The Movie Buff

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One of the defining traits of this particular character is his movie lore. This character will compare nearly everything to a scene from a movie. While this character might be Genre Savvy it's not a requirement.

Additionally, The Movie Buff usually knows all about Oscar nominees, Oscars won, actors, directors, Emmy awards, how a movie was received, etc.

This is usually a source of pride for said character but can sometimes be a source of chagrin for the rest of the cast.

His knowledge is likely to be used for humor more often than it is used as a plot point.

Examples of The Movie Buff include:

Comic Books

• The Film Freak from the Batman comics.

Film

• Randy in Scream.

Literature

• The extremely Genre Savvy Klingon communication officer in the Star Trek novel How Much for Just the Planet? specializes in Hitchcock movies, and is pretty much a walking encyclopedia of same.

Live Action TV

• Dean from Supernatural.
• Tony on NCIS.
• Remington Steele. Every case he and Laura had could be solved by his remembering the plot of an old movie.
• Abed from Community. Naturally, he's a film student.
• In Big Wolf on Campus, Merton J. Dingle makes movie references pretty much Once an Episode.
• Dawson, the title character in Dawsons Creek. He even has a theory that the answers to all of life's questions can be found in Spielberg films.
• Shawn Spencer from Psych to a ridiculous degree. He is constantly comparing situations to movies (and TV shows) and casting himself and his friends in the various roles.
• Ed Chigliak on Northern Exposure.

Video Games

• Paramedic of Metal Gear Solid 3 fame loves trashy B-Movies, and uses them as a metaphor for gameplay.
• The main character in Secret of Evermore.
• Agent Francis York Morgan of Deadly Premonition will go off on tangents discussing his favorite movies while driving around in game. It ranges from reminiscing about Fast Times at Ridgemont High to referencing some seriously obscure B-horror movies.

Web Comics

• Homestuck:
  • Both John Egbert and his Troll counterpart, Karkat enjoy bad movies and rom-coms as a guilty pleasure (or in John's case, out of really bad taste), and John especially makes loads of references to them throughout the series.
  • In Act 6, Jake English, who loves all movies indiscriminately, to the point that you can't see his bedroom walls under the posters.

Western Animation

• Family Guy's Carl specializes in action movies and/or hot actresses, and can quote the exact second you need to see.

Real Life

• Obviously Truth in Television, especially in film schools and this wiki.