Upon catching a few minutes of Die Hard the other night, I noticed that they took the scene with the bad dude shooting at Bruce Willis as he scurried under a table directly from Yojimbo.
Tara: Do you have any books on robots? Giles: Oh, yes, dozens. There's a lot of research to be done in order to--no, I'm lying. Haven't got squat. I just like watching Xander squirm.
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Hayden - Mar 09, 2010 8:28:23 am PST #7158 of 30000
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Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2010 8:40:56 am PST #7159 of 30000
brillig
So what is the story of Bad Day at Black Rock? The one with Spencer Tracy? I could swear there was an identical scene of scrubland and bad guys standing beside their cars waiting for the first move to shoot each other.
I may be conflating a lot of movies.
javachik - Mar 09, 2010 9:08:51 am PST #7160 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Yojimbo and Seven Samurai were the first two dvds I ever bought. Two of my top ten of all time movies. Yojimbo often trades places with The Bicyle Thief for first place, depending on my mood (which changes daily).
Sometimes when I am feeling melancholy, Casablanca is first. And when I'm feeling caustic and hopeless, Network is first.
Side note: "melancholy" looks very weird no matter how I spell it.
Tom Scola - Mar 09, 2010 9:13:31 am PST #7161 of 30000
hwæt
Network would be a whole lot less depressing if it all didn't come true.
javachik - Mar 09, 2010 9:14:21 am PST #7162 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Network would be a whole lot less depressing if it all didn't come true.
Right?!
DavidS - Mar 09, 2010 9:22:58 am PST #7163 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So what is the story of Bad Day at Black Rock?
Spencer Tracy is a war vet with one arm - but he knows karate so don't fuck with him!
The town is corrupt - somebody got lynched? - something like that and he goes to investigate.
But he has karate and chops people left and right. With his one arm.
erikaj - Mar 09, 2010 9:47:54 am PST #7164 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Derek Strange says that a lot. Like when Quinn finds him all moody and grunting, he'll say "Bad day at Black Rock, Terry." and I'm a moron for not understanding it's a reference as my man George does love his old Westerns.
Scrappy - Mar 09, 2010 9:57:42 am PST #7165 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Kurosawa is so fucking awesome.
erikaj - Mar 09, 2010 10:08:09 am PST #7166 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I don't think I've ever watched one all the way through.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2010 10:09:01 am PST #7167 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The first one I watched was Rashomon because my improv troupe played a game called that, and I needed to know. It was like a dose of crack.