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PROJECT 2 APRIL 2020 , NY

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COLLECTED BY Karissa Munaf

INSPIRED BY AUSTIN KLEON MOVIES WITHIN MOVIES

Collected by Karissa Munaf

FIRST DRAFT Syalsabila Karissa Munaf April 20, 2020 31 W 27th St New York, NY 10001 [email protected] PABLO PICASSO AUSTIN KLEON DIRECTORS TO WATCH Art is theft. Every new idea is just a mashup or Agnès Varda a remix of one or more previous Alex Garland ideas. Amy Heckerling Ari Aster Autumn de Wilded I steal from every single JIM JARMUSCH movie ever made. Steal from anywhere that resonates Benny Safdie with inspiration or fuels your Bong Joon-ho imagination. Devour old films, Bruce Lee new films, music, books, paintings, Charlie Chaplin AUSTIN KLEON photographs, poems, dreams, random Every new idea is just a mashup conversations, light and shadows. or a remix of one or more previous Select only things to steal from ideas. Clyde Geronimi that speak directly to your soul. Damien Chazelle If you do this, your work (and Darren Aronofsky theft) will be authentic. T.S. ELIOT Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what DAVID BOWIE Denis Villeneuve they take, and good poets make it The only art I’ll ever study is Edwin S. Porter into something better, or at least stuff that I can steal from. Ethan Coen something different. Federico Fellini YOHJI YAMAMOTO BIBLE (ECCLESIASTES 1:9) Start copying what you love. Copy Hayao Miyazaki There is nothing new under the copy copy copy. At the end of the Jean-Luc Godard sun. copy you will find your self. Joel Coen Josh Safdie KOBE BRYANT Martin Scorcese SALVADOR DALI I have stolen all of these moves Mathieu Kassovitz Those who do not want to imitate from all these great players. I Mati Diop anything, produce nothing. just try to do them proud, the guys who came before, because I learned so much from them. It’s Paul Leni FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA all in the name of the game. It’s Quentin Tarantino We want you to take from us. We a lot bigger than me. want you, at first, to steal from Robert Clouse us, because you can’t steal. You Robert Eggers Satoshi Kon will take what we give you and GARY PANTER you will put it in your own voice In the end, merely imitating your and that’s how you will find your heroes is not flattering them. voice. And that’s how you begin. Stephen Chow Transforming their work into And then one day someone will “something of your own is how steal from you. Taika Waititi you flatter them. Terence Davies Todd Phillips Vince Gilligan Victor Sjöström SPECIAL THANKS TO Austin Kleon Filmthusiast Wong Kar-wai — I’ll call you — When have you ever stopped at three? 8. 9.

ERIN EISENBERG It’s now considered by many, particularly of the millenni- al generation, to be a mod- directed by ern classic… which creates an interesting pop culture atmo- Amy Heckerling sphere for director Autumn de Wilde’s new cinematic take on the material. based on the book by

Jane Austen EXT. EMMA’S PRESS DAY IN LOS ANGELES

Eisenberg learned during an interview with the director, Autumn de Wilde, that she has the utmost respect and adoration for Clueless: EMMA

directed by DE WILDE Well, first of all, Amy Autumn de Wilde Heckerling is a genius, but you know why it’s so amazing? It’s because that one knows based on the book Emma by that book back to front. She is literally like a Jane Jane Austen Austen expert. Because she understands the story of Emma so completely, she was able to take the human relationship truths in that story and translate it to high school. INT. CINEMABLEND ARTICLE Now, you know, in America we have a lot of problems, and we ERIC EISENBERG don’t have the class system as In the making of Clueless, defined as it is in England. Heckerling made the first ever But if you were going to make feature film version of the a parallel, I think high novel “Emma,” transplanting school feels a lot like the story from 19th centu- what you’re judged for. ry England to a Beverly Hills high school – and it wound up being an all-around hit. De Wilde’s face smiles with admiration. CUT TO: FADE OUT Eisenberg begins to talk about the movie “Emma” that was released a few months ago:

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INT. YOUTUBE COMMENTS PERFECT BLUE NOAH directed by Noah S 1 year ago I knew Satoshi Kon Darren Arinofsky love Perfect Blue, and I knew the themes of PB and Requiem were similar but I did realize he literally stole that shot! It works in Requiem but its iconic in PB. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM Great video!

directed by ELIZABETH ATHINEU Darren Aronofsky It’s not plagiarism... it’s creative intellectual recycling!

