models in movies

[RJWood]

[philo426]

Higgins was building a model of the bridge on the River Kwai using match sticks.Later on in the episode he is tied up by thugs who asked him why he was building it..His reply was;"I was there".One of the better Magnum p.I. episodes.

[styromaniac]

Speaking of Law & Order..I seem to recall an episode in which Vincent D'Onofrio is investigating a crime scene and sees something shiny in the carpet..he holds it up to the light and its a car model part..a chrome side mirror.It leads to a plot in which the deceased person's son was obsessed with model cars and had somehow bilked people out of money to the point in which he was able to fill a small hangar with expensive full size cars.

Then there's that movie "Butterfly Effect" where one of the disturbed kids just sits in his room and builds models.

Then there's a Drew Carey episode where Drew is depressed cuz he broke up w/ his girlfriend & friends were trying to get him to come out of his apartment where all he did was build model airplanes all day.

It was about this time that I thought all Hollywood had to say about guys who liked scale models was that they were deeply disturbed.