The Burning Man scene


They showed a scene from Burning Man of people burning some kind of wooden structures and pictures of Spock. What was up with that? It seemed to be a memorial after he died, but why at Burning Man?

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I wondered about this myself. I did a google search and only found this in a review of the film at Roger Elbert's website:

"The director also uses footage of a 'Viking funeral' of sorts for Spock (and by extension, his portrayer) at 2015?s Burning Man as a haunting, cathartic visual elegy, closing the film on an effective moment of tribute."

I also found this mention of it in the review at 8bitsoul's website:

"He also ends the film with a scene from 2015?s Burning Man festival as a celebration of Spock and Nimoy?s life. A sort of Viking funeral-esque goodbye. With the thousands of pictures of Nimoy and Spock plastered to a giant wooden sculptures, we get to watch it burn in the night with the ending credits rolling to the David Bowie hit Starman, played by Leonard Nimoy?s grandson. Overall, a fitting end to a fine film."

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