Tikis in films

Who can forget this scene from Star Wars?

..and oddly enough, see the tiki icon in the post above me.....i just saw that same tiki on a lamp post in the film "the Game" staring michael douglas and sean penn.....you can clearly see it through the car window when douglas is stopped at a light.....weird. great movie though.....

OMG pappy.....I'm cryin'.....that is hysterical. Thanks for the great laugh. :)

I am always interested in film locations....just an fyi, but I found this great site today.
The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations

FATIMA BLUSH: Oh, how reckless of me. I made you all wet.
JAMES BOND: Yes, but my martini is still dry.

VampTiki

[ Edited by: VampiressRN 2007-02-19 12:20 ]

Heres another one from the Wild, Wild, West t.v. series....Season 1, an episode called "The Two Legged Buffalo"....The tiki tried to kill Mr. West by way of a pressure switch located on a chair, that in turn sent the dart located in the tikis tongue flying into the chair Mr. West was sitting in...close shave,but good ol' James wins in the end!

this is West entering the expensive hotel room

remove the eyeballs and tongue, and whos style tiki is this?

a close up of the tongue

another frame shot

and finally West is putting the dart back in the tiki as not to alarm the enemies that anything had occured....

I still attest, The Wild,Wild West series was one of the greatest t.v. shows ever, and this only adds a little more strength to my claim!haha

[ Edited by: Tom Slick 2007-02-21 00:41 ]

THE RIGHT APPROAH (1961)

The late Frankie Vaughn (Let's Make Love) plays a ruthless young Hollywood hopeful who uses his friends (and anyone else handy) as stepping stones on his way to fame as a singing star.

After moving into the communal bachelor pad shared by his brother and three other struggling talents, Vaughn wastes no time in moving in on the girlfriend of one of the guys (Juliet Prowse as a hard-edged hash slinger) only to throw her over for a journalist he hopes will help his career (Martha Hyer).

What makes this film so fun is how transparently sneaky old Vaughn is. He is like a cartoon villain; complete with shifty eves, cheshire cat grin, and light-switch mood swings. All he's missing is a mustache to twirl.

The cliches fly, some bad songs are sung and we get to see Prowse dance a little bit. Mostly we get to see Vaughn be really mean to people, and he makes a delightful bad guy.

[TIKI covering the walls of the bachelor pad.] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055373/

Rain (1936)

Joan Crawford, starring as prostitute Sadie Thompson in this adaptation of the Maugham story, is a magnet for all the men on the exotic island of Pago Pago, but fundamentalist preacher Rev. Alfred Davidson (Walter Huston) wants her to see the error of her ways and repent. When, at long last, she begins to come around to his way of thinking, Davidson himself begins to fall for her when the two become stranded together during a fierce tropical storm.

Tiki in the native scenes.

FATIMA BLUSH: Oh, how reckless of me. I made you all wet.
JAMES BOND: Yes, but my martini is still dry.

VampTiki

[ Edited by: VampiressRN 2007-03-08 06:21 ]

Rockford Files....the TV show. Never noticed before, but Rockford has a huge tiki mask in his trailer over the oven in his kitchen.

Tiki party scene from Sci-Fi comedy Evolution (2001)

Tray with hula girl and Hawaiian warrior-hat

Tiki statue in the back and a crash course Dutch

Moai party lights hanging from the bar

Another big tiki in the back

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet, but what about The Incredibles?

just throwing it out there. :D

I watched a classic film the other night that had several scenes in what was called a "chinese restaurant" but appeared to be a polynesian type of place in NYC. I don't know if this restaurant existed or if it was scenery...but it was neat to see eitherway.

The film was The Apartment (1960). It starred Jack Lemon and Shirley McClain (sp?). The whole film was interesting from the perspective of the late 50's/60's era. But, the scenes of Shirley meeting her "lover" in the tiki bar were particularly interesting.

On 2007-01-03 11:49, bigbrotiki wrote:
Seen this Monday on the Twilight Zone Marathon, in the 1962 episode "A piano in the house" that, when it plays, lets everyone speak out their true feelings:

The player piano has a small white Maori Tiki mask stuck in the center, and is initially purchased at a curio shop where two more Maori carvings can be seen: By the door when the lead character leaves (a whacky one!) and on a shelf in the back ground.

