History SmallReferencePools / Film

** The 1910s to the 1930s? Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/BusterKeaton, Creator/HaroldLLoyd, Creator/TheMarxBrothers, Creator/WCFields.

* Horror movies? ''Film/{{Dracula}}'', ''Film/{{Frankenstein}}'', ''Film/TheWolfMan'', ''Film/TheMummy'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' (far more than its sequels) ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', ''Film/TheExorcist'', ''Film/{{Halloween}}'', ''Film/FridayThe13th'', ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' are the most iconic examples. Horror pictures that use monsters (''Film/KingKong'', ''Film/{{Godzilla}}''), real life horrors (''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'', ''Film/{{Jaws}}''), stuff that you don't really see most of the time(''Film/TheShining'', ''Film/CatPeople'', ''Film/ParanormalActivity'') science fiction horror (''Film/{{Alien}}'') are usually not seen as the most typical examples of a ''standard'' horror movie. A fantastical creature in a Gothic setting seems to be most people's idea of horror.

* Kaiju movies? Film/{{Godzilla}}. For specialists: Film/{{Mothra}}, Film/{{Rodan}} and Film/{{Gamera}}.

* A {{slasher|Movie}} film? Anything starring [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]]. Or [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] and [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Mickey Myers]]. Except Jason will [[HockeyMaskAndChainsaw frequently]] have a [[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre chainsaw]].

** Typical examples: ''Franchise/TheTerminator'', ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'', ''Franchise/DieHard', ''Franchise/LethalWeapon'' and ''Franchise/DirtyHarry''.

* Arthouse movies? Creator/IngmarBergman (usually ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'', ''Film/{{Persona}}''), Creator/JeanLucGodard (''Film/ABoutDeSouffle'') and Creator/FrancoisTruffaut (''Film/The400Blows'').

* Blaxploitation? ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' and ''Film/SweetSweetbacksBadasssssSong''.

* Children's movies? Also tends to differ from generation to generation, but Creator/WaltDisney and Creator/ShirleyTemple are the typical examples. In the 1980s and 1990s Creator/ChrisColumbus was the most famous director in this field. Some children movie classics still watched to this day are ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', ''Film/MaryPoppins'', ''Film/StarWars'' (also watched by adults) and ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''.

** The 1990s? Creator/JimCarrey.

* Film Serials? Film/FlashGordonSerials, Film/ThePhantom1943, Film/TheGreenHornetSerials, Film/

* Horror movies? ''Film/{{Dracula}}'', ''Film/{{Frankenstein}}'', ''Film/TheWolfMan'', ''Film/TheMummy'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/TheNightOfTheLivingDead'' (far more than its sequels) ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', ''Film/TheExorcist'', ''Film/{{Halloween}}'', ''Film/FridayThe13th'', ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' are the most iconic examples. Horror pictures that use monsters (''Film/KingKong'', ''Film/{{Godzilla}}''), real life horrors (''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'', ''Film/{{Jaws}}''), stuff that you don't really see most of the time(''Film/TheShining'', ''Film/CatPeople'', ''Film/ParanormalActivity'') science fiction horror (''Film/{{Alien}}'') are usually not seen as the most typical examples of a ''standard'' horror movie. A fantastical creature in a Gothic setting seems to be most people's idea of horror.

** Fun SF? ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek''.

* Thrillers? Anything by Creator/AlfredHitchock.

* [[TheWestern Westerns]]? ''Film/Stagecoach'', ''Film/{{Shane}}'', ''Film/TheSearchers'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' and ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' are the most frequent cited examples. Western film directors are only Creator/JohnFord and Creator/SergioLeone. Western actors are typically Creator/JohnWayne, Creator/RoyRogers, Creator/LeeVanCleef and Creator/ClintEastwood. You're bound to hear some EnnioMorriconePastiche music in parodies.

