| 1 | In general, when talking about films, people will always talk about actors first and foremost. Also expect a lot of people's admiration to be more for the characters they portray on the screen too. Film Genres will also be discussed. Directors may be referenced too, if the movie was made by someone who has a very distinctive visual style and appears in the media a lot. Other people involved in the film process (script writers, cinematographers, camera men, visual effects artists, choreographers, composers, stuntmen, producers,...) will usually be mentioned only by film critics or hardcore cinephiles. |
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| 3 | Film will usually be a synonym for Hollywood pictures only. To the general audience, preferably no works older than a mere thirty years, and strictly box office blockbuster films. British films may get some attention, but film industries of other countries are already more a niche market. |
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| 5 | When referring to film awards the only ones everybody knows are the [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]]. The Palme d'Or in Cannes is a close second. The [[MediaNotes/{{BAFTA}} BAFTA Awards]] in Britain, the Golden Bear of Berlin, the Golden Lion of Venice and the Césars in France are well known too. |
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| 7 | When referring to film classics people usually think or black-and-white pictures from the MediaNotes/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 an old color movie it will be ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' and/or ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. |
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| 13 | * Action movies? Anything with Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger or Creator/BruceWillis. |
| 14 | ** Typical examples: ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'', ''Franchise/DieHard'', ''Film/LethalWeapon'' and ''Film/DirtyHarry''. |
| 15 | * Animal movies? Rin Tin Tin, ''Franchise/{{Lassie}}''. |
| 16 | * Arthouse movies and/or independent movies? Creator/IngmarBergman (usually ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'', ''Film/Persona1966''), Creator/JeanLucGodard (''Film/{{Breathless}}'') and Creator/FrancoisTruffaut (''Film/The400Blows''). German arthouse is Creator/WernerHerzog and Creator/WimWenders, Italian Creator/PierPaoloPasolini and Creator/FedericoFellini, American Creator/DavidLynch, Creator/TerrenceMalick, Creator/JimJarmusch and Creator/WesAnderson. Also expect everyone who references these to mock these films as if they are boring, difficult, experimental and only enjoyed by snobby film critics and poseurs, usually without having seen any of them in full. |
| 17 | * B-movies? Will be everything in 1950s fashion with men in rubber suits and monsters hanging on wires. If you need one director it will be Creator/RogerCorman. |
| 18 | * Bible movies? ''{{Film/The Ten Commandments|1956}}''. |
| 19 | * {{Blaxploitation}}? ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' and ''Film/SweetSweetbacksBaadasssssSong''. |
| 20 | * MediaNotes/{{Bollywood}} movies? Outside India there aren't any famous stars but Creator/RajKapoor and even he is only known to very extreme cinephiles or fans of the genre. |
| 21 | * CannibalFilm? ''Film/CannibalHolocaust''. |
| 22 | * CGI movies? Anything by Pixar and/or Dreamworks. Also note that most people wouldn't consider live-action movies with CGI special effects to be this. |
| 23 | * 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/HarryPotter'' and ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' (and it will ''always'' be the original). |
| 24 | * Claymation movies? Anything by Creator/NickPark (''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit''). |
| 25 | * Comedians? This tends to differ from generation to generation. Also the most famous ones aren't always neccessarily the most popular or good ones. |
| 26 | ** The 1910s to the 1930s? Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/BusterKeaton, Creator/HaroldLLoyd, Creator/LaurelAndHardy, Creator/TheMarxBrothers, Creator/WCFields. |
| 27 | ** The 1940s? Creator/BobHope, Creator/AbbottAndCostello, Creator/DeanMartin and Creator/JerryLewis. |
| 28 | ** The 1950s? Creator/JerryLewis. |
| 29 | ** The 1960s? Creator/PeterSellers as Inspector Clouseau in ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' movies. |
| 30 | ** The 1970s and 1980s? Mostly Creator/MontyPython, Creator/MelBrooks, ''Film/PoliceAcademy'', ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' based movies. For intellectuals Creator/WoodyAllen. Since the 1980s Creator/EddieMurphy. |
| 31 | ** The 1990s? Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/MikeMyers, and Creator/RobinWilliams. |
| 32 | ** The 2000s? Creator/AdamSandler, Creator/JackBlack, and Creator/WillFerrell. |
| 33 | ** The 2010s? Creator/SethRogen and Creator/JonahHill. |
| 34 | * ConcertFilm? ''Film/{{Woodstock}}''. |
| 35 | * Cult movies? This also varies from generation to generation and depends on whom makes the reference and what his criteria would be. However, the most typical and undeniable iconic example of a CultClassic will be ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. |
| 36 | * Detective films? ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes''. |
| 37 | * Disaster movies? ''Film/TheToweringInferno'', ''Film/{{Airport}}'',... A 21st century example would be ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow''. |
| 38 | * Epic Movies? Even though the genre has existed since the early 20th century the definition of what it exactly is tends to differ from viewer to viewer. Usually the term is used for movies about some great adventure that usually take more than two hours in length or will need a few sequels to tell everything. ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' are the most typical examples. |
| 39 | * Erotic movies? The ''Film/{{Emmanuelle}}'' franchise. |
| 40 | * Exploitation movies? Also depends on what specific genre you're talking about, though the general examples will also be horror movies with a sensationalist streak from the 1970s. |
| 41 | ** {{Mondo}} is unmistakeningly a typical exploitation movie example. |
| 42 | * FilmNoir? Anything with Creator/HumphreyBogart and/or Creator/LaurenBacall. |
| 43 | ** Also, much like how [[GeekReferencePool all comic books are believed to be about superheroes]] by the general public, all noirs are believed to be about [[PrivateDetective private eyes]] untangling a KudzuPlot.[[note]]This isn't helped by noir's literary source having its own Small Reference Pool issues; ''only'' [[Creator/DashiellHammett Hammett]], [[Creator/RaymondChandler Chandler]], and [[Creator/JamesMCain Cain]] are consistently mentioned, and the first two are best-known for their detective stories.[[/note]] In reality, just as many if not ''more'' pillars of the genre are told from [[VillainProtagonist the criminal's POV]]; a few extra-strict fans have gone so far as to claim that a detective protagonist automatically ''disqualifies'' a story from the noir genre, as they're too (in personality and ideals if not actual abilities) [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids similar to superheroes]] to build a properly [[GreyAndGrayMorality ambiguous]] atmosphere. |
