Shout-Out/Film: Difference between revisions

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This page lists [[Shout-Out]]s seen in movies. Any movie beginning with "A..." or "The..." has been placed under the letter of the next word in the title. Any sequels are under the title of the original.

 

 

 

'''Henchman''': [[It's Been Done|What about]] [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|that movie Roger Rabbit?]]

'''Fearless Leader''': Shut up! This is totally different! [[[Beat]]] There has never been a way to actually destroy a cartoon character until now. }}

** The scene where Moriarty tricked his henchman Bruno to his death was a reference to Frank Stockton's short story "The Lady or the Tiger?"

** Moriarty's being forced to do something evil every 24 minutes was a tribute to [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''[[Ruddigore]]'', which had a man cursed to perform an evil act every day or die.

* In ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]'', the Red Lectroids originally land at Grover's Mill, New Jersey in 1938. Their landing was reported in the Orson Welles radio broadcast of ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'', but they cover it up by arranging for the broadcast to be labeled as fiction.

* One of the scenes in ''[[Animal Crackers]]'' includes a spoof of Eugene O'Neill's play ''Strange Interlude'' and its elaborate asides.

* With the mention of ''[[Austin Powers]]'', there's the shout-out that Austin made in ''[[The Spy Who Shagged Me]]'' to the 1960's James Bond knockoff ''[[Our Man Flint|In Like Flint]]''. While he's watching it, Austin even says "It's my favorite movie!"

* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'', the original costume for Marvin the Paranoid Android from the TV series can be seen in a queue.

** The commentary on the DVD claims that one of the actresses who played Trillian prior to the film appears in place of the usual boozehound during the scene in the Bar and Groom. Whether this is [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|Susan Sheridan]] or [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (TV series)|Sandra Dickinson]] is not made clear.

* ''[[Hoodwinked]]'' does this a couple times. One that really stands out is when the squeaky sidekick picked up a stick of dynamite and read off "[[A Christmas Story|dee-nah-mee-tay? Must be italian.]]"

* ''[[Hook]]''

** Martin and Charlie Sheen word for word recreate their internal monologues from ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' and ''[[Platoon]]'' respectively. Then as their boats pass they look at each other and say, "I loved you in ''[[Wall Street]]''!" (Where they played father and son.)

* ''[[How to Marry a Millionaire]]'': Schatze says: "Look at Roosevelt, look at Churchill, look at old fella what's his name in ''[[The African Queen]]''". The 'old guy in the African Queen' was Humphrey Bogart, her husband in real life.

 

== I ==

** In keeping with the movie's philosophical subtext, some of Zion's military personnel are named after famous philosophers. There's Commander Locke, Captain Soren (after Soren Kierkegaard), and Captain Ballard (after science fiction author [[J. G. Ballard]]).

** Also, there's Captain Mifune. There are two possibilities here.

*** It could have also been a reference to the famous actor [[Toshiro Mifune]].

* In ''[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]'', Maverick (played by [[Mel Gibson]]) rides a bicycle belonging to his friend Chief Joseph, who explains that he won it in a card game. This is a reference to another Western movie, ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''. In that movie, Butch Cassidy owns (and rides) a bicycle, and is a rotten gambler - so Chief Joseph won his bicycle from Butch!

* ''[[The Muppet Christmas Carol]]'': In the musical number after [[It Was His Sled|Scrooge's change of heart]], the ensemble passes a shop called Micklewhite's. Scrooge is played by [[Michael Caine]], whose real name is Maurice Micklewhite.

** Another storefront bears the names "[[Statler and Waldorf]]," after the two old cranks who routinely heckle the Muppet performances (and who appear in the film as the Marley brothers).

 

== N ==

** The overall plot and tone of the series (especially the third film) has more than a glancing similarity to ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' -- the first feature-length film Lasseter and Ranft worked on.

** The evil [[Cymbal-Banging Monkey]] ''had'' to have been at least partially inspired by ''[[Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders|Merlins Shop of Mystical Wonders]]''.

** Look quick at the books Andy packs away and you'll spot the title of [[A.I.: Artificial Intelligence|another sad movie about a nonhuman who loves his owner unconditionally and went to great lengths to find her again]].

** In the 2nd movie Mr. Potato Head takes off his hat and throws it at the door of [[Villainous Glutton|Al's]] apartment building to keep it from closing. Oddjob from ''[[Goldfinger]]'' couldn't have done it better.

** While all of those names were in a single folder, [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Franklin]] [[Reality Warper|Richards]] had a folder all his own.

 

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