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Outside movie references - others you noticed?


Obviously the prison break scene is a reference to Shawshank Redemption. The motorcycle guy also has to be based on The Road Warrior (riding through the desert, similar outfit and gun). I even thought that one chase (through the house) was like Ferris Bueller.

Anyone else notice these or others?

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Shawshank came out 7 years after Raising Arizona.

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Maybe they had read the novella the movie was based on? (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King from his collection Different Seasons in 1982) I haven't seen the movie or read the novella but I just thought it was them being born when they were coming out of the mud. Especially when John Goodman's character lifts his 'brother' out by one leg.

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