Designer Vugar Efendi edited a two-minute clip in which he compared classic paintings and frames from famous films. Thus, he showed how modern directors borrow visual images from classical painting.
The video draws parallels, for example, between the film “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (1988) and the textbook painting “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli. And also between “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci and “Inherent Vice” by Paul Thomas Anderson.
In total, the clip contains eight excerpts from films by Quentin Tarantino, Lars von Trier, Alfred Hitchcock, Terreance Malick, Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, as well as the two aforementioned directors.
As Efendi himself notes, some excerpts from films look more picturesque than the original paintings.