Movie scenes that are a homage to another movie scene

[fassbenderfan]

1) Jack Nicholson's "here's Johnny" scene with him wielding an axe from The Shining

John Ritter doing the same in 'Problem Child'



2)"Mr and Mrs Smith" the scene where they are battling a bunch of Black Ops guys. They're pinned down in a tent in a huge department store with a ton of well armed guys outside.

The scene is an Homage to the final scene of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" when they're surrounded by the Bolivian Army and outnumbered by about 100:1



3)Robert Deniro's 'You talkin to me?' scene

Taxi Driver Scene - YouTube

Originally from 'Shane'.


Robert Deniro in 'Rocky and Bullwinkle as Fearless Leader'

Robert De Niro - Are you talking to me? - YouTube

In a French film:

GREAT SCENE - La Haine - YouTube

4)In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, whenever Yoda runs his hand over his head, it is an homage to Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" as the main character "Kambei" does the same.

[Foggy]

In a French film? The least you could do is actually look up the name of it

[fassbenderfan]

Originally Posted by Foggy

In a French film? The least you could do is actually look up the name of it

It's 'La Haine'. It's in the video title.

No need to be condescending. I don't see you looking up anything useful for this thread.

[Bucky]

First thing that comes to mind is the Uniont Station shootout scene in The Untouchables that is a homage to the Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin

[fgomike]

Originally Posted by Bucky

First thing that comes to mind is the Uniont Station shootout scene in The Untouchables that is a homage to the Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin

This. Actually got to watch both in film class. Loved it

[Mahatma]

Toy story 2 had a few homage-scenes to Star wars if I'm not mistaken.

[fassbenderfan]

I think we can include rip-offs as well. It'll be more fun that way.



The Matrix lobby shootout:

Shameless Ripoff of the Lobby scene...bollywood style - YouTube

[blonde_devil]

I saw the best one yesterday for the show Justified. The marshall is in a store with some robber and he says "there is something familar about this" and as he approaches him, he starts to use the "5 bullets or 6" speech from Dirty Harry. very funny to watch("did i fire 17 shots or just 16") and a great homage as it references the original but takes it in a different direction.

[AkumaSG]

How about the opening sequence in "The Dark Knight"? I would think it's a homage to Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing" with a dash of "Heat"? The clown masks for sure are a nod to "The Killing".

[fassbenderfan]

Another one:

Jennifer Garner - Blue Bikini getting out of a pool - YouTube

is an homage to

Phoebe Cates - Fast Times at Ridgemont High - YouTube

[AmrlKJaneway]

I watched Resident Evil: Retribution the other day.

They were in the snow at the start. So through binoculars they spotted the base. It was an odd shape, three circular sections next to each other.

The shot of this base, through binoculars, is from The Empire Strikes Back.

[csdot]

Originally Posted by AkumaSG

How about the opening sequence in "The Dark Knight"? I would think it's a homage to Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing" with a dash of "Heat"? The clown masks for sure are a nod to "The Killing".

the clown masks are because its the Joker's goons, it has nothing to do with The Killing

[Da Main Man]

Originally Posted by fassbenderfan

No need to be condescending. I don't see you looking up anything useful for this thread.

is it normal for you to get agitated so easily?

[Steelmaker]

The bar scene in Chasing Amy where Banky and Alyssa are comparing sex wounds. Its an homage to the boat scene in Jaws where Hooper and Quint are comparing their scars from handling aquatic wildlife.

[AmrlKJaneway]

Originally Posted by Steelmaker

The bar scene in Chasing Amy where Banky and Alyssa are comparing sex wounds. Its an homage to the boat scene in Jaws where Hooper and Quint are comparing their scars from handling aquatic wildlife.

Is this at all like the Russian hired thugs comparing wounds from serious military equipment in Rock'N'Rolla?

[pksmith74]

Spaceballs - pays a great homage to the Alien chestburster scene, John Hurt even played the unfortunate victim again!

[A Sith Lord?]

Moonrise Kingdom to Shawshank.

When Edward Norton's character opens up the kid's tent and then pulls the map/poster off the tent and they see a big hole which was how he escaped.

[legendarymatt92]

Pretty much any film Scorsese has done has at least one reference to another film in it - one that springs to mind is the bedroom scene in Mean Streets, which is pretty much lifted, as a scene, straight from Godard's Breathless (including the unconventional editing).

Also, just a little note about one of your choices: it doesn't seem that the line from Taxi Driver was an homage to Shane, but rather that De Niro ad-libbed it on set because all that was written in Paul Schrader's script was "Travis speaks to himself in the mirror". Various people have tried to uncover where it came from, with the most likely scenario being that it either came from an underground comic that De Niro had recently seen (Schrader claims the famous line was the comic's signature sign off) or he had seen it at a recent Bruce Springsteen concert, where the singer started saying the line to the crowd.

I'm not trying to prove you wrong or anything, just that Scorsese really isn't secretive about his homages and I can find no mention of him mentioning Shane.

[MDJ]

Swingers - doing the Reservoir Dogs walk

Hangover - car driving in the sunglasses reflection from Casino

[cricepng]

Originally Posted by pksmith74

Spaceballs - pays a great homage to the Alien chestburster scene, John Hurt even played the unfortunate victim again!

Spaceballs was full of homages to other films

My favorite - Planet of the Apes - when the ship as a maid crashed onto the planet looking like the Statue of Liberty at the end of PotA including apes on horseback