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I'd appreciate it if anyone can tell me the answers to my question. It is obvious that two scenes from last night's Seinfeld (the hour long one) are parodies of movies. The first of these scenes is when the cable guy is chasing Kramer across the city with that strange music. It all sounds vaguely familar, but what was it based on? The second scene was the finale, when Jerry escorts his parents to the Cadillac. What movie was this based on? Any help to these questions would be deeply appreciated. Thanks.

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The Cadillac was a spoof on Nixon leaving the Whitehouse and The Oliver Stone Film. I'm still trying to figure out the whole Kramer thing.

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I figured it out. There probably was a specific movie they took it from, but you always see Manhattan chase scenes in movies where they jump from rooftop to rooftop and that, in my opinion, is what they were going for.

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Seems to me that the Kramer thing could be several movies, but the one that sticks out in my mind the most is that Patrick Swayze (sp?) movie where he's a surfer/bank-robber who dresses up like Nixon. There was the scene where he was being chased by the cops and they ran through all of these yards and places, and then at the end he jumps over an alley. But, I think I've seen the famous "jumping over the alley onto the other roof" thing several times, as I said before. Can anyone remember the name of the movie I'm talking about?

Beddingfield ([email]) wrote:

The movie you're referring to is "Point Break"

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On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Beddingfield wrote:

I think it was Point Break. (that movie also had Keanu Reeves in it).

[email] (Beddingfield) wrote:

Like you said, it could be a lot of movies. I certainly doubt that the writers of Seinfeld would waste their time with a parody of a Patrick Swayze movie. They usually spoof movies that are very well known. Somebody suggested Hitchcock's "Vertigo". That sounds much more feasible. Next time you youngsters go to the video store, pass up the latest Alicia Silverstone movie and rent one of Hitchcock's classics. That way there will still be copies of Alicia's movie available when us old farts go to "Blockbuster".

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I don't know the movie but the whole "jumping over the alley onto the other roof" is present in many film noir movies, although it might have started with Hitchcock.

I'm convinced "The Cadillac" was a parody of both Nixon and In the Line of Fire (ITLOF). In ITLOF, Eastwood's character is out to vindicate himself for not saving JFK (another reknown president, another movie by Oliver Stone, and another movie which has been blatantly parodied in an earlier episode, "The Friend"). In "The Cadillac", Kramer is out to vindicate himself for waiting on the cable guy years ago.

In ITLOF, Malkovich makes harassing phone calls to Eastwood just as the cable guy does to Kramer in "The Cadillac". In ITLOF, there is a rooftop chase, exactly like the one in "The Cadillac" (no doubt, the most obvious parallel).

Well, anyone agree?

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If anyone *really* cares about this, it was called Point Break. Also had Keanu Reeves in it. The robbers called themselves The Dead Presidents. (What's really scary is that I never saw this film; I just saw about 15 million ads for it..)

[email] (Zachary M. Garcia) wrote:

I don't see the connection, but the opening sequence with Kramer running across the rooftops reminded me of the old Hitchcock movie Vertigo with James Stewart

The Kramer thing, wasn't one particular movie, it's the style - the music, the car slowly sneeking up on him, over the stone wall. Ori - ISRAEL

The rooftop chase was, except for the cable guy's decision not to jump, straight out of Hitchcock's classic "Vertigo", which included a scene where a policeman and Jimmy Stewart, who plays a detective, are chasing a criminal across a series of rooftops in San Francisco. Jimmy Stewart, and then the cop, both pause before jumping across an alleyway onto an adjoining rooftop. The cop doesn't quite make it, and the Stewart character's failure to save him while he is hanging on the rooftop gutter (The Stewar t character suffers from a sense of vertigo) becomes the source of his intense acrophobia, which forces him to retire from the police force.

The cable guy, perhaps wisely, says to himself "screw this", and avoids attempting the leap.

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Not sure about the first, but the ending when Jerry's father waves, is not exactly from a movie, but from when President Nixon resigned. When he was entering the helicopter he gave that wave. That scene was probably in the movie about Nixon too.

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