They'll none of them be missed

[venta]

Having promised my housemate that I'd take him to the pictures if he was good, I went to see Shrek 2 again last night.

And between us, we started a list of references to other films contained therein. Anyone else want to join in ?


Specific films referenced (rather than use of generic movie clichés):

Arriving in Far, Far Away - Beverley Hills Cop
Fairy Godmother singing - The Fabulous Baker Boys
A giant, stupid thing called Mungo - Blazing Saddles
Three friends (including a fencing Spaniard) planning to storm the castle to prevent the Princess ending up with the wrong bloke - The Princess Bride
Puss carving 'P' on a tree - The Mask Of Zorro
The final scene of people dancing on the stage - The Fifth Element

Some of these I only have Andy's word for, as I haven't seen the films in question.

Comments

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Brain Shot.

I know there's hordes more but damned if I can think of any. I'll get back to you.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Can you explain what and where ?

I have seen exactly 0.000005% of the films you could reasonably expect me to have seen (not including that one), and thus can't work it out for myself :(

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was unclear.

Brain Shot not a movie, it's more a state of my curernt mind.

So basically, 'I'm brain Shot and unable to think of any but i know they are there.... ' of coruse equally the phrase "brain shot unable to right clearly would be equally true'...

Sorry for the confusion. But nalsa is being much more useful below....

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah.
Well, I'm sure most educated people would have known there wasn't a film called Brain Shot :)

I was doing a film-quiz with some people from work, which was done with cryptic clues. Kept having conversations like:

Me: Hmmm. A Star and a Man ? Star Man.
Sysadmin#1: Yes
Me: What ?
S: Starman
Me: Eh ? There's a film called Starman ?
S: Yes!

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

1. Ring flying up in the air and landing on Fiona's finger is from The Fellowship Of The Ring.
2. Rolling around in the surf is from From Here To Eternity.
3. I'm fairly sure I saw Cimtiere and Lumiere from Beauty And The Beast (Disney) in the Fairy Godmother making furniture dance sequence.

Arguably the huge Mungo thing also referenced Ghostbusters.

There was quite a few more, but I'll have to see it again.

[venta.livejournal.com]

3. I'm fairly sure I saw Cimtiere and Lumiere from Beauty And The Beast (Disney) in the Fairy Godmother making furniture dance sequence.

Ah, not sure I've ever seen Beauty and the Beast. I had wondered about the (sp?) Substitutionary Locomotion sequence from Mary Poppins with the dancing furniture, though.

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

Seconded for Beauty and the Beast, plus the Mermaid on the beach had a passing resemblance to Ariel from Disney's Little Mermaid.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Desperado, the shot where we first meet Puss and all we see are the eyes.

Not a film but...

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

When John Cleese's King character clutches his leg blaming an old crusades wound to distract attention from what he's doing, that's a reference to Fawlty Towers, where Basil used to do the same thing with a "war wound".

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Shrek hanging upside down from the ambush at the start, and getting kissed, upside down, by Fiona is a Spidey reference.

The whole dive under a door, oops, I forgot my hat routine gets done again.

The on-the-spot commentator at the start of the ball mentioned something along the lines of "the abs are fab".

Oh, and the bucket of water over Puss in the middle of the song is Flashdance.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Spidey ?

The whole dive under a door, oops, I forgot my hat routine gets done again.

What's that referring to ?

Oh, and the bucket of water over Puss in the middle of the song is Flashdance.

Aha! I knew I recognised it from somewhere, really couldn't place it, though.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Spidey = Spiderman. I think you just failed the "Constant Reader" test.

Doors and hats, I'd think is probably first in Raiders of the Lost Ark. But it's been redone so many times, I've lost track.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think you just failed the "Constant Reader" test.

Eh ?

But it's been redone so many times, I've lost track.

Well, it's going in the forbidden "generic movie clichés" bin unless you can cite a definitive example.

Don't ask me, I still haven't bloody seen Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Stan Lee had a tendency to add "voice-over" captions to comics, in which he referred to "Constant Reader".

I've found the photo: http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0145487/Ss/0145487/CT-9193R.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0145487

Oh, alright. Raiders. Definitively ;-)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

IMDB says "Indiana Jones never loses his hat because it was thought that such a thing would cause problems with continuity. It eventually becomes a running joke through the series."

