What movie is this parodying?
12-17-06, 05:51 PM
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What movie is this parodying?
I thought it was The Lost Weekend, but I watched that today, looking for that type scene and didn't see it.
12-18-06, 12:47 AM
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I guess the scene didn't look as I expected.
There is a montage with Ray Milland staggering down the street, looking for a pawn shop to hock his typewriter. There's cuts to passing street signs to show how far he's walked. I was expecting to see him stagger with overlaying neon bar signs passing him.
There is a montage with Ray Milland staggering down the street, looking for a pawn shop to hock his typewriter. There's cuts to passing street signs to show how far he's walked. I was expecting to see him stagger with overlaying neon bar signs passing him.
12-18-06, 12:01 PM
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I wonder if there was ever another movie that had a scene like that? It's often imitated and seems to have a real film noir quality to it.
(Didn't a black-and-white Moonlighting episode parody a scene like that as well?)
(Didn't a black-and-white Moonlighting episode parody a scene like that as well?)
12-19-06, 03:59 PM
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Well, I'm not the only one to notice that the specific accredited scene isn't in The Lost Weekend. ( http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/28381 ) Some mentioned the passing neon effect in It's A Wonderful Life and On The Town. Now I don't know if there was a staggering scene with bar signs inspired by The Lost Weekend and people attribute it to that movie or if it's another movie false memory that people insist they've seen, but doesn't really exist.
