Week 26.21 - Socials Roundup RECREATING RECOGNISABLE TABLEAU
18 May - 24 May 2026: Posing Characters as Classical Art
Last week we looked at posing characters in front of items or background to create icons.
Week 26.21 posts are all about frames which recreate paintings or statues with the way they pose characters, and include shots from But I’m a Cheerleader (1999); Veronica Mars (2004-2006); The Haunting of Hill House (2018); Monsterland (2020), and Little Women (2022).
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars creates Michaelangelo's “Pietà” twice in season two - in the first episode with Veronica holding Logan, and in the finale with the roles reversed.
Monsterland
This scene is a two-fer: first, the sequence of Stanley Price (Bill Camp) shows us an instantly recognisable Last Supper tableau, before turning the shot around and using a chandelier as a ‘crown of thorns’ imagery.
Little Women
Last Supper imagery has also been used in everything from LOST to Survivor, but in animation you can really play with things, such as this shot from the stunningly animated Little Women title sequence, which replaces the ‘disciples’ faces with framed pictures of items which are crucial to the story.
The Haunting of Hill House
This one’s not quite like the others; it shows us the statue, then makes a hybrid with character and angel, as something like foreshadowing.
When Clara (Anabeth Gish) walks into the room in The Haunting of Hill House 1.09 “Screaming Meemies” it’s almost a moment of suspense wondering whether she will step forward so as to be framed . . . and then, of course she does.
We’ve also got an entire post on creating shoulder angels and devils
But I’m a Cheerleader
This posing of conversion therapy director Mary (Cathy Moriarty) as the Statue of Liberty sums up everything But I’m a Cheerleader is skewering about the conflation of religious and American anti-gay sentiments, which they wrap up and package as godly freedom.