Does any one have the boxed DVD set and can post screenshots?

Great, man, thank you, made to order! Is there a program/tool to capture DVD stills off my powerbook, or my TV/DVD player? I need to get some "I am Cuba" imagery...
Mahalo!

I made the stills on my pc using VideoLan or VLC-player that you can download here. It's free and plays everything, except for vinylrecords.

Hadn't seen this one mentioned, at least while searching for "Scorsese"...

Was re-watching Martin Scorsese's CASINO last night, and noticed 2 things:

1. Sharon Stone's first appearance seems to possibly be at the Peppermill Lounge, with its fire/water thing right next to her.
2. at one point when they're moving through the casino, they pass by some moai heads and the green neon appears to say AKU AKU (even though that room was at the Stardust).

The end credits indicate the film was shot at the Riviera hotel & casino. Already sent the DVD back to Netflix, or I'd post some screenshots.

Cheers,
Rupe

On 2007-04-07 15:17, bigbrotiki wrote:
Great, man, thank you, made to order! Is there a program/tool to capture DVD stills off my powerbook, or my TV/DVD player? I need to get some "I am Cuba" imagery...
Mahalo!

There is freeware for Mac called - appropriately enough - DVD Capture that lets you do screengrabs from your Apple DVD Player app.

Also VLC PLayer lets you do screen grabs natively, with just a keystroke - and it will play your DVDs as well as avi and all other major video file formats.

A few more pics from movies, most of them are already mentioned in this thread

Bar scene from The Apartment (1960)
Just a few Tikis in sight, but it's a great bar.

Clambake (1967)
Lot's of Tikis here:

No wait, here:

The Simpsons, Days Of Wine and D'Oh'ses

The Simpsons, The Wettest Stories Ever Told
The scene is set in Tahiti:

One ugly Tiki:

A few by the huts:

And on Easter Island:

The Moai in The Incredibles (2004)

AHA!! I knew there were Moais in the INcredibles! I wasn't hallucenating afterall!

i dont know if anyone else has mentioned this one... but this month comcast on-demand has a short flick called "teenage diary" that has a scene in an old unnamed restaurant. there's plenty of tikis in it. it's free and in the something weird section.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480469/

Just saw Teenage Diary on Something Weird. It's a rambling short film with a Christian message. A date begins with a young couple discussing Bible verses in his car...Then it's off to the Tiki bar! Several large tikis. Couldn't tell if the restaurant was a real location or a scene. There is a zoom in on a menu that just says "Tiki" on it.

Meanwhile, back at home, the girl's mom and dad are fighting about her date and dress. The dad says he's going out and mom says "You're not going to the Alibi again, not tonight!"

Back at the Tiki bar there is a brief floor show complete with a dancer and flaming torch lighting a pool of fire beneath a large tiki.

Here's a quick scene from Mars Attacks!

I just watched the movie Orgazmo.
It is a comedy from the creators of South Park.

In the final fight the heros girlfriend is tied up next to a fake volcano and two tikis.

This scene is from Pagan Island has something that looks like a monster/ tiki hybird in the background.

On 2006-09-19 15:48, AquaZombie wrote:
Anyways, before I forget, I had to go through this whole topic to see if anybody had put on "Beyond The Valley of the Dolls" from 1970.

I only remember this one, were there more?

I was watching Fear and Loathing... again, this time I noticed this scene:

Bahooka!

Heeeeeeerrrrrrree's Johnny!

Benicio

Beverages!

On 2007-05-17 19:26, naugatiki wrote:
This scene is from Pagan Island has something that looks like a monster/ tiki hybird in the background.

That staue is the sea god. Here is a better shot of him.

The man who carved the sea god for this movie was Lewis Van Dercar he is in the Book of Tiki there is a thread about him if you are interested:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=7197&forum=1&hilite=pagan%20island

The movie trailer is on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMBtf87RL74

OFF TOPIC warning!

On 2007-05-18 02:43, stuff-o-rama wrote:

I was watching Fear and Loathing... again, this time I noticed this scene:

Bahooka!

So weird! I own a '63 Comet 260V8 (in foreground) I bought it in Hermosa Beach CA 2004 (took it to Caliente Tropics on that trip for an extended test drive!) and stored it over that winter in SLO with friends (Christine Salon DeLux) before driving across USA on Route 66 to Chicago in 2005. Shipped it home to the UK. Whilst in SLO visited the stuff-o-rama store, of course! Serendipity???

