Cultural legacy
What work, written by Augustina Bessa Luis, was inspired by "The Night Watch"?
The Night Watch
 The work has inspired musical works in both the classical and rock traditions, including the second movement of Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony and Ayreon's "The Shooting Company of Captain Frans B. Cocq" from "".  Alexander Korda's 1936 biographical film "Rembrandt" depicts the painting, shown in error in its truncated form, as a failure at its completion, perceived as lampooning its outraged subjects.  In King Crimson's song "The Night Watch", on its 1974 album "Starless and Bible Black", the lyricist Richard Palmer-James muses on the painting to capture a key period in Dutch history, when, after a long period of “Spanish Wars,” the merchants and other members of the bourgeoisie can turn their lives inward and focus on the tangible results of their lives’ efforts. The song adopts a number of perspectives, including the primary subjects and the artist himself, and paints a mini-portrait of the emergence of the modern upper-middle class and the consumerist culture. However, the song presents this portrait with a deft touch, and while not fully approving, is sympathetic in tone.  In Jean-Luc Godard's 1982 film, "Passion", "The Night Watch" is reenacted with live actors in an opening shot. Godard explicitly compares his film to Rembrandt's painting, describing them both as "full of holes and badly-filled spaces." He instructs the viewer not to focus on the overall composition, but to approach his film as one would a Rembrandt and "focus on the faces. "  "The Night Watch" is a major plot device in the eponymous 1995-film, Night Watch, which focuses on the painting's theft.  "The Night Watch" is parodied on the British cover of Terry Pratchett's 2002 book by the same name. The cover illustrator, Paul Kidby, pays tribute to Rembrandt by placing him in the picture, in the position where Rembrandt is said to have painted himself.  "The Night Watch" is the subject of a 2007-film by director Peter Greenaway called "Nightwatching", in which the film posits a conspiracy within the musketeer regiment of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, and suggests that Rembrandt may have immortalized a conspiracy theory using subtle allegory in his group portrait of the regiment, subverting what was to have been a highly prestigious commission for both painter and subject. His 2008 film "Rembrandt's J'Accuse" is a sequel or follow-on, and covers the same idea, using extremely detailed analysis of the compositional elements in the painting; in this Greenaway describes "The Night Watch" as (currently) the fourth most famous painting in the Western world, after the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  In 2006 "The Night Watch" has inspired the literary work A Ronda da Noite by the famous Portuguese writer Agustina Bessa Luís.