INT. INSTAGRAM TYLER BOTHA I just watched the Requiem now, FILMTHUSIAST glad I wasn’t the onlyone who The overhead shot in Requiem spotted the reference. for a Dream of Marion in thebathtub followed by her screaming underwater was an DISSOLVE TO: exact replica of a scene in the Japanese animated thriller, “Perfect Blue” EXT. REDDIT COMMENTS (1997). Director Darren Aronofsky secured the rights to a live-action version of LIZARDORGMEMBER5 the film to enable including I have this feeling that some this scene in the movie. filmmakers who were huge fans of anime and wanted to adapt them into their own version CUT TO: would rely heavily on homages to do stealth adaptations in EXT. THE ART OF SATOSHI KON BOOK the midst of heavy backlash.

DARREN ARONOFSKY It had Kon’s fluid animation, FADE OUT his sense of unreality, but infused with an infectious joie de vivre. ♪ When love comes stealing into my heart ♪ ♪ Smile though your heart is aching ♪ 18. 19.

FADE IN TO: THE MAN WHO LAUGHS EXT. ARTICLE directed by

Paul Leni RICHARD NEWBY The 1928 film inspired the DC villain, and has something to say about ’s take on the character as well. JOKER Newby paused. Then he continued. directed by

Todd Phillips RICHARD NEWBY Phoenix’s clown makeup is almost an exact copy of the supporting clowns in The Man Who Laughs who form the troupe of Ursus’s show. INT. INSTAGRAM DISSOLVE TO: FILMTHUSIAST An early reference for Todd INT. DEN OF GEEK ARTICLE Phillips and co-screenwriter Scott Silver was 1928’s silent film “The Man Who Laughs.” JIM KNIPFEL An early scary clown movie, The Man Who Laughs, was also an influence on the creation CUT TO: of Batman villain, The Joker.

TODD PHILLIPS We felt that we had a lot of Knipfel gasped. freedom because Joker never really hand an origins story in the comics. We thought it JIM KNIPFEL wasreally liberating because Bill Finger and Bob Kane never there really were norules or made any bones about the fact boundaries, Scott and I just the design for The Joker was pushedeach other every day to lifted pretty much directly come up with something totally from The Man Who Laughs, which insane. right there should earn the picture a spot in the film library of any Batman completist. — [police siren] ♪ Smile even though it’s breaking ♪ 22. 23.

DISSOLVE TO: THE DARK KNIGHT INT. DESERET NEWS ARTICLE directed by

Christopher Nolan HERB SCRIBNER Fans of “The Dark Knight” may not love the new “Joker” film. It’s a lot darker. It’s not as cartoonish. There’s no Batman. But there is one slight JOKER reference to Heath Ledger’s Joker character toward the directed by end of the film, one that you Todd Phillips might miss if you blink. FADE OUT TO:

EXT. COMICBOOK REVIEW

INT. ENTERTAINMENT COMIC BOOK The shot is a wonderful REBECCA SHEPHERD reversal of ‘The Dark The short scene is a reversal, Knight’s’ iconic ‘Cop Car or so people believe, of The Scene,’ in which Heath Dark Knight’s scene where Ledger’s Joker turns the Heath Ledger’s Joker escapes tables on his police captors, custody in a police car as he and escapes custody in a leans out of the window with police car, while leaning out his head tilted up at the sky. the rear window with his head tilted up to the sky, tasting ...others think it’s actually the sweet, wild, freedom of a reference to both The Dark his chaotic malevolence. Knight and the comparison drawn from Arthur Fleck’s ComicBook continues character throughout the film. COMIC BOOK CUT TO: The best part about this ref- EXT. YOUTUBE COMMENTS erence is that Ledger and Phoenix were actually friends in real life. AARAN EREM The joker in the police car is FADE IN TO WHITE. a great scene. — [crowd cheering] ♪ When there are clouds in the sky ♪ — Will you please give your warmest to the.. ♪ You’ll get by ♪ 28. 29.

