History SmallReferencePools / Film

* Creator/JohnWayne: Either a cowboy or a military sergeant. Will talk in slurry brawl and walk in his characteristically slouchy way.

** Spanish film actors? Creator/PenelopeCruz and Creator/AntonioBanderas

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

* 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), ''Film/HarryPotter'' and ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''.

* RoadMovie? ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', ''Film/{{Badlands}}'', ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise''.

* Creator/CharlieChaplin: Will be seen twirling his cane, walking into the sunset, EatingShoes and running and falling. Only films he made are apparently ''Film/TheKid'', ''Film/TheGoldRush'', ''Film/CityLights'', ''Film/ModernTimes'' and ''Film/TheGreatDictator''.

* Japanese movies? Samurai films, {{Anime}}, {{Kaiju}} and since the 1980s Japanese horror and sciencefiction have also gained notoriety.

* Creator/MartinScorsese: Has made movies in many genres, but is most associated with gangster movies. Whenever Scorsese is referenced it will ''Film/TaxiDriver'', ''Film/RagingBull'' and ''Film/{{Goodfellas''.

* Creator/StanleyKubrick: Reduced to ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' and ''Film/TheShining''. Most self declared Kubrick fans nowadays only refer to these movies, not the less sensational films he made.

* Creator/DWGriffith: Only known nowadays for ''Film/TheBirthOfANation'' and ''Film/{{Intolerance}}, though the first one is the most famous for all of the controversy surrounding it.

* Creator/SylvesterStallone: Only points of reference are ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'', ''Franchise/{{Rambo}} and quotes that sound brainlessly monosyllabic.

* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger: Shows off his muscles, blasts people down with his guns and talks in an awful German accent.

** Intellectual/thought provoking SF? ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'' is all you need.

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

When referring to film classics people usually think or black-and-white pictures from the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood. This will usually be either a Creator/CharlieChaplin film, a Creator/FredAstaire and Creator/GingerRogers picture, ''Film/KingKong1933'', ''Film/CitizenKane'' and/or ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. If you need a old color movie it will be ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' and/or ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.

* Romance movies? ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', ''Film/WestSideStory'', ''Film/LoveStory'', ''Film/PrettyWoman'', ''Film/{{Titanic}}''. Also note that in most of these examples the romances end tragically. In the 1930s anything directed by Creator/ErnstLubitsch. In the 1950s and 1960s anything starring Creator/DorisDay and Creator/RockHudson. In the 1990s anything starring Creator/JuliaRoberts.

* 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''.

* 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."]]

* Creator/CharlieKaufman likes to include high-brow literary references in his films. In ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', JohnCusack performs a puppet adaptation of Alexander Pope's ''Eloisa to Abelard''. Pope's story also provided the title and theme for ''EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind''.

* Austrian movies? We only know two Austrian actors: Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. More recently, Creator/ChristophWaltz comes to mind.

* Austrian movies? We only know two Austrian actors: Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

** French actors? Creator/MauriceChevalier, Creator/GerardDepardieu, Creator/JeanReno, Creator/CatherineDeneuve, Creator/BrigitteBardot, Creator/JacquesTati, Creator/JeanGabin, Creator/LouisDeFunes, Creator/{{Fernandel}}, Creator/AudreyTautou, Creator/JeanReno, Creator/MarionCotillard.

** German film actors? Creator/MarleneDietrich and Creator/KlausKinski. Older film fans may remember Creator/EmilJannings.

** Italian actors? Creator/SophiaLoren, Creator/MarcelloMastroianni, Creator/RobertoBenigni.

** Creator/Japanese actors? Creator/ToshiroMifune.

** Spanish film actors? Creator/PenelopeCruz

* BritishFilms? Anything starring Franchise/JamesBond, Film/HammerHorror, Film/CarryOn, Franchise/HarryPotter, Ealing Comedies, Creator/MontyPython, and/or Literature/SherlockHolmes. The rest is either a historical costume movie set in a manor or a socially conscious piece about a working class neighbourhood struggling in Thatcherite Britain.
** British film actors? Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/AlecGuinness, Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/RichardBurton (who was Welsh), Creator/HughGrant, Creator/PeterSellers, Creator/EwanMcGregor (who is Scottish), Creator/JohnCleese, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter.
** British film directors? Creator/DavidLean, Creator/RichardAttenborough.

