Creative parents re-enact famous movie scenes with their baby son

What do you do when you have a lot of cardboard boxes left over from a move and a baby that needs to be kept busy?Passionate cinephiles Leon Mackie and his wife, Lilly Lang, solved the problem by launching the Cardboard Box office project where they recreate famous scenes from their favorite films using packing materials for the entertainment of their son, Orson. On their site, Cardboardboxoffice.com, the couple, who live in Australia, explained that they decided to turn their home into an amateur film studio after moving.In October, Mackie, a book designer, transplanted his family from Melbourne to Sydney to take a job with a book publisher. 'With our social lives drastically altered we decided to find a way to make some of those housebound weekends a little more fun,' the couple wrote on their site.For the past month, Leon, Lilly and their 10-month-old son, Orson, have been busy building movie sets out of household items and re-enacting scenes from films like Apollo 13, The Dark Knight (in their version, The Dark Knighty-Night), Indiana Jones: The Temple of Doom (The Cradle of Doom), and many others. The family so far have accumulated more than a dozen hilarious photos showcasing their unbridled creativity and acting chops, with amusing, child-friendly titles to boot.Their latest pre-Christmas offering posted this week on their site and labelled  Homemade Alone is inspired by the 1990 holiday classic Home Alone. In the photo, little Orson is shown booby-trapping a cooking pot as a pair of hapless house burglars, portrayed by his parents, are coming through the door. Another image shows the toddler as Tom Hanks’ castaway on a raft in amid a stormy sea of teal-colored fabric, with only Wilson the ball (here made of rolled-up paper) to keep him company. Last month, the aspiring filmmakers tackled the horror genre with a spin on the memorable scene from 'Alien,' in which a slimly extra-terrestrial embryo bursts from poor Kane’s chest.In the new version, however, a sock puppet with plastic teeth stands in for the gooey critter perched on top of a terrified-looking Leon’s torso, and fake blood is fashioned out of red yard. Since launching the home studio in November, Mackie, Lang and baby Orson have tackled such classics as Jurassic Park, called 'Goo-Goo Gaa-Gaa-rassic Park' in their version; Apollo 13, Die Hard and Star Wars, where the couple's toddler is armed with a light saber constructed out of a cardboard cylinder lit up with an LED light.  Earlier in the family's cinematic experiment, they have built an impressive-looking model of the Orca and a replica of a fearsome, toothy Great White from cardboard for a scene from Jaws.(dailymail.co.uk)ANN.Az