
Trumps could also depict particular locations, which made them handy escape tools.
They also facilitated travel across the dimensions, as either person could offer to bring the other through.
The Chronicles of Amber had the "Trumps," which were most commonly the size and shape of Tarot cards, but people skilled in using them could mentally communicate (or combat) the individuals depicted thereon. The picture above comes from The Film of the Book.
Quite likely a homage to George MacDonald.
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, this was how Edmund, Lucy and Eustace got to Narnia: via a painting located in Eustace's house. His short story "The Road Virus Heads North.". The journal entries are what the reader (you) are reading right now. In the end he plans to smash it and then destroy his journals if breaking the window fixes the problem. Then the cleric comes to realize that something other than his god was secretly being worshiped in the church he grew up in. Then bad things start happening and members of the clergy start seeing something in the window move at night. There is a short story called "The Rose Window" where a cleric (also the narrator) in a mild fantasy setting has a large rose window brought to his church from the one where he grew up. Wilde can also cause the paintings to reach and snatch people and objects into them. In Art of the Dead, the seven paintings can not only corrupt the souls of those in contact with them, but once they are fully corrupted, they will be drawn into the painting and trapped there permanently.
What is being painted on paintings is created as reality in the Painted World of the afterlife.
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The opening title animation for The Pink Panther Strikes Again has the Inspector tailing the Panther into a movie theater, then into the screen through several parody movie clips - he ends up trapped in the screen as the Panther watches from the seats. Olympus is accessible via a mural in Xanadu. Tremond says, "This would look nice on your wall." ◊ Laura then hangs the picture on her bedroom wall and has the world's worst acid trip that involves seeing herself standing in the doorway in the picture and then entering the picture. Tremond and her mask-wearing grandson surprise Laura in the parking lot of the diner with a framed picture of a door of a room of an abandoned house. In addition, a person in their own portrait can move to any other of their own portraits at will, and from there into any other portraits that are close enough. In Harry Potter, portraits cannot be entered, but their inhabitants can move freely from one frame to another, so long as they're close enough. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian allows characters to jump into (and out of) scenes in paintings during a chase scene.
only problem is, he was actually fondling his best friend.
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo has a scene were Deuce, high on "space cakes," enters a painting of a Dutch maid and starts fondling her. His castle is inaccessible unless you enter through a painting. Van Helsing has a Portal Picture, it's where Dracula the Big Bad has hidden his castle. The end sequence is interesting, as the background melts into blobs of color because it's started to rain, causing the chalk on the sidewalk to run, thus ending the characters' visit. The Mary Poppins movie had a scene of this sort which took place in a sidewalk chalk drawing. In Looney Tunes: Back in Action, a chase sequence in the Louvre involves several escapes into famous paintings.