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Old 06-23-04 | 06:32 PM
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Trademarks by Directors, Actors and Actresses

Is there a website that lists the trademarksthat a director, Actor and Actress makes in every movie?

Quentin T. = Lucky Cigs
Nicholos Cage= Yells 1 line for no apparent reason.


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Old 06-23-04 | 08:39 PM
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I believe Quentin Tarantino's trademark cigarette brand is called Red Apple, not Lucky's.
Old 06-23-04 | 08:49 PM
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Old 06-23-04 | 08:51 PM
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I stand corrected. They are "Red Apple" Cig's.

It is listed in the trivia section instead of the tradmark.

QT Trademarks
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Steven Spielberg usually put a shooting star in a lot of his movies. Don't know if he still does.

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Old 06-23-04 | 10:06 PM
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Steven Spielberg usually put a shooting star in a lot of his movies. Don't know if he still does.
and broken families
Old 06-23-04 | 10:36 PM
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John Woo loves his doves. I swear he could make Star Wars Episode VII: Chow Yun Fat Returns and he'd find a way to put some doves in there, flying through space.

I believe Uwe Boll's trademark is to make really bad video game movies. I don't think any other director has claimed a career based solely on that. At least Paul Anderson makes mediocre video game movies.
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stuffs that i noticed:

chow yun fat = 2 guns (action movies only)
stallone = screaming with unny face
jerry bruckheimer = goldish/clowdy sky...
michael bay = shaky camera work & quick cut editing
robert de niro = the brooklyn/mafia accent
al pacino = yelling during speech
john carpenter = the music & 2:35 scope

also agree on john woo's dove
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wow, no sense of history here. Nobody mentions one of the most prominent director traits in American movies?

Hitchcock's cameos

A little more nebulous but still noticeable:

Bunuel's foot fetish
Old 06-24-04 | 04:53 PM
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Bunuel's foot fetish
or QT's
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The opening titles of every Woody Allen film
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The ones I think about the most are QT's "truck cam" shots,, Woo's damn doves (even used in Peace Hotel, a movie he just produced, although some think he "ghost directed" it) and Raimi's Delta 88 appearances and "fake shemp" credits.
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John Landis' "See you next Wednesday" line.
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De Palma - split focus/diopter

Clooney - annoying head tilt
Old 06-24-04 | 06:24 PM
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I see the imdb site, which I visit often, but I is somewhat "scattered" in the search of Trademark features,

I see that QT has alot of Tm's
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The Coen Brothers:


1) ALWAYS have at least one scene with a man of power sitting behind a desk

2) Re-use of the same actors; Jon Polito, Steve Buscemi, Frances McDormand, Bruce Campbell

3) Usually a distinct shot of the camera panning very quickly across a flat plane, be it a road, a wall, etc.
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Wes Anderson always has an underwater shot in his films.
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Argento:His hands are usually doing the killings
Peckinpah:Slo-mo sequence
Fellini: Dance sequence
De Palma:Often has a killer wearing sunglasses
Spike Lee:Has actors floating towards the camera
Terry Gilliam:Little people
Ken Russell:Snakes
Lucas:1138 (numbers)
Kubrick:114 (numbers)
Scorsese:His mom
Oliver Stone:His son

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Old 06-24-04 | 07:52 PM
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John Woo with his "birds sequence", 2 gun gunplay. A scene where the characters are in a situation where there is something between them before the shootout etc etc, the list goes on with this man
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Christopher Walken said on Conan that he tries to do a little dance (or just a dance move) in all of his movies-it's a nod to his musical theater background.

Mike Myers-Scottish accent (Shrek, Fat Bastard, the father in So I Married an Axe Murderer)
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Carol Burnett tugs on her earlobe at the end of every performance.
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Sam Raimi always has his 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 in his movies
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Sam Raimi always has his 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 in his movies
Mentioned already.
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John Landis' "See you next Wednesday" line.
Old 06-26-04 | 11:57 AM
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Thank You all for posting

I wish there was a web site (Imdb.com is too scattered) that had a list, though


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