Mad Props | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A handsome nerd journeys the globe to turn the conventional art world on its head, set to prove to historians and critic | dG1fbElQYWxKVmpWZG8

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00:08 There's nothing quite like an escape to the movies.

00:10 They make us laugh, fall in love, or take us on adventures.

00:18 Everything about the movies is magic.

00:20 But it wasn't until sometime in the past 30 years or so,

00:25 that collectors begin to realize

00:26 that they could actually own pieces of their favorite films.

00:29 >> This is where all our money goes.

00:31 >> Whether it's a prop held by Harrison Ford that's pivotal

00:35 to an adventurous scene, or a classic MacGuffin,

00:38 we never truly understand.

00:39 >> Here we are.

00:41 >> Owning props has become a very big business

00:44 in the collecting world.

00:45 >> Prices have gone up really high in the past couple years.

00:48 >> 92,500.

00:50 >> Almost as big as traditional art itself, selling nostalgia

00:55 and trafficking in magic.

00:57 >> They're revisiting a moment in time that they had perhaps

01:00 when they went to the cinema and watched Superman

01:02 when they were young kids.

01:03 >> What is it that makes prop collectors so passionate

01:06 about owning a movie studio's garbage?

01:08 >> I took the original glove.

01:11 I just threw it in my bag.

01:13 Took it.

01:13 >> That is what I intend to find out.

01:16 >> This is a real original gorilla?

01:18 >> Yeah.

01:18 >> Oh, no way.

01:20 >> Everything that I love, it's all in one thing.

01:22 >> That one, as you can see, also in the shoulder tubes,

01:24 the shininess on it, that's actually dried slime.

01:27 >> I think in general, film is art,

01:28 and this is a piece of film, so yeah.

01:30 >> Yeah, this is the size of a car.

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