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Trains, Planes and Automobiles

| Quentin Budworth

When Robert Jamieson and Adrian Martin got in touch with me about recreating a scene from Trains Planes and Automobiles in the St John’s Hotel on Queens road in Hull I couldn’t say no especially when they said they were going to recreate the cuddle… between John Candy and Steve Martin

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy film written, produced and directed by John Hughes.

The film stars Steve Martin as Neal Page, a high-strung marketing executive, who meets Del Griffith, played by John Candy, an eternally optimistic, outgoing, overly talkative, and clumsy shower curtain ring salesman. They share a three-day odyssey of misadventures trying to get Neal home to Chicago from New York City in time for Thanksgiving with his family.

Walk The Line

| Quentin Budworth

Isabelle Tracy nominated her long time friend Dave Burnham to be Johnny Cash played by Joaquin Phoenix in Walk The Line as he is the lead singer in Hull Band Keep it Cash I managed to create this Hullywood Icon in a quick 20 minute shoot before he started sound checking in Fruit for a gig that night.

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Walk the Line is a 2005 American musical-biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Robert Patrick.

The film focuses on Cash’s early life, his romance with June Carter, and his ascent to the country music scene, as based on his autobiographies. The screenplay was written by Mangold and Gill Dennis. The film’s production budget is estimated to have been US$28 million.

Quentin Budworth on Hull Daily Mail’s Santa Naughty or Nice list

| Quentin Budworth

I was extremely flattered to be included in The Hull Daily Mail as number 18 on the Santa’s naughty or nice feature on saturday for my project Hullywood Icons. In fact I jumped up and down with excitement much to the amusement of two Star Wars Troopers I was photographing. Here is the link to the online version on the HDM website and some still images of the print piece

and here is my bit from the website…

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The Hull photographer’s Hullywood Icons project – using Hull folk to recreated their favourite movie moments – has put a smile on a lot of faces this year. For that reason alone he is very much on the nice list. We can’t wait to see the finished product projected onto the side of various Old Town buildings as part of the 2017 Made In Hull launch season.

 

The Thomas Crown Affair

| Quentin Budworth

When Juliet Johnson got in touch with me about playing  Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway) in  The Thomas Crown Affair  with Andy Snowden – Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) I just had to say yes , we shot the romantic scene in an allley on the High Street in Hull’s Old Town.20161210-l67a6669

The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 film directed and produced by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. This heist film was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song for Michel Legrand’s “Windmills of Your Mind”