After seeing his daughter Matilda trying to balance on top of a plastic toy car, instead of yelling at her to get off Alex Zane told her to play the air guitar, channeling the 80s classic Teen Wolf. And thus, an artist was born.
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Zane works with a photographer friend to get everything just right, but says that there is a bit of a process to recreating the movie scenes. “We are somewhat confined to movie scenes that feature a character either sleeping, dead, screaming, standing or sitting – anything aside from those actions is a bit complicated to pull off with a four year old.”
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Amongst Zane’s favorites are The Shining: “I just told her that the movie was about a dad who had to stay at home with his family for a really long time which caused him to slowly lose his mind – after she heard that synopsis she looked at me confused and a little scared and that got her right into character.”
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But by far the toughest to recreate was Cool Hand Luke, “Only because I had to fend Matilda off from actually eating 15 Cadbury Candy Eggs.”
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“We just want to make people smile for a few seconds during their day.”