| 44 | * Film Serials? Film/FlashGordonSerial, Film/ThePhantom1943, Film/TheGreenHornetSerials. |
| 45 | * MediaNotes/FrenchNewWave? Anything by Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, Creator/AlainResnais, Creator/JeanLucGodard. |
| 46 | * Found Footage movies? ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''. |
| 47 | * Gangster movies? From the 1920s until the 1950s: anything with Creator/EdwardGRobinson, Creator/HumphreyBogart and Creator/JamesCagney. Since the 1970s ''Film/TheGodfather'' has become ''the'' gangster movie to compare all other gangster movies ever since with. ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' is the most recent example of a frequently referenced gangster movie. |
| 48 | * GermanExpressionism: ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', ''Film/{{M}}'' and ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''. |
| 49 | * {{Giallo}}? Anything by Creator/DarioArgento, Mario Bava and/or Creator/LucioFulci. |
| 50 | * Glamour? Usually movies from the 1920s until the 1950s, starring Creator/GretaGarbo, Creator/ClarkGable, Creator/MarleneDietrich, Creator/CaryGrant, Creator/JeanHarlow, Creator/LaurenBacall, Creator/HumphreyBogart, Creator/KatharineHepburn, Creator/BetteDavis, Creator/FredAstaire, Creator/VivienLeigh, Creator/GingerRogers, Creator/GraceKelly. |
| 51 | * Horror movies? ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'', ''Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}}'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' (''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' is certainly popular in its own right, but it hasn't quite achieved the legendary status of its predecessor) ''Film/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/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. |
| 52 | ** Dracula and Frankenstein are the most commonly cited examples of Franchise/UniversalHorror, alongside ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925'', ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'', ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'', ''Film/TheInvisibleMan1933'' and ''Film/TheMummy1932'' (although that last example is often conflated with ''Film/TheMummysHand''). |
| 53 | ** ''Friday The 13th'', ''Halloween'', ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'', and ''A Nightmare On Elm Street'' are also pretty much the go-to examples for {{Slasher Movie}}s. |
| 54 | ** Horror comedies? ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', ''Film/EvilDead2'', ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'', and ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein''. |
| 55 | ** Film/HammerHorror? ''Film/HorrorOfDracula'' and ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein''. |
| 56 | ** TorturePorn? ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''. ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' and ''Film/TheDevilsRejects'' as well, albeit to a lesser extent. |
| 57 | ** J-horror? ''Film/TheRing'' and ''Film/TheGrudge''. |
| 58 | ** ReligiousHorror? ''Film/TheExorcist'', ''Film/TheOmen'', and ''Film/RosemarysBaby''. |
| 59 | ** Horror movie actors? Creator/BelaLugosi, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/VincentPrice, Creator/LonChaneySr, Creator/LonChaneyJr, Creator/BorisKarloff, Creator/ChristopherLee, and Creator/PeterCushing. |
| 60 | ** Horror movie directors? Creator/JohnCarpenter, Creator/GeorgeRomero, Creator/JamesWan, and Creator/WesCraven. Following his death, Creator/TobeHooper has gotten some appreciation as well, although not to the extent of the others mentioned here. |
| 61 | * Kaiju movies? ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''. For specialists: ''Film/{{Mothra}}, Film/{{Rodan}}'' and ''Film/{{Gamera}}''. |
| 62 | * Martial arts films will always star Creator/BruceLee or [[BruceLeeClone someone who resembles him]]. |
| 63 | ** Specific examples? ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' and ''Film/The36thChamberOfShaolin''. |
| 64 | * Monster movies? Film/KingKong or Franchise/{{Godzilla}} (which explains why ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' is the highest-grossing film in the latter's franchise). |
| 65 | * Musicals? ''Film/{{Oklahoma}}'', ''Film/SinginInTheRain'', ''Film/{{West Side Story|1961}}'' and ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' are the most often cited examples. The only musical actors that apparently exist are Creator/FredAstaire, Creator/GingerRogers, Creator/GeneKelly and Creator/LizaMinnelli. Directors and choreographers are even more difficult to namedrop: Creator/BusbyBerkeley will be the sole one. For an eccentric musical: ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. |
| 66 | * {{Nazisploitation}}? ''Film/IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS''. |
| 67 | * Neo-realistic films? ''Film/BicycleThieves''. |
| 68 | * Pirate movies? In the old days anything with Creator/ErrolFlynn. Since the 2000s, ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. |
| 69 | * Porn movies? ''Deep Throat'', ''Debbie Does Dallas'', ''Behind The Green Door''. They tend to get confused with erotic movies, though. ''The Italian Stallion'' might get mentioned because of Creator/SylvesterStallone. |
| 70 | ** Porn actors? Linda Lovelace, John Holmes, Traci Lords, Jenna Jameson, Lolo Ferrari (if you need one with huge breasts) and Ron Jeremy. At all other times references to specific pornographic films will typically be limited to ParallelPornTitles (whether real or fictional). And, oh yeah, all porn movies referenced will be heterosexual porn. |
| 71 | * Propaganda films? ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'' and ''Film/BattleshipPotemkin''. |
| 72 | * Puppet movies? ''Franchise/TheMuppets''. In Eastern Europe Creator/JanSvankmajer. |
| 73 | * Revenge movies? ''Film/DirtyHarry'', ''Film/DeathWish'', ''Film/KillBill'' are the most famous examples. |
| 74 | * RoadTripPlot? ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', ''Film/{{Badlands}}'', ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise''. |
| 75 | * Rock 'n' Roll movies? ''Film/JailhouseRock'', ''Film/TheGirlCantHelpIt'' and ''Film/AHardDaysNight''. Throw in ''Music/{{Tommy}}'' and ''[[Music/TheWall Pink Floyd: The Wall]]'' too. |
| 76 | * Romance movies? ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', ''Film/WestSideStory1961'', ''Film/LoveStory'', ''Film/PrettyWoman'', ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''. 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. |
