# Props from movies you instantly recognize

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 16, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410 "2011-12-16T14:27:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/161 "2011-12-18T15:26:39Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> I associate it more with _Predator_ but YMMV. 🙂

Me too!

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/162 "2011-12-18T16:06:31Z")

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Would Arnold count as an easily recognizable prop?

😛

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/163 "2011-12-18T16:09:00Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> Would Arnold count as an easily recognizable prop?
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> 😛

No doubt. As would Pam Anderson.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/164 "2011-12-18T16:11:23Z")

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_rimshot_

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/165 "2011-12-18T16:19:33Z")

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> [@Labtrash](#):
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> Me too!

I think what does it for me with _Predator_ is that I associate it more with [Bill Duke](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004886/) than with Ah-nuld since Ah-nuld is always so much more at ease with heavy and unwieldy things. Duke is one of my favorite character actors, (along with [Bill Nunn](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638056/)), and the image of that terrified look on his face as the mini-gun just keeps spinning after all the ammo is gone is as memorable as it gets.

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/props-from-movies-you-instantly-recognize/606410/166 "2011-12-18T17:39:31Z")

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> [@Hail\_Ants](#):
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> [This alien control panel from Forbidden Planet](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1081448448/tt0049223) seemed to crop up a lot in B sci-fi movies and Twilight Zone episodes. Picture is B&W but the film was in color (and great!)

Whoa! That alien civilization Morbious found invented PacMan! 🙂

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