He was snorkeling with white sharks sans a cage (eagh!). When he got back up to the boat, he mentioned "All that time, I had the music from that film in my head. And then he starts humming the Jaws theme. That was great!

So... has anyone else seen a character in a movie or television show make a reference to a musical score? I know there are always references to movies and shows, but usually not the music.

Kevin
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There's other stuff as well that I've mentioned in topics such as these before. Saturday Night Live used Goldsmith and Herrmann music from The Twilight Zone series in a Sprocket's skit(Invaders, Walking Distance). And a Christopher Walken skit parody of The Dead Zone character used Hellbound: Hellraiser 2.

Man... no telling how many times I've posted that. I apologize to my fellow long-time members of this board for making you read that yet again.

-The brief "Yoda" line in "E.T.'s Halloween".

-The brief "Ark of the Covenant" line in "Last Crusade".

-Patrick Doyle's nod to "Superman" in "Quest for Camelot".

-The Duane Eddy "Broken Arrow" riff used in "Scream 2". (Ironically a theme used for a villain turned into a heroic motif.)

And other obscurities like hearing "Lawrence of Arabia" in "The Spy who Loved Me"...Or the theme from "Zorro: The Gay Blade" being used as the Pirate Theme in "Goonies" (Though I suspect that the Zorro theme was lifted from somewhere else....)

A conversation in the hilarious movie Free Enterprise:

Guy #1: "Hey, maybe she'll turn out like Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct, you know, one day she'll just shove an ice pick in his nose."

Guy #2: "He'd probably enjoy that; killed by a naked blonde who doesn't where underwear, and at the strains of a Jerry Goldsmith score -- come to think of it, I'd probably enjoy that myself."

Also, in the end credits of the movie, Lukas Kendall and Jeff Bond are both listed as "Additional Voices" (NOTE: The end credits of that particular film are LOADED with jokes.)

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In one episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter visited Space Camp and music from Conan the Barbarian was used throughout the montage (although music from SpaceCamp would've been more appropriate).

In Octopussy, Bond recognizes his India contact because he plays the James Bond theme on his snake-charmer flute. Okay, that's something of a self-reference, but it's still pretty cool.

Here's another easy Bond one. The code for the door in Moonraker is the five-note motif from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

In The Cable Guy, when Jim Carrey gets the Ahn-Woon, Gerald Fried's battle music from the Star Trek episode "Amok Time" is heard. The same piece is heard in an episode of Futurama when the human has to fight the big lobster guy.

The opening of Twilight Zone: The Movie has Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks playing "Guess the TV Theme."

In Twelve Monkeys, there is a scene where the previously brunette Madeline Stowe dyes her hair blonde at a movie theater playing Vertigo. As Bruce Willis sees her (and recognizes her from his dreams), the sequences in the two films echo one another and the "Scene d'Amour" from Vertigo is heard on the soundtrack.

As the camera pans slowly over the hushed kitchen stadium, the Back Draft music swells and a voice says "Who's cuisine will reign supreme, the challenger or the Iron Chef?"

Great Stuff!

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Originally posted by Lancelot:
Marian, you notice how the woman that poo-poohs Branagh as a composer at the party is also the same woman who's the sister taking care of Emma Thompson at the beginning of the film?

That's right: Disrespect film music in this life, and you'll be reincarnated as a nun in the next.

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No, but I knew that there are two characters which appear in both "times" of the movie. The other one is Patrick Doyle himself. He's also at that party (I didn't spot him there myself yet), and later (or earlier... ) he's the policemen in the elevator.

The first time I ever heard the Patton theme was in one Simpsons episode!

And others continue to kid themselves, thinking "That's not what this is about!! NO!!"

PeterK

Doesn't Jim Carrey himself do that "Amok Time" theme, chasing Broderick around in THE CABLE GUY: "Dah-da-DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH-dat-da-DAH..."

And on the Bond thing....MOONRAKER also features a western nod to Bernstein--Though it has been a while since I last saw--wasn't it the "Magnificent Seven" theme?

The Simpsons usage of the "Great Escape" theme (Maggie and the Ayn Rand Day Care Center) and opening of the one episode featuring the "Escape from Peru" cue from RAIDERS have been two of televisions' most quality moments....

And on the topic of "Airplane", they had a pretty hilarious nod to "Jaws"...

Got the CE3K ref....Got the Bernstein ref...

Hmm....

The film does contain an abundance of brief classical music cues. (At least, moreso than any other Bond film. e.g., Drax playing the piano, the Vienna-like cue in the hovercraft through Venice, Tchiakovsky's Romeo-and-Juliet swell after Jaws is dug out of the wreckage...among some others.)

Everytime the fish was involved in the action, Silvestri gave a nod to Jaws.

ANOTHER sketch that involves some kind of office building, they used (seriously) Goldsmith's Night Crossing "Main Title". Cool.