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Ken Russell themes
Recycling Like most directors Russell recycles his work. Images from one film are reused in another.
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Russell often uses under-the-legs photography of women | ||
in The Boyfriend, Tommy, Mahler, Crimes of Passion | ||
The wand/cross in Tommy and Aria, | ||
The Devils, Lourdes and also the opera Mefistofeles | ||
which changes religion in Mahler | ||
Tchaikovsky's wife and Valentino both are violated through the bars, and the opera Faust has a similar image | ||
The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax and another secret life in The Rainbow | ||
The fields of Tommy, The Rainbow | ||
Women in Love and The Music Lovers | ||
The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner | ||
The reflection in the glasses of the blind Delius, and also the Hell's Angel looking at the blind Tommy | ||
body parts in Aria and the opera Mefistofeles | ||
Skulls, armour, snakes etc from Tommy and Gothic | ||
the halo hat appears in films from Valentino and Lady Chatterley | ||
to Savage Messiah | ||
and Lair of the White Worm | ||
Savage Messiah and Altered States | ||
the hut comes back in Savage Messiah and spectacularly in Mahler | ||
on the rooftops in Tommy, Gothic | ||
and The Music Lovers | ||
looking down at the camera in Valentino and Gothic | ||
The Boyfriend and The Devils | ||
phallic music in Mahler and Valentino and Preservation Man | ||
Holocaust in The Devils and Busby Berkeley in The Boyfriend | ||
and plastic dolls in French Dressing | ||
The furniture covered in drapes in Elgar was reused 26 years later in Lair of the White Worm | ||
and the full-screen lips in his first film French Dressing come back in Lisztomania | ||
A figure silhouetted in a doorframe walking down stairs or along a corridor is a favourite Russell shot. Lair, Gothic | ||
Bartok, Valentino | ||
Billion Dollar Brain, Crimes of Passion | ||
Altered States, Prisoners of Honor and most Russell films. |
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