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Post by colly on Aug 17, 2008 23:51:52 GMT -5
"Anatomy of a Lover" - the title a homage to "anatomy of a murder", a 1959 James Stewart film
"Casablanca" - well.
"Pussycats Galore" - I must be dreaming....
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Post by the guy in Control on Aug 19, 2008 15:32:59 GMT -5
i should have mentionedthat in addition to the episode title "Dr. Yes" being an homage to James Bond's Dr. No, the plot is also an homage to the same film... Dr. Yes is using an under-water power plant to throw US missles off course, and he attempts to kill any visitors to the secluded grounds near his lair...
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Post by huffaker on Aug 19, 2008 16:52:00 GMT -5
"The Apes of Rath", Steinbeckian title aside, certainly owes a lot to Kong, not least the 'twas beauty that killed the beast' gag at the end.
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Post by the guy in Control on Sept 8, 2008 14:47:19 GMT -5
like Ice Station Siegfried? you know, i didn't really know what you were talking about until someone mentionedthe movie Ice Station Zebra (1968) to me today... but yeah, that's more than just a "movie title title", too, because it also shares the similarities of the protagonists going to the North Pole and the involvment of both in a "weather station" there at the North Pole...  |
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Post by colly on Sept 9, 2008 2:12:13 GMT -5
welll The Shark's pool table in one of the early episodes is remarkable similar to Goldfinger's pool table...
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Post by the guy in Control on Sept 25, 2008 16:08:09 GMT -5
This might be stretching the envelope of Bond homages, but in the one where 99 leaves CONTROL, the guy she hooks up with is one Victor Royale, who runs Royale's Casino. You see, with the names and the...thing... i just watched that one today - "99 Loses Control" - and i noticed a second homage in the episode... when 99 asks Max why he's there, he goes on about how he enjoys his freedom, and he spins a globe before getting his finger caught in it... i think this is a direct homage to Inspector Clouseau of the Pink Panther films, who has had his own share of difficulty with globes... in 1963's the Pink Panther, Clouseau tries to stop a spinning globe, and it throws him in the floor... then in 1964's A Shot in the Dark, when Clouseau again tries to stop a spinning globe, he gets his whole hand caught in it and exclaims, "I have Africa all over my hand!"...  |
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Post by the guy in Control on Oct 12, 2008 16:33:52 GMT -5
"Someone Down Here Hates Me" is a movie title title, an homage to Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)...
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Post by the guy in Control on Nov 2, 2008 16:29:56 GMT -5
"The Mess of Adrian Listenger" is an homage to The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), both in title and in plot...
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Post by the guy in Control on Nov 20, 2008 15:29:59 GMT -5
in "One of Our Olives is Missing", when Max tells Annie he's a secret agent, she laughs and says, "Let's face it: you're no Sean O'Connery!" - an obvious homage to James Bond's Sean Connery... |
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Post by the guy in Control on Jan 6, 2009 21:23:31 GMT -5
i mentioned previously that the title "Bronzefinger" was an homage to the james Bond movie "Goldfinger", but i hadn't watched the episode in a good while until today... within the episode, there are further homages to Goldfinger... for one, Agent 54 dies from skin suffocation after Bronzefinger paints him blue from head to toe, just like the "golden girl" painted in Goldfinger... the other is more subtle... in Goldfinger, the villain famously attempts to kill Bond with the aid of a tool inspired by his name (in this case, a laser for cutting gold); in Bronzefinger, the villain attempts to kill Max and 99 by having them bronzed... sometimes i think the writers of the show were even Smarter than we give them credit for! |
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Post by the guy in Control on Jan 9, 2009 7:30:09 GMT -5
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Post by the guy in Control on Feb 23, 2009 10:53:27 GMT -5
in "Diamonds are a Spy's Best Friend", KAOS enlists the help of The League of Bald-Headed Men, and obvious reference to The Red-Headed League of Sherlock Holmes fame...
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Post by colly on Feb 24, 2009 5:15:24 GMT -5
dont forget Blofeld, villain in "Diamonds Are Forever", is bald.
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Post by the guy in Control on Feb 24, 2009 11:56:29 GMT -5
...though he's not bald in Diamonds Are Forever... |
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Post by colly on Feb 25, 2009 2:38:39 GMT -5
He's also probably more camp than any GS villian.
I dont remember any villain in drag...
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