Hi Everyone,
Hope you’re all keeping cool through this awfully hot summer. I’ve been busy with family matters, but I managed to have a little time to make a new collage.
This one is called “Carried Away” and I’ve been meaning to create it for a long time. It’s based on one of the oldest tropes in sci-fi/monster movie history – the damsel being carried away by the monster! In my research I wasn’t too surprised to see how often this trope was used in advertising — sometimes even when it doesn’t happen in the movie! But when you consider the audience of mostly young men, it’s not too surprising!
I had fun finding variations of the theme too – men carrying women, monsters carrying women, robots carrying women, women carrying women and sometimes women carrying men! I included many classics (King King, of course) as well as horror, sci-fi, some obscure movies, and even romantic comedies!
See how many you can find on the list below the picture! Enjoy and stay cool! – Therese
- King Kong
- Superman and Lois (2)
- Tarzan and Jane (one is very tiny)
- Mummies carrying Women (2)
- The Colossal Man
- Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
- Fly Man
- Cary Grant (3)
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon (4)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- A Headless Robot carrying a Woman
- This Island Earth Creature
- Women carrying Women (2)
- Wonder Woman (3)
- Dracula
- Snow White
- Jaws
- Sea Creature with Scuba girl
- Barbarella and the Angel
- 3 characters from The Philadelphia Story
- Martians carrying Women (2)
- Rhett Carrying Scarlet
- Wasp Woman
- The Mysterian
- Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin
- Mandingo
- Indiana Jones and Marian
- Gorilla Robot with Woman
- Green Dude with Sunglasses carrying Woman
- Werewolf carrying Woman
- James Cagney and Betty Davis (the Bride Came COD)
- The Swamp Thing carrying Adrienne Barbeau
- Gene Kelly (2)
- Red Helmet Guy
- Errol Flynn in San Antonio
