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A selection of Lewis Wake’s Shared BPM – clips from movies featuring different songs with similar beats per minute swapped in.
Catch ‘em before they all get taken down for copyright infringement.
More here.
New hand-painted maps illustrating cinematic journeys by cartographer Andrew DeGraff.
(From top: Fargo; Mad Max: Fury Road; Guardians Of The Galaxy; Silence Of The Lambs; Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom; Labyrinth; Monty Python And The Holy Grail (with a key to the main characters); The Lord Of The Rings, The Shining and The Wizard of Oz.)
More of Andrew’s excellent Cinemaps here.
Previously: Plot Maps
A tribute to the late, great Rutger Hauer by way of his star turn as Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’ (1982) by Brazilian artist Butcher Billy.
RIP
Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner filming the opening scene of ‘Trainspotting’ in the summer of 1995.
A whole new track assembled from the soundtrack of ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ (particularly the scene where Miles is singing along to Post Malone and Swae Lee’s ‘Sunflower’) by Jonny ‘Eclectic Method’ Wilson.
Previously: Slick Flick Schtick Mix
An interesting video essay by The Pop Culture Detective Agency exploring how men are routinely sexually demeaned (largely by other men) in movies and TV for the lolz. To wit:
It’s hard to overstate just how common jokes about men being sexually assaulted are in entertainment media. Most popular comedic actors engage in this type of humour. Jokes are typically designed to demean, humiliate, control, or emasculate a male character for being the victim, or potential victim, of sexual violence.
An unsettling mashup by Nelson Carvajal of the trailer for ‘Toy Story 4’ and narration from the trailer for Ari Aster’s folk horror ‘Midsommar’.
That scene in ‘Jurassic Park’ only with Pee Wee Herman rotoscoped into the shot instead of the T-Rex.
Because that’s 30 seconds well spent.
Jack Nugent of film deconstruction channel Now You See It explores the way that sound design in cinema (most of which happens long after the cameras stop rolling) is less about creating realistic or believable sounds and more about manipulating and amplifying the emotion of scenes.