CUT TO: KING OF COMEDY EXT. YOUTUBE directed by

Martin Scorcese GREENAPPLEPEAR It’s amazing that De Niro is now playing a sort of version of Jerry Lewis’ character in the new Joker movie. JOKER

directed by BATMAN RAPMAN Todd Phillips Joker used the same shot at the end of the movie.

INT. INSTAGRAM JOHNNYBOY So we’re just going to pretend JOKER didn’t rip this movie FILMTHUSIAST and Taxi Driver off? Joker director, Todd Phillips, cites Alan Moore’s comic “The BACK TO: Killing Joke,” which tells the Joker’s origin and descent into insanity, and the Martin INT. INDIEWIRE INTERVIEW Scorcese films, Taxi Driver (1976) and The King of Comedy TODD PHILLIPS (1982) and Raging Bull (1980) Bob really loved the script. as an influence on the Joker I met with him and said, ‘I’d film. be lying to you if I said we weren’t influenced by a lot of DISSOLVE TO: your movies.’ I talked with him about Taxi Driver and EXT. INDIEWIRE INTERVIEW about The King Of Comedy,

ROBERT DE NIRO Murray was conceived in the spirit of my earlier role. There’s a connection, obvi- ously, with the whole thing, but it’s not as a direct con- nection as the character I’m playing being Rupert many years later as a host. — One of these days I gotta get myself organizized. ♪ If you smile ♪ — Organizized? Dont you mean organized? ♪ Through your fear and sorrow ♪ 34. 35.

The interview continues... TAXI DRIVER which is one of my favourite directed by movies of all time. Martin Scorcese DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. VANITY FAIR ARTICLE JOKER K. AUSTIN COLLINS directed by It’s a movie that wears its Todd Phillips indebtedness to Taxi Driver, as well as Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, on its sleeve, down to cribbing specific shots and entire thematic lines, drawing INT. VANITY FAIR ARTICLE power, all the while, from repeated reference to one of Taxi Driver’s most indelible K. AUSTIN COLLINS images: a pantomimed bullet It’s a movie that wears its to the head. indebtedness to Taxi Driver, as well as Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, on its sleeve, down CUT TO: to cribbing specific shots and entire thematic lines, drawing EXT. YOUTUBE power, all the while, from repeated reference to one of GREENAPPLEPEAR Taxi Driver’s most indelible It’s amazing that De Niro is images: a pantomimed bullet now playing a sort of version to the head. of Jerry Lewis’ character in the new Joker movie. CUT TO:

EXT. INDIEWIRE INTERVIEW BATMAN RAPMAN Joker used the same shot at TODD PHILLIPS the end of the movie. Bob really loved the script. I met with him and said, ‘I’d be lying to you if I said we weren’t influenced by a lot of JOHNNYBOY your movies.’ I talked with So we’re just going to pretend him about Taxi Driver and JOKER didn’t rip this movie about The King Of Comedy, and Taxi Driver off? — [gun shots] — [gun shots] 38. 39.

EXT. INSTAGRAM COMMENTS THE GREAT TRAIN ROBERRY ALIOAH96 directed by “Duplicate” Edwin S. Porter

LILO_AND_BUB [heart emoji][heart emoji] [heat emoji] this homage to GOODFELLAS early cinema

directed by AXE101836 Martin Scorcese Good artists copy Great artists steal

ECHOFLOW INT. INSTAGRAM In music, this is called sampling FILMTHUSIAST At the end of Goodfellas, when Joe Pesci’s character Tommy fires a couple of rounds at the camera for no apparent reason, he’s duplicating the final scene from “The Great Train Robbery.” This is a deliberate homage to the film’s director, . CUT TO:

EXT. INTERVIEW

Scorsese explained the connection between his film and Porter’s.

MARTIN SCORCESE Basically, in Goodfellas, it’s a bunch of criminals who do this incredible robbery. And then they all kill each other, and the police get them at the end. It’s exactly the same story. — [door opens] — [sound of a police car aproaching]

— [boiling noises] — [boiling noises] — [page turning] — [Walt: To W.W. My Star, My Perfect Silence]

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The comment continues...

