Does This Remind You of Anything?/Film

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  • The movie Brick takes place in a modern high school, but sounds and plays like a 1940's/50s's Film Noir; one of the students who hangs out by himself is the know-it-all informant, and the principal is the police chief or DA threatening to rein in the hero.
  • In X2: X-Men United, Bobby "comes out" with his mutant powers to his parents, who respond, "Have you tried not being a mutant?" Director Bryan Singer is gay, as is actor Ian McKellen, who was asked for assistance in writing this scene, basing it on a "coming out" conversation.

BRUCE DAVIDSON: I am a bigot! I am very much against mutants! Mutants should die! Do you want mutants in our schools? Do you want mutants raising your children? God commands that mutants are abhorrent! I propose a bill which will immediately outlaw the Mutant Pride Parade and blow up San Francisco, home to many mutants!
FAMKE JANSSEN: Mutants are just like regular people. Except with powers. They should have the same rights as everyone else.
HUMANITY: Boo! Mutants suck! Outlaw mutant marriages!
DIRECTOR BRYAN SINGER: Gosh, humans are AWFULLY INTOLERANT of other people. Like gay people, who the mutants in this movie do not symbolize, I swear.

Hank McCoy: You didn't ask so I didn't tell.

  • In New Moon, one of the wolf pack's wives gets her face nearly clawed off because she made her wolfman angry. But she forgives him, and acts like it never happened, because that's what good women do. Unfortunate Implications abound whether or not this is meant to be taken literally (and with Stephenie Meyer's writing, who can say?)
    • Not to mention that in Twilight, Bella "leaves" Edward to go to Phoenix, Arizona, where her mother lives; Edward follows her to convince her to come back to him; the next time her parents see her, she is badly bruised with several broken bones, and a completely ridiculous excuse for it. Fell through a window indeed.
  • In Drop Dead Gorgeous, Tammy's lines about rides on her tractor sound a lot like describing sex. She even has a smoke afterwards, which becomes a plot point.
  • In Transformers, Frenzy spread-eagling himself over a computer terminal he'd plugged into, twitching and yelping, got a groan from the audience when this editor was in the theatre.
  • The scene in Independence Day where Jimmy Wilder (Harry Connick Jr.) bends down on his knee to grab a wedding ring that fell on the floor, accidentally dropped by Captain Hillier (Will Smith). A fellow pilot walks into the men's locker room to see Wilder on one knee, making it look like he's proposing to his best friend.
  • In Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker's problem with, ah, "shooting blanks".
    • Considering how James Cameron's original screenplay tried to present Peter's growing powers as a metaphor for puberty (complete with him waking up in bed and covered in sticky white webbing!), this is actually quite mild.
      • Well, what about Spider-Man and Mary Jane's first kiss in Spider-Man? You know, the one where he's hanging upside down in the rain...
    • Depending on the audience, the following dialog might lead to snickers.

Peter: Picking up where we left off.
Mary Jane: Where was that? We never got on. You can't get off if you don't get on, Peter.

Spider-Man: (pinning Venom down) You have to take off this suit!
Venom: You'd like that, wouldn't you?

  • A classic example is from the late 80's comedy The Couch Trip where on a radio call-in show, John Burns (Dan Aykroyd) suggests to a man trying to overcome a problem with premature ejaculation, to imagine working on his car instead. His description of taking apart a transmission... well, if the caller had had the opposite problem, it would've helped.
  • The opening scene of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has Harry exuding a white light from the tip of his wand. Under his covers. With Harry hiding the evidence when Uncle Vernon comes into his room.

Harry: (playing with his wand in the middle of the night)
Uncle Vernon: Stop playing with your wand in the middle of the night!
Harry: (continues playing with his wand in the middle of the night)

