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Bryan Ekers
08-04-2005, 06:44 PM
Okay, screw title-words and common actors. Let's start a run of scenes that various films have in common. Starting with:
Mystery Men has a scene in which two characters fistfight. One puts up his fists in a somewhat comical fashion, to be ridiculed by the other. Then it turns out that the guy putting up his dukes has clearly been properly trained in boxing, and beats the laughing guy senseless.
This scene also appeared in O Brother, Where are Thou? That film featured a violent one-eyed character, just like Kill Bill, Volume Two.
And so forth...?
MovieMogul
08-04-2005, 06:51 PM
Kill Bill Vol. 2 and the Dutch thriller The Vanishing both had characters who were buried alive.
lhovis73
08-04-2005, 06:57 PM
As in Kill Bill, vol. 2, Star Wars contains a scene where a pupil kills his former master/mentor...
(am I playing your game properly?)
lhovis73
08-04-2005, 07:06 PM
Ignore my last post...I was thinking about my answer while ArchiveGuy was posting.
Shit, this game is hard...can't remember anything that happens in The Vanishing except the scene you've pointed to...I'll pass this round...
MovieMogul
08-04-2005, 07:07 PM
As in Kill Bill, vol. 2, Star Wars contains a scene where a pupil kills his former master/mentor...
(am I playing your game properly?)Actually, I suspect that now you have to make a connection with The Vanishing--links in a chain, if you will...
MovieMogul
08-04-2005, 07:08 PM
Whoops--ignore that (but stay tuned; we'll circle back to other films soon, I suspect).
lhovis73
08-04-2005, 07:15 PM
Ha, I thought of a content-based answer...
Like he Vanishing, La Femme Nikita was a European flick remade into an American flick...
Bryan Ekers
08-05-2005, 12:48 PM
The Point of No Return American version of Femme Nikita (in an attempt to make the thread a little more mainstream) had sequences of the female lead getting lessons in couth, just like My Fair Lady.
The Point of No Return American version of Femme Nikita (in an attempt to make the thread a little more mainstream) had sequences of the female lead getting lessons in couth, just like My Fair Lady.
My Fair Lady had a man falling in love with a woman he deemed beneath him, just like in Dogfight.
lhovis73
08-05-2005, 03:18 PM
Dogfight is set in the 1960s, just like...JFK.
Robot Arm
08-05-2005, 03:29 PM
In JFK, Kevin Costner's character argues that there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy.
In Bull Durham, Kevin Costner's character says he believes that Oswald acted alone.
Draelin
08-05-2005, 03:37 PM
Bull Durham contained a scene in a bathtub, as did Garden State.
The Hamster King
08-05-2005, 07:43 PM
Garden State and The Graduate both have Simon & Garfunkel soundtracks.
uglybeech
08-05-2005, 07:50 PM
In the Graduate, Dustin Hoffman's character tries to escape his family underwater. Bill Murray's character does the same thing in Rushmore
Bryan Ekers
08-05-2005, 08:09 PM
In Rushmore, a character is put on academic probation, which also happens in Animal House.
In Animal House, a valuable automobile in the possession of a fretful character (i.e., Flounder) ends up getting trashed. The same thing happens in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
souroranges
08-05-2005, 11:34 PM
Ferris Bueller's Day Off was set in Chicago... as was Home Alone
I inspired this thread! (but I'm still suing you for the copyright :p )
Bryan Ekers
08-05-2005, 11:45 PM
Ferris Bueller's Day Off was set in Chicago... as was Home Alone
I inspired this thread! (but I'm still suing you for the copyright :p )
Good luck. Anyway, common cities is a pretty blasé linkage. I was hoping for a more unusual aspect in a film and that aspect's appearance in a different film (preferably as different as possible; hopefully a whole other genre).
In Home Alone, burglars are undone by elaborate traps. The same thing happens in The Ref.
The Ref features a squabbling dysfuntional married couple as does Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
bienville
08-06-2005, 03:37 AM
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? features a young couple interacting with an older couple as does Rosemary's Baby.
MovieMogul
08-06-2005, 12:28 PM
Rosemary's Baby has a character rearranging Scrabble tiles to form different phrases, as does a character in Sneakers.
Sneakers is about a group of people who get together to steal something valuable. So is Ocean's 11.
lhovis73
08-07-2005, 03:53 AM
Ocean's 11 begins with a guy getting out of prison...as does Wild at Heart.
In Wild at Heart, the main characters come across a person who--despite being mortally injured in an automobile accident--manages to engage them in a conversation before dying. The same thing happens in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Bryan Ekers
08-07-2005, 06:36 PM
In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, characters flying a plane crash through a billboard. In The Spy Who Loved Me, a henchman riding a gurney does the same.
ColonelDax
08-08-2005, 02:55 AM
In The Spy Who Loved Me, the protagonists are chased by an opponent who is flying, as is Cary Grant in North by Northwest.
lhovis73
08-08-2005, 03:52 AM
In The Spy Who Loved Me, the protagonists are chased by an opponent who is flying, as is Cary Grant in North by Northwest.
North by Northwest ends with a visit to a great American landmark...as does Pee Wee's Big Adventure...
ColonelDax
08-08-2005, 03:58 AM
Pee Wee's Big Adventure, like The Bicycle Thief, concerns a search for a stolen bike.
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