Bruce got the juice - Bruce Willis' Jacket

[dr greg]

Watching the latest Bruce Willis flick on DVD last night, (hey it was raining), it's a so-so sci-fi, and anyway half-way through his robot gets wrecked and he spends the rest of the film in a very nice old black leather jacket, big collar, worn black, zip front...pretty cool jacket all up..I wonder if it's out of his own wardrobe...
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1686735360/tt0986263

 

[Creeping Past]

Nice jacket.

See these threads: "Half belt jacket stars on Bruce Willis in Surrogates" and "Tony Nowak Surrogates Jacket".

 

[dr greg]

tyranny of distance

OOPS missed those threads, but forgive me.... movies can turn up out here up to a year after US release...if at all...

 

[BellyTank]

...and occasionally before!


IS that jacket really black?


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[jon z]

Plenty of jackets like that turn up on eBay.

 

[Seb Lucas]

It's not black - according to Tony Nowak who made it it is dark brown/burgundy.

 

[feltfan]

I'm still far from convinced that's not vintage.
The Nowak jacket someone posted here sure doesn't
look THAT much like the one Willis wore (sorry).
Did Nowak explicitly claim he made the jacket?

 

[BellyTank]

I'm sure it's not just you and me, FeltFan.
I'd really like to see where he says he made the film jacket.
Maybe he just hasn't said that he didn't...

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[Carlisle Blues]

These snaps are allegedly with Bruce's stunt double...

Here with his wife and jacket..

http://www.tonynowak.com/

 

[Dinerman]

The one the stunt double looks like a different jacket,probably the Tony Nowak one, while the "hero" jacket looks like an original vintage one. Does that look to be the case to others?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Good man, Bruce -- he shops at Trader Joe's. :eusa_clap


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[Carlisle Blues]

The one the stunt double looks like a different jacket,probably the Tony Nowak one, while the "hero" jacket looks like an original vintage one. Does that look to be the case to others?

Pics allegedly taken at Tony's shop

 

[BellyTank]

This, above, IS a vintage jacket. The picture I've been waitying for.
I think I can recognise the real thing, having had so many of these type of jackets pass through
my hands, as well as my eyes, over the past 20 years.

The shots from inside Nowak's shop are a different, most probably "new" jacket.
Although it looks like an "attempt" at vintage-ification, you can see that it's not THE
same jacket- look at the small details and the clues that it's "new".
The "stunt double"'s jacket is a different jacket again.

Dinerman, you could be right.


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[Baron Kurtz]

No doubt, NO doubt. That jacket on the double is undoubtedly a vintage jacket. The wear on the lower half of the front right panel is unmistakeable. And the chain zipper pull on the chest pocket - compare to the zipper on the "from the store" jacket. Also the stitching around the pockets on the "from the store" jacket: The one really bad part of that jacket.

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[BellyTank]

The image I quoted/re-posted, above- the large, frontal, that's the Bruce, not the double.
That's a fur-real vintage jacket. All the different types of wear and character that you can't
get from the rocks and tumble dryer. I think you agree with me.

Baron.K, there are at least two other threads that have some movie-jacket fans fooled that it's
a costume repro, rather than vintage.


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[dr greg]

colour bar

And I must admit that in the sunshine, it definitely ain't black, I blame that movie lighting, all that running around in the dark :eusa_doh:

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Allegedly the same jacket as the film look at the lining..

The same lining appears in the movie jacket ...here are some action shots..

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Nice jacket.

See these threads: "Half belt jacket stars on Bruce Willis in Surrogates" and "Tony Nowak Surrogates Jacket".

Yes, it is vintage, but some people --especially those who crave one of their own-- refuse to believe this, no matter what. These naysayers insist on believing they can get one from Tony that's exactly like Bruce Willis's.


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[jon z]

If it is vintage, & evidence here seems to point to it being so, then surely the double must have worn the same jacket. (It is highly improbable that two vintage jackets identical enough in style & aging so as not to notice would have been found). Either that or a copy of Bruce's original must have been made for the double.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

It is highly improbable that two vintage jackets identical enough in style & aging so as not to notice would have been found.

Difficult, but not improbable -- when you consider the vast resources that big film costumers have at hand. If a certain vintage jacket exists, they're more likely to find it than anyone else.


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