For no other reason than my own amusement, I am going to sit here - right now! - and rack my brains trying to think of every pop culture reference in the text of "Red Cross" (out Sep 25th).
Some of these are blatant. Some subtle. Some no one but me will ever get. And that's the way I like it. So what references are there? Let's see if I can remember... Movies Star Wars The Terminator Paper Towns Die Hard Alien Big Saw The Revenant (kinda...) War Games Knute Rockne: All American Ghostbusters Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone (and yes, it's definitely the movie being referenced) High School Musical The Hudsucker Proxy The Room (accidentally) Books Paper Towns (again) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Twilight Handbook For Mortals Nausea Sherlock Holmes (in general, not a specific story) To Kill A Mockingbird TV Shows The Walking Dead (referenced as The Ambling Dead) LOST Truth & Justice: Crime Scene Division (a made-up Law & Order/CSI series) Arrested Development Scooby-Doo Grey's Anatomy MacGyver Comics Super-Boy Games Outlast Vacate the Room Call to Action (an obvious "Call of Duty" ripoff) Heavy Rain Five Nights at Freddy's Music "Friday" - Rebecca Black "Loverman" - Charlie Parker "Now's the Time" - Charlie Parker Plays Julius Caesar Henry V Poems The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot The Second Coming - W.B. Yeats Memes Cash me ousside The floor is lava Hmmm... I'm sure there are more than that. I know I deleted a clumsy reference to the movie The Wizard of Oz. And a couple other tidbits besides. Off-hand, though, I'd say this list comprises at least the majority of the references. How many will you catch?
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
J Douglas BurtonAuthor of "The Sleepwar Saga" YA fantasy series. Also Victorian pulp SF series "The Star Travels of Dr. Jeremiah Fothering-Smythe". Archives
August 2020
Categories |
Proudly powered by Weebly