I’m not sure if my question makes sense, but please let me explain.
I was watching Die Hard With a Vengeance with Bruce Willis. I’ve seen this movie a number of times, but I for some reason noticed a piece of dialogue that I never paid attention to before.
He is telling Samuel L. Jackson that the terrorist running him around that day spoiled his day because he “was working on a nice fat suspension, smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo.” Now this was the exact same line that he sang in his car in Pulp Fiction, when he was driving away from his apartment after getting his watch. The song was on the radio and he was singling along with The Statler Brothers when he saw Ving Rhames walking across the intersection.
The only other time I ever noticed this phenomenon (if that’s what you want to call it) was in the movie Stakeout, where Emilio Esteves was quizzing Richard Dryfuss with old movie quotes. One of the quotes Esteves gives Dreyfuss was “This was not a boating accident!”, which Dryfuss couldn’t get. Dreyfuss was the one who said this line in Jaws, which I always thought was a cool little piece of dialogue.
Which got me thinking. Are there any other examples of this kind of same actor/same dialogue/different movie phenomenon?
I’m pretty sure that Arnold said “I’ll be back” in two movies, but I can’t recall for sure what the second one was (**The Terminator ** being the first).
I could easily be mistaken on this one, but in The Long Hot Summer in a heated discussion with Clara Varner (Joanne Woodward), Ben Quick (Paul Newman) responds to something about “…your cold blue eyes…” with something like, “well, you got the color right…”
I can’t place the other movie, and it may not have been Newman (although I’m 90% sure it was), but I think that was used by another famously blue-eyed actor. It may have been Hud, but since that was a B&W movie, it may not have been as obvious.
Help here?
Another line that I can’t be sure was uttered both times by Burt Lancaster, but distinctly remember as being used in more than one movie, is when Elmer Gantry (Lancaster) walks in on a guy smacking Shirley Jones around and grabs the guy by the collar and backhands him across the mouth, saying “Hurts, don’t it?” A beautiful line and piece of business.
And although it’s not a line-for-line repeat, there was a bit in Rebel Without A Cause where James Dean delivers the line “drown them like puppies” in a perfect Mr. Magoo voice. This is neat because Jim Backus, who played Dean’s father in the movie, was also the voice for Mr. Magoo in the cartoons. (Yeah, this is probably too old for most audiences of today’s TV reruns.)
There’s always the ine at the end of What’s up, Doc? where Barbara treisand says to Ryan O’Neal
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”
To which O’Neal replies:
Teri Hatcher played Lois on Lois and Clark and therefore had plenty of opportunities for lines about “Where did you go?”
She then appeared in a very minor role in a James Bond movie whose identity I can’t remember. She said something–I forget exactly-- to James Bond that sounded just like something she’d say to Clark.
Not quite on topic, but there was an episode of 3rd Rock From the Sun where William Shatner appeared. John Lithgow asked him how his flight was. Shatner said, “It was OK, but I kept seeing this creature on the plane’s wing.”
Lithgow, said, “The same thing happened to me!”
Hilarious. Shatner was in the classic Twilight Zope episode - Nightmare at 20000 Feet where he sees the gremlin on the plane’s wing. Lithgow played the same character in the Twilight Zone movie.
I love this sort of shit. Shatner’s forever dropping these little bombs on Boston Legal along with other in-jokes. It’s way over half of why I won’t miss an episode of that show. The rest is Spader’s stuff.
Unless the movie (or show) is an obvious parody or send-up (like Airplane! or the Scream and Scary Move and Hot Shots multiples) you’re not really braced for these zingers, and when they happen they are prone to pass you right by.
Haley Joel Osment played the kid in Sixth Sense. He also played Pinnochio to Drew Carey’s Geppeto. The Drew Carey Show did a bloopers show and had Osment walk in as Pinnochio. When Drew Carey explained that was just a movie and this was the set of The Drew Carey Show, Osment asked “Can I say one more thing?” Carey said “Okay.” He motioned for Carey to bend over and get right in his face, then whispered “I see dead people.”
This was obviously unscripted, cause Carey just lost it and had the hardest time not laughing.
In both The Bone Collector and John Q, Denzel Washington had similar lines in which his character was told to “take it easy” and responded “I’ll take it any way I can get it.”
Robert DeNiro’s classic soliloquy from Taxi Driver:
“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?
Then who the hell else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me?
Well, I’m the only one here. Who do the fuck do you think you’re talking to? Oh, yeah? Ok.”
DeNiro in The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle (as Fearless Leader addressing Boris and Natasha):
“Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me?
Then who else are you talking to? Are you talking to me?
Well, I am the only one here, so you must be talking to me. And you are lying!”
I rolled on the floor when I heard the latter exchange.
