Wyatt Earp's Long Shadow

[Bob Boze Bell]

April 27, 2012

Got up at 4:30 this morning. Really nice and cool out. Had some rain yesterday so the air was wet, which is always so sweet in Arizona because it's so rare.

 

Bailed right into a cover concept: Wyatt Earp's Long Shadow. Here is sketch number one:

 

Here's another take on it with a hint of a sound stage on the side. Of course, the scene on the matte painting would show the Hollywoodland sign on it:

 

Here's another take on it, without the sign:

 

Perhaps there needs to be a movie scene in the foreground, of, say William S. Hart in "Hell's Hinges" (1916):

 

So, then you would end up with something like this:

 

May be trying to do too much, but the possibilities are there, just need to pluck it out.

 

 

"Live your life so that your children can tell their children that you not only stand for something wonderful—you acted on it."

—Dan Zadra

[Sue Cauhape]

I love the second take: Wyatt as elderly man and shadow as long-coated, flat-brimmed hat gunman. It's the juxtaposition of what he was in his youth and what he was in old age -- the mystery that surprises every grandchild. 

[Nicholas Narog]

I like the second one best. Keep it simple- you don't want to cloud the meaning too much. Plus I like your image of Wyatt as an old man, without a hat and hands in his pockets... then casting a large shadow of how history- especially cinematic history- will remember him by. With the large wide brimmed hat and a long barreled revolver. 

[John R Wice]

I like that splash of color and Earp at Hollywoodland.  That looks similar to the period photos of him.  I can see him hustling real estate, "Earpville" in Hollywoodland !  He wasn't as well known then as today but if they'd had the manager/hustlers they have now, his notoriety could have really been put to work, especially in Hollywood.

[Bud "Marshal" Stilwell]

The second one is the best.