# Movies that reference other movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284 "2003-06-25T13:29:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/21 "2003-06-26T03:24:13Z")
In “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” George Lazenby replaced Connery. He made a reference to the “other guy” meaning Connery in an early scene. ---
**Author:** ![rumraisin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@rumraisin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rumraisin)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/22 "2003-06-26T03:39:03Z")
There are quite a couple of spoofs in Toy Story 2 as well. Can’t remember all of them, but there’s one scene where the toys were running down an aisle and Spike the plastic dinosaur was behind them that looked distinctly like Jurassic Park. Oh yes, and the totally bizarre “Buzz… I am your father” bit too. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/23 "2003-06-26T04:18:02Z")
at the end of “Cable Guy,” Jim Carrey attacks Matthew Broderick by shooting staples at him from a staple gun while they’re climbing atop a tower. Replace the staple gun with a nail gun, and you have the ending sequence from “The Color Of Night”. Talk about obscure . . . ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/24 "2003-06-26T04:56:58Z")
The Woody Allen movie, “Play It Again, Sam” ends with a scene that mimics the end of Casablanca. I don’t know the dialogue exactly, but I think it’s pretty close to the original. ---
**Author:** ![Fornit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@Fornit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fornit)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/25 "2003-06-26T05:22:25Z")
My favourite movie reference within a movie was in Stakeout starring Emilo Esteves and Richard Dreyfuss. There’s a scene where they’re killing time on the stakeout by playing a ‘name the movie’ quote game. Emilo’s character uses the line “This was no boating accident”. Richard’s character doesn’t get the answer, even though Richard was the actor who spoke the line in Jaws. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/26 "2003-06-26T05:57:12Z")
Wait, wait, wait! How, just HOW, does Shrek reference Final Fantasy VII? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/27 "2003-06-26T12:34:18Z")
I think it’s in the scene where Donkey is held by the lovey-dovey dragon and Shrek free him then jumps off the tail in slo-mo. Also, when Shrek strikes the pose with the sword when they’re running from the dragon (“I’ll take care of the dragon”). ---
**Author:** ![mallocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mallocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallocks)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/28 "2003-06-26T12:50:50Z")
A very very tentitive reference then, one that could in fact be said to not exist? ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/29 "2003-06-26T13:40:16Z")
Just about every film-school grad does an obligatory visual reference to **Potemkin**. My favorite is in Terry Gilliam’s brilliant **Brazil** , when in the background of one shot a robot cleaning machine (?) goes out of control and careens down a staircase, mimicking the runaway baby carriage on the Odessa Steps. My least favorite is Brian dePalma’s heavy-handed recreation of the same scene in **The Untouchables**. In slo-mo even. The second the baby carriage came into the shot, I knew what was coming; it was excrutiating. ---
**Author:** ![Alex-NC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@Alex-NC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex-NC)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/30 "2003-06-26T14:42:13Z")
Has anyone brought up…“The Freshman” as a spoof of the 1st two Godfather movies? The whole movie referenced the GF’s. It even had 2 actors who were in The Godfather. Marlon whathis name… (Brando) and Bruno Kirby. Kirby played the young Clemenza in GF II. Remember when he and the young Don Vito, played by DiNiro, stole the rug? Anyway… if you’re a GF fan… and every male I know over age 40 can quote the entire script, The Freshman is a must see. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/31 "2003-06-26T15:03:24Z")
Not a movie, but a TV show reference to a movie. In Deep Space Nine the episode In The Pale Moonlight is a Batman reference. Did you dance with the devil in the pale moonlight, ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/32 "2003-06-26T16:19:43Z")
In “Do the Right Thing” Spike Lee has a character repeat the entire Love vs. Hate routine from Night of the Hunter. I didn’t realize that until I saw Night of the Hunter years later. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/33 "2003-06-26T16:52:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by godzillatemple \* > \*\*I’m with Dantheman on this one – where’s your cite, Chuck? > > Barry \*\* Guess we’ll never get that cite. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/34 "2003-06-26T17:31:29Z")
1. In the comedy “What’s Up Doc?”, Barbra Streisand tells Ryan O’Neal, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” (That line, of course, came from O’Neal’s tearjerker “Love Story.”) O’Neal replies, “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” 1. Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote and directed “The Big CHill,” wrote the screenplays for both “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “The Empire Strikes Back.” He alludes to both movies in “The Big CHill.” In one of the kids’ bedrooms, there’s a lot of “Star Wars” gear all over the place. And when Kevin Kline runs up to the attic to kill a bat, he’s humming John Williams’ Indiana Jones theme music. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284/35 "2003-06-26T18:46:40Z")
That horrible John Travolta/Hugh Jackman computer hacking flick, _Swordfish_ took its title from a classic scene in the Marx Brothers’ _Horse Feathers_, where “swordfish” was the password you needed to get into a speakeasy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-reference-other-movies/184284.md?page=1)