Thread by @tradingMaxiSL

A thread on famous paintings that influenced some of cinema's most iconic film scenes.. You'll be surprised by some of these..!

1. Alien 3, directed by David Fincher

Reference to : Girl’s Head beside a Skull by Rex Whistler

2. Scream, directed by Wes Craven

Reference to: The Scream, by Edvard Munch

3. Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese

Reference to: The Kiss, by Gustav Klimt

4. Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller

Reference to: The Elephants, by Salvador Dalí

5. Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Reference to : House by the Railroad by Edward Hopper.

6. The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin

Reference to: The Empire of Lights, by René Magritte

7. A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick

Reference to: Prisoners Exercising, by Vincent Van Gogh

8. Melancholia, directed by Lars Von Trier

Reference to: Ophelia, by John Everett Millais

9. Dreams directed by Akira Kurosawa

Reference to : Wheatfield with Crows by Vincent Van Gogh

10. Pennies From Heaven, directed by Herbert Ross

Reference to : Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper

11. Nymphomaniac, directed by Lars von Trier

Reference to : The Dying Artist, by Zygmunt

12. Shirley: Visions of Reality, directed by Gustav Deutsch

Reference to: New York Movie by Edward Hopper

13. Moonrise Kingdom, directed by Wes Anderson.

Reference to : To Prince Edward Island by Alex Colville.

14. Pan’s Labyrinth, directed by Guillermo del Toro

Reference to: Saturn Devouring His Son, by Francisco Goya

15. Lust for Life directed by Vincente Minnelli

Reference to: The Night Café by Vincent van Gogh

16. Shirley: Visions of Reality directed by Gustav Deutsch

Reference to : Morning Sun by Edward Hopper

17. Marie Antoinette, directed by Sofia Coppola

Reference to: Napoleon Crossing the Alps, by Jacques-Louis David

18. Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel.

Reference to: The Last Supper, by Leonardo Da Vinci

19. The President, directed by Carl Theodore Dreyer

Reference to: Whistler’s Mother: Arrangement in Grey and Black 1871

20. Black Moon , directed by Louis Malle

Reference to : The Golden Days, by Balthus

21. Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang

Reference to: The Tower of Babel, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

22. About Schmidt, directed by Alexander Payne

Reference to : The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David

23. Django Unchained, directed by Quentin Tarantino

Reference to: The Blue Boy, by Thomas Gainsborough

24. Dunkirk directed by Christopher Nolan

Reference to: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich

25. The Truman Show directed by Peter Weir

Reference to: Architecture au clair de lune René Magritte

26. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith directed by George Lucas

Reference to: The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel

27. The Return directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Reference to: Lamentation of Christ by Andrea Mantegna

28. Malena directed by Giuseppe Tornatore

Reference to : Georgette Magritte by René Magritte

29. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen directed by Terry Gilliam-

Reference to : The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

30. Labyrinth directed by Jim Henson

Reference to: Relativity by M.C. Escher

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