Sunday, April 6, 2008

Allusions in Blade Runner


Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks"


Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon


Monster from Frankenstein


Christ on crucifix


Aztec Pyramid


Emanuel de Witte's "Interior with a Woman Playing the Virginals"


Jan Van Eyck's "The Arnolfini Wedding"


William Blake's poem "The Tyger"

Line from William Blake’s America: A Prophecy
“Fiery the Angels rose while thunder roared around their shores, burning with the fires of Orc.”


Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden

Passage from John Milton’s Paradise Lost (Book I: 61-69)

A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round
As on great Furnace flam’d, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible
Serv’d only to discover sights of woe,
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That comes at all, but torture without end
Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed
With ever-burning Sulphur unconsumed


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