* Creator/ClintEastwood: Only points of reference are cowboy movies and ''Film/DirtyHarry''. Will squint his eyes, show a PhallicGun and say a BadassLine, always with a famous that shows he is pretty pissed off.

* Creator/MontyPython: Whenever the name of this comedy group is dropped people will instantly begin quoting scenes from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', as if this is the only (good) thing the group ever did. Often you'll encounter so-called ''fans'' of Monty Python who actually just mean they like ''Holy Grail'' and are even totally unaware that the group also made other films and even had a TV series. Some of them even think Monty Python was a person!

* Creator/RobinWilliams: Will talk lips between his teeth. Has either MotorMouth improvisations or a heartwarming speech about being accepted.

* GermanFilms? GermanExpressionism or arthouse. The most famous German films worldwide are ''Film/TheBlueAngel'', ''Film/DasBoot'', ''Film/RunLolaRun'' and ''Film/TheDownfall''.

!!Small Reference Film Pools:
* In the first half of the 20th century all Hollywood spectacle films were made by Creator/CecilBDeMille. Make that all spectacle films. Who except movie buffs ever heard of e. g. Giovanni Pastrone and ''Cabiria'' (1914) or Abel Gance and ''Film/{{Napoleon}}'' (1927)?
* All silent movies were comedies, and had nothing but the likes of the Keystone Kops, Creator/CharlieChaplin and PieInTheFace gags.
* All musicals were choreographed by Creator/BusbyBerkeley and danced by Creator/FredAstaire and/or Creator/GeneKelly. If there is a woman dancing along it will without exception be Creator/GingerRogers (even though Cyd Charisse was ''much'' more [[StatuesqueStunner eye-catching]]).
* Horror actors from the black-and-white period? Creator/BelaLugosi and Creator/BorisKarloff. Maybe a Creator/LonChaney character will be shown (especially ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925''), but don't expect his name to get tossed out.
* All black and white comedy is done by Creator/CharlieChaplin or Creator/LaurelAndHardy. In the U.S.A. Film/TheThreeStooges will be mentioned as well. Creator/AbbottAndCostello only ever did the "Who's on first?" routine.
* Film noir? Creator/HumphreyBogart.
* Western actors? Don't you know all westerns starred only JohnWayne or Creator/ClintEastwood?
* If a western scene is recreated there will always be a snippet of Music/EnnioMorricone music heard or spoofed.

