Thread by @JamesLucasIT

Iconic movie scenes inspired by art 🧵

1. The Truman Show - René Magritte

2. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) - The Kiss (Gustav Klimt, 1907–1908)

3. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005) - The Fallen Angel (Alexandre Cabanel, 1847)

4. Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli, 1956) - The Night Café (Vincent van Gogh, 1888)

5. Hulk (Ang Lee, 2003) - Farnese Atlas

This stunning 2nd-century AD Roman marble sculpture is probably a copy of an earlier work of the Hellenistic period.

6. Nighthawks (Edward Hopper, 1942) - Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross, 1981)

7. The Elephants (Salvador Dalí, 1948) - Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)

8. Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, 2013) - The Swing (Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1768)

9. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1972) - Prisoners' Round (Vincent van Gogh, 1890)

10. Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990) - Wheatfield with Crows (Vincent van Gogh, 1890)

In Kurosawa's film, iconic director Martin Scorsese portrays the legendary Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh.

11. Glass Tears (Man Ray, 1932) - Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

12. Alien 3 (David Fincher, 1992) - Girl’s Head beside a Skull (Rex Whistler, 1934)

13. Self-Portrait (Egon Schiele, 1911) - Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019)

14. The Barque of Dante (Eugène Delacroix, 1822) - The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)

15. Head of a Bacchante (Anna Robinson, 1903) - Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)

16. Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber, 2003) - Meisje met de parel (Johannes Vermeer, 1665)

17. The Death of Marat (Jacques-Louis David, 1793) - The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

18. The Apotheosis of War (Vasilij Vasil'evič Vereščagin, 1871) - The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2015)

19. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) - The Blue Boy (Thomas Gainsborough, 1770)

20. Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) - The Scream (Edvard Munch, 1893)

The aftershave scene in Home Alone is a playful homage to Munch's magnum opus.

And this is Bernardo Bertolucci's homage to The Venus De Milo in The Dreamers...

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One more: The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) - The Empire of Light (René Magritte, 1954)

This painting depicts the paradoxical image of a nocturnal landscape under a sunlit sky. As Magritte said, "The landscape evokes night and the sky evokes day. I call this power: poetry."

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