What are some movies comprised (almost completely) of references and homage?
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02-21-20, 09:05 AM
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02-21-20, 09:52 AM
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Thanks for the tip! From the trailer, it looks like it's an homage to one of my favorite episodes, "Mirror Image," with Vera Miles. Gave me actual nightmares as a kid, still love it.
02-21-20, 11:50 AM
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02-21-20, 01:40 PM
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Firstly, Chinatown and Roger Rabbit are similar in their LA located neo-noir look, but there is no point where they are similar in a shot for shot basis. Not even close.
As far as any kind of LA trilogy goes, the only thing I’ve heard about that is that Robert Towne who wrote Chinatown about corruption in the water utility and the Two Jakes about corruption in oil and land swindles, at one time considered a third project about corruption in the Red Car transportation network, but considered Who Framed Roger Rabbit’s handling of the subject so good that he didn’t want to bother anymore.
02-21-20, 02:26 PM
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Is Roger Rabbit a sequel to Chinatown?
"Chinatown is the story of an idealist who had worked for the Los Angeles police force and whose partner had been murdered in a part of town where the rules are different. Chinatown. He is never the same. He resigns from the police force and becomes a private detective. He drinks too much. He does the lowest level of detective work, matrimony work, in which one member of a marriage seeks evidence that his or her partner is cheating in order to get a divorce. The movie begins when he is already a detective, and a woman who claims to be Evelyn Mulwray hires him to investigate her husband. In the course of executing his assignment, he becomes aware that the investigation is not what it seems but is part of something much larger. He slowly begins to realize that there is a conspiracy that involves corruption in the city government, corruption in the police force and some sort of criminal activity that involves the water supply to Los Angeles and the merger between Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. Someone is murdered and our detective is threatened that if he continues his investigation he will be killed. He has to choose between going along with this or to stand up for what is right at the risk of his life. To do that, he must face his fears and return to that part of town where he was defeated long ago. He returns to Chinatown, confronts his enemy, but he is defeated again and someone else is murdered. Come on Jake, says a friend on the force, who pulls him away from the body. Its Chinatown.
"Roger Rabbit is the story of an idealist who had worked for the Los Angeles police force and whose partner had been murdered in a part of town where the rules are different. Toontown. He is never the same. He resigns from the police force and becomes a private detective. He drinks too much. He does the lowest level of detective work, matrimony work, in which one member of a marriage seeks evidence that his or her partner is cheating in order to get a divorce. The movie begins when he is already a detective and Maroon Studios, who is trying to manage a star who is having trouble performing because of rumors about his wife, hires him to investigate the story and see if there is any truth to the rumors. In the course of executing his assignment, he becomes aware that the investigation is not what it seems but is part of something much larger. He slowly begins to realize that there is a conspiracy that involves corruption in the city government, corruption in the police force, and an attempt to purchase the mass transit system in Los Angeles in order to destroy it. Someone is murdered and our detective is threatened that if he continues his investigation he will be killed. He has to choose between going along with this or to stand up for what is right at the risk of his life. To do that he must face his fears and return to that part of town where he was defeated long ago. He returns to Toontown, confronts his enemy, and defeats him saving both the Red Line and Toontown as well. All the Toons come out to the edge of Toontown and acknowlege that he is their hero and to thank him.
"Chinatown is the story of an idealist who had worked for the Los Angeles police force and whose partner had been murdered in a part of town where the rules are different. Chinatown. He is never the same. He resigns from the police force and becomes a private detective. He drinks too much. He does the lowest level of detective work, matrimony work, in which one member of a marriage seeks evidence that his or her partner is cheating in order to get a divorce. The movie begins when he is already a detective, and a woman who claims to be Evelyn Mulwray hires him to investigate her husband. In the course of executing his assignment, he becomes aware that the investigation is not what it seems but is part of something much larger. He slowly begins to realize that there is a conspiracy that involves corruption in the city government, corruption in the police force and some sort of criminal activity that involves the water supply to Los Angeles and the merger between Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. Someone is murdered and our detective is threatened that if he continues his investigation he will be killed. He has to choose between going along with this or to stand up for what is right at the risk of his life. To do that, he must face his fears and return to that part of town where he was defeated long ago. He returns to Chinatown, confronts his enemy, but he is defeated again and someone else is murdered. Come on Jake, says a friend on the force, who pulls him away from the body. Its Chinatown.
"Roger Rabbit is the story of an idealist who had worked for the Los Angeles police force and whose partner had been murdered in a part of town where the rules are different. Toontown. He is never the same. He resigns from the police force and becomes a private detective. He drinks too much. He does the lowest level of detective work, matrimony work, in which one member of a marriage seeks evidence that his or her partner is cheating in order to get a divorce. The movie begins when he is already a detective and Maroon Studios, who is trying to manage a star who is having trouble performing because of rumors about his wife, hires him to investigate the story and see if there is any truth to the rumors. In the course of executing his assignment, he becomes aware that the investigation is not what it seems but is part of something much larger. He slowly begins to realize that there is a conspiracy that involves corruption in the city government, corruption in the police force, and an attempt to purchase the mass transit system in Los Angeles in order to destroy it. Someone is murdered and our detective is threatened that if he continues his investigation he will be killed. He has to choose between going along with this or to stand up for what is right at the risk of his life. To do that he must face his fears and return to that part of town where he was defeated long ago. He returns to Toontown, confronts his enemy, and defeats him saving both the Red Line and Toontown as well. All the Toons come out to the edge of Toontown and acknowlege that he is their hero and to thank him.
02-21-20, 03:29 PM
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02-21-20, 04:06 PM
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02-21-20, 07:26 PM
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