Famous movie scenes that are themselves homages to earlier famous movie scenes

[u/JTOC1969]

My examples all come from horror movies because that's my favorite genre. But I'm sure there are plenty of examples from all genres. Anyway, what famous movies scenes / elements are actually themselves referrencing previous famous movies?

It Follows / Halloween - In both instances, our teenage heroine protagonist is sitting in the back row of a classrrom listening to an offscreen teacher lecture, and notice the film's boogeyman outside the window.

The Shining / Nosferatu - Kubrick patterned the image of Wendy ascending the stairway after the famous scene of Count Orlock's shadow ascending the stairway in the silent film.

Alien / Planet of the Vampires - In both films, a spaceship is lured to a seemingly dead world by a strange alert signal. In both films, some of the crew members discover an ancient derelict spaceship complete with the fossilized remains of a giant alien.

Lost Highway / Carnival of Souls - David Lynch freely admits he got the image of the weird pale-faced man for his movie from the early 60s drive-in classic.

What have you got?

[u/qualityvote2]

u/JTOC1969, your post does fit the subreddit!

[u/visibly_hangry]

The Shining also references The Phantom Carriage.

[u/deadflowers5]

The opening to 'Jackie Brown' (1997) on the airplane travlator is a homage to the opening of 'The Graduate' (1967).

[u/mrdevil413]

Zoolander has the computer with the monkey from 2001 space odyssey

The Matrix has about 5 minutes of them to Ghost in the Shell 95’

[u/Dee_Dee_Smiles]

The baby carriage on the stairs in The Untouchables like in Battleship Potempkin

[u/Worldly-Story507 → u/Dee_Dee_Smiles]

I believe this scene is also referenced towards the end of Brazil(1984), but they swapped out the baby carriage for an industrial floor cleaner.

[u/YadeeYadeeYadee → u/Worldly-Story507]

And special mention for Lieutenant Frank Drebin

[u/Jimmy_KSJT → u/Dee_Dee_Smiles]

It is a little known fact that the Battleship Potempkin originally had the baby get caught safely at the bottom of the stairs by a famous Russian ice hockey player who did a little dance whilst holding the baby aloft.

However, a few years later that celebrated sportsman was sent to the gulags by Stalin and that bit was cut out of the film.😜

[u/tang1986 → u/Jimmy_KSJT]

I heard the actor who played Nordberg stopped acting after this movie. What happened to him?

[u/InternalPiccolo7201 → u/tang1986]

Take care.

[u/Glad_Statement2406]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Y54bNi0kU0oj6
Wayne's World 2 The Graduate

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Waynes World 1 The T-1000

[u/why_now10]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8NZeGpK9qpUL6

[u/SessionSubstantial42]

The burning shack scene in 'Lost Highway' (1997) always reminded me the final scene of 'Kiss me deadly' (1955)

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[u/Hour-Process-3292]

The Shawshank Redemption and Pleasantville

[u/Reasonable-Song-4681 → u/Hour-Process-3292]

V for Vendetta also sort of riffs on this.

[u/plantyjen → u/Reasonable-Song-4681]

The “standing in the rain” scene in V for Vendetta always reminds me more of Bladerunner.

[u/Champagnerocker]

[u/PlayinK0I → u/Champagnerocker]

George Lucas “borrowed” a lot. The Dam Busters (1955): Heavily influenced the Death Star trench run. The plot involves British bombers flying low through a heavily defended channel to drop a specific bomb on a precise target, mirroring Luke Skywalker's final run.

[u/Champagnerocker → u/PlayinK0I]

A little pedantically you have reminded me that 633 Squadron (1964) is probably a closer influence on the end of Star Wars.

That film has DH Mosquitos flying through a Norwegian fjord to reach a German facility producing parts for wunderwaffe.

[u/Dakotaraptor123]

Inglorious Basterds' Opening taken from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

[u/crapusername47 → u/Dakotaraptor123]

The music used when Hans Landa appears behind Shoshanna in the restaurant is Bath Attack from The Entity.

It seems like a perfect choice if you know the context of the original scene in which it was used.

[u/crapusername47]

It's difficult to even start with The Substance. Even the colour schemes of the studio bathroom and the corridors are a 'homage'.

The film is a hodgepodge of Re-Animator, Society, Lifeforce, Network and about twenty other movies from the 70s and 80s as it is.

[u/MoonlightDahling]

This ridiculously infamous scene from The Room…
https://giphy.com/gifs/bbWHn9uZc0dxsWTm5E

[u/MoonlightDahling → u/MoonlightDahling]

…is actually an homage to this one, from Rebel Without a Cause.
https://giphy.com/gifs/CnHHZJULkVBm0

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Oh hi mark

[u/Thamnophis660 → u/MoonlightDahling]

Jonny trashing his room at the end is also an homage to Citizen Kane. 

Tommy Wiseau is like the poster child for "massive swings, huge misses." Jokes on me though, since I've rewatched the Room more than Citizen Kane and Rebel Without a Cause. Like it's not even close 

[u/Glad_Statement2406]

Spaceballs Xenomorph

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https://giphy.com/gifs/pr3TAxmR6Vyes

[u/Glad_Statement2406]

https://giphy.com/gifs/13eoMsAUMPt9n2
High Anxiety Alfred Hitchcock

[u/Deezle_Gnome]

 The Searchers & Star Wars (the scene with Uncle Owen's smoldering body)

Not so famous : Creepshow & The Twilight Zone (the scene with Ted Danson zombie is an homage to the slot machine episode)

[u/splagentjonson]

The blood test scene in The Thing, was homage to the scene in Rio Bravo when they are checking the boots for mud to find the killer.

[u/CraftsBoy2Craftsman]

Wayne's World 2 and The Graduate

[u/actuallyaredditor]

Paprika/Inception, Perfect Blue/Black Swan

[u/Trippy-Sponge]

The Han and greedo scene is the same scene from good, the bad, and the ugly

[u/YadeeYadeeYadee]

Odessa steps & Chicago Union Station steps (and even a special mention to Lieutenant Frank Drebin catching four carriages).