I was up watching the 1985 comedy Brewster's Millions, and during the opening credits there's an overhead panning shot of cars crossing the Verrazano bridge - same exact shot Fincher uses when Gyllenhaal is driving to visit the archives late in the film. Never saw a similar shot anywhere else; either Fincher or his DP must have remembered it from the Pryor movie. Funny.
shareThat's like saying Cameron lifted shots for Titanic from Jaws because they were both filmed on the ocean...
shareTo be a bit of an arse on my part, Cameron DID lift shots from "A Night To Remember" (1958) which some consider a better Titanic movie...
shareBut what Blinkconn described was an all-too-common shot to show the city.
In a 3 hour film, this 'lifted scene' is too insignificant to even discuss about.
Oh no, whatever shall we dooooo?
Breaking: gremlins 2 uses shots from Superman during its intro. Dante even admits this.
So -- where do you go from here?
That would make 3 Christmas' I've saved, vs. 8 that I've ruined; two were kind of a draw..