* A {{swashbuckler}} film? Anything starring DouglasFairbanks or ErrolFlynn.
* A {{slasher|Movie}} film? Anything starring [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]]. Or [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Fred]] and [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Mike]]. Except Jason will [[HockeyMaskAndChainsaw frequently]] have a [[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre chainsaw]].
* A sciencefiction film? Reference ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', or ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.
* An action movie? Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, and Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme.
* Famous film directors?
** In the 1940s-1970s Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
** From before the 1940s D. W. Griffith or Erich von Stroheim.
** From the 1970s onward Creator/StevenSpielberg.
** Since the 1990s Creator/QuentinTarantino.
** A famous Swedish film director? Must be Creator/IngmarBergman.
** A famous Italian film director? Must be Creator/SergioLeone.
** A famous French film director? Must be Luc Besson.
** A famous Japanese film director? Must be Creator/AkiraKurosawa. Consequently: the only Japanese films most people reference in popular culture are ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' (which, amusingly, was ''not'' by Kurosawa -- [[WhatCouldHaveBeen though there were always unconcluded plans for him to direct a film in the series]]).
** A famous Spanish film director? Must be Creator/PedroAlmodovar. (Anyone who came of age before TheEighties would have said Luis Bunuel, but then he's often thought of as a ''French'' director.)
** A famous Russian film director? Must be Creator/SergeiEisenstein.
** A famous German film director? Must be Creator/FritzLang. Very occasionally Leni Riefenstahl. These days, its more likely to be Creator/WernerHerzog.
* All films from India and Pakistan are {{Bollywood}} films.
* If you are going to reference or parody a non-mainstream director, it would be Jean-Luc Godard, despite the fact that the director isn't exactly "anti-mainstream" in recent years or even the most "cult" example ever.
* If you are going to reference or parody a movie, make sure it is one of these choices: ''Film/KingKong'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/JamesBond'', ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', ''Film/TheShining'', ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', ''Franchise/JurassicPark,'' ''Film/PulpFiction'', ''Film/{{Titanic}}'', and ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* 95% of Film/JamesBond parodies are a parody of the Creator/SeanConnery era films. The remaining 5%, at least nowadays, are the Bonds of the nineties and two-thousands; PierceBrosnan or Creator/DanielCraig. Roger Moore, George Lazenby, and TimothyDalton? Who are they? (If you grew up at any time between 1975 and 1995, feel free to mentally delete Roger Moore from the above list. He was undoubtedly the most successful James Bond of the late Cold War years.) The one-film Lazenby is ALWAYS mentioned whenever someone wants to sound extremely knowledgeable about the Bond Franchise.
* For porn films, many people automatically pick ''DebbieDoesDallas'' or ''DeepThroat'', although they were made in the 1970's. For actresses, they pick Linda Lovelace (or more recently, Jenna Jameson). Male actors are almost always just Ron Jeremy or John Holmes. At all other times references to specific pornographic films will typically be limited to ParallelPornTitles (whether real or fictional).
* Does a movie feature misfits in grotesque makeup interacting in an AnachronismStew setting? Creator/TimBurton must have done it.
* All teen comedies were by Creator/JohnHughes. (Amy Heckerling might get a mention if the reference is a little more "indie.")
** Speaking of that, you would have a hard time finding a casual Creator/JohnHughes fan who could remember any members of his repertory of teen actors other than Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Jon Cryer, or Andrew [=McCarthy=], even though there were many, many more. (And no, knowing the name of a character, such as "Long Duk Dong," doesn't count; the person has to know the name of the actor.) And that doesn't even include young actors who became famous ''outside'' of Hughes's works, and are associated with him only due to RetroactiveRecognition (Robert Downey, Jr., for example). Lampshaded by the 1997 book ''Pretty in Pink'' (about 1980s teen movies), which ended with an appendix listing many of the unsung Brat Packers that was wittily titled [[Film/TheBreakfastClub "Don't You Forget About Me."]]
* All B-movies were by Creator/RogerCorman or Creator/EdWood.
* Creator/HaroldLloyd: Nowadays he is mostly remembered for one image from one film he made: ''Film/SafetyLast'', in which he is hanging on to a large clock on top of a skyscraper.

* Creator/MontyPython: Whenever the name of this comedy group is dropped people will instantly begin quoting scenes from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', as if this is the only (good) thing the group ever did. Often you'll encounter so-called ''fans'' of Monty Python who actually just mean they like ''Holy Grail'' and are even totally unaware that the group also made other films and even had a TV series. Some of them even think Monty Python was a real person!

* Creator/MontyPython: Whenever the name of this comedy group is dropped people will instantly start dropping quotes from''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', as if this is the only (good) thing the group ever did. Often you'll encounter so-called ''fans'' of Monty Python who actually mean they like ''Holy Grail'' and are even totally unaware that the group also made other films and even had a TV series. Some of them even think Monty Python was a real person!

* In the first half of the 20th century all Hollywood spectacle films were made by Creator/CecilBDeMille. Make that all spectacle films. Who except movie buffs ever heard of e. g. Giovanni Pastrone and ''Cabiria'' (1914) or Abel Gance and ''Napoléon'' (1927)?
* All silent movies were comedies, and had nothing but the likes of the Keystone Kops and PieInTheFace gags.

