If you’re familiar with this site then you know that movie imagery comparison is one of the most common things on here. But not everything makes the cut. For various reasons (editing, relevancy to the review, control of imagery, etc) some of my movie comparisons don’t get posted and they end up laying around on a Zip drive (or posted on my twitter page that most of you don't even follow/see).
So below are a few throwaway side-by-side movie comparisons that I’d like to share with you all.
Somewhere in between my write-up of Nicholas Winding Refn’s
Fear X and my up-coming write-up of Refn’s
Pusher 2, this image almost fit in somewhere but I just couldn’t find the right place for it. Below you see a still of John Turturro working out clues in
Fear X next to an image of Nicholas Winding Refn in real life working out ideas for
Only God Forgives. As glossy & stylish as Refn’s work comes off, there’s still a very personal quality to everything he does even if it isn't that obvious…
Last year I did a guest spot for The Pink Smoke on
Eyes Wide Shut as part of their Christmas special. In doing my internet researching, googling & image searching, I came across a lot of creepy Illuminati imagery. The statue on the left, in some town in the UK, stood out the most to me as it clearly inspired a mask from one of the creepiest moments from the film (I know I’m not the first blogger to make this comparison, but still)…
I’ve written about
Uncle Boonmee... far too many times to come up with anything new to say, but for some strange reason I never placed this super obvious comparison in any of my write-ups
Extras…
I’ve shown the influence that the burning house from
Sacrifice has had on quite a few films so far but the burning shack from
Lost Highway somehow slipped through the cracks…
Back when I was writing about
Beberian Sound Studio I almost put this in but at the last minute I took it out because it seemed a little forced. What do you all think?
