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Complete list of references. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs,etc......

posted 18 years ago by delarge-durden
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OK, I just watched this film and I recognized most of the references, but some are unfamiliar.
The one's I picked up include:

Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Swingers
Amelie
Run Lola Run
The Good Girl
The Hours
Dancer in the Dark
Far From Heaven
Memento
Clerks
El Mariachi
Pi
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Magnolia
Being John Malkovich
Snatch
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Timecode (a Mike Figgis film)(the 4 split screen scene)
Mulholland Drive

Maybe I am forgetting some... But if you can help me out with others I would appreciate it.

[–] delarge-durden 18 years ago

Secretary
Do the Right Thing
Bamboozled
She's Gotta Have It
Malcolm X
Chasing Amy
Wild Side (unseen by me... I'll have to check it out)

[–] Rhihatgrl 18 years ago

i also found one from Bandits but i could be wrong.

[–] Vegeta6589 18 years ago

When the two Irish guys at the beginning walked out it reminded me of Boondock Saints a bit, but I'm not sure if that was an intentional reference or not.

[–] r-osypka 18 years ago

Waking Life

[–] fetuschrist 16 years ago

That was a reference to Guy Ritchie movies, such as Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.

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[–] Drakewind 18 years ago

The Way Of The Gun

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink: he did not die of it but degenerated - into a vice.

[–] the_10th 18 years ago

I havent watched this movie although I just got a copy & I can already
tell there's jusy way too many references.
I've seen about 22 of the entire list of movies & that just tells me you
need to be a complete movie nerd like myself to get a good number of the jokes.
Newer parodies/spoofs arent really too funny (Scary Movie, Not Another Teen, Date... how many parody movies lately need to end in 'movie'? Just goes to show that nowadays jokes need to be spelled out for the unthinking audience).
At least movies like Airplane & Spaceballs did it well.

[–] dusticle 18 years ago

what is the lanky man spoofing?

Uwe Boll makes Ed Wood look like Orson Welles.

[–] bryce_350z 18 years ago

I think it is just mocking christopher walken in a way I do not no though I can't think of any movie where he is like that right now.

[–] lotranji 17 years ago

the lanky man is a reference to Christopher Walken because he usually has some sort of cameo in alot of independent movies and that actor who played the lanky man is known in the indy circuit for his spot on Walken impression from a short he made called Conversations with Christopher Walken.
i think the writers actually say in the commentary that you cant make an independent movie without somehow involving Walken.

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[–] Anonymous_Me 18 years ago

My question is... what were they spoofing with the Jason Mewes/answering machine? I can't come up with anything, maybe I never saw the original.

[–] LCWGringoLoco 18 years ago

That's from "Swingers"

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[–] sam-r-rose 17 years ago

That movie is called Day Without A Mexican I think.

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[–] hayden41 17 years ago

I think they also spoofed Be Cool and A Scanner Darkly.

[–] hayden41 17 years ago

I think American Beauty also

[–] HyperActiveSpaceMonkey 17 years ago

A Scanner Darkly came out after, it was Waking Life.

[–] katzeisking 17 years ago

also there is a short one about Begin John Malkovich, where the 2 people fall and almost hit the car, there is also a sign that shows a head with a square in it, like the poster for begin john malkovich.

[–] erinjones77 17 years ago

how about When harry met sally - the old lady doing her big o reinactment
and austin powers - the who does number 2 work for bit

[–] Dogmaboy 17 years ago

Also Momento. (The Man who wanted to kill Kenny G)

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[–] MobileParachuteRepair 17 years ago

Watching the spoof of Timecode was more enjoyable than the actual movie Timecode, since Timecode robbed me of 90 minutes I'll never get back.