Top 250 Movies as a Subway Map
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Here's a different way of thinking about well-known movies: imagine each one is a stop on a subway line! Designed by David Honnorat and posted at Vodkaster, the cinematic subway map is based on the top 250 movies as voted by IMDb users on June 19 (which, I suppose, is why The Hangover made it). Honnorat created 16 different imaginary subway lines, including "Universally Acclaimed Masterpiece," "Political drama," "Drama about tolerance," "Dark and weird drama," and other, more traditional categories, and then placed each film on one of the lines. He asked: "How would you go from Alien to North by Northwest without crossing The Godfather: Part II? Which station have you not visited yet?"
The placement of movies on the map can be amusing (Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction side by side with Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America on the gangster line) as well as bizarre yet strangely fitting (Se7en sitting at the intersection of Vertigo, Rashomon, Nosferatu, and Let the Right One In). Click through to see the big map and roll around a bit. Like all subway maps, it's confusing at first but starts to make more sense as you follow the lines from station to station. What's your favorite cinematic subway line?
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11-02-2009 @ 5:53PM
Garrett said...
I really love "Dark and Weird Drama". I never even thought of that as a category before, since I never thought Fight Club could really fit into a category, but that works. That whole line is great!
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11-02-2009 @ 5:58PM
John said...
Awesome. This would make for an great poster or something if you could purchase one somehow. Also though, no love for a sports movies line?
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11-03-2009 @ 12:27AM
Gordon said...
Download the PDF and give it to the large format printer of your choice. It will print out perfectly, as long as they are not idiots.
11-02-2009 @ 6:06PM
Meh said...
truly a great list. But Se7en should've been replace with Zodiac, Fincher's best work
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11-03-2009 @ 12:10AM
Paolo said...
I can't choose between "Movies about show business" or "Drama," but I live in "Network."
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11-12-2009 @ 2:43AM
Kristanna said...
Interesting indeed. A new perspective Why is Monty Python and the Holy Grail on the "Dark and Weird Drama" line?
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