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  • Eduardo
    Moderator emeritus
    • Jun 2002
    • 1258

    Movie References in other Movies

    Have you ever watched a movie that makes a reference to another movie and I don't mean a sequel or spin off.

    For Example:
    One day I was home during the day and I happen to catch the Twilight Zone Move. Great movie in its own respect. Watch the story with the biggot. When he goes back to Nam, listen to what one the US troops says before they start shooting...... "I told you guys we shouldn't have shot Lt. Needlemeyer." Needlemeyer was the ROTC captian in Animal House. At the end of Animal House they say he gets shot by his own troops during Nam. :rofl:

    Are there any others?




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  • David Meek
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    • Aug 2000
    • 8938

    #2
    Eduardo, I can't remember the film, but there was a camera shot panning down a street, following the actors and it showed a theater marquee in the background listing a movie that was playing at that imaginary theater at the current time. Actually the advertised film was another of the director's upcoming releases!




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    • George Bellefontaine
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      • Jan 2001
      • 7637

      #3
      I know I must have seen many movies that referred to others, but for the life of my I can't think of any at the moment. Whoa, just thought of one:

      Hot Shots Part Deux: starred Charlie Sheen playing a comedic Rambo type. In one scene he is going up the river on a gun boat and passes another gunboat going in the opposite direction. On it is Martin Sheen dressed as he was for the scene in Apocalypse Now.




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      • Brandon B
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        • Jun 2001
        • 2193

        #4
        Originally posted by Eduardo
        One day I was home during the day and I happen to catch the Twilight Zone Move. Great movie in its own respect.
        Not a movie reference, but an all time funniest TV moment. William Shatner guest appeared on "Third Rock From the Sun" as "the big giant head", John Lithgow and crew's supreme leader.

        They go to pick him up at th airport and find him being escorted drunk off the plane by the crew. Ask him how the flight was, and he replies "oh, it was OK, but when we were up at 20,000 feet, I look out the window, and there was this THING tearing up the wing".

        John Lithgow's response "the same thing happened to ME!"

        Up there with the finale of Newhart.

        For those unfamiliar, Lithgow reprised Shatner's episodic role of "terror at 20,000 ft" in the Twilight Zone movie as a man who see a creature destroying the lpane in flight, but no one else sees it, and he is carted off to the loony bin at the end.

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        • Burke Strickland
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          • Sep 2001
          • 3161

          #5
          Mel Brook's "Spaceballs" was a satire of "Star Wars". But for the purpose of this thread, in a space diner, characters Barfolemew 'Barf' (John Candy) and Captain Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) have just ordered their meal when John Hurt (as himself), sitting at the end of the counter, clutches his stomach and says "oh no -- not again!" and a very "Alien" looking creature pops out of his tummy and proceeds to do a song and dance routine on the counter wearing a top hat and carrying a cane, then scurries off to the kitchen. ('Barf' immediately raises his hand and says "Check please.") :>) Alas, this was the only truly funny scene in the whole movie. (But funny enough to buy a copy.) :>)

          In "Mission Impossible", the movie (the first one), at the end when Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is at a bar talking to one of his accomplices in the just finished escapade, the Irish-sounding music playing over the scene is from his earlier film "Far and Away". (Unfortunately the volume of the music is very faint on the DVD. It was very obvious in the commercial theater.)

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          • Eduardo
            Moderator emeritus
            • Jun 2002
            • 1258

            #6
            :rofl: - This is great. You guys are good. Here's another. Simpson (this season) - Marge starts working out becuase she was mugged. She happens to run across the mugger and beats the crap out of him. The scene was done a re-do of The God Father when Sonniue beats up Carlo - his brother in law. She even uses a trash can.




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            • Gordon Moore
              Moderator Emeritus
              • Feb 2002
              • 3188

              #7
              Monster's Inc has a reference to Finding Nemo....which isn't even out yet.

              The Monster's Inc outtakes have the Dinosaur from Toy Story

              A Bug's Life outtakes references Toy Story with the "to infinity and beyond" quote

              (Though outtakes don't really count)
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              • Burke Strickland
                Moderator
                • Sep 2001
                • 3161

                #8
                Originally posted by David Meek
                I can't remember the film, but there was a camera shot panning down a street, following the actors and it showed a theater marquee in the background listing a movie that was playing at that imaginary theater at the current time. Actually the advertised film was another of the director's upcoming releases!
                That’s “Back To The Future” (although the films on the marquee were actually prior releases and to get their names I had to look this up on the Internet Movie Data Base):

                • The theatre in 1955 is showing a double bill: "A Boy's Life" (the working title for Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)), and "Watch the Skies" (the working title for Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)). Spielberg was the producer for “Back To The Future”.

                For some really esoteric associations in the same movie:

                • The newscaster on TV in the opening sequence is Deborah Harmon, who appeared in director Robert Zemeckis' Used Cars (1980).

                • Farmer Peabody's son is named Sherman. Sherman was the name of the little boy time traveler in one segment of Jay Ward's cartoon show, "Bullwinkle Show, The" (1961). The dog who owned his time machine was named Mr. Peabody.

                • The date Marty travels back in time to, November 5, is the same date of time travel in Time After Time (1979).

                • The device in Doc Brown's lab that Marty plugs his guitar into is labeled "CRM-114", which was the name of the message decoder on the B-52 in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), and the serial number of the Jupiter explorer in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 ), both directed by Stanley Kubrick.

                • The Chime of the Clock Tower in 1955 is the same as the chime in the 1960 movie The Time Machine based on the story by H.G. Wells.

                • The "main street" is the same one used in Gremlins (1984).

                • Doc Brown's "man hanging off a clock face" clock is a nick-nack clock. It depicts the famous scene in Harold Lloyd's Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The (1947)), which itself is a remake of Lloyd's classic silent film,Safety Last (1923).

                All of the above were found in the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) trivia page for “Back To The Future”: http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0088763

                Another association I did NOT get from IMDB (but the above instances of Spielberg associations reminded me that I had noticed this when watching the movies):

                The interior set for the temple in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984, directed by Steven Spielberg) is the same as the one used in “Young Sherlock Holmes” (1985, Executive Producer, Steven Spielberg) when Sherlock finds the secret cult.

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