so i found what i was looking for with all the references to dante's divine comedy: the inferno. I wanted to see what songs, cartoons, and movie besides the dante film had references/connections to the inferno.I listed the many popular ones and cut it down a tad on the "view comments".There are references in tons of famous stuff like the movie 7even and clerks and in art and music including the local band cowboy mouth.
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virtual dante:
http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/new/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_and_his_Divine_Comedy_in_popular_culture
my mommy got a poster of this and put it in Mrs. Klebba's room
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KQ, you make my heart hurt with your distain for design. What would Robin Williams say about your inelegant design and color choices? She'd be heartbroken too. Have you learned nothing in Journalism? From now on, here's my advice. Make a brief post, and then include all your links and info as the first comment under it, that way the blog still looks nice!
Stay classy, StM!
I didn't see it in the post, but my mom is reading a book called The Tenth Circle. It's by Jodi Picoult. My mom said it's about what the author believes a tenth circle would be like. I'm going to read it when she's finished with it.
Kevin this post is sooooo lonnggggg
• In The Hand of Dante (2002) weaves a contemporary tale about the finding of an original manuscript of the Divine Comedy with an imagined account of Dante's years composing the work; see official website.
• The Dante Club is a 2003 novel by Matthew Pearl which tells the story of various American poets translating The Divine Comedy in post-civil war Boston. At the same time, a killer takes inspiration from the punishments in Dante's Inferno.
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• Author Monique Wittig's Virgile, Non (published in English as Across the Acheron) is a lesbian–feminist retelling of the Divine Comedy set in the utopia/dystopia of second-wave feminism.
• Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic series features a heavily Dante-inspired Hell, including the woods of Suicide, the Malebolge, and the City of Dis.
• DC/Vertigo comics's Lucifer, based on characters from Neil Gaiman's Sandman, featuring aspects of a Dante-inspired Hell and Heaven, particularly the Primum Mobile.
• DC/Vertigo comics's Kid Eternity, in which Kid and his companion Jerry Sullivan travel to a Dante-inspired Hell to free a partner of Kid's. The structure of the comic also draws features from Dante's Inferno.
• T. S. Eliot uses extracts from the Inferno as both epigraph and preface to The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
• Pope Benedict XVI has said that part of his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, was inspired by Canto XXXIII of "Paradise".2 Paragraph 39 of the encyclical says "Love is the light—and in the end, the only light—that can always illuminate a world grown dim...".
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• Jeff Long's The Descent is based on Dante's work, and makes both blatant and implied references to it.
• Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho begins with the words “Abandon all hope ye who enter here”.
• Hannibal by Thomas Harris, makes several references to Dante and the Inferno.
• The fictional life of Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, appears to draw heavily from Dante's life.
• In the Anne Rice novel The Vampire Armand, Armand briefly includes Marius's love for the divine comedy.[1]
• Author Mary Shelley, in her novel Frankenstein, refers to Frankenstein's creation as "a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived."
• An Irish band called The Divine Comedy, centered on Neil Hannon, also exists. Their music style has influences of classic poetry in general.
• Paul Simon may have used the Divine Comedy for the inspiration of his song "You Can Call Me Al" in 1986.
• Resident Evil! Actress/Supermodel Milla Jovovich, as Milla, released her debut album under the name The Divine Comedy. The Divine ComedySlavic background. consists of a collection of acoustic pop and folk songs drawn from Jovovich's
• Heavy metal / power metal band Iced Earth paid tribute to the poem with an epic song entitled "Dante's Inferno". Clocking in at 16 minutes and 29 seconds, and featuring long instrumental sections, abrupt tempo changes, and a pseudo-Gregorian chant choir, the song is found on the 1995 album Burnt Offerings. The song also appears on the 2 disc limited edition version of their Days of Purgatory album, in a very slightly modified fashion. It is also performed live on their Alive in Athens double live CD.
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• Thrash metal band Sepultura's new album is based entirely on The Divine Comedy. Entitled Dante XXI, it was released on March 14, 2006
• Zao refer to the Divine Comedy on their 1999 album Liberate te ex Inferis, covering the first five circles of the Inferno.
• Thom Yorke of the band Radiohead has also referenced Dante's Inferno as a recurring source of inspiration for his music and many references to the poem can be found in the band's lyrics.
• Grunge band Nirvana featured artwork based on 'Inferno' on their debut album Bleach.
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• The Bright River is a hip-hop retelling of Dante's Inferno by a traditional storyteller, Tim Barsky, with a live soundtrack. performed by some of the best hip-hop and klezmer musicians in the Bay Area. A dizzying theatrical journey through a world spinning helplessly out of control, the show sends audiences on a mass-transit tour of the Afterlife. see http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/timbarskyee
• In Weezer's latest album "Make Believe" released May 10, 2005, there is hidden text in the pictures. The text reads "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita".
• The song "Roll Right" on the album Evil Empire by Rage Against the Machine contains the refrain 'Send 'em to tha seventh level!' referencing the seventh circle (or level) of Hell, where the violent are held.
• Bad Religion, an influential hardcore punk/punk rock band from Southern California, took inspiration from Dante's Hell for the back of the cover of their first album How Could Hell Be Any Worse?. The liner notes booklet for their 2007 album New Maps of Hell features Doré's illustrations of the Wood of Suicides and the Hypocrites in their heavy robes.
• Cowboy Mouth describes the Superdome during and after Hurricane Katrina as "Dante's Inferno" in the song "Home" on their latest album, Voodoo Shoppe
• Australian goth-electro band The Tenth Stage has a self-titled track (2006) which describes the singers descent past the nine stages of Dante's poem to a 10th stage of Hell.