| 77 | * Samurai movies? Anything by Creator/AkiraKurosawa, but specifically ''Film/{{Rashomon}}'' and ''Film/TheSevenSamurai''. |
| 78 | * Science fiction movies? |
| 79 | ** Fun SF? ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951'', ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek''. |
| 80 | ** Horror SF? ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Literature/WarOfTheWorlds'' |
| 81 | ** Intellectual/thought provoking SF? ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' is all you need. |
| 82 | * Screwball Comedies? Anything with Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/CaryGrant. |
| 83 | * Silent movies? Will typically be thought of as slapstick movies with Creator/CharlieChaplin and PieInTheFace gags. |
| 84 | * A {{slasher|Movie}} film? Anything starring [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]]. Or [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] and [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]]. Except Jason will [[HockeyMaskAndChainsaw frequently]] have a [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre chainsaw]]. |
| 85 | * Slapstick movies? Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/LaurelAndHardy and Film/TheThreeStooges. If you're a bit more specialized you'll probably reference Creator/BusterKeaton, Creator/HaroldLloyd, Creator/TheMarxBrothers and Creator/WCFields too. |
| 86 | * SoBadItsGood movies? Anything by Creator/EdWood, especially ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''. Other campy cult movies haven't quite penetrated pop culture on the same levels, except for ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'' IF people have watched the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode. A more modern example is ''Film/TheRoom2003''. |
| 87 | * Spaghetti Westerns? Anything by Creator/SergioLeone [[Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica except his last film.]]. |
| 88 | * Spectacle films? Creator/CecilBDeMille (for the first half of the 20th century), Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/JamesCameron and Creator/MichaelBay (more modern variants). |
| 89 | * Spy movies? ''Franchise/JamesBond''. |
| 90 | * {{Swashbuckler}} films? Anything starring Creator/DouglasFairbanks or Creator/ErrolFlynn. |
| 91 | * StonerFlick? Pick any Creator/CheechAndChong movie. |
| 92 | * SwordAndSandal? ''Film/BenHur1959'', ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' and ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}''. |
| 93 | * Teen movies/ ComingOfAge films? ''Film/TheWildOne'', ''Film/RebelWithoutACause''. They mostly seem associated with TheFifties, nevertheless. Examples from the 1980s are works by Creator/JohnHughes. There aren't any real stars too, because they quickly outgrow the genre that launches their career. The only exception would be Creator/JamesDean, who was killed by a car accident very quickly. |
| 94 | ** All teen comedies were by Creator/JohnHughes. (Amy Heckerling might get a mention if the reference is a little more "indie.") Plus, 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 Creator/MollyRingwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Creator/EmilioEstevez, Creator/JuddNelson, 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 (Creator/RobertDowneyJr, 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."]] |
| 95 | * Thrillers? Anything by Creator/AlfredHitchcock. |
| 96 | * War movies? Typically only set during the American Civil War and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII for some tales of glory and heroism, or in the Vietnam War for WarIsHell. UsefulNotes/WorldWarI whenever featured generally goes into the latter category. |
| 97 | ** Typical examples of war movies: ''Film/TheLongestDay'', ''Film/InWhichWeServe'', ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'', ''Film/{{Patton}}'', ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', ''Film/{{Platoon}}'' (and to a lesser extent its sequels), and ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''. |
| 98 | * [[TheWestern Westerns]]? ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery1903'', ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}'', ''Film/{{Shane}}'', ''Film/TheSearchers'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' (and maybe its prequels), ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' and ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'' 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. |
| 99 | * Zombie movies? ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'', ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' to name the most iconic ones. |
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| 103 | * Whenever an actor is referenced they will always be the A-list stars from Hollywood. |
| 104 | * Creator/AbbottAndCostello: They are mostly remembered for their ''Who's On First?'' sketch. Modern audiences may be surprised to learn that they also appeared in a lot of movies. |
| 105 | * Creator/WoodyAllen: Nervous, talks about life, death, psychiatry, women, sex. Point of reference is ''Film/AnnieHall'' and ''Film/{{Manhattan}}''. |
| 106 | * Creator/JulieAndrews: Point of reference ''Film/MaryPoppins'' and ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic''. Will be squeakingly clean and talk and sing in TheQueensLatin. |
| 107 | * Creator/FredAstaire and Creator/GingerRogers: All they did in their movies was tap dance with each other in a large white ball room. |
| 108 | * Creator/LaurenBacall: Point of reference is ''Film/TheBigSleep'' and/or ''Film/KeyLargo''. Has a SmokingIsGlamorous scene. |
| 109 | * Creator/JosephineBaker: Dances around in the nude, wearing a banana skirt. |
| 110 | * Creator/BrigitteBardot: Only movie referenced is ''Film/AndGodCreatedWoman''. Pouts her lips. |
| 111 | * Creator/HumphreyBogart: Will be smoking, wearing a hat and rain coat and usually dialogue from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' is referenced. |
| 112 | * Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter: Only in Creator/TimBurton movies when she's not [[Film/HarryPotter Bellatrix Lestrange]]. |
| 113 | * Creator/MarlonBrando. Only points of reference are ''Film/TheWildOne'', ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'', ''Film/AStreetCarNamedDesire'', ''Film/TheGodfather'' and ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. Will mumble his dialogue and be shown as enormously obese, even though his body weight only got worse after ''Film/TheGodfather''. Usually goes on how he could have been a contender or making offers nobody can refuse. |
| 114 | * Creator/CharlesBronson: Only appeared in vigilante movies like ''Film/DeathWish''. |
| 115 | * Creator/NicolasCage: Has at least one scene in which he is ChewingTheScenery, shouting lines and eye bulging. |
