The 3rd Man Theme can be heard at one point in the movie.
When Joyce Grenfell hits the gong upon the girls' school arrival, Margaret Rutherford tells her it to "tap it gently. We're not here to announce a film."
in reference to the J. Arthur Rank opening sequence before a movie in which a very large gong it BANGED.
The 3rd Man Theme can be heard at one point in the movie.
I forgot about that. I found a DVD soundtrack for THE THIRD MAN several years ago with a condensation of the film and the musical score.
When I wrote my first screenplay a few years ago my professor told me to take out the jokes and references because nobody would get them. The basic idea was THE WAGES OF FEAR with women driving the trucks, and it had tributes to Republic serials, Preston Sturges, Italian cannibal movies, John Ford and Barry Levinson among others. Why Levinson? Because a friend of mine Ralph Tabakin appeared in all of Levinson's films, and I wrote a posthumous role for Ralph.
Latest project is TREASURE ISLAND WITH ZOMBIES, but I'm trying to hold the jokes down.
Have any of these projects come to fruition?
shareI did enter the "Wages" screenplay in a Hollywood contest, but no luck. One very big problem was they considered it a remakew which presents legal problems. I don't consider it a remake but a variation on a theme much as DRAG ME TO HELL last year which was a very loose remake of the classic British horror film CURSE OF THE DEMON. I asked Sam Raimi about it, and he said "They stole it from me." I thought it was the funniest movie I'd seen in years, and I'm 67. The other 5 people in the theater people in the theater probably wondered why I was laughing my head off.
I forgot I also ran the idea past Chuck Rich, a local DC film critic, and he liked it, but he he never asked if I had any luck.
So, in a word, no. Anyhow, keep trying and good luck.
shareI forgot one in-joke I caught several months ago in TOMBSTONE. Val Kilmer asks Kate when they part company "Have you no kind word to say before I ride away?" That's a line from Dmitri Tiomkin's GUNFIGHT AT OK CORRAL. I think Kilmer even smiled when he said it.
shareOne very big problem was they considered it a remake which presents legal problems. I don't consider it a remake but a variation on a theme
Thank you for your input(see previous reply). A lot of what I write is filtered through numerous films and genres: Republic serials, Italian cannibal films, Hong Kong Category III, Preston Sturges, John Ford, Barry Levinson etc.
My current project is TREASURE ISLAND WITH ZOMBIES in keeping with a recent trend in horror fiction. Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins return to the island to retrieve the rest of the treasure only to discover a horde of zombies guarding it. Also, in keeping with ZOMBIE ISLAND MASSACRE, I've written 80 pages and they still haven't set sail for the island.
Have a good 4th.
"We're not here to announce a film." in reference to the J. Arthur Rank opening sequence
I haven't seen the film in years, but I also remember a reference to THE THIRD MAN theme. That film lives on in Jackie Chan's noirish SHINJUKU INCIDENT with Chan being chased through the sewers at the end and, I think, George Clooney's recent animated film where his fox character can't escape because a wagon is parked over his escape route.
Which reminds me of Sam Raimi's DRAG ME TO HELL which I thought was the funniest movie I'd seen in years, especially when I realized it was a very loose remake of CURSE OF THE DEMON. Raimi acknowledged it as such: "They stole it from me." The four or five young people in the theater must have thought I was nuts or something.