PULP FICTION VERZATILE BROWN Well never got into breaking directed by bad but I love pulp fiction and Quentin Tarantino I can see the comparison this is put together good

SISANDBROTOYSHOW COLLIER Never realised this.....wow BREAKING BAD SisAndBroTOYShow Collier is shocked. produced by

Vince Gilligan FADE OUT TO:

INT. INSTAGRAM COMMENTS

INT. INSTAGRAM EKTAGIRLNEXTDOOR This is awesome!! Almost as FILMTHUSIAST if Vince Gilligan looked at They are both cult classics. Tarantino’s work for They have both inspired a inspiration. generation of movie-goers and television-viewers. They are Breaking Bad and Pulp Fiction. PATDEK Obviously that Breaking Bad is inspired by Pulp Fiction cause who isn’t, it’s the best movie DISSOLVE TO: ever. love the edit of the similarities. INT. YOUTUBE COMMENTS _KHAN_13REALDEAL MATHEUSRL Quentin tarantino said that I don’t think these are he is a thief as he steals coincidences. Gilligan is something from every movie. a genius. But looks like vince gilligan did that with tarantino’s pulp fiction. URIEL DAHAN Two masterpiece. — [epic Bruce Lee fighting noises] — [swords clanging] 56. 57.

Variety article continues. GAME OF DEATH PETER DEBRUGE directed by ... That attitude explains why Bruce Lee and Robert Clouse his pics play like a greatest hits of B-movies. Bruce Lee’s tracksuit on “Kill Bill’s” Bride, playing chicken with “Vanishing Point’s” white 1970 Dodge Challenger in KILL BILL: VOL 1 “Death Proof” and so on.

directed by DISSOLVE TO: Quentin Tarantino EXT. MTV NEWS

RYAN J DOWNEY Much of the look and feel INT. INSTAGRAM of “Kill Bill” will be a noirish tribute to Asian cinema. Tarantino, who has FILMTHUSIAST long championed many obscure The Bride’s yellow outfit in Hong Kong films, called upon a Kill Bill was inspired by the kung-fu-flick-inclined musician outfit worn by Bruce Lee in his to help out with his latest final film, Game of Death. project. CUT TO: CUT BACK TO:

EXT. EMPIRE MAGAZINE INTERVIEW Thurman said backstage at the Golden Globes, shortly after winning a Best Actress award for QUENTIN TARANTINO the TV movie “Hysterical Blindness”: Great artists steal; they don’t do homages. UMA THURMAN FLASH CUT TO: “It’s been great for me, because I’ve always been a couch potato. I never was put INT. VARIETY ARTICLE through boot camp. And I got put through Chinese boot camp That attitude explains why his on this movie. And with the pics play like a greatest hits most beautiful people, [such of B-movies... as] Master Wu Pang, the fight choreographer. — You talkin’ to me? — You talkin’ to me, motherfucker? 60. 61.

FILMTHUSIAST TAXI DRIVER On La Haine, the scene with Vinz in the bathroom looking directed by into the mirror was filmed with two actors mimicking each Martin Scorcese other. If it was a real mirror we would have seen the camera behind them.

CUT TO: LA HAINE EXT. INDIEWIRE ARTICLE directed by

Mathieu Kassovitz CONOR SOULES In the mirror shot, Vinz (Cas- sel) contorts his hand into the shape of a gun and points at his reflection, imitating a fellow dweller of society’s INT. INSTAGRAM shadows, Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), from “Taxi Driver.” FILMTHUSIAST Travis Bickle’s famous “You DISSOLVE TO: talkin’ to me?” scene may have been inspired by Robert De Niro’s training under Stella EXT. INSTAGRAM COMMENTS Adler, who (as an exercise) had her students practice SHERY_1396 different interpretations of Oh vincent... you look really a similar pose. The legendary like Deniro.. [laughing emoji] acting teacher was surprised to see one of her former students use “You talkin’ CINEMARCHIVER to me?” as a psychotic It seems like Taxi driver mantra. Martin Scorcese was encouraging De Niro just below the camera while shooting the KRUTARTHJANI_ scene, which led to the rest It actually came from Bruce of the “dialogue” Bickle has Springsteen and became one of with his mirror. the most influential lines in Scorcese’s and De Niro’s Filmthusiast continues to the next paragraph. career. A completely improvised scene. ♪ [Once Upon a Dream playing] ♪ ♪ [Mia & Sebastian’s Theme playing] ♪ 64. 65.

