Just a Face and a Caption: Saving The Orphanage

It's Christopher Walken with a toy house. I get that they're thinking that it's a model of the development he wants to build (I assume... at first I thought it was a model of the orphanage itself), so that is something, but I don't think it's anywhere near enough.

Plus, the image makes it look like it's a character trope of some sort rather than a stock plot. Walken doesn't even look particularly sinister there.

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Still going with Keep Until Better Image Suggested for the same reasons. Not a good image, but it doesn't harm the page, and it does give the right atmosphere. He gives a good impression of the typical antagonist in one of these stories.

Dude, quit reading my mind.

Agree: not great, not terrible.

I picked it at the time since the scene in particular is a trope example (it's from The Country Bears), but I could see if I can get a version of that at least shows him smashing the model house.

Or possibly an image of a developer foreclosing on some nuns, if we've got something like that.

edited 22nd May '13 1:30:19 PM by Rebochan

I suggest pulling it; I have no idea what that image is supposed to represent. It's a guy with weird hair looking at a stack of books, I think?

No, he's looking at a model of a building on his desk...I haven't seen the movie so I'm not sure what exactly it is, but given its appearance it's the "orphanage" the title is implying.

Okay, I suppose it's a building if I squint hard enough. So this crazy looking guy is saving that building? That still is horribly vague for a picture; too much of the context is missing.

No, he's the bad dude planning on tearing it down. Check the Film section in the last folder.

edited 23rd May '13 4:08:11 AM by Willbyr

Including the last thread I think that is many Keep votes to few Pull votes.

Well, let's see if we can find something better.

I don't have a specific pic in mind, but what comes to my mind when I think of the trope is something like a man handing a bag of money to a group of nuns standing in front of a building labelled "orphanage" with a "condemned" sign stuck beside the label. Orphans standing around cheering are optional but desired.

Just to clarify, I'm suggesting that this is the "ideal" which any pic we choose should come as close as possible to. Feel free to disagree, but please give reasons.

I do understand that we're unlikely to find an existing pic which meets all the above criteria and will therefore have to compromise.

edited 27th May '13 3:22:21 AM by Melkior

No activity in the last three weeks. Clocking.

Move it or lose it.

I think the only thing I can add to this thread is that maybe we need a note on the trope page (a comment perhaps) pointing out that we'd like a better image but not to bring it to Image Pickin' unless you believe you have a good candidate.

Locking for lack of action. No further action is to be taken on the basis of this thread. Make anew thread and start again if you still feel that something needs to be done.