Grabbing that hat just before a door closes is in at least one of the films, possibly more.

[grumblesmurf.livejournal.com]

Spidey == Spiderman, but you really haven't missed too much if you've not seen it.

The whole hat/door thing is from either Raiders of the Lost Ark or Temple of Doom but I can't recall which one right now.

I'd agree that the giant gingerbread man was more of a nod to Ghostbusters rather than anything else. But perhaps it's both.

There's also a reference to the Graduate (or, if you prefer, Mike Myers in Wayne's World 2, but that's from much the same origin).

The Little Mermaid being thrown back in and eaten by a shark, and two of the potion factory workers being transformed into animated objects from Beauty and the Beast were the two obvious swipes at Disney that I spotted. There are a couple of less obvious ones - a poster taking off Lilo and Stitch for instance.

Mission Impossible for the whole Pinnochio lying (or not) scene.

There's an obvious Alien reference when Puss jumps out of a shirt.

E.T. too, as Mungo dissolves/dies and tells little gingerbread man to 'be good'.

The axe being given to the king being held up against the full moon suggests Batman and the bat signal to me.

And not a movie, but the OJ Simpson car chase is referenced in the aerial chase for Donkey as a big white horse (or bronco). Simpson's car was a large white Bronco.

The king is Basil Fawlty, almost to a tee. The old war/crusade wound for starters.

Sound of Music, near the beginning, with Shrek and Fiona running through the fields of flowers.

I'm quite sure there's more, but I've only seen it the once so far, and that was a while back on preview before it came out nationwide.

[venta.livejournal.com]

There's also a reference to the Graduate

Wossat ?

I mean what's the reference - I've not see The Graduate (though I have seen Wayne's World :)

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Shrek banging on the window shouting "FIOOOOONAAAAAAA!!!!" when she thinks Charming is Shrek.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Shrek!
Fiona!
Lilly!
Shrek!

Donkey!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.

Rocky Horror.

I forgot that in my original list.

[froglet.livejournal.com]

There's an aliens like bit where something bursts out of someone's clothing I think. Probably a list on IMDB (http://imdb.com)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Puss bursts out of Shrek's jumper. Is that Alien or Aliens ?

Probably a list on IMDB

Probably, but where's the fun in that :)

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Alien

[venta.livejournal.com]

And also "hello, haven't seen you in a while, how's it all going ?"

:)

[failmaster.livejournal.com]

The bit with Pinocchio being lowered by his strings into Shrek's prison is a Mission Impossible (or MI2, take your pick) reference.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Of course, right down to the theme tune. Can't believe I forgot that one.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I might try arguing for "flour, lots and lots of flour" referring to Neo's "Guns. Lots of guns" in The Matrix, but fear I may be getting a little tenuous here.

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

No, I'd go along with that.

[narenek.livejournal.com]

I made the same connection.

[chrisvenus]

STreetfighter 2 though a computer game is the only reference that I can think of that hasn't alreayd been mentioned.

At the beginning of the movie when they get attacked by bandits and shrek is dangling upside down by his foot fiona does a spinning bird kick (chun-li move) followed by a dragon punch (streetfighter signature move as used by ken and ryu) on the last guy.

I think this is a game that will best be played as a drinking game when the DVD comes out.

Whenever you spot a reference you shout it out and as long as you are right everybody takes a drink. If everybody thinks you're a muppet you down your drink.

Perhaps that might be a little too dnagerous though. :)

[wimble.livejournal.com]

But Chris, what if you're right and everybody thinks you're a muppet?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/]

You down their drinks. Simple really.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I think there was a shot of a puddle with circular ripples in it just before the giant gingerbread man walks on screen. If that's true and I haven't invented it, it might be a Jurassic Park reference.

Also, I was getting a bit of a feeling of the Godzilla remake during the rest of that scene, but I haven't seen the movie, only trailers. It might just be that one giant monster rampaging around in a city is very much like another rather than because any particular shot was a match.

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Having not read this all day to avoid spoilers we will now add...

"I'm melting, i'm melting..."
and
was Donkey just singing Rawhide or does the riding off in the back of the wagon happen? I haven't really seen any.

Walking through the potion factory wheeling a trolley being casual looked like Monsters Inc to me.

And does one of the fairy tale books tossed of the shelf being Pretty Woman count as a film reference?