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Mr Pilkington
Feb 24, 2011
I recently watched Adaptation again, a subtle moment I love is the scene at the beginning where Charlie is in a meeting about the screenplay. He tells her that he doesn't want to make it about a orchid heist with car chases, drugs and a love interest. Which of course turns out to be exactly what the movie ends with.

It's something you can only notice on a second viewing, such a great movie.

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Mr Pilkington
Feb 24, 2011

The Slip posted:

Not to sound like a total jerk, but I...totally picked up on that on my first and only viewing. In fact, I thought that was kind of the major theme of the film as a whole. Still, though, fantastic movie. I've fallen in love with just about everything Charlie Kaufman has worked on.

For content: Brick, one of my favorite movies of all time, has a ton of subtle callbacks to classic film noir. For instance, there's a scene where Brendan tells Laura to honk the horn of her car as a signal to him. He tells her to honk long, short, long, short. This is the same signal Spade tells Brigid to use with a doorbell in The Maltese Falcon.

I agree, I guess I didn't notice it the first time because I saw it on late night tv and didn't really know anything about it going in.

Mr Pilkington
Feb 24, 2011
I watched Sherlock Holmes: game of shadows recently, something I didn't catch the first time I saw it was in the scene where Holmes and Watson are getting horses from the Gypsies and Holmes refuses to ride them, they cut to everyone riding their horses while Holmes is on a mule. The whole time this is going on the music playing is the theme to Two mules for Sister Sara, an old Clint Eastwood western where Clint escorts a Nun who rides a mule.

It's a really cool homage that I pick up because I just rewatched Two Mules a couple of days before I watched Game of Shadows. Not sure how I missed it the first time, it's really quite obvious if you've seen Two Mules.

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