SLEEPING BEAUTY CUT TO: directed by EXT. YOUTUBE Clyde Geronimi MOSTRANDOMCHANNELEVER When I saw at the cinema for the first time, I instantly thought of Sleeping Beauty, so I made this little LA LA LAND video. directed by DISSOLVE TO: Damien Chazelle EXT. SHEKNOWS ARTICLE

ALLIE GEMMILL The magic of the planetarium INT. SLATE ARTICLE waltz between Mia and Sebastian recalls a similarly dreamy sequence in the Disney AISHA HARRIS adaptation of Sleeping Beauty. In the final scene of Disney’s In the Disney film, Sleeping animated classic, set to “Once Beauty and Prince Philip are Upon a Dream,” Aurora and carried into the clouds and Phillip waltz into the clouds. waltz away into their happily Perhaps Chazelle was inspired ever after. In La La Land, by this for his flight of Mia and Sebastian fly up into fancy into the stars of the the stars, and in that moment, observatory in La La Land? their love is affirmed.

Harris paused. Gemmill laughs. AISHA HARRIS rom its opening shot to its ALLIE GEMMILL grand finale, La La Land is It’s hard to feel gloomy awash with homages to the about life when watching this Golden Age of Hollywood smash-hit modern-day musical musicals. I about two artistic dreamers falling in love in Hollywood. — We’ll always have — [Paris fantasy] 68. 69.

CUT TO: CASABLANCA Damien Chazelle, the director, told IndieWire: directed by

Michael Curtiz DAMIEN CHAZELLE It wasn’t intentional but it ended up that way [as a re- working], with the window and her fascination with Ingrid Bergman and the ending in his LA LA LAND club, directed by CUT BACK TO: Damien Chazelle BILL DESOWITZ But when Chazelle saw the “Casablanca” window (used during the romantic Paris INT. INSTAGRAM flashback) at Warner Bros., he insisted they build Mia’s cafe FILMTHUSIAST across from it so she could When Mia gives Sebatian a tour show it off to Sebastian. of the WarnerBrothers backlot, she shows him a window that was used in Casablanca. The classical film wasa vast The fascination with Ingrid Bergman also extended influence on Damien Chazelle’s to Mia’s costume designer, : La La Land. MARY ZOPHRES FADE OUT TO: I found a pink halter dress for one of the montages that’s similar to the one Ingrid EXT. INDIEWIRE ARTICLE Bergman wore for her Hollywood screen test. BILL DESOWITZ Indeed, Damien Chazelle’s FADE TO BLACK Hollywood valentine is a sly reworking of the Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman classic love story, with ’s pianist Sebastian winning his jazz club but losing ’s Mia to movie stardom.

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ALYSS DANTE THE GREAT DICTATOR They sound so much the same.

directed by Charlie Chaplin INNOCENT BYSTANDER WOAH they sound so much the same!

TEVIN PHELPS CHAPLIN Downey Jr. BECAME Chaplin!!! directed by Richard Attenborough NBLACK Wow, he’s got the tone DOWN!

PICHEZVARRA That speech from the Great INT. INSTAGRAM Dictator - awesome job by Downey. He matched the cadence, speech pattern, FILMTHUSIAST tone - everything. While researching his role as Charlie Chaplinfor “Chaplin,” Robert Downey Jr. visited the CHARLOT CHAPLIN Museum of the Moving Image in RDJ can’t compete with the London,England and persuaded master of course but he did a the staff to let himtry on one really good job. of Chaplin’s “Litte Tramp” suits and boots. The latter fit him perfectly, and he found GEOFF WALL-DAVIS a cigar stub in one of his Without doubt Robert Downey pockets,which he subsequently Jr played the part of Chaplin treasured. extremely well.

FADE OUT TO: MISTRESSMOZART He was so brilliant in that INT. YOUTUBE COMMENTS film. He WAS Chaplin.

