Up With Popol
We asked Darren Aronofsky to list the biggest influences on his new movie, The Fountain:
David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”
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Comic artist Moebius’s 40 Days in the Desert
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The Popol Vuh (The Mayan sacred text)
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s The Conquest of New Spain
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Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano’s “Memory of Fire” trilogy
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Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God
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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain
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Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America
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Early hip-hop group E.S.G.’s “U.F.O.”
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Diego Velázquez
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Hugh Jackman as Tomas. (Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros.)
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