For a cinematic genius
whose greatest masterpieces plumb the dark depths of primal obsession, chronic guilt, and abhorrent violence, the last shot of Family Plot glitters with a surprising whimsy.
The
greatest achievement of the film's psychedelic roller coaster is the potent and passionate music of Junkie XL,
whose previous scores on films like «300: Rise of an Empire» and «Divergent» could have never hinted at the
masterpiece composition he would create for George Miller.
The principal heirs to Regionalism's tradition of naturalist realism included the
great illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894 - 78),
whose nostalgic but hugely popular magazine illustrations of the American family made him a household name in the 1950s, and Andrew Wyeth (1917 - 2009),
whose tempera
masterpiece Christina's World (1948, Museum of Modern Art) competes with Wood's American Gothic for the title of America's favourite painting.