Thanks for posting the still, stuff-o-rama, I have always wanted a pic of the Comet from that movie. Now I need the one from 'Every which way but loose'!!!

Liz

Okey-Dokey -

I've been going nuts this past week with nostalgia while watching the first season of Hawaii 5-O on DVD. I dunno if you guys are including TV shows in this thread, but there are so many Tikis in McGarrets Hawaii that I'd be posting frame grabs till the end of time!
Anyway, wanted to share a few of my favorites - I got this mug at an art fair a while back:

Standard Koa souvenir mug. Really like the inscription:
"Al Minn's Fun Camp - 1972
Best All-Around Camper
Clarke Bennett"

I'd like to think we should all strive to be a Best All Around Camper in our day-to-day lives. Imagine my delight when we get a glimpse into a 1968 pawn shop on 5-O:

Yes! My mug's brothers and sisters! All brand-sparkly new!

And while not tiki related, here is another mind blowing Hawaii scene for me:

This is the Makai Research Pier at Makapuu (across the street from Sea Life Park) under construction! Anyone who has taken a drive around Oahu is sure to remember this pier. Very bizarre for me to see being built as my dad's office is on the end of this pier, and I practically grew up on the thing (I was born the year my Koa Mug was inscribed - 1972).

Thanks for peeking -

Henrik "VanTiki"

..let's not forget the fabulous baker boys, where the brothers bridges are playing dueling piano in a hotel tiki lounge in seattle....i don't think it was a movie set, but a real tiki bar in a real hotel....anyone know for sure?? and is it still around??? what was it called??

a bad 80's movie called vibes they are supposedly in some South American Country Peru maybe at a hotel bar.....didn't look like a Vics but then I saw the mug and swizzle after this shot someone walks in with a volcano bowl as well

Don't think the Hawaiian place in Baker Boys has a name. It is not the Starlite Lounge, where the story sets off. But Frank demonstrates his lingual skills when he rounds up the show:

• Waca Waca Maca Waca. Which means "Paddle Home Safely".

Aaaaah, I just went down T.C. thread memory lane, thanks for digging that up. What a great example of TCers collaborative effort in researching the work of an obscure, unappreciated outsider artist that was related to Tiki. Benzart's stories, the statues in Wayne's backyard, all these links...this is gotta be one of my favorite TC threads ever. An example of how just one strange piece of art can unearth a whole forgotten world of bizarre wonder. Someone should make a book about Van, something to hold in your hands other than just virtual images.

On 2007-05-19 17:06, captnkirk wrote:

That statue is the sea god. Here is a better shot of him.

The man who carved the sea god for this movie was Lewis Van Dercar he is in the Book of Tiki there is a thread about him if you are interested:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=7197&forum=1&hilite=pagan%20island

I've seen Pagan Island on DVD and enjoyed it thoroughly. Not too much of a story, but at least three scenes with this lovely maiden dancing around in front of a very strange tiki god.

A friend turned us on to the original 1956 'A Kiss Before Dying' starring Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward. Seems like all the exteriors were shot here in Tucson and there's a scene in the Pago Pago......

The waiters wore some cool threads....and those wall lamps look sweet.

Interesting place mat/napkin.

Nice neon.

Nice murals.

So that's the Pago Pago. Long gone, but available for viewing thanks to your local friendly video store (or Netflix). Thank you Hollywood.

ch

"Attack of the Beast Creatures"...this was made in the mid-80's I believe, and while the designs are not EXACTLY tiki as we know it, there is in fact a very unusual tiki in this film. It belongs to the 6-inch-tall red chattering monsters that inhabit the island and attack any human that wanders along...if you go to the page below you will find a good review and also pictures, including a picture of the famous scene showing all the little 6-inch monsters kneeling and praying in front of their 3-foot-tall deity statue. (!) It is really a moment of jaw-dropping strangeness.

This is a bad, bad movie, no doubt about that, but there is nothing quite like it.

http://www.brainsonfilm.com/beastcre.html

There are Tikis in the Nintendo Wii game, Excite Truck, on the Figi Map!