TANYA RISANDY One word just WOW. No one can FADE IN TO BLACK. portray Chaplin besides RDJ. — [Mirror shatters] — [Mirror shatters]

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CUT TO: PAPRIKA EXT. YOUTUBE COMMENTS directed by

Satoshi Kon VIKASH SUNA Did nolan take inspiration from that film?

GGYOUGOTMETOREPLY INCEPTION I immediately thought of Paprika while I watched directed by Inception for the first time. Christopher Nolan SNSET There’s a resemblance indeed. Great trailer! INT. FILM SCHOOL REJECTS ARTICLE RAPTOR NXT-GEN AIRSOFT CIARA WARDLOW Dude epic trailer! The movie The most fascinating element and Paprika go perfectly of the relationship between together! Awesome job! Inception and Paprika is not their obvious similarities, but how these similarities IMSOFLIPPINASIAN can exist while the films are Paprika x Inception was so fundamentally different: definitely something I was Inception is a film looking for. And this vid aesthetically inspired by is crazy good Surrealism, while Paprika is a Surrealist film. BEHEMOYH492 Wardlow continues to the next paragraph: Goes together perfectly

CIARA WARDLOW However, looking at Inception NANDO KUMAR itself is sufficient proof of Nolan did say that Paprika Paprika’s influence - just as influenced Inception Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) says in the film, “the subject can always trace the genesis FADE IN TO BLACK. of an idea. — [intense music] — Here’s Johnny! — [intense music] — [door breaking] 84. 85.

INT. YOUTUBE THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE SAM LOCK directed by Nothing is original. The Victor Sjöström Shining is still an amazing film.

MIGUEL MONTERO THE SHINING It´s a homage not a robbery, he uses the same movement directed by with a different dramatical Stanley Kubrick construction.

BR1XX4N Homage. The word of the day. INT. YOUTUBE

GALEFORCE3192 Kubrick knew his stuff. I PERO BELJO remember when I saw “The Most all of cinema after 1930 Phantom Carriage” and TV and owes everything to silent this scene came up, I thought cinema, Francis Coppola and of that clip from “The Martin Scorsese mentioned Shining.” that the majority of cinemas achievements was done in the I loved this film. It’s got silent period. some weird moments, but it has a great story. If you can track it down and are willing to put up with the fact that JUANPLATE00 it’s a silent film, give it a I just finish to see this watch. movie, and in that part imm- mediately i knew that was Kubrick’s Shining inspiration.

FANSO76 The inspiration for The Shining.

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INT. YOUTUBE 8½ SAM LOCK directed by Nothing is original. The Federico Fellini Shining is still an amazing film.

MIGUEL MONTERO PULP FICTION It´s a homage not a robbery, he uses the same movement directed by with a different dramatical Quentin Tarantino construction.

BR1XX4N Homage. The word of the day. INT. EMPIRE MAGAZINE INTERVIEW

QUENTIN TARANTINO I steal from every single PERO BELJO movie ever made, Most all of cinema after 1930 owes everything to silent If my work has anything, it’s cinema, Francis Coppola and that I’m taking this from this Martin Scorsese mentioned and that from that and mixing that the majority of cinemas them together. achievements was done in the silent period. Great artists steal; they don’t do homages.

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INT. YOUTUBE COMMENTS PERFECT BLUE SAM LOCK directed by Nothing is original. The Satoshi Kon Shining is still an amazing film.

MIGUEL MONTERO BLACK SWAN It´s a homage not a robbery, he uses the same movement directed by with a different dramatical Darren Aronofsky construction.

BR1XX4N Homage. The word of the day. INT. INTERVIEW

DARREN ARONOFSKY Not really, there are similar- PERO BELJO ities between the films, but Most all of cinema after 1930 it wasn’t influenced by it. It owes everything to silent really came out of Swan Lake cinema, Francis Coppola and the Ballet, we wanted to dra- Martin Scorsese mentioned matize the ballet, that’s why that the majority of cinemas it’s kind of up here and down achievements was done in the there, because ballet is big silent period. and small in lots of ways. MOVIES WITHIN MOVIES

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