    • Later in the third movie Harry learns the Patronus Charm which makes a pure white creature come out of his wand when he thinks of his "Happiest Memory" (Total Freudian imagery.)
      • But don't the girls also learn the Patronus Charm?
    • Then we have the sixth movie, in which Ginny notices Harry's shoelace is untied and kneels down to fix it. Since we only see the top of her head near his waist... it's not hard to see what the makers were alluding to/making fun of.
    • How about Tom Riddle's comments in Chamber of Secrets?: "You'll find I can be very... persuasive. Not that she knew what she was doing..."
    • In Deathly Hallows all the Death Eaters are shocked when Voldemort demands that one of them gives him their wand (in the book they look "as if he asked them for their arm". Suuuure.) Then he takes Lucius' cane wand, and snaps off it's handle, which makes Lucius ([[[Share the Male Pain]] and the male auditory]]) wince. And then he starts measuring up his wand against Lucius'. Are you kidding me?
  • Sir Ian McKellen's film version of Richard III. The setting is established right off as 30s Europe. Sure, why not? Then we come to Richard's coronation scene... and down come the long, red banners with his black-and-white emblem and fervent background chanting. Oh, right.
  • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a big, honkin' allegory about the end of the Cold War. It starts off with the horrible disaster on the Klingon moon Praxis, (not in Chernobyl); which forces the Klingon Empire, (not the Soviet Union) to reach out to the Federation (not the West). Conservative hard-liners then kill (not attempt to kill) Gorkon (not Gorbachev) for his trouble. From there, it diverges a bit from actual history, but you get the picture. The greatest irony is that history ultimately proved the Conservatives right, given Russia's involvement with Iran, partial renunciation of democracy and so on.
  • Don't Be a Menace features gangsta Loc Dog receiving a package of white powder from his friend, promising him that he'll get some when it's ready. Loc then measures, tests, and puts the powder in an apparatus on the stove. Of course at the end of the scene, it's shown that he's not processing heroin but rather baking a tasty cake instead.
  • In one version of the Dracula movie, Jonathan cuts his finger while dining with the Count, who gets a little too... excited about this and wants to suck Jonathan's finger.
    • In the Coppola version, Lucy enthuses about Quincy's big "thing" - namely, his bowie knife.
  • In Iron Man, Tony Stark is trying to unsuit himself...

Tony: Hey! Ow, ah, ah!
Jarvis: It is a tight fit, sir.
Tony: (pained grunting)
Jarvis: Sir, the more you struggle, the more this is going to hurt.
Tony: Be gentle. This is my first time.

    • Tony's line when Pepper shows up immediately following the previous exchange sold the scene:

Tony: Let's face it. This is NOT the worst thing you've caught me doing.

"Come on, come on, I want you to do it, I want you to do it, come on, hit me..."

    • Which is echoing a similar scene from the 1989 Batman film, this time with the Joker standing in front of his parade float and Bats in the Batwing. Then Joker pulls a rather long gun out of his pants as Batman comes ever closer...
      • ...to the climax of the film.
    • On a less kinky note, at the end of the Dark Knight, Batman kills someone who he would rather not kill in order to save lives and wants to be seen as a villain to protect the image of the dead one and present them as the hero instead of himself. Just like Itachi in Naruto.
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Is it just a fun Film Noir spoof, or an allegory on the Great American Streetcar Scandal? Why not both?
    • Also, Jessica Rabbit literally playing pattycake with another man is treated like an affair.
  • In Dragnet (the 1987 movie) there is this bit:

Connie Swail (who has just been rescued from becoming a virgin sacrifice): How come his is so much bigger than yours?
Officer Joe Friday: Miss?
Connie Swail: The gun.
Officer Joe Friday: I've never needed more.

  • Max drank about nine milkshakes with several party goers cheering him on in Max Keeble's Big Move in a manner that is very reminiscent of a binge drinking contest.
  • All the Boys Love Mandy Lane contains a very dark example: the scene wherein Mandy murders Chloe is heavily sexualized.
  • The song Breakin' Out in Shock Treatment plays over scenes of Brad escaping from the asylum. But listen to the words, and it seems to be about another kind of coming out entirely...
  • Hoo boy, this exchange in Commando when John convinces the villain (who looks like both a member of the village people and Freddy Mercury) to let go of his daughter and have a knife fight with him.

John: "You don't want to pull the trigger. You want to put the knife in me and look me in the eye and see what's going while you turn it. That's what you want to do, right?"
Bennett: (With an orgasmic expression on his face.) "I can kill you John."
John: "Come on, let the girl go, just between you and me, don't deprive yourself of some pleasure, come on Bennett, let's party!"
Bennett: "I can beat you, I don't need the girl hahah, I DON'T NEED THE GIRL! I don't need the gun John. I can beat you. I DON'T NEED NO GUN! AND I'LL KILL YOU NOW!"

    • The fights ends with John impaling Bennett on a long hard steam pipe.
  • In Muppets from Space, the scene where Gonzo talks about being an alien sure sounds an awful lot like coming out of the closet...
  • Star Trek: First Contact. Picard's "The line is drawn here!" scene sounds like he's hell-bent on avenging his own rape especially when he uses euphemisms like "I will make them pay for what they've done!"
  • In Police Academy 2, gun obsessive Eugene Tackleberry loses his virginity, for which he and his equally gun obsessed girlfriend have to take their guns out of their holsters etc and put them on the floor. As they do, the lights go off, and but a moment or two later a gunshot is heard.
  • In Girl With A Pearl Earring the scene where Vermeer pierces Griet's ear for her as well as touching her lips is symbolic of her loosing her virginity as well as the scene where he sees her hair (its played like he saw her naked).
  • In The Avengers, Loki tries to brainwash Tony Stark with his very long staff, but fails due to Tony's arc reactor protecting his heart.

Loki (a confused and frustrated look upon his face): That usually works!
Tony: Performance issues?

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