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Nov 10 • 23 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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Iconic movie scenes inspired by art 🧵

1. The Truman Show - René Magritte Image
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) Image
4. Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli, 1956) - The Night Café (Vincent van Gogh, 1888) Image
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. Image
6. Nighthawks (Edward Hopper, 1942) - Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross, 1981) Image
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) Image
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. Image
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) Image
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) Image
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) Image
17. The Death of Marat (Jacques-Louis David, 1793) - The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Image
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) Image
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. Image
And this is Bernardo Bertolucci's homage to The Venus De Milo in The Dreamers...

For more examples and a deeper dive, check out my latest FREE article:

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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." Image
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