When you’re a fictional character in a film, it’s very important that the things around you obviously define your persona. That’s why the gym, school, or work locker can be a very effective tool in storytelling. Each of the lockers in this collection gave us an inside look into certain characters’ lives with over-exaggerated items shoved into them.
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
Stoner Bud #2 (Eric Stoltz) has taken everything great about Spicoli’s bedroom (and smoke-choked van) and fit it inside his locker, and that is cause for celebration. Skateboards, naked women and no books, it’s a personal manifesto as storage unit.
THE BREAKFAST CLUB
When a locker has a derogatory term for homosexuals scrawled on it and that’s the most welcoming part of it, you know you’ve unearthed some kind of burnout slob art installation. From the tiny noose to the actual guillotine that slices down when you open it, Bender’s locker is the perfect place to store your bag of dirt weed that, from the looks of it, you stole from a drifter’s corpse.
SUPER TROOPERS
It’s refreshing to realize that even leaving school and getting a job you can still use a locker to haze noobs. The best part is how Rabbit emerges from his shaving cream bukkakae totally nonchalant, like this was just an average Tuesday. Clearly these are not “evil shenanigans.”
MEN IN BLACK II
Usually, when you use the words “teeming” and “NY bus station locker” you are referring to rare insects and unkillable viruses. But Locker C18 is home to a tiny civilization that worships wristwatches in a space about the size of a $2,000 a month rental in Manhattan.
MAJOR LEAGUE
Pedro Cerrano’s locker takes the concept of athlete superstition to the extreme-it’s been refashioned into a makeshift shrine to his god Jobu, complete with rum, cigars and bats that are afraid of curveballs. It’s the world’s only tax-exempt locker.
SUMMER SCHOOL
Horror movie obsessives Dave and Chainsaw apparently share a single locker crammed with foam latex wounds, masks, tributes to horror icons and a living black kitten. If Stoner Bud’s locker from “Fast Times” is a microcosm of his life, this is basically a Hot Topic.
BEVERLY HILLS COP
We have no idea whose locker this is, but it most certainly does NOT belong to Det. Jeffrey Friedman.
MEN AT WORK
We don’t have the technical knowledge to explain how exactly you rig an airbag that explodes into a feces bomb inside a locker, so we just sit back and applaud this engineering marvel. Revenge is a dish best served hot, steamy and loaded with corn.
DAZED AND CONFUSED
Look at this stark beauty: dinosaurs and “School Sux.” It’s like this kid invented the Internet in 1976.
YOU CAN’T DO THAT ON TELEVISION
First off, yes, we know this is a TV show and not a movie. Are you really going to make this a thing? Anyway, these colorful lockers held pre-pubescent Canadians swapping really cornball jokes. It’s what happens to kids in Canada when they show no hockey acumen.
