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===== Movies ===== | ===== Movies ===== | ||
- | Movies that may have influenced Severance. | ||
=== A Matter of Life and Death (1946; retitled Stairway to Heaven) === | === A Matter of Life and Death (1946; retitled Stairway to Heaven) === | ||
- | Lead characters are named Peter and June. A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl. | + | A British wartime aviator who cheats death, [[Peter Kilmer|Peter]], |
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=== Brazil (1985) === | === Brazil (1985) === | ||
- | Confirmed by Dan Erickson [[https:// | + | Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro), he meets the woman from his daydream (Kim Greist), and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies. |
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+ | Confirmed by Dan Erickson [[https:// | ||
- | === 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) === | ||
- | Confirmed by Ben Stiller. | + | ===Dark City=== |
+ | A man awakens in a hotel bathtub, with amnesia. He receives a phone call from another man, who urges him to flee the hotel to evade a group of men who are after him, and he discovers the corpse of a ritualistically murdered woman along with a bloody knife in the room. He struggles in a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from. | ||
- | TODO: Source needed. (Variety interview) | + | Confirmed by Dan Erickson [[https://www.reddit.com/ |
=== Playtime (1968) === | === Playtime (1968) === | ||
- | * Confirmed by Ben Stiller.[[https:// | + | A man curiously wanders around a futuristic, hyper-consumerist Paris. In one of the six chapters, Hulot arrives at one of the glass and steel buildings for an important meeting but gets lost in a maze of disguised rooms and offices, eventually stumbling into a trade exhibition of lookalike business office designs and furniture nearly identical to those in the rest of the building. |
- | * Confirmed by Jeremy Hindle. [[https:// | + | |
- | TODO: Source needed. (Variety | + | * Confirmed by Ben Stiller.[[https://www.nbcnews.com/ |
+ | * Confirmed by Jeremy Hindle. [[https:// | ||
=== The Matrix (1999) === | === The Matrix (1999) === | ||
+ | A world-class hacker is contacted by a mysterious figure who offers him two choices: A red pill, which will allow him to break out of his perceived reality and discover the truth of his world, or a blue pill, which will make him fall back into the illusion of the Matrix none the wiser. | ||
- | Confirmed by [[https:// | + | Confirmed by Dan Erickson |
=== The Truman Show (1998) === | === The Truman Show (1998) === | ||
- | Stated | + | He doesn' |
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=== Joe vs The Volcano (1990) === | === Joe vs The Volcano (1990) === | ||
- | Confirmed | + | Joe Banks is dying, but his life wasn't much worth living anyway. A strange millionaire offers Joe a way to die with meaning and dignity: |
- | TODO: Source needed (AMA?) | + | Confirmed by Dan Erickson [[https:// |
=== Office Space (1999) === | === Office Space (1999) === | ||
- | Confirmed by Dan Erickson [[https:// | + | Peter, thanks to a hypnotic suggestion, decides not to participate in work any longer. He and two of his fellow software engineers have had enough of the daily grind working their dull, mundane jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss. |
- | === Pleaseantville (1998) === | + | Confirmed by Dan Erickson [[https:// |
- | Confirmed by Jeremy Hindle | + | === Naked Lunch (1991) === |
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+ | A 1959 novel by William S. Burroughs. Lee, eluding arrest, discovers the fictional state of Freeland, where all life is well-ordered and hygienic. Following a riot in a Freeland psychological reconditioning center, Lee flees to Interzone, where he encounters bizarre orgies, medical experiments involving giant centipedes, and pornographic performances. | ||
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+ | Confirmed by Dan Erickson | ||
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+ | ===Red Desert=== | ||
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+ | Amid modern wastelands and toxic factories, Giuliana desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, and before long her mental state rapidly deteriorates. Director Antonioni said of his first film, "The neurosis I sought to describe in Red Desert is above all a matter of adjusting. There are people who do adapt, and others who can't manage, perhaps because they are too tied to ways of life that are by now out-of-date." | ||
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+ | Confirmed by Jessica Lee Gagné [[https:// | ||
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+ | === 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) === | ||
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+ | A lengthy space epic wherein space travelers' | ||
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+ | Themes in 2001 include dreams, hopes, and plans, isolation, mortality, technological innovation' | ||
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+ | Confirmed by Ben Stiller. TODO: Source needed. (Variety interview) | ||
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+ | Confirmed by Jeremy Hindle [[https:// | ||
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===The Backrooms=== | ===The Backrooms=== | ||
A creepypasta [[https:// | A creepypasta [[https:// | ||
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Confirmed by Dan Erickson. | Confirmed by Dan Erickson. | ||
[[https:// | [[https:// | ||
[[https:// | [[https:// | ||
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+ | ===No Exit=== | ||
+ | A 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. It begins with three characters who find themselves waiting in a mysterious room. It is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity. It is the source of Sartre' | ||
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+ | Confirmed by Dan Erickson [[https:// | ||
===The Stanley Parable=== | ===The Stanley Parable=== | ||
+ | A first person adventure game. When a simple-minded individual named Stanley discovers that the co-workers in his office have mysteriously vanished, he sets off to find answers. You play as Stanley, and you do not play as Stanley.You make a choice, and you have your choices taken from you. The game will end, the game will never end. Contradiction follows contradiction, | ||
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Confirmed by Dan Erickson | Confirmed by Dan Erickson | ||
- | [[https:// | + | [[https:// |
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+ | ===The Metamorphosis=== | ||
+ | One of Kafka' | ||
+ | Confirmed by Dan Erickson [[https:// | ||
===Photographers=== | ===Photographers=== | ||
* Swedish photographer [[https:// | * Swedish photographer [[https:// | ||
- | * Photographers | + | * Photographer [[https:// |
+ | * Photographer [[https:// | ||
Confirmed by Jessica Lee Gagné [[https:// | Confirmed by Jessica Lee Gagné [[https:// | ||
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+ | Confirmed by Ben Stiller [[https:// | ||
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+ | ===Director Wong Kar-wai=== | ||
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+ | Confirmed by Jessica Lee Gagné [[https:// | ||
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===Designers=== | ===Designers=== | ||
- | * Frank Lloyd Wright | + | * Frank Lloyd Wright |
- | * [[https://www.deere.co.th/th/connect-with-john-deere/ | + | * [[https://architectuul.com/architecture/ |
* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
- | * Brutalism | ||
- | Confirmed Jeremy Hindle [[https:// | + | Confirmed Jeremy Hindle [[https:// |
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+ | ===Design Style=== | ||
+ | [[https:// | ||
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+ | Confirmed by Ben Stiller [[https:// | ||
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+ | Confirmed by Jeremy Hindle [[https:// | ||
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+ | ===Dilbert comic strips=== | ||
+ | Comic strip first published in 1989, known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, | ||
- | ===Dilbert comic strips]=== | ||
Confirmed by Dan Erickson [[https:// | Confirmed by Dan Erickson [[https:// |