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DVD screen cap reference, plus two bonus captures. Annnd, now I'm watching the movie.
As a kid it was probably my least favorite scene because it slowed things down. As an adult it may be my favorite. A quiet moment among the chaos to contemplate and see things from Cameron's perspective, which is a very skeptic perspective. Is the painting real or not? Is his parent's love real or not? What is real?
The song is also great. Didn't know until a year or so ago that it was a Smith's cover by a group named Dream Academy that did instrumental covers of pop songs.
Reference photo that this painting depicts
I like how accentuated the pointillism in this painting is.
Not sure where you got that from, but I just took this.
I think yours is someone's recreation, not from the film.
That puts me in an embarrassing spot, but you are probably right 😰
Crazy how the painting's Cameron looks more like Alan Ruck than the still frame. To the point that it has me second guessing if that's a 2nd unit stand-in, and not actually Ruck.
I wondered about this, so I took my own screen cap and posted a separate comment above. The shirt doesn't even match. It's not from the movie.
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That makes so much more sense. Thank you!
IMO it accentuates Ruck’s slimness, especially a longer neck and narrower face that we don’t get from the photo.
When Cameron was in Egypt's land...
...let my Cameron go.
Let my Cameron gooooooo
I can hear this painting.
Order.
Design.
Tension.
Composition.
Balance.
Light.
Harmony.
I don't know what you are referring to. I meant the music that plays during this scene in the movie.
The instrumental version of the dream academy cover of please please please let me get what I want by the smiths. Yeah that one hits you in the feels.
Lol there it is!? This fucking painting pops in and out of my life at random. What is it called? The one with the old timey people at the river?
Georges Seurat - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Island_of_La_Grande_Jatte
https://www.artic.edu/articles/826/caillebotte-and-seurat-setting-the-stage-for-masterworks
This article is comparing Seurat 's process with that of Caillebotte, who was of the previous generation and hung out with/sponsored Monet and the Impressionists. (They're not known to have known each other, and Caillebotte was known more as a wealthy collector than as an artist at the time.)
I'm adding it because the Wiki article only tells how the paint was applied but this shows some of the studies and drawings Seurat did in the months beforehand.
And because I think Caillebotte's different process was also interesting.
Is this an actual painting someone did of the scene?