The content-based movie link game

Cafe Society
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Okay, screw title-words and common actors. Let’s start a run of scenes that various films have in common. Starting with:

Mystery Men has a scene in which two characters fistfight. One puts up his fists in a somewhat comical fashion, to be ridiculed by the other. Then it turns out that the guy putting up his dukes has clearly been properly trained in boxing, and beats the laughing guy senseless.

This scene also appeared in O Brother, Where are Thou? That film featured a violent one-eyed character, just like Kill Bill, Volume Two.

And so forth…?

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Kill Bill Vol. 2 and the Dutch thriller The Vanishing both had characters who were buried alive.

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As in Kill Bill, vol. 2, Star Wars contains a scene where a pupil kills his former master/mentor…

(am I playing your game properly?)

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Ignore my last post…I was thinking about my answer while ArchiveGuy was posting.

Shit, this game is hard…can’t remember anything that happens in The Vanishing except the scene you’ve pointed to…I’ll pass this round…

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Actually, I suspect that now you have to make a connection with The Vanishing–links in a chain, if you will…

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Whoops–ignore that (but stay tuned; we’ll circle back to other films soon, I suspect).

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Ha, I thought of a content-based answer…

Like he Vanishing, La Femme Nikita was a European flick remade into an American flick…

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The Point of No Return American version of Femme Nikita (in an attempt to make the thread a little more mainstream) had sequences of the female lead getting lessons in couth, just like My Fair Lady.

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My Fair Lady had a man falling in love with a woman he deemed beneath him, just like in Dogfight.

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Dogfight is set in the 1960s, just like…JFK.

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In JFK, Kevin Costner’s character argues that there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy.

In Bull Durham, Kevin Costner’s character says he believes that Oswald acted alone.

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Bull Durham contained a scene in a bathtub, as did Garden State.

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Garden State and The Graduate both have Simon & Garfunkel soundtracks.

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In **the ** Graduate, Dustin Hoffman’s character tries to escape his family underwater. Bill Murray’s character does the same thing in Rushmore

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In Rushmore, a character is put on academic probation, which also happens in Animal House.

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In Animal House, a valuable automobile in the possession of a fretful character (i.e., Flounder) ends up getting trashed. The same thing happens in** Ferris Bueller’s Day Off**.

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was set in Chicago… as was Home Alone

I inspired this thread! (but I’m still suing you for the copyright :stuck_out_tongue: )

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Good luck. Anyway, common cities is a pretty blasé linkage. I was hoping for a more unusual aspect in a film and that aspect’s appearance in a different film (preferably as different as possible; hopefully a whole other genre).

In Home Alone, burglars are undone by elaborate traps. The same thing happens in The Ref.

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**The Ref ** features a squabbling dysfuntional married couple as does Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? features a young couple interacting with an older couple as does Rosemary’s Baby.