Comments on: Iwo Jima re-enacted

Iwo Jima re-enacted

growabrain — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:35:35 -0800

This series of photographs, Iconic Moments of the 20th Century, was enacted by pensioners in a home for the elderly in Glasgow. Aged volunteers pose in their everyday outfits and in the vicinity of their Home to re-create scenes from well-known historic photographs

By: phaedon

phaedon — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:44:26 -0800

That woman does a mean Lutz.

By: tepidmonkey

tepidmonkey — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:56:34 -0800

At first I couldn't figure out what the Kim Phúc photo reenactment was supposed to be. I thought, When in the 20th century did zombies attack?

By: amyms

amyms — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:13:08 -0800

Very compelling in a bizarre sort of way.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:14:16 -0800

Wow. I recognized all of those photos immediately. Shame there aren't more.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:19:32 -0800

Shouldn't that be 'Iwo Jima re-re-enacted'?

By: IndigoJones

IndigoJones — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:20:12 -0800

I'd have preferred a little more this and a little less that.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:20:35 -0800

I'm glad the woman in the blue jacket wasn't nude in the second photo.

By: IndigoJones

IndigoJones — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:20:51 -0800

(good one, shakesphereian)

By: mmahaffie

mmahaffie — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:28:59 -0800

Wow. That's pretty cute.

By: forallmankind

forallmankind — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:32:26 -0800

I gotta say - for a whole century, I was rather expecting more than 7 iconic moments. It's a great idea though. And I'd request more photos were it not for the fact that I'd rather take a cheese-grater to my fingers and rub them down to stumps than navigate that site again.

By: parmanparman

parmanparman — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:38:59 -0800

Next week, my office takes on the challenge the 1939-1940 Finno-Russian Winter War.

By: phyrewerx

phyrewerx — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:39:52 -0800

That was awesome. There's something subtlety ironic but innocent about them. Oh, and the Yalta photo was bang on, even the age!

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:08:13 -0800

Pretty astonishing, actually. Kinda glad the Marilyn Monroe skirt photo wasn't included.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:35:42 -0800

Does someone have a link to the original photo of the last one in the series? I have no idea how to Google 'Nazi' and 'flowers.'

By: nax

nax — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:43:54 -0800

Every photo instantly recognizable. Iconic indeed. But I have to agree with forallmankind. I'd like to see more.

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:56:40 -0800

Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics in 1936

By: Casuistry

Casuistry — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:03:50 -0800

Nice. I'd like to see their take on this one.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:04:30 -0800

I'm just glad they didn't try to re-enact the 1999 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Or any SI Swimsuit Issue, really. Or Playboy. /shudders

By: CitizenD

CitizenD — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:35:38 -0800

thanks, growabrain. wow. i wish my pensioner-aged father was involved in something as cool as this. instead he just watches bill o'reilly every day...

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:57:45 -0800

I would laugh my guts out to see the Marilyn Monroe white-dress photo. That would be awesome. Hell, to see her original playboy centrefold image would be hilarious too. Not at all enticing, but still worth a laugh.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:38:14 -0800

I could see an Art Frahm scene working.

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:40:41 -0800

What photograph is the third one, where the lady in the middle is recoiling in fright/horror from whatever the man with his back turned has?

By: Titania

Titania — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:43:31 -0800

I loooove those photos. Funny shit. Cute! ...I'd rather take a cheese-grater to my fingers and rub them down to stumps than navigate that site again. Totally. Clicking the arrow button to get to the next picture was difficult stuff.

By: Titania

Titania — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:49:54 -0800

The third picture is Lee Harvey Oswald being shot, after he supposedly shot JFK.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:01:23 -0800

The third picture is Lee Harvey Oswald being shot~~, after he supposedly shot JFK~~. It's a measure of how much I hated that comment that I contribute to the whole loathsome "fixed that for you" meme.

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:55:39 -0800

I'm making plans to do the same thing, but with kindergarteners.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:58:06 -0800

What's the pope photo of?

By: Harald74

Harald74 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:11:15 -0800

What's the pope photo of? Probably when the previous pope met in prison with a would-be assassin that once wounded him. Can't remember his name, but seem to remember he was from Turkey.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:48:19 -0800

I'd always wondered what happened to the Batley Townswomen's Guild.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:35:48 -0800

Probably when the previous pope met in prison with a would-be assassin that once wounded him Ah, so the pictures are: Vietcong execution Kim Phuc Lee Harvey Oswald Yalta conference Pope and assassin Iwo Jima Jesse Owens

By: Gungho

Gungho — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:13:24 -0800

Careful Mike D. You might get that Python reference removed by the Admin...no sense of humor has he.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:52:57 -0800

Ha! Old people are the shit! Good thing they pried themselves away from the Wii long enough to do this More!!! Moooorreeee!!!!!!! *waves lighter in the air*

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:34:06 -0800

Ooh! Ooh! Do this one!

By: John of Michigan

John of Michigan — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:46:29 -0800

Holy shit, please, Jesus, hearken to my plea. If in Your infinite mercy you see fit to make me live long enough to become a wonky old pensioner, please, please O Lord, let me be as cool and with-it as these oldtimers, unlike the crotchety, mean old bastard that You and I both know I'm going to become instead. Amen.

By: John of Michigan

John of Michigan — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:48:47 -0800

And, Jesus? While I still have Your blessed ear? Could You please ask those nice old people to re-enact this iconic photo? Thanks again. Your friend, John of Michigan

By: not that girl

not that girl — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:03:24 -0800

That was fabulous, though I was originally disappointed because I read the FPP as "Ironic Moments of the Twentieth Century" and I thought that would be really cool.

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:50:20 -0800

More: Yalta Conference by Subtle_squid

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:50:34 -0800

uhm... uh... *blink* I don't get it. I've seen entire movies re-enacted with legos that was better than this. What's there to love here? This just looks like old people entertaining themselves. Nothing wrong with that. But... *scratches his head*

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:37:35 -0800

This just looks like old people entertaining themselves. Nothing wrong with that. But... ...They did it on the internet!

By: RubberHen

RubberHen — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:13:05 -0800

Absolutely fabulous