Older movies with pop culture references
12-19-14, 11:25 PM
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Older movies with pop culture references
What are some of your favorites?
Big Business (1988) - Bette Midler making a John Farnham "You're the Voice" reference.
Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan (1991) - Even though listed as released in 1991, most of the movie was filmed in the mid 1980s. Which should explain an out of the blue appearance of a guy dressed as Pee-wee Herman.
Camp Fear (1991) - Random Lambada song and dance included during the back then height of the Lambada dance craze.
Doppelganger (1993) - Jumping a bit late on Enigma's Sadeness, Part I hit bandwagon, the movie features Drew Barrymore at a party dancing at her most erotic to a sensual but bad Enigma rip off tune.
Big Business (1988) - Bette Midler making a John Farnham "You're the Voice" reference.
Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan (1991) - Even though listed as released in 1991, most of the movie was filmed in the mid 1980s. Which should explain an out of the blue appearance of a guy dressed as Pee-wee Herman.
Camp Fear (1991) - Random Lambada song and dance included during the back then height of the Lambada dance craze.
Doppelganger (1993) - Jumping a bit late on Enigma's Sadeness, Part I hit bandwagon, the movie features Drew Barrymore at a party dancing at her most erotic to a sensual but bad Enigma rip off tune.
Last edited by hbilly; 12-20-14 at 02:18 AM.
12-19-14, 11:41 PM
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Scary Movie 2-Nike commercial parody
Though I'm sure future generations who watch the movie will look at that scene and go "HUH?"
Though I'm sure future generations who watch the movie will look at that scene and go "HUH?"
12-19-14, 11:51 PM
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In Duck Soup (1933), Groucho's line about "that's why darkies were born" is actually a reference to a popular song of the time.
12-20-14, 02:34 AM
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I have a funny story about that song (Sadness). Last year I'm taking a class at a community college, and I'm walking in the parking lot up to the building. Some dude is driving around looking for an open spot, all windows down, and playing that song full blast. I don't really mind the song, but its not a bumping song.
12-20-14, 02:58 AM
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What are some of your favorites?
Big Business (1988) - Bette Midler making a John Farnham "You're the Voice" reference.
Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan (1991) - Even though listed as released in 1991, most of the movie was filmed in the mid 1980s. Which should explain an out of the blue appearance of a guy dressed as Pee-wee Herman.
Camp Fear (1991) - Random Lambada song and dance included during the back then height of the Lambada dance craze.
Doppelganger (1993) - Jumping a bit late on Enigma's Sadeness, Part I hit bandwagon, the movie features Drew Barrymore at a party dancing at her most erotic to a sensual but bad Enigma rip off tune.
Big Business (1988) - Bette Midler making a John Farnham "You're the Voice" reference.
Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan (1991) - Even though listed as released in 1991, most of the movie was filmed in the mid 1980s. Which should explain an out of the blue appearance of a guy dressed as Pee-wee Herman.
Camp Fear (1991) - Random Lambada song and dance included during the back then height of the Lambada dance craze.
Doppelganger (1993) - Jumping a bit late on Enigma's Sadeness, Part I hit bandwagon, the movie features Drew Barrymore at a party dancing at her most erotic to a sensual but bad Enigma rip off tune.
The Looney Tunes cartoon, "Bacall to Arms" (1946), specifically parodies the Warner Bros. movie with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1945).
12-20-14, 03:13 AM
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Bugs Bunny cartoons from the 1940s are full of references to pop culture of the time: famous celebs, popular songs, wartime rationing, radio shows, and even the powerful head of the musicians union at the time, James Petrillo.
The Looney Tunes cartoon, "Bacall to Arms" (1946), specifically parodies the Warner Bros. movie with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1945).
The Looney Tunes cartoon, "Bacall to Arms" (1946), specifically parodies the Warner Bros. movie with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1945).
BTW, my 6 year-old self used to always think Sidney Greenstreet was supposed to be Hitchcock in "Slick Hare".
12-20-14, 12:54 PM
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As a kid, I had no idea who 90% of the characters were in "Hollywood Steps Out". But it's become quite a fulfilling goal to finally find out who they all are and to see many of the movies that they starred in.
BTW, my 6 year-old self used to always think Sidney Greenstreet was supposed to be Hitchcock in "Slick Hare".
BTW, my 6 year-old self used to always think Sidney Greenstreet was supposed to be Hitchcock in "Slick Hare".
As a Baby Boomer, I grew up a time when all the old movies were running constantly on TV, so when we saw cartoons with caricatures from the 1930s and '40s, we knew who they were from seeing all of their movies regularly (e.g. the Marx Bros., W. C. Fields, Mae West, etc.) and some of them were indeed stars who were still acting at the time, e.g. Bacall and Katharine Hepburn ("Reahhhhlly she was!").
On IMDB, when Mickey Rooney died he was identified as the last living caricature from "Hollywood Steps Out."
12-20-14, 02:56 PM
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In Dr. No, Bond does a double take when he sees a painting in Dr. No's lair. It's a famous painting that was stolen for real and made world headlines prior to the film's release. Filmmakers threw it in as an in joke.
12-20-14, 07:17 PM
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There was also the un-vaulting of the "Five Lost Hitchcocks" on video which created a LOT of buzz. (I remember my mom renting 3 of them in no time)
Maybe you can solve the "Huge feet" gag that was linked to Greta Garbo (It appeared in more than 1 WB toon) I still don't know what that's all about.
12-20-14, 10:05 PM
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That was the first thing I thought of - Yosemite Sam yelling, "Open the door! (turns to the camera) Did'ja notice I didn't say 'Richard'?"
12-21-14, 12:45 AM
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I remember stumbling upon Leopold Stokowski and figuring out that's who Bugs dressed up as, and why everyone was saying "Leopold!" in "Long-Haired Hare".
12-21-14, 05:28 AM
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http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/20/bo...et-295993.html
And from another link:
One Story: Garbo went into shoe store, asked for some moccasins. Clerk came back with sizes 8 and 9. When moccasins rattled around on her feet, clerk looked disappointed, and said, “I thought you were Greta Garbo.” (The canard about big feet started because Garbo was one of the first women to wear low-heeled shoes. When she had to take off her shoes in As You Desire Me , Erich von Stroheim looked at her feet and said, “I don't think they're as ugly as everyone else does.” Garbo considered this a great compliment, and loved the remark.) MacLeans says actually Garbo wore about 6AA.
