Thanks to Clay Parker Jones for this crazy wall from American Gangster. It doesn’t look super crazy from this shot but I think I can maybe make out some red string on that map in the background… the signs are there!
Crazy Walls
For when a scrapbook is not crazy enough
My thanks to Matthew Carlin for this submission from the TV show Homeland. Carrie Mathison shows her crazy (possibly, I’m lead to understand, clinically crazy) craziness, in hoping a huge wall of colour-coordinated paper will help her combat TERROR.
From the film Temple Grandin. A fine example and, as with A Beautiful Mind, I wonder if any of this trope is drawn from the docudrama’s factual basis or if it’s just lazy art-direction-shorthand. Let me guess.
(Thanks Tobias.)
Castle
Thanks to Alby for this tip, from a recent episode of Castle. Marvellous. At least two walls, and the ceiling, and the canonical red string.
Flash Forward
The show that keeps on giving the crazy. More drawing and less collage on this one, ‘Frost’s Wall’, but no less crazy for that.
Knowing
According to the TV Tropes page on ‘Room Full of Crazy’ this Nicolas Cage movie features “a veritable cabin full of crazy”, of which this is the best glimpse from the trailer. Cabins are, of course, otherwise known for being home to perfectly sane individuals in movies.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
From a trailer for a forthcoming crazy wall. In fact, what looks like an entire crazy room, from the more map-oriented end of the crazy wall crazy spectrum.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Occasionally we are privileged to see a crazy wall before it gets too crazy. From 1979, we see here a very restrained British establishment example of a crazy wall.
The Hour
Just because it’s a high-quality BBC costume drama, it doesn’t mean it can’t be a crazy, high-quality BBC costume drama.
A Beautiful Mind
No crazy wall of crazy walls would be complete without this masterful crazy spider example of the “string connection technique”.
