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it's not "just a green-screen": a tribute to kpop cg vfx 🪐
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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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be your own king, the boyz (2021) // romeo + juliet, dir. baz luhrmann (1996)
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the kpop wong kar wai cinematic universe 📻
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Fake Reality, SHINee (2021) • The Truman Show, dir. Peter Weir (1998)
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newjeans, omg (2023) • i’m a cyborg, but that’s okay, dir. park chanwook (2006)
the mv recreates park chanwook's surrealist style and references the character of younggoon who believes herself to be a cyborg
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Birthday, Red Velvet (2022) / Edward Scissorhands, dir. Tim Burton (1990)
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libidO, onlyoneof (2021) referencing or alluding to famous gay media
god's own country, dir. francis lee (2017) / portrait of a lady on fire, dir céline sciamma (2019)
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PTT (Paint The Town) by LOONA, dir. digipedi (2021) / Interstellar, dir. Christopher Nolan (2014)
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the cinematography in Dune (2021) is so stunning...
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newjeans, omg (2023) • la boum, dir. claude pinoteau (1980)
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the kpop wes anderson cinematic universe 🏩
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Red Velvet as Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 avant-garde horror "House"
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Fake Reality by SHINee (2021) recalls the conceptual unreality of the modern suburb explored in 90s film
Edward Scissorhands, dir. Tim Burton (1990) // American Beauty, dir. Sam Mendes (1999) // The Truman Show, dir. Peter Weir (1998)
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criminal, taemin, dir. paranoid paradigm (2020) // rbb, red velvet, dir. oui kim (2018) // the shining, dir. stanley kubrick (1980)
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Monster, Red Velvet-Irene&Seulgi (2020) • The Young Girls of Rochefort, dir. Jacques Demy (1967)
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"Next Level" by Aespa, production design by Ok Shin of A:WE Design (2021) / "2001: A Space Odyssey", production design by Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernest Archer, among many others (1968)
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INVU Teasers, Taeyeon (2022) featuring American Psycho, dir. Mary Harron (2000) inspired interior design
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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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Love Killa, Monsta X (2020) • Fight Club, dir. David Fincher (1999)
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Suspiria (1977) dir. Dario Argento
Monster | Red Velvet-Irene&Seulgi (2020) dir. tba
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reference to oldboy's iconic hallway fight tracking shot scene
thank u, u-know, dir. kim hyunsoo (2021) // oldboy, dir. park chanwook (2003) // tw blood guns
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Yoon of STAYC x Gogo Yubari (夕張 ゴーゴー) of Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
intersection of kpop and film