Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths sure feels like a Tarantino homage, with the added bonus of an opening scene that more or less announces “Don’t worry, this won’t be that kind of Tarantino homage.”
Among numerous attempts to mimic Pulp Fiction’s mix of stylized crime, multi-characters and irreverent dialogue that I’ve seen, I thought the best was…
From a review on IMDB: “…Tarantino was in the audience when I saw this movie, and when Ishii answered questions at the end of the film, and someone asked him who influenced him, he grinned at QT, and said (through his translator) something like “I think you know the answer to that.” (subsequently QT hired Ishii to direct the animated sequence in Kill Bill…)”
I watched it and you are correct, it absolutely was.
Godsend by Moon Si Hyun looks exactly like a Kim Ki Duk (Bad Guy, Samaritan Girl) film. Understandable, since Kim was the writer and producer of the film and Moon was the Assistant Director on a number of Kim’s movies.
I’ve thought Zack and Miri Make a Porno was Kevin Smith aping Judd Apatow. Or do I think that because Seth Rogen is in it? (Also Gerry Bednob, who was in The 40-Year-Old Virgin.)
In theory, Spielberg was trying to channel the ghost of Stanley Kubrick when he made AI.
I’m not sure that I’d agree but I do think it made him think more about the photographic aspects of his films. They’ve all looked a bit less straight forward since then.
Interesting that of the Brian DePalma movies mentioned as homages to Hitchcock his 1972 picture Sisters isn’t included. Ebert in his review when the movie was released called it a homage to Hitchcock.
Francois Truffaut was a HUGE admirer of Alfred Hitchcock, and he made The Bride Wore Black as a definite homage to Hitchcock.
He took the plot and title from a story by Cornell Woolrich, whose story “It Had to Be Murder” was the inspiration for Hitchcock’s own fil Rear Window. And he got Bernard Herrmann, who had scored Hitchcock’s Psycho, Vertigo, and the second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much to do the music.
If ever there was a film “in the style of another director”, this is it.
Yeah, I’ve read a richly illustrated copy of Truffaut’s interview book with Hitchcock more than thirty years ago. Never saw “The Bride Wore Black”, will catch it the next time it runs on TV.
Has anyone made a porn homage entitled “Blow Job”? I’d bet on “Yes” just because the temptation is too great.
Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras was directed as if it was directed by Jean-Luc Goddard… with a George Romero script, and a Roger Corman budget.
Plot sounds similar to Asphalt Jungle which came out 5 years before, directed by John Houston.
Quick!
Who directed Poltergeist?
If you said Steven Spielberg, you’re wrong. He produced it, but it was directed by Tobe Hooper, who directed Texas Chain Saw Massacre (among other films). But it doesn’t feel like one of Hooper’s films. It really does feel like a Spielberg movie.
According to Wikipedia
At the time of its release, Cinefantastique dryly commented that Spielberg was playing Howard Hawks to Hooper’s Christian Nyby, which suggeste a situation similar to that of the 1951 movie The Thing from Another World, which was nominally directed by Christan Nyby, although most people give the credit to produced Hawks.
Myself, I give Nyby credit, because, according to several cast members he did direct it, even if he got a lot of Hawks input. Certainly you’d expect him to direct in Hawks’ style, since he learned from the man. The Wikipedia page has an entire section on the controversy, which I won’t quote here, except for the last paragraph