| 116 | * Creator/JimCarrey: It's rather sad that he is still most associated with making silly faces and the three films that turned him into an A-lister in 1994 (''Film/AceVentura'', ''Film/TheMask'', and ''Film/DumbAndDumber''), despite having a much broader range even before then. In fact, his highest-grossing film as a leading man (''Film/BruceAlmighty'') was released in 2003. |
| 117 | * Creator/CharlieChaplin: Will always be in the Tramp costume. Will be seen twirling his cane, walking into the sunset, EatingShoes and running and falling. Only films he made are apparently ''[[Film/TheKid1921 The Kid]]'', ''Film/TheGoldRush'', ''Film/CityLights'', ''Film/ModernTimes'' and ''Film/TheGreatDictator''. |
| 118 | * Creator/SeanConnery: To older people and Bond fans he is basically remembered as Franchise/JamesBond. In references his Scottish accent will be his only unique characteristic. |
| 119 | * Creator/TomCruise: Points of reference are ''Film/TopGun'', ''Film/RiskyBusiness'' (only for the dance) and ''Film/MissionImpossible''. |
| 120 | * Creator/PeterCushing: Will be portrayed as Van Helsing and/or Sherlock Holmes. |
| 121 | * Creator/RobertDeNiro: Is always shown as Travis Bickle in ''Film/TaxiDriver'', Jake La Motta in ''Film/RagingBull'', or a gangster. Only appears in Martin Scorsese movies. |
| 122 | * Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio: Point of reference is ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''. |
| 123 | * Creator/JohnnyDepp: Only appears in Creator/TimBurton movies, period. Only other point of reference is Jack Sparrow in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. Will typically have scenes in which he is acting weird and cute at the same time. |
| 124 | * Creator/MarleneDietrich: ''Film/TheBlueAngel'' is the only point of reference. Will smoke, wear a high hat and have some bisexual tension with other women. |
| 125 | * Creator/KirkDouglas: Only point of reference is ''Film/{{Spartacus}}''. |
| 126 | * Creator/MichaelDouglas: ''Film/WallStreet'', ''Film/FatalAttraction'' and ''Film/BasicInstinct''. |
| 127 | * Creator/RobertDowneyJr: Point of reference is ''Film/IronMan''. |
| 128 | * Creator/ClintEastwood: Only points of reference are cowboy movies (especially the Dollars trilogy) and ''Film/DirtyHarry''. Will squint his eyes, show a PhallicWeapon and say a BadassBoast, always with a famous line that shows he is pretty pissed off. |
| 129 | * Creator/DouglasFairbanksSr: Apparently only appeared in swashbuckler films. |
| 130 | * Creator/WCFields: Appears in high hat, bulbous nose and has a lot of jokes about alcoholism. |
| 131 | * Creator/ErrolFlynn: Appears in swashbuckler films. (His son was a Vietnam War photographer, but who ever knew that?) |
| 132 | * Creator/ClarkGable: Only point of reference is ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. |
| 133 | * Creator/GretaGarbo: Won't smile, but will say that she wants to be ''alone'', always in a heavy Swedish accent. |
| 134 | * Creator/JudyGarland: Point of reference is ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. |
| 135 | * Creator/TomHanks: ''Film/ForrestGump'', ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}'', ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Franchise/ToyStory'', and that's about it. People will probably be amazed if you tell them that he actually started out playing in goofy comedies. |
| 136 | * Creator/AudreyHepburn: Point of reference ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'', ''Film/MyFairLady'' and ''Film/RomanHoliday''. |
| 137 | * Creator/DustinHoffman: Despite a long career he is still associated with just three roles: ''Film/TheGraduate'', ''Film/MidnightCowboy'' and ''Film/RainMan''. |
| 138 | * Creator/BobHope: Appeared in ''Road To...'' movies, told jokes with a golf club in his hand and played in front of military troops. |
| 139 | * Creator/SamuelLJackson: Point of reference, ''Film/PulpFiction''. Will shout some BadassBoast line and have a ScaryBlackMan stare, while pointing a gun at somebody. |
| 140 | * 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. Only film remembered is ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1963}}''. |
| 141 | * Creator/BusterKeaton: Pokerfaced at all times. If one film is referenced it will be the shot of the building falling down upon him in ''Film/SteamboatBillJr''. |
| 142 | * 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. Their most famous films are ''Film/TheMusicBox'', ''Film/WayOutWest'' and ''Film/SonsOfTheDesert''. |
| 143 | * Creator/HeathLedger: Only point of reference is ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. |
| 144 | * Creator/BruceLee: Either in a yellow jump suit or bare chested. Will make FunnyBruceLeeNoises and amazing quick kicks. |
| 145 | * Creator/ChristopherLee: Will be portrayed as Dracula. |
| 146 | * Creator/PeterLorre: Point of reference is ''Film/{{M}}'' and ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'', will typically be nervous and squeaky voiced, though more in the style of Creator/MelBlanc's parodies. |
| 147 | * 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. |
| 148 | * Creator/BelaLugosi: Will be portrayed as Dracula, even though he only played the part twice. |
| 149 | * Creator/TheMarxBrothers: Groucho will wisecrack and insult Margaret Dumont, Chico plays piano and Harpo plays harp, after that chases women with a cow horn and all of them evoke complete mayhem. Also note that Zeppo is often forgotten or ommitted. |
| 150 | * Creator/MalcolmMcDowell: ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' is the only point of reference. Everything he did before or after is less well known. |
| 151 | * Creator/MarilynMonroe: Will be reduced to ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'' and ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'', in which she does the MarilynManeuver. Other than that, references to her are likely to be to her "celebrity" status. |
| 152 | * 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 foremost member everybody can name, except when you're a Python fan, of course. |
| 153 | * Creator/JackNicholson: Referenced mostly through ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' and ''Film/TheShining''. |
| 154 | * Creator/LaurenceOlivier: Will be seen in a Shakespearean role. |
| 155 | * Creator/JoePesci: Only did ''Film/HomeAlone'' and ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''. |
| 156 | * Creator/AlanRickman: Points of reference are ''Film/DieHard'' and ''Film/HarryPotter''. |
| 157 | * Creator/MollyRingwald: Point of reference is ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' or other Brat Pack/John Hughes movies. |
| 158 | * Creator/JuliaRoberts: Stars in romantic movies or movies with weddings or both of these. Point of reference will likely be ''Film/PrettyWoman''. |
