Iconic movie scenes inspired by art 🧵
1. The Truman Show - René Magritte
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.
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.
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.
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."
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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