Bonsai Movies.

The lawyer TV show Franklin and Bash have bonsai almost in every episode. Their boss, played by Malcolm McDowell keeps Bonsai in his office. There is even one show where he's seen pruning his tree, and has real Bonsai tools (shears and concave cutter). Some props guy was paying attention! Also, I get miffed seeing Bonsai inside dark rooms like a vase. In this show, they're against a huge window in a sunlit office. The best was a large JBP (probably rented from a LA nursery), but lately they've been showing mallsai looking junipers.

Watched "Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon" last night. Had some nice trees in it shown while Witwicky was job hunting..

Not a movie, but still a moving graphic.  Pay attention to the background of this commercial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woJArcrKMY0

Robert J. Baran wrote:Not a movie, but still a moving graphic.  Pay attention to the background of this commercial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woJArcrKMY0

Obviously staged. Not enough light for so many indoor plants. What were they advertising again?  

The vast majority of celluloid portrayals (http://www.phoenixbonsai.com/BoldlyGrow.html) of dwarfed potted trees are indoors with less-than-adequate lighting.  What kind of education to long-term tree care is that providing? The worst offender I think is the 2003 film The In-Laws: when Dr. Jerry Peyser (Albert Brooks) is on the phone in the bathroom of Barbra Streisand's airplane, as piloted by Steve Tobias (Michael Douglas), there is a juniper in that small window-less room.

The commercial sponsors are inconsequential for our purposes here...  

I wonder what the thinking is and to what demographic the movie people are trying to reach when bonsai is included into scene design.

Nothing else in the movies is real. Why should bonsai display be real? Forget it.  
Iris