** Dutch actors? Sylvia Kristel, Famke Janssen. Creator/RutgerHauer. Creator/JeroenKrabbe.

** French actors? Creator/MauriceChevalier, Creator/GerardDepardieu, Creator/JeanReno, Creator/CatherineDeneuve, Creator/BrigitteBardot, Creator/JacquesTati, Creator/JeanGabin, Creator/LouisDeFunes, Creator/{{Fernandel}}, Creator/AudreyTautou.
** French film directors? Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, Creator/JeanRenoir, Alain Resnais, Creator/JeanLucGodard, Creator/JacquesTati, Creator/LucBesson.

** German film actors? Creator/MarleneDietrich and Creator/KlausKinski.

* Japanese movies? Samurai films, {{Anime}}, {{Kaiju}}.

** Japanese film directors? Creator/AkiraKurosawa.
* Russian movies? All propaganda pieces, directed by Creator/SergeiEisenstein.
* Mexican movies? All films starring ElSanto.

* TorturePorn? ''Film/{{Saw}}'', ''Film/{{Hostel}}''.

** Horror movie directors? HammerHorror and Creator/WesCraven.

* BritishFilms? Anything starring Franchise/JamesBond, HammerHorror, Film/CarryOn, Franchise/HarryPotter, Ealing Comedies, Creator/MontyPython, and/or Literature/SherlockHolmes. The rest is either a historical costume movie set in a manor or a socially conscious piece about a working class neighbourhood struggling in Thatcherite Britain.

* Horror movies? ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'', ''Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}}'', ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'', ''Film/TheMummy1932'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' (far more than its sequels) ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', ''Film/TheExorcist'', ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'', ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' are the most iconic examples. Horror pictures that use monsters (''Film/KingKong'', ''Franchise/{{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.

* Zombie movies? ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'', ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'' to name the most iconic..

* Anime? Anything by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, usually ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', and ''Anime/{{Akira}}''.

* Blaxploitation? ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' and ''Film/SweetSweetbacksBaadasssssSong''.
* Bollywood movies? Outside India there aren't any famous stars but Raj Kapoor and even he is only known to very extreme cinephiles or fans of the genre.

* Disaster movies? ''Film/TheToweringInferno'', ''Film/{{Airport}}''

* Film Noir? Anything with Creator/HumphreyBogart and/or Creator/LaurenBacall.

* Porn movies? ''Deep Throat'', ''Debbie Does Dallas''. They tend to get confused with erotic movies, though.
** Porn actors? Linda Lovelace, John Holmes, Traci Lords, Jenna Jameson and Ron Jeremy. At all other times references to specific pornographic films will typically be limited to ParallelPornTitles (whether real or fictional).

* SoBadItsGood movies? Anything by Creator/EdWood, especially ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''. Other campy cult movies haven't quite penetrated pop culture on the same levels.

* Creator/CharlieChaplin: Will be seen twirling his cane, walking into the sunset, EatingShoes and running and falling.

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

* Creator/GretaGarbo: Won't smile, but will say that she wants to be ''alone'', always in a heavy Swedish accent.

* Creator/JerryLewis. Will act goofy in glasses and buck tooth, shout ''Nice lady!'' in an equally silly voice. References will be made to the fact that he is revered in France.

* Creator/LaurelAndHardy: Hardy will fall, bump his head, get something on his head, while Laurel looks and watches bewildered, scratching his hair. Expect one scene where Laurel pokes Hardy in the eye and Hardy looking straight in the camera with an exasperated look.

