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Screenwriting

Most spoofed scene

What, according to you, would be the most heavily spoofed and/or repeated scene or line from movies (and movies only), among the sample below (or contributions of your own)?
- "Rosebud..."
- The water splashing down on the dancer in "Flashdance" - "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" - "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" - "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." - "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn".
- "One of us!"
- ...
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[nq:1]What, according to you, would be the most heavily spoofed and/or repeated scene or line from movies (and movies only), ... " - "Frankly my dear, I don't give a ****". "[/nq] None of the above...

  • [nq:1]What, according to you, would be the most heavily spoofed and/or repeated scene or line from movies (and movies only), ...
  • " - "Frankly my dear, I don't give a ****".
  • "[/nq] None of the above...
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[nq:1]What, according to you, would be the most heavily spoofed and/or repeated scene or line from movies (and movies only), ... a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." - "Frankly my dear, I don't give a ****". - "One of us!"[/nq]
None of the above... THE most spoofed and quoted line of all time (erroneously attributed to Casablanca, even though the line is never spoken in that movie), is (big
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[nq:1]None of the above... THE most spoofed and quoted line of all time (erroneously attributed to Casablanca, even though the line is never spoken in that movie), is (big trumpet fanfare)(or big strumpet fanfare if you prefer big strumpets), "Play it again, Sam."[/nq]
Who doesn't prefer big strumpets? Honestly, Caroline... I wonder about you sometimes.
(And of course, in the original Rick
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"Soylent Green is people."
Mockery aside, the film was incredibly prescient: It predicted the rise of recycling, global warming, assisted suicide, depletion of food supplies, genetic engineering of food, the loss of the middle class, urbanization, the corporatization of farming, reduction of printed matter.. You'd almost think old Chuck was a leftie.
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[nq:1]"Soylent Green is people." Mockery aside, the film was incredibly prescient: It predicted the rise of recycling, global warming, assisted ... the middle class, urbanization, the corporatization of farming, reduction of printed matter.. You'd almost think old Chuck was a leftie.[/nq]
Credit where it's due: Not Chuck, but Harry Harrison, who wrote the book on which it's based.

It'
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[nq:1]What, according to you, would be the most heavily spoofed and/or repeated scene or line from movies (and movies only), ... we're not in Kansas anymore." - "Frankly my dear, I don't give a ****". - "One of us!" - ...[/nq]
The baby carriage scene from The Untouchables is pretty popular. As is the horse's head scene, and the opening scene (Don Corleone being asked for favors) from The Godfa
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[nq:1]The baby carriage scene from The Untouchables is pretty popular. As is the horse's head scene, and the opening scene ... I get swept up in this. Stephen Mack "Nobody's smart enough to be wrong all the time." -Ken Wilber[/nq]
Don't forget, "You talkin' to me?" from Taxi Driver.
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All good lines, but the all time done, re-done, over-done, scene is the hallway in a hotel/mansion/haunted house with several doors with folks coming and going in increasingly impossible patterns.

I've noticed it in earlier and earlier films and really wondered about the
original. Must be an early silent. This particular scene is probably one
of the first uniquely film scenes. Man
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@reader2.panix.com:
[nq:1]All good lines, but the all time done, re-done, over-done, scene is the hallway in a hotel/mansion/haunted house with several ... attributed to theater or vaudeville or even poetry, but the film editing trick that allows this is uniquely from film.[/nq]
That doesn't count. It must be a scene or dialogue that can be attrbuted to a movie, because it was originally,
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[nq:2]The baby carriage scene from The Untouchables is pretty popular. ... smart enough to be wrong all the time." -Ken Wilber[/nq]
[nq:1]Don't forget, "You talkin' to me?" from Taxi Driver.[/nq]
... which reminds me of the "Do I feel lucky?" speech and "Go ahead, make my day."
And since my brain just won't quit once I get started, let me add:

"We're gonna need a bigger boat"
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The MOST repeated scene in recent years, HAS the be the use of "The Clapper."
It seems like every comedy movie has that scene, but it still gets a laugh.
-ADS.

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