from blogs.smithsonianmag.com..
Sneak Peek at the film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2008/11/sneak-peek-at-the-film-night-at-the-museum-battle-of-the-smithsonian/"Why are we Around the Mall bloggers so excited about the upcoming Dreamworks film, Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian, set to be released next May? It’s all about ego. Here we have an opportunity to sit in a darkened theater and nitpick over all the inaccuracies.
So, let’s kick things off a little early by looking at some publicity photos, shall we?
Ben Stiller as Larry Daley
First up, Ben Stiller (above) striking a dramatic pose in—um, what museum is this again? Is that The Thinker? We have lots of lovely Rodin pieces, but this isn’t one of them. (You can, however, see a miniature version of this figure in Rodin’s architectural study for The Gates of Hell at the Hirshhorn.) The National Gallery of Art has a casting of The Thinker, but theirs is a little guy—only a couple feet tall, and that museum, to be really picky, isn’t a Smithsonian museum. Oh, and that big gold ball thing in the background on the left is Jack by Paul Feeley. It is owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and currently displayed on the 3rd floor.
