Summerisle as Shangri-La - Spot the Difference

As we know, everything that ever happened, happened in 1973. Beyond that obvious truth, however, it's always interesting to dig down into details. I've been repeatedly struck by the weird similarities between these two scenes, both taken from films of that year set in unusually temperate places within a wider landscape more associated with inclement weather: The Wicker Man and Lost Horizon. Both feature a blonde woman teaching some remarkably biddable children, a pink-shirted man orchestrating a song about the cycles of life, a large apparatus symbolising the same, a befuddled stranger looking on...

I don't say that one is necessarily referencing the other, but it does seem that the Zeitgeist was up betimes.

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