A mention, allusion, citation, or homage to other works.
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Has a movie ever referred to a later movie?
In an answer to another question, I wrote "characters in the later movie watch or discuss the earlier movie".
Then it occurred to me, have characters in an earlier movie watched or discussed a later movie?
It would take an extraordinary set of…
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Did Robert Redford name the Sundance Film Festival after the character he played?
Redford portrays 'The Sundance Kid' in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which is one of his more famous roles. The movie came out in 1969. He co-founded the Sundance film festival in 1978. Did he name the festival after the character or does the…
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A movie into a movie into a movie
There are movies with scenes in which a character is watching another actual movie, where by "actual movie" I mean a movie existing in the real world.
For example, in I Am Legend (2007) the protagonist watches Shrek (2001) at home. Another example…
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How to find films that contain a specific motif?
I suspect that the question I have is off topic for this site. I'm looking for movies about terrorist acts told from the terrorists' viewpoint. It does not matter whether the films are about "good" terrorism (i.e. revolutionaries trying to force an…
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Do TV shows ever directly reference unrelated shows?
I was watching S4E2 of Shakespeare & Hathaway the other day and the plot involved something that I'd never heard of (see spoiler, below) until it featured as the major plot element of an episode of the Brokenwood Mysteries.
The plots of Brokenwood…
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Is this line delivered by Arsenio Hall an homage to a film, made 12 year prior?
Below are excerpts of these two screenplays. The delivery of the lines suggests that John Landis and crew (of Amazon...) may have been paying homage to the Philip Marlowe noir detective drama of a movie made 12 years earlier.
Though the names are…
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