The above quote “Hippy get me Bud” is from the 1989 hit The Abyss staring Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. I watched it again last night because I simply like the flik.
However, it got me thinking that there are quite a few good movie metaphors and allusions out there…some funny, some disturbing.
The Princess Bride - has so many metaphors that we could start a whole new thread on all of them. Fell free to post them here. I will post the one that to me is the most profound.
When Buttercup pushes the Dread Pirate Roberts down the hill, and her sudden realization that he is her long lost love Wesley - so she takes a dive over the hill and Falls head over Heals for her dearest Love…
So to give the Teemings a crack at their avorite Movie Metaphors and Allusions: What are some of your favorites?
Not unintentional, but my favorite allusion to another movie was in Brewster McCloud. The character played by Margaret Hamilton* has died, and as the camera pans down the corpse, we notice she is wearing ruby slippers.
The final scene in Woody Allen’s A Midsummer’s Night Sex Comedy: Jose Ferrer’s fate is silly and ridiculous, and it is a metaphor for anyone who believes love can last.
In MAS*H, Painless Potter’s pre-suicide dinner is staged to look like the Last Supper.
Oh, What a Lovely War! portrayed World War I as a giant amusement park.
*Hint: Look her up and see her most famous role.
Painless Potter was Bob Hope’s character in the Paleface movies. “Painless Pole” is what I believe you’re looking for.
And, of course, Luis Bunuel did the Last Supper thing earlier in Viridiana.
I have to admit I’m not quite sure what the OP is looking for, so I might as well add that watching the original Godzilla and Scanners is different now that the characters Steve Martin & Dr. Ruth have real-life namesakes.
Unintentional? I do not know if this was intentional or not but I believe it was but I shall post it anyways.
In the orginal film version of F451, whenever they are burning this ladies house and library with her in it, the camera focuses on a book of Salvador Dali. Salvador was a surrealist. The moment was surreal.
Is this what you mean?
I think he means more unintended…
Like the very dramatic and penultimate climactic scene in the utterly dreadful Dungeons and Dragons film of a couple years’ ago, where the bald, patent-leather-clad rather butch chief henchman with the white stuff all over his lips delivers the line:
The theater was quiet for a second or two, and then several of us in the audience just lost it. It was side-splitting.
OK, you had to be there.