Shout Out / The Player

1992 film:

• As mentioned on the main page, the opening shot is an Homage to Touch of Evil.
• Griffin has a poster of Laura on his wall.
• Griffin goes to see Bicycle Thieves when he hears David Kahane, the writer he thinks has been sending him threatening postcards, is at that theater.
• Someone calls the studio, and leaves a message for Griffin, using the name Joe Gillis. Griffin doesn't recognize it at first, but then recovers, and tries to joke the man had earlier claimed they were Charles Foster Kane.
• A number of movie pitches Griffin listens to, which are X Meets Y pitches, like "It's Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman", or "It's Ghost meets The Manchurian Candidate".
• In his speech at the gala event Griffin attends, honoring him and the studio for donating prints to a film museum, he claims and the studio are looking for artists like the next Frank Capra, John Huston, or Orson Welles.
• In the police station, Detective Delongpre references Freaks ("One of us, one of us").
• When Griffin gets out of the lineup, Walter mentions how witness testimony is so unreliable, and mentions Witness for the Prosecution.
• During a meeting at the studio the focus shifts to something going on outside like during a poker game in M*A*S*H.

2015 series:

• A Man of Wealth and Taste with obscene amounts of money and influence who gives the Anti-Hero his missions could be passed off a common trope, but the producers had to call him "Mr. Johnson."
• "Ante Up" takes heavily from Point Break (1991), particularly the climax.
• Before the skydiving scene, the fight on the plane has action beats straight out of The Living Daylights and Air Force One.