** Speaking of that, you would have a hard time finding a casual Creator/JohnHughes fan who could remember any members of his repertory of teen actors other than Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Jon Cryer, or Andrew [=McCarthy=], even though there were many, many more. (And no, knowing the name of a character, such as "Long Duk Dong," doesn't count; the person has to know the name of the actor.) And that doesn't even include young actors who became famous ''outside'' of Hughes's works, and are associated with him only due to RetroactiveRecognition (Robert Downey, Jr., for example). Lampshaded by the 1997 book ''Pretty in Pink'' (about 1980s teen movies), which ended with an appendix listing many of the unsung Brat Packers that was wittily titled [[TheBreakfastClub "Don't You Forget About Me."]]

* All black and white comedy is done by Creator/CharlieChaplin or Creator/LaurelAndHardy. In the U.S.A. Film/TheThreeStooges will be mentioned as well.

* Horror actors from the black-and-white period? Creator/BelaLugosi and Creator/BorisKarloff.

* A {{slasher|Movie}} film? Anything starring [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]]. Or [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Fred]] and [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Mike]]. Except Jason will frequently have a [[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre chainsaw]].

* An action movie? Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, and JeanClaudeVanDamme.

* All teen comedies were by JohnHughes. (Amy Heckerling might get a mention if the reference is a little more "indie.")
** Speaking of that, you would have a hard time finding a casual John Hughes fan who could remember any members of his repertory of teen actors other than Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Jon Cryer, or Andrew [=McCarthy=], even though there were many, many more. (And no, knowing the name of a character, such as "Long Duk Dong," doesn't count; the person has to know the name of the actor.) And that doesn't even include young actors who became famous ''outside'' of Hughes's works, and are associated with him only due to RetroactiveRecognition (Robert Downey, Jr., for example). Lampshaded by the 1997 book ''Pretty in Pink'' (about 1980s teen movies), which ended with an appendix listing many of the unsung Brat Packers that was wittily titled [[TheBreakfastClub "Don't You Forget About Me."]]

* All B-movies were by RogerCorman or EdWood.

* Does a movie feature misfits in grotesque makeup interacting in an AnachronismStew setting? TimBurton must have done it.

* All musicals were choreographed by Creator/BusbyBerkeley and danced by Creator/FredAstaire and/or GeneKelly. If there is a woman dancing along it will without exception be Creator/GingerRogers (even though Cyd Charisse was ''much'' more [[StatuesqueStunner eye-catching]]).

* Monster movies? Film/KingKong or Franchise/{{Godzilla}}.

** A famous Japanese film director? Must be Creator/AkiraKurosawa. Consequently: the only Japanese films most people reference in popular culture are ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' (which, amusingly, was ''not'' by Kurosawa).

** A famous Spanish film director? Must be Creator/PedroAlmodovar.

** A famous Japanese film director? Must be Creator/AkiraKurosawa. Consequently: the only Japanese films most people reference in popular culture are ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''.

* If you are going to reference or parody a movie, make sure it is one of these choices: ''Film/KingKong'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/JamesBond'', ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', ''Film/TheShining'', ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', ''Franchise/JurassicPark,'' ''Film/PulpFiction'', ''Film/{{Titanic}}'', and ''Film/TheMatrix''. Because these films haven't been referenced enough.

* All musicals were choreographed by Creator/BusbyBerkeley and danced by Creator/FredAstaire and/or GeneKelly. If there is a woman dancing along it will without exception be Creator/GingerRogers.

* 95% of Film/JamesBond parodies are a parody of the Creator/SeanConnery era films. The remaining 5%, at least nowadays, are the Bonds of the nineties and two-thousands; PierceBrosnan or Creator/DanielCraig. Roger Moore, George Lazenby, and TimothyDalton? Who are they? If you grew up at any time between 1975 and 1995, feel free to mentally delete Roger Moore from the above list. He was undoubtedly the most successful James Bond of the late Cold War years. The one-film Lazenby is ALWAYS mentioned whenever someone wants to sound extremely knowledgeable about the Bond Franchise.

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