35mm from Felix Meyer on Vimeo.
35MM is a creative and perplexing animated ramble through 35 famous movies in 2 minutes. The trick is that the movies have been boiled down to extremely simplistic symbols and references.
Take a look and let us know what movies you picked out. Maybe we can get them all together.
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Not sure about the order but I caught
Titanic
Jaws
Woodstock (Maybe)
Psycho
(Maybe the thin red line)
Wizard of Oz
Taxi Driver
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Terminator
Star Wars
Exorcist
Fight Club
Toy Story (Maybe)
Clockwork Orange
Chaplin (maybe it was very chaplinesque)
Rear Window
Easy Rider (also maybe)
posted by Chris on 7-26-2010 at 12:22 pm
A few of the ones that I caught:
Singing in the Rain
Titanic
Jaws
Full Metal JAcket
Psycho
Wizard of Oz
Taxi Driver
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Snow White
The Blues Brothers
Terminator
Screa,
Toy Story
Clockwork Orange
Lost Highway
The Little Tramp
Rear Window
The Untouchables (and/or The Battleship Potemkin)
That’s 18/35. Yikes. I’m going to end up watching this several more times today.
posted by EMStoveken on 7-26-2010 at 12:44 pm
The Gold Rush is in there.
posted by EMStoveken on 7-26-2010 at 12:46 pm
Fight Club flashes incredibly briefly at the 1:10 mark (the briefness itself could be a tribute to the near subliminal flashes of Tyler Durden scattered throughout the movie)
North by Northwest
21/35
posted by EMStoveken on 7-26-2010 at 12:52 pm
I saw Mission Impossible in there too, and The Exorcist. And some sort of vampire movie (be it Interview With, Twilight, etc.)
Apollo 13, perhaps.
posted by Suzanne on 7-26-2010 at 12:52 pm
And Gone With the Wind.
posted by Suzanne on 7-26-2010 at 12:53 pm
I think I caught caught Star Wars, Carrie (the dress), To Kill a Mockingbird (the first pair of glasses), maybe Tron, something referring to Chaplin (The Little Tramp?), and Easy Rider.
posted by Bert on 7-26-2010 at 1:15 pm
Excellent. I was all excited but see that EMStoveken has nailed nearly all of the ones I spotted! :)
Also:
Star Wars (stormtrooper face)
Pulp Fiction (the briefcase opening with the glowing yellow light coming out)
Exorcist (inverted cross)
and possibly Tron (the grids… though it’s a stretch)
Rosemary’s Baby ?
posted by Josh on 7-26-2010 at 2:13 pm
forks in the heels = Benny & Joon?!
posted by Josh on 7-26-2010 at 2:16 pm
Josh I was thinking Benny & Joon too but Johnny Depp’s character in that movie is doing a tribute to Charlie Chaplin’s movies.
posted by Tricia on 7-26-2010 at 2:21 pm
was that the 2001 A Space Odyssey monolith i saw in there?
posted by jake on 7-26-2010 at 2:29 pm
good catch, jake.
The dress “dropping” – a Graduate reference perhaps?
posted by Josh on 7-26-2010 at 2:42 pm
@Tricia and Josh – the fork in the heels is Charlie Chaplin’s Gold Rush.
I wonder if the very first one, the single note, is The Sound of Music, followed by Singing in the Rain. Otherwise, everyone else already got the ones I noticed.
posted by Jina on 7-26-2010 at 4:00 pm
Psycho? (blood dripping down drain)
Snow White (apple with seeds shaped like hats, plus Hi Ho song)
posted by feefifoto on 7-26-2010 at 4:08 pm
Which was the Gone With the Wind reference?
posted by Hailey on 7-26-2010 at 4:36 pm
Blues Brothers
Rosemary’s Baby
posted by Angela on 7-26-2010 at 4:41 pm
I think the baby carriage going down the stairs is a reference to The Battleship Potemkin. A silent Russian movie from 1925. Read below from Wikipedia.
“The most celebrated scene in the film is the massacre of civilians on the Odessa Steps (also known as the Primorsky or Potemkin Stairs). In this scene, the Tsar’s Cossacks in their white summer tunics march down a seemingly endless flight of steps in a rhythmic, machine-like fashion firing volleys into a crowd. The victims include a young boy and a mother who is pushing a baby in a baby carriage. As she falls to the ground, dying, she leans against the carriage, nudging it away; it rolls down the steps amidst the fleeing crowd.”
posted by Braden on 7-26-2010 at 4:46 pm
I saw Edward Scissor Hands (The Forks in the shoes)
Lion King (the yellow circle and the cracking of the egg)
Blues Brothers (2 sunglasses)
posted by Jennifer on 7-26-2010 at 4:51 pm
singin in the rain
titanic
jaws
hair? (peace sign)
psycho
carrie
light switch ????
gold rush
wizard of oz
taxi driver
one flew over…?
little tramp or peter sellers movie??
blues bros
marx brothers???
snow white
woody allen???
risky business???
terminator
star wars
2001
crosses on yellow????
exorcist
the omen
toy story
monsters inc
clockwork orange
day I learned to love the bomb
close encounters?(driving at night?)
electric razor????
chaplin again
rear window
mr blandings builds his dream house? (heart w/ doors)
music man
vampire movie? Dracula?
untouchables
few good men
easy rider
top gun
posted by TC on 7-26-2010 at 5:23 pm
Towards the beginning could have been war of the worlds and the devil wears prada. Right after the blues brothers could have been redeye. The three eyed alien was definitely toy story and the grid was tron I think.
posted by Greg on 7-26-2010 at 5:45 pm
Arguably, when the peace sign blurs into blood, you could interpret that as the Altamont killing of the bystander/concertgoer from Gimme Shelter and the death of the peace dream, right before it blends into Psycho. The eyeglasses with the shot through them seems like a reference to Moe Green getting shot in The Godfather. The red dress, with the nearby light could be either a reference to Klute or Dressed to Kill (the Caine flick). The dancing shoes seems a clear Chaplin reference. The multiple derby hats seems a reference to The Prestige, and the single derby to Being There. The video game of gunfire seems a War Games reference. The drum beating seems to reference The Tin Drum. Agree on the Lost Highway reference.
posted by St Louis Steve on 7-26-2010 at 7:09 pm
The shoes thing, while making me think of Gold Rush, were also clearly lady shoes. That made me think “The Red Shoes”.
posted by Tambo on 7-26-2010 at 11:11 pm
The G odfather (Moe Green special)
posted by scott on 7-26-2010 at 11:11 pm
I think Wizard of Oz is in there when the red shoes click together twice…
posted by Teresa on 7-27-2010 at 12:34 pm
The bowler hats are from the Thomas Crown Affair
posted by MIke on 7-27-2010 at 7:37 pm