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