Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Planets Aligned

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
dir. Stanley Kubrick


The Tree of Life (2011)
dir. Terrence Malick


Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott


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5 comments:

  1. I love that the Prometheus shot is so much darker than the other two.

    I just love Prometheus.

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  2. I could fill this goddamn site top to bottom with just Prometheus. Prometheus all day.

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  3. I almost hate to bring this up, because ANIMAYS, but the better directors of that medium have a healthy respect for the live action cinema that came before:

    http://wiki.evageeks.org/Tributes_to_Other_Fiction_in_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion#2001:_A_Space_Odyssey

    Studio GAINAX in particular was filled with fans of science fiction and this really shows in their work, thematically and with all the visual quoting. In fact when I saw Prometheus twice in theaters I was surprised how closely it veered to Shin Seiki Evangelion's view of an uncaring cosmos and mankind's origins and place there.

    I guess that's what you get when both works call back to so much of what came before.

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  4. That's interesting, hit me with some screencaps!

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  5. Another great one to add here: Please see Michael Mann's Lucky Star trailer/advert. The ad is great, and ALL the planets line up (maybe influenced by the May 2005 thing).

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