| 159 | * Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger: Shows off his muscles, blasts people down with his guns and talks in an awful Austrian accent. Point of reference is ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' or maybe ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. |
| 160 | * Creator/PeterSellers: Despite his versatile career to most people he is just Inspector Clouseau in ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther''. |
| 161 | * Creator/SylvesterStallone: Only points of reference are ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'', ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' and quotes that sound brainlessly monosyllabic. |
| 162 | * Creator/SharonStone: Known for one scene in ''Film/BasicInstinct'' that is actually more the result of people's overactive imagination. |
| 163 | * Film/TheThreeStooges: Will poke each other in the eye, hit each other on the head and the following lines should be mentioned: "Soitenly", "I was a victim of soicumstance", "Wiseguy, huh?", "Woob Woob Woob", "Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk". |
| 164 | * Creator/ElizabethTaylor: Only point of reference is ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' and ''Film/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf''. References may be made to her weddings. |
| 165 | * Creator/ShirleyTemple: Always referenced as a little girl below the age of 10. Will be singing ''The Good Ship Lollipop''. |
| 166 | * Creator/JohnTravolta: Point of reference is ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'', ''Film/{{Grease}}'', or ''Film/PulpFiction''. Will talk in a ''awww jeesh...'' accent and have a dance scene. |
| 167 | * Creator/RudolphValentino: Only point of reference is ''Film/TheSheik''. Abducts women and takes them to his tent. |
| 168 | * Creator/JohnWayne: Either a cowboy or a military sergeant. Will talk in slurry brawl and walk in his characteristically slouchy way. Likely to call everyone "[[Film/TheManWhoShotLibertyValance pilgrim]]" or possibly say "[[Film/TheSearchers That'll be the day]]." |
| 169 | * Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller: Franchise/{{Tarzan}}, including the iconic yell. |
| 170 | * Creator/MaeWest: Will say DoubleEntendre one-liners and utter the phrase ''come up to see me one time'' at least once. |
| 171 | * Creator/GeneWilder: Only point of reference is ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''. |
| 172 | * Creator/RobinWilliams: Will talk with lips between his teeth. Has either MotorMouth improvisations or a heartwarming speech about being accepted. |
| 173 | * Creator/BruceWillis: Only point of reference is ''Film/DieHard''. |
| 174 | * Creator/ChevyChase: Point of reference is ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'', ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'' or ''Film/{{Fletch}}''. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:Directors]] |
| 178 | * Famous film directors? |
| 179 | ** From before the 1940s Creator/DWGriffith or Creator/CecilBDeMille. |
| 180 | ** In the 1940s-1970s Creator/AlfredHitchcock and Creator/StanleyKubrick. |
| 181 | ** From the 1970s onward Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/MartinScorsese. |
| 182 | ** Since the 1990s Creator/QuentinTarantino, Creator/ChristopherNolan, and Creator/JamesCameron. |
| 183 | * An example of a famous film director whose career has been in the dumps ever since he started? Creator/OrsonWelles had that fame for his entire career. |
| 184 | * Black film directors? Creator/TylerPerry and Creator/SpikeLee. |
| 185 | * Asian film directors? Creator/AngLee, Creator/ZhangYimou, Creator/AkiraKurosawa. |
| 186 | * For examples by country, see below. |
| 187 | * Creator/WoodyAllen: Makes intellectual romantic comedies set in New York City, with himself in the starring role and references to Creator/IngmarBergman. When people refer to his films it's usually ''Film/AnnieHall'' and/or ''Film/{{Manhattan}}''. |
| 188 | * Creator/MichaelBay: Makes only special effects blockbusters. Point of reference is ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': a franchise everybody hates, yet all go and watch every time a new installment is made, just to bitch about it on Internet forums afterwards. |
| 189 | * Creator/IngmarBergman: Black-and-white, difficult, boring, subtitled. Only point of reference, especially in spoofs, are ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' and ''Film/Persona1966''. Sometimes ''Film/CriesAndWhispers'' too. |
| 190 | * Creator/BusbyBerkeley: Made films that apparently only consist of long shots of groups of dancers performing a BusbyBerkeleyNumber only. |
| 191 | * Creator/MelBrooks: ''Film/TheProducers'', ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' and ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''. Will typically be remembered for being full of bad taste comedy, farts, tits and very Jewish oriented jokes. |
| 192 | * Creator/LuisBunuel: ''Film/UnChienAndalou'' and only the eye splicing scene. |
| 193 | * Creator/TimBurton: Does a movie feature misfits in grotesque makeup interacting in an AnachronismStew setting? Creator/TimBurton must have done it. |
| 194 | * Creator/FrankCapra: Made only happy feel good movies about ordinary people overcoming their troubles. Typical points of reference are ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'', ''Film/MrDeedsGoesToTown'' and ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. |
| 195 | * Creator/FrancisFordCoppola: All he ever did in popular culture is direct ''Film/TheGodfather'' trilogy (or duology) and ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. |
| 196 | * Creator/WesCraven: ''[[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' and the ''[[Film/Scream1996 Scream]]'' series, and not a single [[Film/MusicOfTheHeart PG-rated biopic about a violinist.]] |
| 197 | * Creator/DavidCronenberg: Makes bizarre horror movies about icky things. |
| 198 | * Creator/JoeDante: Still only namedropped for ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}''. |
| 199 | * Creator/SergeiEisenstein: Synoymous with ''Film/BattleshipPotemkin''. |
| 200 | * Creator/FedericoFellini: ''Film/LaDolceVita'' for the general public, ''Film/EightAndAHalf'' for film critics. Associated with GrotesqueGallery and catchy music. |
| 201 | * Creator/JohnFord: Only made westerns. If you have to reference one it will be ''Film/TheSearchers''. If ''Film/HowGreenWasMyValley'' is mentioned it's only to talk about the ''Film/CitizenKane'' Oscar snub. |
| 202 | * Creator/JeanLucGodard: Directed ''Film/{{Breathless}}'' and ''Film/BandeAPart'', that's it. |
| 203 | * Creator/DWGriffith: Only known nowadays for ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}'' and ''Film/{{Intolerance}}'', though the first one is the most famous for all of the controversy surrounding it. |
| 204 | * Creator/WernerHerzog: Made only movies with Creator/KlausKinski acting weird. |
