Today in Movie Culture: Kristen Stewart Spoofs 'Willy Wonka,' Michael Mann Influences…

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Movie Parody of the Day:

Kristen Stewart stars as Charlie Bucket in Saturday Night Live‘s parody of a scene from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory:

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Movie Comparison of the Day:

See how much Michael Mann’s Heat influenced Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight in this video putting scenes side by side:

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Movie Trivia of the Day:

Speaking of Nolan’s Batman movies, here’s a bunch of trivia about Batman Begins from ScreenCrush:

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Film Studies Lesson of the Day:

CineFix makes us better cinephiles by spotlighting five brilliant moments of camera movement:

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Body Art of the Day:

Speaking of cinephiles, check out one of the coolest movie fan tattoos ever, turning its host into a human zoetrope (via Fashionably Geek):

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Cosplay of the Day:

Speaking of body art, sometimes you can only afford to dress up a single finger, as Lowcostcosplay does with this Spirited Away cosplay:

Vintage Image of the Day:

Zsa Zsa Gabor, who would have turned 100 today, with Charlton Heston on the set of Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil in 1957:

Good Film Analysis of the Day:

For One Perfect Shot, H. Perry Horton spotlights Paul Thomas Anderson’s use of silence in There Will Be Blood:

Bad Film Analysis of the Day:

Learn the hidden meaning of Disney’s Aladdin from an alien in the future who likes to point out questionable plot holes in kids’ movies: 

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Classic Trailer of the Day: 

This week is the 20th anniversary of Richard Linklater’s SubUrbia starring Giovanni Ribisi. Watch the original trailer for the indie classic below. 

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