“Great Showdowns”
GITS reader Darren McLeod sent me this email:
I don’t think I’ve seen this on GITS, but thought you might enjoy it:
http://greatshowdowns.com/
It’s a blog by this artist, Scott C, who has done up a bunch of cute
paintings on great showdowns in film history. I think they’re pretty
great.
Darren, you’re right. They are great. A few examples:
“We were wondering if you had experienced any… disturbances?”
“I made a new friend today.”
“In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people… the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing…”
“As you can see, we’ve had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson.”
As the blogger-artist Scott C. explains:
Since the beginning of time, there has been struggle. The epic clash of being against being. Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Triceratops. Giant Squid vs. the Sperm Whale. The Circle vs. the Square.
The struggle is forever. It makes the world turn around. These are the struggles that make us stop what we are doing and sort of check things out… wondering what the eff.
This is a chronicling of some of the greatest confrontations in FILM HISTORY. The greatest moments of melee. These are the GREAT SHOWDOWNS.
And they sort of enjoy that they are the great showdowns.
For more inspired great showdowns, go here.
And a hearty H/T to Darren for giving me the heads-up!