| 205 | * Creator/AlfredHitchcock: Made only suspense thrillers and the only ones who are always referenced and parodied are ''Film/RearWindow'', ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' and ''Film/TheBirds''. |
| 206 | * Creator/JohnHughes: Best known for his teenage coming of age movies, with ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' and ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' as the most common points of reference. |
| 207 | * Creator/PeterJackson: Only directs Creator/JRRTolkien movies. |
| 208 | * Creator/StanleyKubrick: Reduced to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' and ''Film/TheShining''. Most self declared Kubrick fans nowadays only refer to these movies, not the less sensational films he made. |
| 209 | * Creator/AkiraKurosawa: ''Film/{{Rashomon}}'' and ''Film/TheSevenSamurai''. |
| 210 | * Creator/FritzLang: Directed ''Film/{{M}}'' and ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', nothing else. |
| 211 | * Creator/SpikeLee: Directs ''angry black man'' movies. Point of reference is always reduced to ''Film/DoTheRightThing''. |
| 212 | * Creator/SergioLeone: Only directed spaghetti westerns in the popular consciousness. |
| 213 | * Creator/GeorgeLucas: All he ever did was make ''Franchise/StarWars'' and while fans adore the franchise in almost religious fashion he is nowadays hated for singlehandedly destroying everything what was great about it in the first place. |
| 214 | * Creator/DavidLynch: Makes weird movies for intellectuals. Point of reference is usually ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'', ''Film/BlueVelvet'', ''Series/TwinPeaks'' and/or ''Film/MulhollandDrive''. |
| 215 | * Creator/GeorgesMelies: ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', which has a scene where the rocket hits the moon's eye. |
| 216 | * 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/Fahrenheit911''. Typically most people who criticize Moore have only seen one or none of his movies and base their ''satire'' or criticism more on the fact that he is obese than anything else. |
| 217 | * Creator/PierPaoloPasolini: Despite a versatile career with many great and thought provoking movies most people now him solely for ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'' and even in that case more for the controversy around it. |
| 218 | * 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}}''. |
| 219 | * Creator/StevenSpielberg: ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' and ''Film/JurassicPark''. ''Film/SchindlersList'' if you want to refer to a serious more adult movie. |
| 220 | * Creator/OliverStone: Makes left-wing conspiracy theory heavy movies about the Sixties and Seventies or that criticize the American government, capitalism and/or the army. |
| 221 | * Creator/QuentinTarantino: Still mostly associated with ''Film/PulpFiction'' and blood splattering violence, even though this aspect only takes up a small part of his movies and usually happens off screen and/or in a comic book fashion hard to take seriously. |
| 222 | * Creator/PaulVerhoeven: Typically people refer more to his Hollywood movies than the ones made in the Netherlands. Most refer to him as someone who just makes action packed violent movies and/or saucy erotic films, typically not looking much deeper into it. |
| 223 | * Creator/LarsVonTrier: Makes depressing ItsNotPornItsArt movies, or is it the other way around? |
| 224 | * Creator/OrsonWelles: ''Film/CitizenKane'' seems to be the only film he ever made in popular culture. All other references are about his voice and/or his weight. Or the fact that he made some TV commercials later in life. Or his part in the radio broadcast of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds1938'' that caused a ruckus. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:By country]] |
| 228 | * Usually the movies where the country itself is [[EiffelTowerEffect very visible in the background]]. |
| 229 | * American movies? Before the 1970s all American movies seemed to be either {{Glamour}} or {{Western}}. After that date they have become synonymous with big spectacle blockbuster movies with a lot of gratuitous bullet rains, explosions and badass lines. |
| 230 | * Austrian movies? We only know two Austrian actors: Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. Creator/ChristophWaltz also comes to mind and maybe Creator/SybilDanning. |
| 231 | * AustralianMovies? ''Film/PicnicAtHangingRock'', ''Film/MadMax'', ''Film/CrocodileDundee'',''Film/TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'' |
| 232 | ** All Australian films are MediaNotes/AustralianNewWave. |
| 233 | ** Australian Actors? Creator/HughJackman, Creator/CateBlanchett, Creator/HeathLedger, Creator/NicoleKidman, and [[Creator/ChrisHemsworth Chris]] and Creator/LiamHemsworth. |
| 234 | * BelgianFilms? All Belgian movies are set on a farm. The most famous Belgian movie, however, isn't: ''Film/ManBitesDog''. |
| 235 | ** Belgian directors? Creator/TheDardennes. |
| 236 | ** Belgian actors? Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme (Creator/AudreyHepburn was ''born'' there but isn't Belgian). |
| 237 | * Brazilian film? ''Film/CityOfGod''. |
| 238 | ** And for Brazilians, all national movies are either boring drama or low-brow comedies. |
| 239 | ** Brazilian actors? Creator/AliceBraga |
| 240 | * 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 [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcherite]] Britain. You've also got ''Film/TheFullMonty''. Many are not aware that a number of popular American films were actually shot in Britain: ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Film/Batman1989'', to give just two examples. |
| 241 | ** British film actors? Creator/CharlieChaplin[[note]] often mistaken for an American, since he hardly ever spoke in his films and nearly 80 percent of his show-business career was spent in the United States [[/note]], Creator/AlecGuinness, Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/RichardBurton (who was Welsh), Creator/HughGrant, Creator/PeterCushing, Creator/IanMcShane, Creator/PeterSellers, Creator/EwanMcGregor (who is Scottish), Creator/JohnCleese, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/HelenMirren, Creator/BenKingsley, Creator/SeanBean, Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/IdrisElba, Creator/CliveOwen, Creator/JudeLaw, Creator/TomHiddleston, Creator/TomHardy, Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/PatrickStewart. Those who have seen ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' often [[FakeBrit mistakenly believe]] that Michael [=McKean=], Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer are British. You might not know Creator/CaryElwes is British if you've seen [[FakeAmerican only]] ''Film/HotShots'', ''Film/LiarLiar'', or ''Film/SawI'' - and neither ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' nor ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights''. |
