{"id":13342,"date":"2011-11-02T20:37:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13342"},"modified":"2011-11-03T13:12:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T13:12:25","slug":"split-screen-blow-up-antonioni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/02\/split-screen-blow-up-antonioni\/","title":{"rendered":"Split Screen Blow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A YouTube video shows scenes from Michelangelo Antonioni<\/a>‘s Blow-up<\/a><\/strong> (1966) alongside the London locations thirty years later.<\/p>\n

Still one of the best ever depictions of England’s capital city, the film is about a photographer (David Hemmings) who takes a shot of two lovers in a park and soon finds out there’s more to the image than he first realised.<\/p>\n

One of the key films of the 1960s, its critical and financial success played a key role in the demise of the US Production Code<\/a> and it features a memorable score by Herbie Hancock<\/a> as well as cameos from the likes of Jeff Beck<\/a> and Jimmy Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It also influenced films such as The Conversation<\/a> (1974) and Blow Out<\/a> (1981), which played around with similar themes but replaced the central plot device of photography with audio instead.<\/p>\n

The actual park used for filming was Maryon Park<\/a> in Charlton<\/a> and a few years ago (1999?) someone shot this video of the locations and then posted them in a split-screen video online.<\/p>\n