Solid Snake

What I mean is that do you ever watch the film that influenced another film?

I tend to do this with Tarantino films for sure. I'm a Godard fan now cuz of him. Kill Bill alone added soooo many films to my library. Edgar Wright as well does it. I never saw Point Break till it was made such a big deal in Hot Fuzz. And with Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds coming out I'm about to see The Dirty Dozen. I mean I'm sure not every film that has influenced another film, hell the original Inglourious Basterds isn't all that great..it can be entertaining but it's not amazing. I just wondered if any of you guys did the same thing. I find it entertaining at times, though sometimes I'm just horrified to see wtf was taken from "film X" and made to good use in "film Y".

majorjoe23

When I was a teen I rented A Clockwork Orange because I had read it was an influence on Natural Born Killers.

It wasn't what I expected at all, and became one of my favorite films while NBK has mostly faded from my mind.

wendersfan

I don't understand what you are asking here.

riotinmyskull

i frequently watch movies that have direct influences on my favorite directors so i guess my answer is yes.

HistoryProf

never.

emachine12

You have to say yes if you ever saw Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Blu Man

Heat influenced The Dark Knight. But really it's a stupid question because movies influence each other all the time.

OldBoy

way to thread crap

Blu Man

toddly6666

yes, every movie. But on a serious note, and what I think the original post is getting at, is what film were you surprised by its influence from other films?

For example, I just watched Lawrence of Arabia for the first time recently, and I couldn't believe how much it literally influenced Steven Spielberg - especially with his Indiana Jones. If I only knew of the director David Lean and not Spielberg, I would have thought that he obviously directed the Indiana Jones films.

Ash Ketchum

In the '80s, I enjoyed discovering movies made long before RAIDERS in which the hero wore a brown leather jacket and a fedora. SECRET OF THE INCAS (1953) had Charlton Heston in Indy garb on a treasure hunt in South America, not unlike the opening of RAIDERS. In HONG KONG (1951), it was Ronald Reagan in the Indy outfit, this time in war-torn China, not unlike scenes in, I think, TEMPLE OF DOOM.

visitor Q

Just watched Cronenberg's Shivers this weekend for the first time. Apparently it has influenced any number of films that followed - The Hidden, Slither ..or any other film that has a similar "bathtub" scene, perhaps even the campy cult classic, Night of the Creeps.

I love finding old films that arguably have had an influence on so many others ...

HistoryProf

you Scorsese fans should check out Touch Of Evil by Orson Welles to see the original long tracking shots. the opening four minutes are considered by many to be the greatest in history.

mhg83

When I watched Ghost in the shell for the first time, I couldn't believe how many ideas the Matrix took from that movie. That had to be a direct influence for the Wachowki brothers.

visitor Q

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There are a ton of comparisons between the two.

obscurelabel

Are any of these what you're looking for? They're a grab bag.

8½ -> Stardust Memories
Smiles of a Summer Night -> A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy
Juliet of the Spirits -> Alice
Danger: Diabolik -> CQ
Vertigo + Psycho -> Dressed to Kill
Vertigo -> Obsession
Rear Window -> Body Double
Don't Look Now + Psycho -> Alice, Sweet Alice
The Maltese Falcon -> Beat the Devil
Nosferatu (Murnau) -> Nosferatu (Herzog)
Roadrunner Cartoons -> The Villian
Sullivan's Travels -> O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Sleep -> The Big Lebowski
Week End -> Eating Raoul
Double Indemnity -> Body Heat
All That Heaven Allows -> Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
All That Heaven Allows -> Far From Heaven
Zero Hour! + The High and the Mighty -> Airplane!

hasslein

I had just seen Man Bites Dog before seeing Blair Witch... the end gave me a sense of deja vu

Happy Accidents was the Star Trek episode "City on the Edge of Forever"

I guess I'm getting into films that ripped off other films... Inspired, ripped off, paying homage, what's the difference?

rw2516

It Came...Without Warning>Predator
Cyborg 2087>The Terminator
It! The Terror From Beyond Space>Alien

Solid Snake

This is a ripoff...god, I just found this by accident right now actually but this is a ripoff from the Lobby scene from The Matrix. Did they lob off the butt of those assault rifles from the Bollywood Neo or wtf are those?

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Now let's see a scene from the great Oldboy:
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and it's illegal remake (though the bollywood studio argues that it's not a remake and the two films are no way closely similar blah blah bullshit) *groan* Zinda:
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Oddly enough...they're both from Bollywood. An homage is a form of respect or reverence to a person/object/etc. So it's like Danny Butterman and Nicholas Angel (from Hot Fuzz) diving through the air with two handguns going off....like Chow Yun Fat in many of the John Woo flicks. It's a tribute or nod to a flick that they liked and they did it here too but a bit differently. Again there's some quick and crazy editing in a scene from Hot Fuzz that's very much like what Tony Scott does now. A priest has 2 pistols extend and pop out from his sleeves ala Desperado. These are homages. The Bollywood stuff up there are ripoffs.

Gunde

Way to miss the god damn point. Read the OP before making a stupid comment like that

Strawberry10

Harry potter and Lord of the Rings "Gandalf the Grey and Albus Dumbledore" -Two great wizards!

Groucho

I think a better wording of the question might be "Have you ever sought out a film that influenced another film you enjoy?"

Goat3001

I recently saw Disturbia. A pretty entertaining flick that was very obviously influenced (I guess you can even call it a remake or reimaging) of Rear Window.

To sum up perfectly how I felt about both movies: LaBeuf 1 Hitchcock 0

And if you ever saw the Matrix then you have to say yes to this question. So many movies "payed homage" to the Matrix after it made it big it's gotten to the point where the Matrix has almost become a parody of itself.

riotinmyskull

Cardiac161

Die Hard, a huge influence to:
Speed - Die Hard in a bus
Speed 2 - Die Hard in a cruise ship
Under Siege - Die Hard in a warship
Under Siege 2 - Die Hard in a train
Passenger 57 - Die Hard in a plane
Sudden Death - Die Hard in a sports stadium