| 242 | ** British film directors? Creator/DavidLean, Creator/RichardAttenborough, Creator/MichaelPowell, Creator/DannyBoyle, Emeric Pressburger, Creator/JamesIvory and Creator/MikeLeigh. |
| 243 | * CanadianMovies? ''Film/AChristmasStory'', ''Film/AHistoryOfViolence'', ''Film/{{Juno}}'', ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding'', ''Film/{{Porkys}}'', ''Film/{{Martyrs}}'', ''Film/{{Crash}}'' and ''Film/IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS''. |
| 244 | ** Canadian actors? Creator/RyanReynolds, Creator/EvangelineLilly, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/JayBaruchel, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/RyanGosling, [[Creator/DonaldSutherland Donald]] and Creator/KieferSutherland, Creator/SandraOh, Creator/RachelMcAdams, Creator/ElliotPage, Creator/NathanFillion, Creator/ChristopherPlummer, Creator/MichaelCera, Creator/WillArnett and Creator/SethRogen (though he's considered to be American). Francophone Canadians are pretty rare to see in popular media aside from maybe Creator/PomKlementieff (who is the daughter of a French-Russian diplomat), although she’s more frequently associated with France. |
| 245 | ** Canadian directors? Creator/DavidCronenberg, Creator/JamesCameron, Creator/DenisVilleneuve, Creator/XavierDolan, [[Creator/IvanReitman Ivan]] and Creator/JasonReitman. |
| 246 | * ChineseFilms? Martial arts films and/or Wuxia films set in ImperialChina. |
| 247 | ** Chinese directors? Creator/AngLee, Creator/ZhangYimou. |
| 248 | ** Chinese actors? Creator/JetLi, Creator/MingNaWen, Creator/DonnieYen, Creator/ZhangZiyi or anyone listed in the Hong Kong section below. |
| 249 | * Danish films? All MediaNotes/{{Dogme 95}} movies. Directed by Creator/LarsVonTrier or Creator/NicolasWindingRefn. |
| 250 | ** Danish actors? [[Creator/LarsMikkelsen Lars]] and Creator/MadsMikkelsen, Creator/BrigitteNielsen, Creator/ConnieNielsen, Creator/ViggoMortensen, and Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau. |
| 251 | * DutchFilms? All films with gratuitous nudity and lewd acts. |
| 252 | ** Dutch actors? Sylvia Kristel, Creator/FamkeJanssen. Creator/RutgerHauer. Creator/JeroenKrabbe, and Creator/CariceVanHouten. |
| 253 | ** Dutch film directors? Creator/PaulVerhoeven. |
| 254 | * FrenchFilms? All LeFilmArtistique and/or MediaNotes/FrenchNewWave |
| 255 | ** French actors? Creator/MauriceChevalier, Creator/BrigitteBardot, Creator/JacquesTati, Creator/JeanGabin, Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo, Creator/AlainDelon, Creator/LouisDeFunes, and Creator/{{Fernandel}}. Modern day French actors include Creator/GerardDepardieu, Creator/ChristianClavier, Creator/CatherineDeneuve, Creator/ChristopherLambert, Creator/AudreyTautou, Creator/VincentCassel, Creator/EvaGreen, Creator/JeanReno, and Creator/MarionCotillard (Creator/MelanieLaurent ''might'' get a mention if only as a poor woman's Cotillard). |
| 256 | ** French film directors? Marcel Carné, Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, Creator/JeanRenoir, Creator/AlainResnais, Creator/JeanLucGodard, Creator/LouisMalle, Creator/JacquesTati, Claude Sautet, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Creator/LucBesson, Creator/JeanPierreJeunet, Creator/GasparNoe (though he's Argentinian, his movies are considered FrenchFilms), Jan Kounen. |
| 257 | * GermanFilms? GermanExpressionism or arthouse. The most famous German films worldwide are ''Film/TheBlueAngel'', ''Film/DasBoot'', ''Film/RunLolaRun'' and ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' (and that is only for the WebVideo/HitlerRants meme). |
| 258 | ** German film actors? Creator/MarleneDietrich and Creator/KlausKinski. Older film fans may remember Creator/EmilJannings. Creator/DianeKruger, Creator/DanielBruhl and Creator/MichaelFassbender are modern-day representatives of the nation (and Creator/ChristophWaltz is just as likely to be associated with Germany as with Austria). Within German borders, the definitive modern-day German actor is Creator/TilSchweiger. |
| 259 | ** German film directors? Creator/FritzLang, Creator/JosefVonSternberg, Creator/FriedrichWilhelmMurnau, Creator/WernerHerzog, Creator/WolfgangPetersen. |
| 260 | * Greek movies? ''Film/ZorbaTheGreek'' and ''Film/{{Z}}''. |
| 261 | ** Greek directors? Creator/EliaKazan and Creator/CostaGavras. But for mid-2010s, Creator/YorgosLanthimos and his fellow Greek Weird Wave filmmakers. |
| 262 | ** Greek actors? Nia Vardalos, with John Aniston only known as [[Creator/JenniferAniston Jennifer]]'s dad. |
| 263 | * HongKongFilms? Anything starring Creator/BruceLee, Creator/JackieChan, Creator/SonnyChiba, or Creator/ChowYunFat, and ''maybe'' Creator/StephenChow or Creator/DonnieYen. Director is likely going to be Creator/JohnWoo. |
| 264 | * Indian movies? BollywoodMovies. Period. If you have to namedrop one example: ''Film/{{Sholay}}''. If you need a non-Bollywood example: ''Film/PatherPanchali'', ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'', or ''Film/LifeOfPi'', though even those will often be grouped in the Bollywood movies. |
| 265 | ** Indian actors? Creator/RajKapoor, Creator/AmitabhBachcan, Creator/PriyankaChopra, Creator/SalmanKhan, or Creator/IrrfanKhan. Dalip Singh Rana has showed up in some pretty big American movies, but of course he's better known as pro wrestler Wrestling/TheGreatKhali. |
| 266 | ** Indian film directors? Creator/SatiyajitRay. |
| 267 | * Irish actors? Creator/LiamNeeson, Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/PierceBrosnan, Creator/CillianMurphy and Creator/BrendanGleeson. Modern viewers are more likely to know the likes of Creator/SaoirseRonan, Creator/JackGleeson, Creator/AidanGillen and Creator/DomhnallGleeson. Older generations will be familiar with Creator/MaureenOHara. |
| 268 | * Israeli actors? Creator/NataliePortman (though she's lived most of her life in America) and Creator/GalGadot. Maybe Creator/OdedFehr, Ayelet Zurer, Alona Tal, and Creator/OdeyaRush will come to mind. Other than that, nothing. |
| 269 | * ItalianFilms? Either neo-realistic, SpaghettiWestern or {{Giallo}}. |
| 270 | ** Italian directors? Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni, Creator/DarioArgento, Creator/SergioLeone, Creator/FedericoFellini, Creator/RobertoRossellini, Creator/PierPaoloPasolini, Creator/VittorioDeSica. |
| 271 | ** Italian actors? Creator/MonicaBellucci, Creator/SophiaLoren, Creator/MarcelloMastroianni, Creator/RobertoBenigni, Terence Hill, or Isabella Rossellini. |
| 272 | * Jamaican movies? ''Film/TheHarderTheyCome''. |
| 273 | * Japanese movies? Samurai films, {{Anime}}, {{Kaiju}} and since the 1980s Japanese horror and science fiction have also gained notoriety. |
| 274 | ** Japanese actors? Creator/ToshiroMifune, Creator/SonnyChiba, or more recently Creator/KenWatanabe. Creator/HiroyukiSanada ''might'' get a mention given his work in Western film and television. |
| 275 | ** Japanese animators? Creator/OsamuTezuka and Creator/HayaoMiyazaki. |
