for your consideration

Over the years, my cinematically saturated brain has made more than a few strange connections between actors and their inspirations, directors and their crib sheets, writers and their muses. This is not so much a place to expose homages and rip-offs but more a space to raise questions about more abstract and potentially subconscious influences on the work of film artists in general. Rather than further explaination, I will demonstrate. For your consideration;

When I first saw Kevin Spacey in Seven;



my initial reaction was that he was channelling HAL from Kubrick's 2001;



I've been making this connection for years. How strange then that in 2009 Spacey decides to make his own foray into AI voices with Duncan Jones' Moon;



Mere coincidence? Knowing homage? Spacey a robot? You decide.