rosalind Wiseman’s non-fiction self-help book Queen Bees and Wannabes, which describes female high school social cliques and the damaging effects they can have on girls.

We created this shot after work on friday afternoon after work at St. Stephens in Hull. In the picture from left to right – Sam Kitchen, Bethany Watson, Eleanor Churchill and Nicola Taylor.

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When Harry Met Sally

| Quentin Budworth

Emma Wilkinson approached me about recreating the infamous scene from ‘When Harry Met Sally’ with her partner Tish Lamb in Coffee31 (a shrine to all things Hull) in Hull city center. I really couldn’t resist the pull of playing against Hollywood stereotyping so a same sex ‘When Harry Met Sally’ was a win for me.

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Hullywood icon in Hull Daily mail feature

| Quentin Budworth

Hullywood icons captures Tom Hanks Castaway on The Humber

By Hull Daily Mail  |  Posted: November 04, 2016

By Ian Midgley

Tom Hanks in Castaway – on the Humber!

If you think Tom Hanks had it hard in Castaway, then imagine how tricky it was for Jim Wardlaw recreating the marooned movie on Hessle Foreshore.

Jim is one of the latest hardy Hull residents to recreate their favourite movie moments for the Hullywood Icons projects which saw him taking to the foreshore, under the shadow of the Humber Bridge, armed with nothing but a loincloth and a basketball called Wilson for company.

Photographer Quentin Budworth, the creator of the project, said the “biting North Sea winds” hadn’t made the photoshoot easy. He said: “Poor old Jim, it was absolutely freezing on the day when we did the shoot. I got there early to do a bit of a recce and it was perishing with that icy Norwegian wind blowing in off the estuary.

“But Jim was brilliant. He said he had done the Sea of Hull and that was being naked for four hours. So he said four minutes being naked for the Castaway picture didn’t bother him. He spent ages getting ready in the car before we took the picture so I went to see what he was doing and he was busy getting his Wilson ready. He was making his own props.”

Wilson gets a talking to on the Humber 

Quentin has now captured 19 iconic movie moments, including shooting scenes from Kill Bill, Judge Dredd, Lara Croft and Caroline Ullyart as Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard.

“Caroline perfectly captured Norman Desmond,” said Quentin. “We did the photoshoot in the Guildhall and she completely nailed the crazy eyes and everything.”

The finished results of Hullywood Icons will be projected onto the sides of buildings across Hull Old Town during the opening week of 2017, as a side attraction of Sean McAllister’s giant Made In Hull City Of Culture launch installation.

Quentin says he is still on the lookout for other participants to have a go at living their silver screen dreams. He will be visiting more city locations this week to take pictures inspired by films such as Star Wars and When Harry Met Sally.

 

Tom Hanks and original Wilson from the hit movie Castaway
He is also appealing for people across Hull and its suburbs who would like the images to be projected on the side of their buildings in January 2017 to get in touch.

“As long as they have a wall in a public space that the public will be able to see I want to hear from them,” he said. “I want to bring my mobile projector along and take these images out t as many people as possible.”

* Quentin is still looking for people to join in with Hullywood Icons and for spaces to project the finished images. Contact quentinbudworth@yahoo.com or visit the websitewww.hullywoodicons.com

Link http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/hullywood-icons-captures-tom-hanks-castaway-on-the-humber/story-29868270-detail/story.html