Video games in film

Couple Retreat (2009)

Orphan (2009)


Guitar Hero seems to be the most popular one!

costume design of Couple Retreat (2009)

I can't help but notice the overall exotic tone of the movie. With these costumes, it puts enough bizarre new age feeling in it.

In above shot, Marcel's outfit is like a lama monk's robe. 

Here, each couple wear similar costume with different colors during their therapy sessions. In the end of the movie, each couple will be awarded with different animal sculptures, which reflects their own animal nature. Sounds like Kung Fu panda, isn't it? Could you guess which animals they would become?

Do you sleep like this?

* Coco Before Chanel (2009)

*Head in the Clouds (2004)

Finger!: Bright Star (2009)

In movie, Bright Star (2009), poet Keats put his finger underneth beloved Fanny's sleeve to express his love.

Jane Campion is not the only diretor use this device, director Rian Johnson arranged the same device in a 2008 movie, See also The Brothers Bloom have a light hand!

Could you do this? A door to door shot in A Serious Man (2009)

This is a scene captured from 2009 film The Serious Man by Ethan and Joel Coen. This shot introduced two doors at once. The mismatch of the door and the door frame results two different similar spaces presenting in a single tide shot. Here audiences can see a guest shows up in the front door and then is leaded to a kitchen without any camera movement.

Now here is a challenge for all of you, could you make a similar shot? Post your best take in the comment of this entry.

Penelope Cruz in Broken Embraces Love Scene

For some reasons, that reminds me of a Rene Magritte's work: