I’m not a film analyst but most of the things we do nowadays, also in advertising, lead back to Kenneth Anger’s work - Nicolas Winding Refn
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| Scorpio Rising / Hennessy XO |
The visual and thematic comparisons between Kenneth Anger and Nicolas Winding Refn seemed to stop at Drive for a lot of people…
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| Scorpio Rising / Drive |
And I guess that makes sense considering the brief hold Drive had one everyone and everything over a decade ago. It was a momentary crossover/pop culture moment where everyone was infatuated with both Drive and Ryan Gosling (on a sidenote - I will say that one major reason I love Refn's follow-up so much is that he intentionally alienated casual fans by making a slow, droning unofficial anti-Drive sequel in the form of Only God Forgives).
Scorpio Rising will always be the go-to Anger film for casual film fans. But there’s so much more to Kenneth Anger’s influence on cinema…
After another revisit of Refn’s latest output (Too Old To Die Young), various interviews and YouTube videos (click here to watch the conversation between Refn & Anger), I realized that Kenneth Anger’s DNA has been all over Refn’s work before and after Drive. From the homoerotic imagery to the random spurts of violence - it's all there.
Below are a bunch of visual comparisons between the work of Kenneth Anger and the majority of Nicolas Winding Refn’s filmography which spans from Film & TV to commercials & advertisements.
Enjoy...
Scorpio Rising will always be the go-to Anger film for casual film fans. But there’s so much more to Kenneth Anger’s influence on cinema…
After another revisit of Refn’s latest output (Too Old To Die Young), various interviews and YouTube videos (click here to watch the conversation between Refn & Anger), I realized that Kenneth Anger’s DNA has been all over Refn’s work before and after Drive. From the homoerotic imagery to the random spurts of violence - it's all there.
Below are a bunch of visual comparisons between the work of Kenneth Anger and the majority of Nicolas Winding Refn’s filmography which spans from Film & TV to commercials & advertisements.
Enjoy...
But the person I stole everything from to make the movie is Kenneth Anger. This is a combination of Scorpio Rising and Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome - Nicolas Winding Refn
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| Scorpio Rising / Bronson |
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| Scorpio Rising / Bronson |
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| Scorpio Rising / Bronson |
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| Scorpio Rising / Hennessy XO |
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| Scorpio Rising / Hennessy XO |
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| Scorpio Rising / Too Old To Die Young |
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Fireworks / Too Old To Die Young
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| Lucifer Rising / The Neon Demon |
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| Lucifer Rising / The Neon Demon |
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| Lucifer Rising / The Neon Demon |
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| Lucifer Rising / The Neon Demon |
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| Fireworks / Only God Forgives |
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| Fireworks / Only God Forgives |
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| Fireworks / Only God Forgives |
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| Scorpio Rising/ Too Old To Die Young |
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| Scorpio Rising/ Too Old To Die Young |
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| Lucifer Rising / Too Old To Die Young |
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| Kustom Kar Kommandos / Drive |
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| Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome / Fear X |
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| Fireworks / Bleeder |
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| Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome / Drive |
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| Lucifer Rising / The Neon Demon |
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| Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome / Bronson |
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| Scorpio Rising / Copenhagen Cowboy |
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| Lucifer Rising / Copenhagen Cowboy |
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| Fireworks / Only God Forgives |
