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Jay Gatsby

Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the wealthy and extravagant title character in “The Great Gatsby.” A local legend, Gatsby throws luxurious parties for all of Long Island, in hopes of running into his lost love Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby is impeccably dressed, often wearing high-end suits.

Pilar Estravados

In the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, Pilar Estravados (Penelope Cruz) is a Spanish missionary and nurse. Set in 1934, her clothing is modest and demure, reflecting her religious devotion.

Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is the brilliant, Belgian private detective who appears in many Agatha Christie novels. In the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot is brought to life by the mustached Kenneth Branagh.

Peter Banning / Pan From Hook

Robin Williams plays a grown-up Peter Pan in the 1991 Steven Spielberg fantasy adventure film Hook. It acts as a sequel to the original Peter Pan play focusing on an adult Peter Pan who has forgotten all about his childhood. In his new life, he is known as Peter Banning. However, when Captain Hook, the enemy of his past, kidnaps his children, he returns to Neverland in order to save them. If you want to make his coconut hilt sword, get a regular sword, paint it gold, and attach one half of a coconut bra to the hilt. You can cut some material from the costume for his shoe covers.

The Beldam (Coraline’s “Other Mother”)

In the creepiest kid’s movie you’ll ever see, the Beldam (Teri Hatcher) is a creature that exists in an alternate world discovered by Coraline’s titular character. Posing as a more fun version of Coraline’s (Dakota Fanning) mother, the Beldam in its true form is a tall and willowy spider-like creature who kidnaps children and loves them obsessively until they die. The main physical difference between Coraline’s true mother and the Beldam in her mother’s form are the two shiny black buttons that cover her eyes.

Henry Bowers from It (2017)

Henry Bowers from It (2017)

In Stephen King’s It (2017), Henry Bowers (Nicholas Hamilton) is the leader of the Bowers Gang who, along with Patrick Hockstetter, live to bully kids like Ben Hanscom and Richie Tozier from the Losers’ Club. Roll up your shirt cuffs and wrap a bandana around your wrist to complete the Bowers look.

Wendy Torrance

Wendy Torrance is the wife of Jack Torrance and mother of Danny Torrance in the Stephen King novel The Shining and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film of the same name, where she’s portrayed by Shelley Duval.

King Louie from TaleSpin

King Louie from TaleSpin

A fun-loving orangutan who also appeared in The Jungle Book, but in TaleSpin he wears a Hawaiian shirt, a straw hat and lei, and owns an island nightclub and motel called “Louie’s Place”, located near but outside the protection of Cape Suzette.

Baloo from Talespin

Baloo from TaleSpin

Baloo von Bruinwald XIII is the main character of the series TaleSpin. Although lazy, slobbish, unreliable and always broke, this bear is also an excellent pilot and capable of the most daring maneuvers in the air. He flies a cargo plane called the Sea Duck.

Patrick Hockstetter

In Stephen King’s It, Patrick Hockstetter (Owen Teague) is a disturbed teen who bullies the Losers Club. He cheers on Henry Bowers as he tries to carve his name into Ben Hanscom’s belly. Ben escapes, and Patrick goes into the sewers looking for him, only to find Pennywise instead.

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