In one of the most quoted lines from Silence of the Lambs Lecter mentions eating someone’s liver with “fava beans and a nice Chianti.”
I don’t have the book around so I’m not 100% positive, but it seems like Lecter’s wine choice in the book was something else. Something, I assume, that many in the audience wouldn’t recognize as wine?
Also the Goldberg variation played was not Glenn Gould’s version, as specifically mentioned in the book, although I suppose that could have been a rights issue. Gould’s version–actually, either of his versions–are easy to recognize compared to anyone else’s.
In particular this parody seems to be inspired by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series- the theme songs are similar*, and both are essentially turning serious, gritty characters** into fun-loving goofs who party and eat pizza.
*The Ninja Turtles theme song was actually written by Chuck Lorre, who snuck a reference to this fact into one of his production logos as well as an episode of Two and a Half Men.
**Despite the fact that it was meant as parody and the heroes were, well, giant turtles, the original Ninja Turtles comics were quite serious in tone and violent.
My favorite is Jurassic Park. Ellie is talking to a biologist who’s so smart and knowledgeable, he’s working on a genetics project advanced beyond our wildest dreams. He tells her the dinosaurs maintain a certain body temperature.
Ellie: It’s homeothermic?
Biologist: Yes.
Ellie: It maintains that temperature?
Biologist: :smack:
On the subject of Contact, in the novel at the end the main character sets her SETI computers to examining Pi. And they find deep into it an indicator of a message, essentially a block of 0s and 1s that forms a square with a perfect circle in it.
This would strongly suggest that the universe was created, that spacetime was designed to be as it is since Pi is built into the universe. If something encoded a message in Pi it did it from outside our universe as its laws and geometrical axioms were being written.
That’s just fucking awesome. But I’m willing to bet the average matthew mcconaughey fan just isn’t up to it.
CSI does this all the time. I would hope the lab techs would know about all the tidbits they feel necessary to explain to each other already, but apparently they have to discuss it anyway.
Remember that the GI JOE cartoon was made to support the first few waves of action figures. At that time Snake-eyes and Storm Shadow were becoming fan favorites thanks to kid support and Hama’s stories but not the central crux of the entire mythos. Considering that Snake-eyes got any play thanks to being drab looking for a cartoon and NOT talking is pretty remarkable. He was always treated as a solid second tier character.
I recall, when the James Bond movie “License to Kill” came out in the late 80s, it was based on a book entitled “License Revoked”. The argument I read at the time was that the producers believed that too many Americans wouldn’t know what “revoked” meant.
Licence to Kill (the film uses the British spelling of “license”) wasn’t taken from a Fleming title (the first Bond film not to be so), but it is true that the original title was supposed to be Licence Revoked.
I thought that it was because the films were not “James Bond in …” but just the title. And the title “License Revoked” sounds like a teen comedy. Possibly a comedy starring the Coreys. A sequel to “License to Drive” perhaps.
Also, License Revoked is not a good title. License to Kill is.