So they are sect members and polygamists, but are the Utah families in HBOs Big Love also secret Tiki worshipers?
In the Bill Hendrickson (Bll Paxtons) supply store Home Plus, hey have a rather jolly tiki for sale in the garden department.

And his eldest son have a tiki mug on the desk in his room.

They haven´t started showing the second season in Norway yet, but I understand that their square neighbours (square from a polygamist point of view) even has a tiki bar in their back yard.

Doesn´t exactly look like a fun and wild Luau. So what is this? The Grumpy Church of Latter Day Tikis?

[ Edited by: Kong-Tiki 2007-06-20 14:37 ]

I watched Joe vs. The Volcano again the other night. I love that movie!

My husband said he saw a tiki mug on the show "Sports Night". Apparently one of the main characters keeps his pens in one on his desk.

His WHAT?

Oh...his pens...for a second I thought it...sorry.

The old cartoon Dick Tracy has an episode called Hawaiian Guy (Hawaiian Eye, get it?). A couple of villains, Mumbles and another whose name I don't recall, try to steal a huge diamond from the top of a moai, which is called Diamond Head. Dick Tracy sends Joe Jitsu to apprehend the criminals.

There is no way this cartoon could be made today. Joe Jitsu contains every bad, racist stereotype of a Mr. Moto-type character you could think of. He uses martial arts to effortlessly slam the bad guys to the ground, while saying "So Solly" and "Excuse Prease".

On the up side, the cartoon does have that early-60s vibe to it.

Six-two and even, over and out!

The Dick Tracy Show

Episode Title

The Moai and Diamond

'Dancing Bushes'

Joe Jitsu

In the Eddie Murphy flick Norbit (2007) is a scene that's set in a swimming pool were quite a few tikis can be seen.
Here's one on the left

Not that I want to encourage anyone to watch this piece of crap.

Is anyone watching HBO's series "JOHN FROM CINCINNATI"? The Yost family residence has a tiki out front of the house, near the driveway. Loads of glass floats both at their residence and surf shop. Cannot find a photo of it yet, but will keep an eye out.

And all that is more than I can tell you about just what the hell is going on with this show! But am enjoying it just the same.

Cheers,
Rupe

[Looked for a general TV thread, but couldn't find one, so posted here. Am hoping to clear out the image of the "Norbert" posting above 'cause that's pretty damn distrubing!]

The movie 40 year old virgin was already mentioned but what wasn't mentioned was the Benihana Budha type mug that Steve Carrol's character was drinking out of while on a date with his love interest.

On 2007-07-23 09:19, rupe33 wrote:
Is anyone watching HBO's series "JOHN FROM CINCINNATI"? The Yost family residence has a tiki out front of the house, near the driveway. Loads of glass floats both at their residence and surf shop. Cannot find a photo of it yet, but will keep an eye out.

Yeah, and if you watch closely, Mitch Yost has a really cool carved maoi tiki in his meditation lair out back. I got my eye on YOU!

PS -- John from Cincinati rocks, and has one of the coolest theme songs ever: "Johnny Appleseed" by Joe Strummer

On 2002-06-07 09:56, SoBeTiki wrote:
Since this thread has officially been dubbed "Non-Tiki Bar" Tiki spottings in movies, I'll add one I saw the other night. Black Widow with Theresa Russell and Debra Winger. A large Tiki carving can be seen outside of a Hawaiian resort where the girls stay. Other than that, the few highlights of the movie feature Theresa Russell in a bikini and Debra Winger applying CPR to Theresa...

Just saw that too. Never noticed tikis in movies before I joined this board. The Hawaiian rich guy that the girls nabbed was a hottie....the CPR scene didn't do a thing for me. :lol:

Okay so not a movie but in the TV show Psyc. The main characters dad is building a tiki bar in his living room.

OMG...you mean the show PSYCH? I watch that show religiously....I must be blind....I missed that. I am going to have to try to catch all the reruns now so I can see the tiki bar project....I'm on a mission!!! :)

More last week on John from Cincinnati...
a cool amateur carved KU and John made the KU angry mouth look. Classic.

I just watched the DVD of Night at the Museum with my kids.
It is a OK movie if you have young kids to entertain. It is rated PG but it is all right for all but the very youngest kids.

Right at the very beginning when all the stuff at the Museum comes alive Ben Stiller stop for a few seconds and has a quick exchange with a moving talking Moai head.