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Parents recreate famous movie scenes with baby

Using a lot of cardboard boxes, a lot of ingenuity, and their infant son, Orson, Leon and Lilly Mackie craft clever re-creations of such films as "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" and "Star Wars."

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Star Wars

The Cardboard Box Office

When Lilly and Leon Mackie moved from New Zealand to Sydney, Australia, with their baby son, Orson, they found themselves with more cardboard boxes than they knew what do do with -- until, that is, they came up with the idea of using them to recreate famous scenes from movies with a little help from Orson. They post the photos on their blog and Facebook page and call the project "The Cardboard Box Office." 'Wah Wars' The Mackies present their take on "Star Wars." Note teddy bear Chewbacca in background, lower left.

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Jaws

'Jaws'

"You're Gonna Need a Bigger Baby" was inspired by "Jaws."

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'

"The Life Domestic" is the Mackies' version of "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou."

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Die Hard

'Die Hard'

Baby Orson tackles the Bruce Willis role in the Mackies' version of the seminal action thriller set in a high-rise building.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'

Or maybe it should be "The Good, the Bad and the Baby" in the Mackies' send-up of the classic Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western.

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Cast Away

'Cast Away'

Orson needs only Wilson the volleyball as a supporting cast for the "Castababy," the Cardboard Box Office rendition of the tale of survival starring Tom Hanks.

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Apollo 13

'Apollo 13'

Houston, we have a problem, and so do the Mackies in their version of director Ron Howard's gripping fact-based space thriller.

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Alien

'Alien'

"Bubbalien" is the Cardboard Box Office version of "Alien," with baby Orson looking only mildly distressed during the grisly chest-burster scene.

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Home Alone

'Home Alone'

Baby Orson channels Macaulay Culkin while his parents take the Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern roles in the classic Christmas comedy.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'

Baby Orson is a very short Short Round in the Cardboard Box Office version of the Steven Speilberg thriller, while parents Leon and Lilly handle the Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw roles.

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