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* Parodied in [[Robert Altman]]'s ''[[The Player]]''. One minor subplot features the main character taking a movie pitch from an Auteur screenwriter about a wrongfully accused woman dying in the gas chamber. The screenwriter insists "no stars, just talent" and emphasizes that he refuses to change the [[Downer Ending]] because [[True Art Is Angsty|"That's reality"]]. By the end of the movie, not only are the leads in this film being played by [[Bruce Willis
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
** Parodied to the extreme by having [[Mel Gibson]] take Homer's suggestions for his remake of ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]'', in spite of everyone else in the focus screening giving praise. Not surprisingly, the Homer'd up version doesn't do so well (though, in a deleted scene available on the season 11 DVD set, Apu and his brother, Sanjay, tell Homer that extremely violent American action movies are popular in India and that they actually liked it).
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