For no apparent reason, my SO suggests a double feature of Road Warrior and Tank Girl, which is fine, only the local Blockbuster doesn’t have Tank Girl so I end up with Shane instead. I should have gotten Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Has anyone else noticed how similar the final chase from Road Warrior is to Indy’s chase from the dig site to the Kasbah? Interestingly enough, they both came out in 1981, so there’s little chance of one stealing from the other.
So, what’s your favorite homage?
What’s your favorite homage? You don’t list one yourself…
As for me, Some Like It Hot is full of references to the great Warner Bros. gangster films of the 30s (most notably Scarface and The Public Enemy). And you gotta love that Cary Grant parody. 
I wish I could remember what I was talking about at the SF Holiday DopeFest which saw me use the word “homage” 8 (or was it 9?) times, but the important thing to remember here is that it is pronounced “o-mahj’”, not “Ah’-mij”.
The "frenchy way makes you sound so much cooler.
It was eight times – the ninth one was waved off on a technicality.
I do concur with Snooooopy on the 8 official uses of homage. There were actually closer to 12-13 total, but the rest were thrown out for being used out of context.
My favorite homage is literary. The whole opening of “The Name of the Rose” is lifted from Walpole’s “The Castle Otranto” and the first monk to die in the dung heap? His name is Otranto.
How was I able to be so sure that Jack Batty would turn up in this thread to pad his homage count with another gratuitous mention of the octo-homage Holiday Dopefest?
[John Cleese]
It was an inspired guess, I suppose.
[/John Cleese]
Madonna’s “Material Girl” video is an homage to Marilyn Monroe’s performance of “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend” in the movie “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”.
The opening sequences in the “Star Wars” movies are an homage to the episode synopses in the old Buster Crabbe “Flash Gordon” serials.
Indiana Jones is an homage to Alan Quartermain in H. Rider Haggard’s novels(“King Solomon’s Mine” and others).
The Space Marines in “Aliens” are an homage to the Mobile Infantry in Robert Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers”.
I don’t have a favorite - I just like using the word “homage”.
Homage, homage, homage.
I also like the word wombat.
Wombat, wombat, wombat.
Wombat homage.
The BBC would like to apologise for the preceding gratuitous use of the word “wombat”…
OK, I think that’s enough coffee for one day…
I simply adore cheese (fromage homage).
When Mortal Kombat, the movie, came to the theaters in my town, it was misspelled (or something) on one marquee to read “Oral Wombat.”
Anyway, I like the episode of the Simpons where they sing the beginning like All in the Family.
And like how the London Calling cover pays homage to Elvis’s self-titled album.
Jack- your original homage comment had something to do with the movie Pleasantville. The rest were somewhat gratuitous.
My favorite is Clue
Sassy, you’re my hero!
The trial scene in Pleasantville with the “black&white” people downstairs and the “colored” people in the balcony, is an homage to the To Kill a Mockingbird trial scene with the white people downstairs and the blacks in the balcony.
And I also love those desert scenes in old movies where they hallucinate an oasis on the horizon (Mirage Homage)
The gun battle on the steps of Union Station in Untouchables, using the “baby carriage down the stairs” Odessa Steps scene from Battleship Potemkin. It’s a homage and not a ripoff because DePalma included a group of sailors in the scene.
My high school World History teacher had us watch Battleship Potemkin in class on a day he was absent. It was hilarious to watch some of the students realize that THIS was where the Untouchables scene had come from. At least they were intelligent enough to realize, despite the fact that they had seen Untouchables first, that it was stealing from (oops, I mean intended as a homage to) BP and not the other way around.
And I also love those scenes where the guys dressed in black sweaters, pants and knit hats avoid Nazi patrols while planting the time bomb under the railroad trestle (Sabotage Homage).
Exactly. They included the line, “Sir, is this gonna be another bug-hunt?” to hammer that homage home.
Hammer home-age?