I have had an email from a couple of people expressing differences of opinion about the Movies Parodied page on my web site.
For example one person wrote that the Forest Gump reference was impossible because the episode preceded the film by two years (hard to dismiss that one).
http://www.geocities.com/tnguym/movepar2.html
Are there any others that people find weak or impossible?
Thanks for your help.
Mike (using a new newsreader - until I can get Outlook Express to use my psuedo-email name)
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:13:23 GMT, [email] (The News Guy(Mike)) wrote:
pseudo-email name... No wonder I can't find you in the phone book.
Sophie
I can't remember the details about the Jon Voight references in The Mom and Pop store. What's with "Boots" and "Canoe"? I just checked IMDB and couldn't find any Jon Voight films with these titles. Or is "canoe" a reference to "Deliverance"?
I wasn't able to find "The Muted Heart", either. I suspect it's just a made-up movie like "Death Blow".
There are a couple movies cited as the basis for the "two keys turning" concept in The Strongbox. You could also list Superman III if you want to be comprehensive. ;-) I'm not sure which film would be the best single choice; WarGames is where I learned about the procedure, although I imagine there are older films which predated it.
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 17:11:48 GMT, "John Twernbold" wrote:
Elaine talks about John Voight's other movies and "canoe" refers to Deliverance (one of my favourite films). Why I did not list "Deliverance" instead of calling it "canoe" - must have been very late.
And "Boots?" I will check that one too.
I will change those. Thanks.
Elaine is listing Voight's modes of transportation in his movies:
"Deliverance" - canoe. "Midnight Cowboy" - boots. "Runaway Train" - runaway train.
boots and canoe are not movies.
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 17:11:48 GMT, "John Twernbold" wrote:
Of course you are correct. How did I do that? I will remove it.
You are correct, again. A lot of people have said that one was weak. I will remove that too.
Thanks.
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some additions:
"Barcelona" - [The Engagement] movie poster visible in lobby of theatre
"Year of the Comet" - [The Movie] movie poster visible
"I Picari" - [The Movie] movie poster visible in ticket booth
A reference to the movie Hindenburg is made in the "The Pothole", when Newman's mail truck bursts in flames he yells "Oh, the humanity!" This is a quote from the radio commentator describing the explosion of the Hindenburg.
"Bruce Baron" wrote in message news:[email]...
But that's what the *actual* real life commentator said. That's why it was put in the movie. I don't think you can count that as a reference to the movie. It's a reference to a historical occurrence.
Point taken, but after looking at the list of references at http://www.geocities.com/tnguym/movepar2.html, there are other parodies of real life events that were subsequently made into movies: JFK and Nixon (possibly an Oliver Stone exception ;)).
"Bruce Baron" wrote in message news:[email]...
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But I would say those are not just parodying the events but the films themselves. I haven't seen Nixon but I believe the scene is lifted from the film. And in JFK the editing technique and the fact that Wayne Knight appeared in both made it more an allusion to the film JFK than to the assassination.
I think for The Hindenburg to be comparable, the reference would need to be in some way a steal from some individual aspect of the film. And to be honest I knew of the quote but I didn't even know there *was* a film.
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:50:26 -0400, Bruce Baron wrote:
. . . The Fugitive:
Thank you - it is added.
Mike
in [The Gum] a movie poster for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (the 1941 version) is visible in the Institute for the Preservation of Motion Picture Costumes and Wardrobe.
<<<in [The Gum] a movie poster for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (the 1941 version) is visible in the Institute for the Preservation of Motion Picture Costumes and Wardrobe.>>>
Oh, the I.P.M.P.C.W.
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"Art Vandelay" wrote in message news:[email]...
version)
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we prefer to call it "The Institute."
in [The Little Kicks] a movie poster for "Alaska" (1996) is visible in the lobby of The Guild 50th Street Theatre.
Mike -
Care for a couple of corrections...?
For the "Casablanca" entry, you have Jerry saying to Meryl (Courtney Cox), "We'll always have maple syrup." Jerry actually said, "We'll always have pancakes."
The Dabney Coleman movie they're about to play on the plane (before the Dominicans hijack it) is not "Short Time," but the fictitious "Sack Lunch" (Elaine wanted to see it instead of "The English Patient" earlier in the episode).
-B.
Always
when George yells, "It's Thunderdome!" in [The Dealership] is that a ref. to "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" ?
what is Thunderdome?
"Ozmodiar" wrote in <V0el7.143$Vx1.419273 @typhoon2.gnilink.net>:
Yep. It's a place where anarchy rules, so to say. The strongest survives. George tried to tell that courtesy and good manners are not favored there, I guess.
-jani