Monday, August 25, 2008

Painting Influences Film - Fuseli/Whale

The Nightmare (John Henry Fuseli 1781)

Frankenstein (James Whale 1931)

Note Boris Karloff's Monster framed by window at left.

Posted by C. Jerry Kutner at 11:11 AM

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3 comments:

C.S. Perry said...

Fuseli's painting was nicely adapted for use in the film "Gothic."

Well...at least the spirit of it.

7:20 AM
Erich Kuersten said...

mmmmmmm laudanum

10:43 AM
GummiE said...

Nice. Another example is supposedly the overview over the city at night in Blade Runner and Bosch's Garden of Delight. Compare the opening of Blade Runner (2:34) and the upper part here.

2:50 PM

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