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The Feels by TWICE (2021) and references to classic american chick flicks
The letter slid under the door to Elle in Legally Blonde, dir. Robert Luketic (2001) / Cady splitting her Spring Fling queen crown in pieces and sharing it in Mean Girls, dir. Mark Waters (2004)
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the vampyre mythos in media
favorite, nct 127 (2021) / the twilight saga: breaking dawn – part 1, dir. bill condon (2011) / a girl walks home alone at night, dir. ana lily amirpour (2014)
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exo for mama (2016) / the boyz for maverick (2021) / battle royale, dir. kinji fukasaku (2000)
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Waiting by WOODZ off Only Lovers Left album (2021) / Only Lovers Left Alive, dir. Jim Jarmusch (2013) / tw guns suicide
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Karina of aespa for Savage (2021) / Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Revolutions (2003) dir. Wachowski sisters
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Key, Bad Love (2021) / Joker, dir. Todd Phillips (2019)
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can you make a wayv music video — you're asking me of something god can't do for them right now curiouscat.qa/cinemakpop/pos…
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Ningning of aespa wearing an outfit inspired by The Matrix (1999) dir. Wachowski sisters in the Savage teaser, with Next Level lyrics appliqued on it
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Key, Bad Love (2021) / Star Trek: The Original Series / Star Trek: The Next Generation, Skin of Evil
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Three girls run off into the wilderness and get lost at the Hanging Rock, while Sara is forbidden to go to the picnic by the strict headmistress and stays back at their all-girls boarding school, while also being hopelessly infatuated with one of the runaway girls, Miranda. twitter.com/cinemakpop/sta…
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love4eva, LOONA yyxy, dir. Digipedi (2018) / Picnic at Hanging Rock, dir. Peter Weir (1975)
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LO$ER=LO♡ER, TXT, dir. Lumpens (2021) / Thelma & Louise, dir. Ridley Scott (1991)
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wong kar wai this, the grand budapest hotel that... where's my paddington 2 (2017) dir. paul king inspired kpop concept
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Guy who has only seen a Wong Kar Wai movie, watching kpop mv: Getting a lot of Wong Kar Wai vibes from this...
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Shared mythos of the odd-eyed cat
Ice Cream Cake, Red Velvet (2015) / Queens Mystic General Store, Red Velvet (2021) / Nap of a Star, TXT (2019) / Eternally, TXT (2020)
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BEcause, Dreamcatcher (2021) / Us, dir. Jordan Peele (2019)
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Queens Archive, Red Velvet (2021) and allusions to Studio Ghibli works: Howl's Moving Castle (2004) / Whisper of the Heart (1995) / Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
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it's not "just a green-screen": a tribute to kpop cg vfx 🪐
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Red Velvet as Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 avant-garde horror "House"
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kpop's love letters to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, dir. Michel Gondry (2004)
"Sitting on the sunshine
Sunshine is over me, she gets over me
Make us feel alive
Sunshine is over me, she gets over me"
lyrics to "Gondry" by Hyukoh (2015)
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I Swear by SISTAR (2014) / Death Proof, dir. Quentin Tarantino (2007)
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PTT (Paint The Town) by LOONA, dir. digipedi (2021) / Interstellar, dir. Christopher Nolan (2014)
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the kpop wes anderson cinematic universe 🏩
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Celebrity, IU, dir. VMProject (2021) / Lady Bird, dir. Greta Gerwig (2017)
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Moonshot by N.Flying (2021) and its homages to classic silent film
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, dir. Robert Wiene (1920) / Le Voyage dans la Lune, dir. Georges Méliès (1902)
intersection of kpop and film