Movie shots that would be good album covers

The mirrors-reflecting-mirrors shot from Citizen Kane.

The men walking up to the gallows in Intolerance.

And maybe every other shot from North By Northwest.

I just saw the documentary Babies today, and during one point, a certain shot of a hut in the daylight. I thought it would work so well as a classic rock album cover.

The rhino giving birth to Ace Ventura.

ROFL

Car-plowing-into-an-helicopter shot from Die Hard 4.

The opening shot of the joker with the Angry mask in The Dark Knight.

network's im mad as hell speech
will be a great ac/dc album

Pretty much any of Inception's zero-g fight sequence.

Many of the deep plane-exploiting shots in Barry Lyndon for sure, especially if you were making some sort of '70s-style prog rock album.

Also, a random one, a still of Richard Attenborough yelling "GRANT!" in Jurassic Park. Album genre: death metal.

The first half snow-covered body in Doctor Zhivago. (and maybe Pasha's fallen glasses)

The shot of Mary Astor's face with the shadow from the elevator directly over her eye in The Maltese Falcon.

edited 11th Oct '11 11:53:50 AM by EgregiousEric

The Alien Queen emerging from slumber. For a Queen cover band, of course.

Any time Viggo Mortensen pulls a funny smiley face in The Lord of the Rings. For a self-aware power metal comedy band.

The T.rex roaring in triumph at the end of Jurassic Park. For a 60s rock band revival effort.

...Your first and second suggestion...wow, I don't know what to say.

Literally every shot from Le Samourai.

The awards ceremony at the end of A New Hope, specifically when Luke, Han and Chewie are walking down.

Some more:

• Yzma's leg from The Emperors New Groove.
• Gumby masturbating in Freaked.
• The destroying of the printer in Office Space.
• Ray Liotta's brain in Hannibal.
• The fly in the toilet from Meet The Feebles.
• The face shot of King Kong (the original).
• Conan The Librarian from UHF.
• The "I'd buy that for a dollar" guy from Robocop.
• Hans Gruber falling to his death in Die Hard.
• The X-ray of Undercover Brother giving a mook an Ass Shove in Undercover Brother.
• Young Thurgood with a giant Abba Zabba in Half Baked.

Goro's shadow on the wall from the Mortal Kombat movie. The Invisible Man's pants running down the street. Bill And Ted playing Air Guitar.

edited 11th Oct '11 10:08:26 PM by DrFurball

Chris Gardner outside his apartment door...maybe for the cover of a Ne-Yo album or something.

edited 12th Oct '11 10:51:45 AM by 0dd1

Any number of shots from Metropolis, like the machine before and after it turns into Moloch. Or the intertitle of "MOLOCH!" itself.

Pretty much any shot from the Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

edited 13th Oct '11 3:06:20 PM by Kentok

Plenty of shots from Black Swan, but especially:

The part during the performance where Nina's arms have turned into wings.

And the part where Nina and Lily are having sex, and Lily's tattoos turn into wings.

Seconding Yzma's leg.

I always thought the photo from Blade Runner would make for a good one.

Any of the quickenings in Highlander.

The snake coming out of a skull's mouth in Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

The shot of the Enterprise and Reliant "staring each other down" in the Mutara nebula in Star Trek II.

My Name Is Nobody: The backlight on Henry Fonda's hat and coat being the only visible thing. Henry Fonda standing off against 150 of the Wild Bunch.