Wednesday 1 July 2020

Famous Paintings - Final Exercise in Imitation

Trilogy concludes on an epic high.

Marie Antoinette (2006) vs Napoleon Crossing the Alps - Jacques-Louis David


The Mirror (1975) vs Hunters in the Snow - Pieter Bruegel the Elder


Picnic at Hanging Rock vs At the Hanging Rock - William Ford


A Zed & Two Noughts vs The Art of Painting - Johannes Vermeer


Alatriste vs The Surrender of Breda - Diego Velázquez


Gothic vs The Nightmare (original version) - Henry Fuseli


The Cemetery Man vs The Lovers - René Magritte


Cabaret vs Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden - Otto Dix


The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus vs Young Corn - Grant Wood


The Evil Dead vs The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun - William Blake


A Clockwork Orange vs Prisoners Exercising¹ - Vincent van Gogh


¹Copied from an earlier engraving by Gustave Doré.

The Alamo (1960) vs El Jaleo - John Singer Sargent


The Return (2003) vs The Lamentation of Christ - Andrea Mantegna


One more (albeit less clear cut).

Drowning by Numbers
Multiples

Shit just got greedy.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Castle vs Black Idol - František Kupka


Vlad's Portrait vs Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight - Albrecht Dürer


Akira Kurosawa's Dreams consists of eight vignettes.

Starring Martin Scorsese as Vincent van Gogh no less, Crows reeks of relevance.

Large Plain Trees²


²For some reason, women are missing.

Road with Cypress and Star


Thatched Cottages at Cordeville


The Langlois Bridge with Women Washing


Wheat Field with Crows


Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse (2019) is another take on the infamous Small's Lighthouse Incident.

It's a must watch.

Hallucination vs Hypnosis - Sascha Schneider


Howard eaten alive vs Untitled 1888 drawing - Jean Delville


Two more.

The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci
Inspired:

M*A*S*H (1970)
Watchmen
And.

Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David
About Schmidt
Very clever.

This is inconclusive.

Shallow Grave
Unfortunately, Danny Boyle was not available for comment...

One more.

Calvary
The Final Flourish

Now things get particularly exciting.

Powder Room

Toilet appears to be based on Piet Mondrian's Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow.


Clash of the Titans (1981)

Perseus holding Medusa's head aloft could be a nod to the genius of Italian bad boy Caravaggio.


Raiders of the Lost Ark

There's a blink and you'll miss it moment during memorable climax.

Belloq vs The Scream - Edvard Munch


Saw III

Presenting Jigsaw's favourite trap The Rack.

Timothy Young vs Vitruvian Man - Leonardo da Vinci


Have I given filmmakers more credit than what they deserve?

Maybe.

The VVitch: A New-England Folktale

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

(Signs the Grimoire textbook).

Caleb's burial vs Angelus - Jean-François Millet


Carry On Jack

Opening scene vs The Death of Nelson - Arthur William Devis


Not a bad way to begin breezy farce.

Bronson and A Clockwork Orange share a lot of similarities, but it would be churlish to accuse Nicolas Winding Refn of ripping Kubrick's masterpiece off.

Check this out.

Art teacher vs The Son of Man - René Magritte


Brilliant stuff.

Finally.

Although La Chiesa (The Church³) is also known as Demons 3, Michele Soavi's film has more in common with my ass than the 'Demons' franchise.

Demonic embrace vs Vampire's Kiss - Boris Vallejo


³English translation shouldn't be confused with 2018 film of same name.

Was Peruvian maestro aware?

Unknown.

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