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• Mark Hoppus of +44 says the song "Chapter 13" is about the 13th Chapter of Inferno.
• Christian Indie rock band, Hope Dialect composed an 11-minute song titled "Dante." It chronicled the journey of Dante through the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The song is often broken into three separate songs, each being labeled as "Dante Part 1, Part 2, Part 3."
• ^^^^The Gates of Hell sculptural group by Auguste Rodin. Dante is the figure sitting at the top of the gate contemplating the horrors of hell. This figure was later isolated and became Rodin's The Thinker.
Sandro Botticelli made the most famous set of illustrations during the Renaissance. Another interesting series was done by Stradanus.
• Before his death in 1827, William Blake, the English poet and painter, planned and executed several watercolour illustrations to the Divine Comedy. Though he did not finish the series before his death, they remain a highly powerful visual interpretation of the poem.
• Salvador Dalí made a series of prints for the Comedy in the mid-20th century.[3][4]
• Jimbo in Purgatory: being a mis-recounting of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy in pictures and un-numbered footnotes, a 33-page graphic novel by Gary Panter, an adaptation of Dante's Purgatorio (melded with Boccaccio’s Decameron and a bit of the Canterbury Tales, Milton, John Dryden, and pop culture references).[5][6]
• Contemporary artist Jennifer Strange has made charcoal drawings inspired by the Commedia.[7]
• Mickey's Inferno is a comic-book adaptation written by Guido Martina and drawn by Angelo Bioletto featuring classic Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck published by the then-Italian Disney comic book licensee Mondadori in the monthly Topolino from Oct. 1949 to March 1950. An English-language version appeared in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #666 [March 2006].
• "Chick Publications" published a tract called "The Letter". In this tract, many of Gustave Dore's illustrations for the "Inferno" are plagiarized.
• Paige Fox from FoxTrot mentions that Dante was wrong when it was raining right after it was snowing, quoting that "Hell is 33 Degrees Fahrenheit".
• The 1994 movie Clerks is said to be loosely based upon the 9 levels of hell with 9 sections of the movie and the main character's name Dante.
• 7even7777771995 motion picture Se7en (also known as Seven) a film directed by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. The story is about two detectives, one new to the district and one about to retire, investigating a series of ritualistic murders inspired by the seven deadly sins. This film makes many references to Dante's Divine Comedy.
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• The 1999 movie Hannibal, based on the book by Thomas Harris, makes several references to Dante and the Inferno.
• Angel (TV series) A reference to the book and the nine circles of hell in the Season 3 Episode 'A New World' (2001).
• Fullmetal Alchemist used the idea of the Seven Deadly Sins, incorporating them as demonic homunculi; the character that controls them borrows the name "Dante"(2001-Present). In addition, the "Alchemist's Gate" in the anime is modeled after Rodin's sculpture of the Gates of Hell.
• movie DepArted with jacky nick was- orignally, a movie called Infernal Affairs (2002) was named to play on Dante's Inferno and "internal affairs", which plays a large part in the movie. The Chinese name (無間道) references the lowest level of Hell. The Hollywood remake of the movie, The Departed (2006), is also named to carry religious connotations.
• The 2003 movie The Core featured a direct reference to the Inferno, as the ship used to tunnel to the Earth's core was named Virgil, followed by a direct quotation from the Inferno.
• In the 2003 movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Captain Jack Sparrow states that Captain Barbossa and his crew will suffer horrible fates because "The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers." The Australian metalcore band "Parkway Drive" excerpted this line for their song titled "Mutiny".
• Dante's Inferno (2007) based on Sandow Birk's contemporary drawings of the Divine Comedy, this feature film version uses Toy Theater puppetry made up of paper puppets and sets. A darkly comedic update of the original, the film sets Dante's tour of the underworld against a modern and familiar urban backdrop.
• Dante's Inferno (film) (2008) based on Dante's The Divine Comedy and illustrations by Gustave Dore. The first in a slated film trilogy, including Dante's Purgatorio (film) and Dante's Paradiso (film).[8]
• "Down at the Inferno" (2006) is a rock musical by Rick Mckim based on The Divine Comedy
• The 1999 movie The Boondock Saints, features the quote, "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" as Connor, Murphy, and Rocco are exiting the adult entertainment palor.
• The miniature whorehouse in the 1988 movie Beetlejuice is called "Dante's Inferno Room"
Project Dante, of the Polish artist Dariusz Nowak-Nova, is an example of how the Internet and new technologies can contribute to the formation of various approaches to literature, and a new way to conceive the book.
• Dante Alighieri Academy is a Catholic Secondary School located in Toronto, Canada.
my brothers in that band cowboy mouth. thats a good cd. i was at my brothers hosue 2 weekends ago and their singer/drummer was there and he actually made a refrence to dante when he was talking but i forget what it was about... hes got a loud voice.
but G it is all the highlights of popular culture...i didnt khow which one to select and plus i needed to post and this is one i wanted to know about. but anywhoo i did what mrs. decks said
thats cool now I'll recognize whenever someone makes a reference Dante or his work. I actually remember that part in The Pirates of the Caribbean. We were listening to Cowboy Mouth at Brian's house the other day
i was watching the pirates of the caribbeans this last night and in one the of the scenes jack sparrow talks about one the sins and punishment of one the circle. i had never caught that before
that is an awesome poster of those cool doors. i really like the detail! where can i order one or go buy one?
that is an awesome poster of those cool doors. i really like the detail! where can i order one or go buy one?
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