| 276 | ** Japanese film directors? Creator/AkiraKurosawa, Creator/YasujiroOzu and Creator/TakashiMiike, to a lesser extent. |
| 277 | * Korean movies? ''Film/{{Oldboy|2003}}'', ''Film/{{Snowpiercer}}'', ''Film/Parasite2019'' (primarily because of its Best Picture Oscar win), and ''Film/{{Pulgasari}}'' (at least for North Korea). |
| 278 | ** Korean directors? Creator/BongJoonHo and Creator/ParkChanWook. |
| 279 | ** Korean actors? Byun Hyung-Lee. |
| 280 | * Mexican movies? All films starring Wrestling/ElSanto. More recently, ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' |
| 281 | ** Mexican directors? Creator/RobertRodriguez (though he is American by nationality), Creator/GuillermoDelToro, Creator/AlfonsoCuaron, and Creator/AlejandroGonzalezInarritu. |
| 282 | ** Actors? Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/GaelGarciaBernal, Creator/DiegoLuna and Ricardo Montalban. |
| 283 | * New Zealand actors? Creator/RussellCrowe, Creator/AnnaPaquin, Creator/LucyLawless, Creator/TemueraMorrison and Creator/SamNeill. |
| 284 | ** Directors? Creator/PeterJackson and Creator/TaikaWaititi. |
| 285 | ** Film? ''Film/ThePiano''. |
| 286 | ** All you need to know about Kiwis is in ''Film/{{Utu}}''. |
| 287 | * Polish films? |
| 288 | ** Polish directors? Creator/RomanPolanski, Creator/AgnieszkaHolland, Creator/AndrzejWajda, and Creator/KrzysztofKieslowski. |
| 289 | * Portuguese films? People may have heard of director Creator/ManoelDeOliveira because he kept making movies into his 100's, but are unlikely to have actually seen anything he made. |
| 290 | * Puerto Rican actors? Creator/BenicioDelToro and Creator/RitaMoreno. |
| 291 | * Russian movies? All propaganda pieces, directed by Creator/SergeiEisenstein. |
| 292 | ** Russian actors? Creator/YulBrynner. |
| 293 | * Scottish actors? Creator/SeanConnery and maybe Creator/IanMcDiarmid (at least if you watch ''Franchise/StarWars''). For modern day examples, we have Creator/EwanMcGregor, Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Creator/GerardButler and Creator/RichardMadden (though he's frequently typecast as Englishmen or [[Series/GameOfThrones fantasy equivalents]] thereof). |
| 294 | * Serbian films? ''Film/ASerbianFilm'', unfortunately. |
| 295 | ** Serbian film directors? Creator/EmirKusturica. |
| 296 | * South African films? ''Film/District9''. |
| 297 | ** South African directors? Creator/NeillBlomkamp and Gavin Hood. |
| 298 | ** South African actors? Creator/CharlizeTheron, Creator/SharltoCopley and Creator/EmbethDavidtz. |
| 299 | * Spanish films? ''Film/{{REC}}''. |
| 300 | ** Spanish film actors? Creator/PenelopeCruz, Creator/JavierBardem and Creator/AntonioBanderas. |
| 301 | ** Spanish film directors? Creator/PedroAlmodovar, Creator/LuisBunuel. |
| 302 | ** In Spain itself, it is common to say (especially among the right-wing) that Spanish films are all about "whores, fags and the [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar Civil War]]". The first two are an unsubtle jab at Almodóvar. |
| 303 | * Swedish films? Anything by Creator/IngmarBergman. |
| 304 | ** Swedish actors? Creator/GretaGarbo, Creator/IngridBergman, Creator/MaxVonSydow, Creator/DolphLundgren, Creator/PeterStormare, Creator/NoomiRapace, Creator/RebeccaFerguson, Creator/AliciaVikander, [[Creator/StellanSkarsgard Stellan]], [[Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard Alexander]] and Creator/BillSkarsgard. |
| 305 | * Swiss films? ''Film/TheWildGeese'' |
| 306 | ** Swiss actors? Creator/UrsulaAndress and Bruno Ganz (and only because of ''Hitler Rants''). |
| 307 | * Ukranian actors? Creator/MilaKunis, Creator/MillaJovovich, and Creator/OlgaKurylenko. |
| 308 | * Vietnamese films? ''Three Seasons'', and only because Creator/HarveyKeitel is in it. |
| 309 | [[/folder]] |
| 310 | |
| 311 | [[folder:Parodies]] |
| 312 | * If you are going to 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/SaturdayNightFever'', ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', ''Film/TheShining'', ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', ''Franchise/JurassicPark,'' ''Film/PulpFiction'', ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''Film/HarryPotter'', and ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. |
| 313 | * 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; Creator/PierceBrosnan or Creator/DanielCraig. Roger Moore, George Lazenby, and Timothy Dalton? 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. |
| 314 | [[/folder]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | [[folder:Notable exceptions]] |
| 317 | * Creator/QuentinTarantino's movies are full of {{shout out}}s and {{homage shot}}s to a few specific movies most people do not even know exist, such as ''Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell'', where he got the idea for the red background during the flight scene in ''Film/KillBill Vol. 1''. |
| 318 | [[/folder]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | [[folder:Played With]] |
| 321 | * The indie film ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'' features a Proust scholar as a main character. He talks about Proust during an important character moment. |
| 322 | * Creator/CharlieKaufman likes to include ''high-brow'' literary references in his films. In ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', Creator/JohnCusack performs a puppet adaptation of Alexander Pope's ''Eloisa to Abelard''. Pope's story also provided the title and theme for ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind''. |
| 323 | * In ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'', Animal is described as being upset that he missed the Creator/{{Rembrandt|VanRijn}} exhibit at the National Gallery. Animal corrects him: "''Renoir! Renoir!''" |
| 324 | * A rare humorous moment in ''Film/Se7en'', when Creator/BradPitt's character has never heard of the Creator/MarquisDeSade, and mispronounces his name "Shah-day", like the Nigerian singer Music/{{Sade}}. |
| 325 | * {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' with an appearance by the Metatron, the angel who speaks for God to humans who would be destroyed by the power of God's voice. The heroine attempts to make up for not knowing who he is by mentioning the Ten Plagues, to which the Metatron remarks "You people! If it's not in [[Film/TheTenCommandments1956 a Charlton Heston movie]], it's not worth knowing, is it?" |
| 326 | * Played with in the 1965 film version of ''The Loved One'', in which Dennis Barlow romances Aimee Thanatogenous by quoting classic poetry to her and claiming it to be his own work. |
| 327 | * ''Film/NotOkay'': InUniverse, Danni names Notre-Dame as the cathedral she visited while in Paris, likely not knowing of any others. As noted, this is one of the things Harper finds suspicious about her story, as Notre-Dame is closed to the public. |
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