Here's what happens when things are taken too literally.
On purpose you understand.
Posters
Film
The Fall vs Face of Mae West - Salvador Dali
Maniacts vs The Scream - Edvard Munch
American Gothic (1988) vs American Gothic - Grant Wood
Television
Daredevil Season 2
David with the Head of Goliath (1610) - Caravaggio
Saint Jerome in His Study - Caravaggio
The Last Judgment - Michelangelo
St. Sebastian - Peter Paul Rubens
Just one from
American Horror Story (Season 1), but it's a goodie.
Las Meninas - Diego Velázquez
Title sequence of
Elfen Lied was clearly inspired by the works of
Gustav Klimt.
Check out smashing mash up.
The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
More variations.
Miscellany
I've suddenly gone
Berserk.
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Hell) detail - Hieronymus Bosch
Relativity - M.C. Escher
Whoa.
Don't know what came over me, but I'm okay now.
These next few don't really fit anywhere, but whatever.
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As Christoph Waltz pulls a beer in Tarantino's Django Unchained, scantily clad lady appears to be something along the lines of Francisco Goya's Nude Maya. |
Even stranger.
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House of the Dead Please note detail of framed object propped up against wall. |
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It isn't, but it certainly looks like Clothed Maya. |
Just WHAT?
Returning to normality with Stanley Kubrick's
Barry Lyndon.
Sarah Campbell - Joshua Reynolds
Mrs Hallett (The Morning Walk) - Thomas Gainsborough
Malvern Hall, Warwickshire - John Constable
Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête - William Hogarth
More cosplay.
Django Unchained vs The Blue Boy - Thomas Gainsborough
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The Duchess |
Keira Knightley was probably based on more of Gainsborough's genius.
Namely,
Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire (left) or
Elizabeth Beaufo.
Disney's Frozen and the sickening 2015 live action adaptation of
Cinderella both recreate
Fragonard's The Swing.
Here's more from
The Scream.
Home Alone (Kevin) and Ghostface (Scream series)
Two more.
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance |
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Zenobia (Margaret Whiting) reacts badly to her son Rafi dying in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. |
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A Million Ways to Die in the West |
You're having a
Salvador Dali aren't you?
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (left) or The Elephants
Wedding ceremony in
The Rocky Horror Picture Show cleverly makes reference to
American Gothic.
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Pull away shot in The Equalizer is based on Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. |
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Same thing in Deep Red. |
Scene in Michael Mann's
Heat is based on
Alex Colville's Pacific.
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Hellbound: Hellriaser II
Dr. Channard wanted to know. Now he knows. |
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Sgt. Boyle is crucified off-screen in The Silence of the Lambs. |
Both thank Francis Bacon.
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Figure With Meat |
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High-Rise smells of M.C. Escher's Relativity. |
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More clear cut is Inception, as paradoxical architecture is Ascending and Descending. |
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Bates' house was modelled on Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad. |
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Isle of the Dead recreates one of Arnold Böcklin's paintings of same name. |
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Fifth version (1886) |
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While not quite on the money, Weird Science does its level best to replicate Hokusai's The Great Wave of Kanagawa. |
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Unmissable structure in Metropolis echoes Pieter Brueghel the Elder's Tower of Babel. |
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Not long before he terrified cinema audiences in 1979 with Alien, The Duellists was Ridley Scott's directorial debut. |
Set piece could be based on:
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Napoleon on St Helena - Francois-Joseph Sandmann |
Or.
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Napoleon Bonaparte - Benjamin Robert Haydon |
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While dreaming up Pale Man in fantasy epic Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro certainly had Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son in mind. |
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Father Merrin entering the MacNeil house in The Exorcist was inspired by René Magritte's The Empire of Lights. |
Finally.
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The big screen version of The Flintstones was innocent enough and Halle Berry looked ultra sexy in a leopard skin halter neck thing. Aside from that, Slate and Co. displays a mural smacking of Picasso's Guernica. |
Phew.
Until next time.
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