* Danish films? All Dogme95 movies. Directed by Creator/LarsVonTrier.

** French actors? Creator/GerardDepardieu, Creator/JeanReno, Creator/CatherineDeneuve, Creator/BrigitteBardot, Creator/JacquesTati, Creator/JeanGabin, Creator/LouisDeFunes, Creator/{{Fernandel}}, Creator/AudreyTautou.

* In ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'', Animal is described as being upset that he missed the Rembrandt exhibit at the National Gallery. Animal corrects him; "Renoir."

* Comedies? This tends to differ from generation to generation. Also the most famous ones aren't always neccessarily the most popular or good ones.

* Creator/AbbottAndCostello: They are mostly remembered for their ''Who's On First?'' sketch. Modern audiences maybe surprised to learn that they also appeared in a lot of movies.

* Creator/BusbyBerkeley: Made films that apparently only consist of long shots of groups of dancers performing a DominoEffect or any other visually striking shot. Reduced to BusbyBerkeleyNumber only.

* Creator/SergejEisenstein: Synoymous with ''Film/BattleshipPotemkin''.

* Creator/DWGriffith: Only known nowadays for ''Film/ABirthOfANation'' and ''Film/{{Intolerance}}, though the first one is the most famous for all of the controversy surrounding it.

* Creator/PierPaoloPasolini: Despite a versatile career with many great and thought proviking movies most people now him solely for ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'' and even in that case more for the controversy around it.

** Italian directors? Creator/FedericoFellini, Creator/RobertoRosselini, Creator/PierPaoloPasolini, Creator/VittorioDeSica.

* Russian movies? All propaganda pieces, directed by Creator/SergejEisenstein.

** Film directors? Creator/RobertoRodriguez and Creator/GuillermoDelToro.

* 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.

* Creator/WoodyAllen: Makes intellectual romantic comedies set in New York City, with himself in the starring role and references to Creator/IngmarBerman. When people refer to his films it's usually ''Film/AnnieHall'' and/or ''Film/{{Manhattan}}''.

* 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! Usually Creator/JohnCleese is the only of foremost member everybody can name, except when you're a Python fan, of course.

* Creator/SharonStone: Known for one scene in ''Film/BasicInstinct'' that is actually more people's overactive imagination.

* Creator/FedericoFellini: ''Film/LaDolceVita'' for the general public, ''Film/OttoEMezzo'' for film critics. Associated with GrotesqueGallery and EarWorm music.

* Creator/JeanLucGodard: Directed ''Film/ABoutDeSouffle'' and ''Film/BandeAPart'', that's it.

* Creator/MichaelMoore: Makes sensational left-wing documentaries that criticize everything right-wing people like, which explains why he is a polarizing figure. The only points of reference are ''Film/BowlingForColumbine'' and ''Film/FahrenheitNineEleven''. Typically most people who criticize Moore have only seen one or none of his movies and base most of their ''satire'' or criticism more on the fact that he is obese than anything else.

* Creator/PaulVerhoeven: Typically people refer more to his Hollywood movies than the ones made in the Netherlands. Most people refer to him as someone who just makes action packed violent movies and/or saucy erotic films, often not looking much deeper into it.

* Creator/JulieAndrews: Point of reference ''Film/MaryPoppins'' and ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic''. Will be squeakingly clean and talk and sing in TheQueensEnglish.

* Creator/NicolasCage: Has at least one scene in which he is ChewingTheScenery, shouting lines and eye bulging.

* Creator/WCFields: Appears in high hat, bulbous nose and a lot of jokes about alcoholism.

* Creator/GretaGarbo: Won't smile, but will say that she wants to be ''alone'', always in a heavy Swedish accent.

* Creator/TheMarxBrothers: Groucho will wisecrack and insult Margaret Dumont, Chico plays piano and Harpo plays harp, chases women with a cow horn and all of them evoke complete mayhem. Also note that Zeppo is often forgotten or ommitted.