History ShoutOut / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/{{Kuntilanak}}'': If you look closely at Anjan's shelf, you can see he has a [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Master Shifu]] figure.

* Inverted, kinda, in ''Pope Joan'', though probably by pure chance. Joan (Johanna) is played by Johanna Wokalek.

* ''Film/CarryOnSpying'':
** One will find that most of the conventions are from FilmNoir, from the cigarette packet in the nightclub having a message inside it, to Creator/DilysLaye as the {{femme fatale}}, who doesn't actually get many chances to flirt and mostly spends time trying to get away from the protagonists because of how obnoxious and incompetent some of them are.
** Harold's codename "Bluebottle" comes from a character from ''Radio/TheGoonShow''.
** The Fat Man being Film/TheThirdMan (however, it can also be argued that his name is also a shout-out to Film/TheThinMan).
*** Other nods to ''The Third Man'' include characters emerging from manhole covers, the Café Mozart meeting place and the subtle inclusion of a cuckoo clock.
** Most of the movie is filled with Franchise/JamesBond and other spy flicks references.
*** Charlie Bind = James Bond. Was originally "James Bind", but copyright wouldn't allow it.
*** Dr Crow being Film/DrNo.
*** The acronyms based on a variety of organizations from the series, mostly SPECTRE and SMERSH.
*** Daphne Honeybutt's surname is based on the name Honeychile Rider from ''Dr. No'' as well.
*** The fight on the train being straight from ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. And let's not forget the poster. At one point, Carstairs has a watch containing a garrotte wire like Red Grant.
*** This movie shares many similar story threads from ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' (ironically before the film was made twenty years later), such as the locations the characters go and the plot point of exploding milk bottles.
** Eric Pohlmann and Creator/JohnBluthal's roles were intended to be the comic answer to Creator/SydneyGreenstreet in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and Creator/PeterLorre in ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941''.
** Simpkins says "Stop messing about!" at one point, which was a Creator/KennethWilliams catchphrase from the popular ''Series/HancocksHalfHour''.
** Characters emerging from the Director of BOSH's cupboard [[spoiler:after using an elevator in STENCH's headquarters]] as if they were coming from another world. [[Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe Hmmm...]]

** Thor introduces himself as "[[NamedAfterSomeoneFamous like the]] [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor superhero]]".

-->'''Fearless Leader''': There has never been a way to actually destroy a cartoon character until now.
-->'''Henchman''': [[ItsBeenDone What about]] [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit that movie Roger Rabbit?]]
-->'''Fearless Leader''': Shut up! This is totally different! [{{beat}}] There has never been a way to actually destroy a cartoon character until now.

---> '''Hands''': [emphatic] ''"I'm a great and powerful wizard! Your clothes are red!"''

* In the American ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'', three entire fishing boats are dragged underwater, presumably because Godzilla just swallowed their catch, nets and all. This is an apparent ShoutOut to the barrel-dragging scenes in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' ("Not with ''three''!").
* ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' (2014):

---->'''Arthur''': Olive and I have not performed together for far too long.
---->'''Olive''': Well, ''that's'' true.
---->'''Stan''': Blimey, I was only askin' for y'to do the milit'ry two-step, not the Film/LastTangoInParis.

* ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'':

--->'''Undercover Brother''': "Smart Brother, you a bad mother..."
--->'''Smart Brother''': "Shut your mouth!"

---->''And they're quite at home at the hippodrome''
--->''You can choose who you prefer''
--->''Coz Ben Him looks like Literature/BenHur''.

-->'''O'Haggan!''' I'm gonna pistol whip the next guy who says "shenanigans".

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'':

** The overall plot is very similar to the Series/DoctorWho episode "The End of Time", with Cybertron in the role of Gallifrey, Dylan Gould in the role of Joshua Naismith, Optimus Prime as the Doctor, Sam Witwicky as Ross Noble, Megatron as the Master and Sentinel Prime as Rassilon.
*** The plot where Decepticons use a Space bridge to transport Cybertron to Earth is straight out of the [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers original cartoon series]] story, "The Ultimate Doom".

** Batman's two fights with Bane are modeled after Batman's two fights with the Mutant leader in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. In both first fights, Batman fights with pure aggression, trying to physically overpower his opponent, but he's facing an opponent who's both much stronger and in far better physical condition, and Batman ends up getting decisively beaten. In both second fights, he's much smarter and more defensive about how he fights, taking advantage of his opponents' disadvantages and only really starting to lay into them when they're at their weakest, and ends up beating them both.

** The Joker's goons don clown masks during the opening scene as a reference to Stanley Kubrick's heist film ''Film/TheKilling''. Joker's mask is also the same as the one the character uses in ''The Joker's Wild'', his very first appearance in the 60's series. It and the other somber clown masks, all worn by the Joker's thugs with otherwise normal street clothes, invoke the image his henchman from the [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Animated Series]] episode ''The Last Laugh''.
** Film/TheShawshankRedemption: The detonator found on the prisoners' ship is concealed in a box resembling a [[spoiler:book]].

** The Joker's clown mask in the bank robbery at the start of the film is very similar to the clown mask worn by Creator/CesarRomero in the Joker's [[http://i.imgur.com/WIsyBbU.jpg first appearance]].

** Bruce discovering [[spoiler: Miranda/Talia's]] betrayal at the moment [[spoiler:she stabs him]] is [[Theatre/JuliusCaesar a couple thousand years old.]]

*** When Lurk is caught in the German's searchlight, he asks "What do I do now, sing 'Swanee'?".

-->"Logic is the sword by which we slay ancient superstitions. But lo, the heart has its own truths to teach us."
-->Series/HannahMontana
-->Season 2, episode 4

* ''Film/{{Horrorvision}}'': While [[TheProtagonist Dez]] is picking the lock to Toni's apartment, Dazzy tells him he's "like fucking [[Series/MacGyver1985 [=MacGyver=].".

* ''Film/UpPompeii'':
** Ammonia is known to gardeners everywhere as "the last of the red-hot pokers", a play on the novel ''Last of the Red Hot Lovers''.
** From the ending theme:
--->''And they're quite at home at the hippodrome''