The tenth category in The Gummi Awards is for the movie which features the Most Crazy-Cool Carpet Design. Although it's not often realized, a tremendous amount of effort goes into choosing design elements in film. Like choosing a wardrobe for the actors, choosing carpeting, furniture and wallpaper lend the picture a sense of style. In the movie Lucky Number Slevin, for example, the wallpaper in Nick Fisher's apartment building is made up of crazy-cool geometrics and Amy Butler-type patterns. Nominate a film which features at least one eye-popping carpet design. It may or may not be important to the plot of the movie. (As an aside, The Dude's rug in The Big Lebowski does not count.)
The Nominees Are:
The Shining - "of course! The carpet is very '70s and geometric and trippy, especially with little Danny rolling around on it with his Big Wheels. It almost makes sense to see the dead twin girls standing on that same carpet later in the movie (not to mention a recently-bludgeoned and bleeding dead man on the busy and colorful hallway tile)." (watch a clip)
The Devils Advocate - "The floor in the penthouse. Not as cool as the sculpture behind the desk though... "
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - "If you are hiding under a bed, next to a pink-haired dead chick, it's always nice to be laying on a cool carpet. Come to think of it, the whole apartment was pretty cool looking - maybe I'm just assuming the carpet was, too."
Beetlejuice - "The carpet in the entryway, 3-D patterned to look like square shaped holes in the floor." (watch a clip)
(This category is now closed to new nominations. Stay tuned to GP to discover the winners!)
**Note: Categories are being listed in reverse order, counting down from 15. To get the full details of The Gummi Awards, read here.
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