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James Lucas

@JamesLucasIT

May 28, 2024 • 31 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X

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Thread of movie scenes inspired by art 🧵

1. Shutter Island - Klimt's Kiss

2. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas) - The Fallen Angel (Alexandre Cabanel)

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

4. The Truman Show (Peter Weir) - Architecture au clair de lune (René Magritte)

5. The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci) - Venus de Milo (attributed to Alexandros of Antioch, 2nd century BC)

Eva Green—wearing black arm length gloves—stands in the dark, gracefully recreating one of the most iconic sculptures of all time.

6. Glass Tears (Man Ray) - Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)

7. Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Caspar David Friedrich)

8. The Elephants (Salvador Dalí) - Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)

9. Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli) - The Night Café (Vincent van Gogh)

10. Self-Portrait (Egon Schiele) - Joker (Todd Phillips)

11. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne) - The Death of Marat (Jacques-Louis David)

12. Frühlingsreigen (Maximilian Lenz) - Midsommar (Ari Aster)

13. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick) - Prisoners' Round (Vincent van Gogh)

14. The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev) - Lamentation of Christ (Andrea Mantegna)

15. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola) - Napoleon Crossing the Alps (Jacques-Louis David)

16. Metropolis (Fritz Lang) - The Tower of Babel (Pieter Bruegel the Elder)

17. Nighthawks (Edward Hopper) - Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross)

18. Dreams (Akira Kurosawa) - Wheatfield with Crows (Vincent van Gogh)

Film legend Martin Scorsese plays the role of the Dutch painter in Kurosawa's 1990 movie.

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

20. The Exorcist (William Friedkin) - The Empire of Lights (René Magritte)

21. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro) - Saturn Devouring His Son (Francisco Goya)

22. Labyrinth (Jim Henson) - Relativity (M.C. Escher)

23. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) - The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)

24. The Apotheosis of War (Vasilij Vasil'evič Vereščagin) - The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu)

25. Shirley: Visions of Reality (Gustav Deutsch) - Morning Sun (Edward Hopper)

26. Melancholia (Lars Von Trier) - Ophelia (Sir John Everett Millais)

27. Malena (Giuseppe Tornatore) - Georgette Magritte (René Magritte)

28. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam) - The Birth of Venus (Sandro Botticelli)

When asked about the beauty of Botticelli's masterpiece, Gilliam replied, "You don’t do much better than that. I think he really cracked that one."

29. Shirley: Visions of Reality (Gustav Deutsch) - New York Movie (Edward Hooper)

30. Scream (Wes Craven) - The Scream (Edvard Munch)

Director Wes Craven has expressed his admiration for Munch, describing the painting as "a classic reference to pure fear."

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