Tonight's featured avatar belongs to the member, Raven - a very long member of the site since 2001 (member ID 2902).






His avatar is Charlton Heston playing the character of Robert Neville in the 1971 movie, The Omega Man.






The movie is one of three based off of a 1954 book, I am Legend, written by Richard Matheson.  The first movie made was The Last Man on Earth, filmed in 1964 and starring Vincent Price.  The second movie was The Omega Man filmed in 1971.  The last was the 2007 movie, I am Legend with Will Smith.




Here's the opening scene which features the subject avatar:






It's a classic end of the world movie.  While the original book and the other movies featured vampire-like creatures, The Omega Man differed by having the creatures to appear instead to be more mutant-like.  Neville is, of course, one of the few last non-infected beings on Earth and he spends his days searching for supplies and his nights fighting off hordes of the mutant masses.  Here's a great clip from the movie:






For those of you who are interested, the weapon he is using in those scenes is the Smith & Wesson M76, a copy of the Swedish Carl Gustav M/45.






Another point of note is that The Omega Man was one of the first movies to show an interracial kiss between Heston and his co-star Rosalind Cash - quite the controversial thing at the time.










....and now you know.  




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Previously featured avatars:

Maccrage
Substandard
4v50
Vengarr
Wwace
Amos1909
BillythePoet
Bradders
StonerStudent
Skebe
Viator
Limaxray
P806
Extorris

Weeee

It's an honor

Cool avi.......... but the dudes kinda a dick!
















ETA: Oh...... hehe......Hi raven!

I like that movie and I love that smg. It has been in a few decent movies over the years.



http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_M76

Keep it up the most interesting threads of all.

Alot of good sci-fi from the late60's and early 70's.

Another winner Johnny.

One of my favorite movies.

M76 with Chuck Heston.  Shooting zombies.


One of my favorite avatars.

That was a heck of a movie when it came out.  Still is.

Interesting thread concept

Yes it is.

Also how do you figure out the member number?

Very cool.  

I heart that movie....

Hover your mouse over user info

Not me.

Thanks

1:52  "You're name is Mud."

Cool Avatar.

I really need to see that movie.

In the next featured avatar thread I saw, I was going to mention him for nomination.

Reminds me of VH1: Behind the Music...

Yes, you do.  It's the best of the three movies made.

Cool movie.  And another cool thread.  

Very cool.
Just went back and read all of the previous threads you did.
Answered several questions I had. Thanks

Johnny Reno delivers more strong sauce, well done.

Johnny...you are a man of ARFCOM history.  Thank you sir.

One of my favorites for sure! Cool thread.