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14 Unexpected Inspirations and Influences Behind Our Favorite Movies and Shows

By:: Andres Diplotti

January 08, 2022

14 Unexpected Inspirations and Influences Behind Our Favorite Movies and Shows

Movies would get boring and repetitive if people who make, say, superhero films only took their inspiration from other superhero films. Yeah, we can hear the cynics saying that that’s already happening -- but we’re not cynical ourselves (today), and we acknowledge that movies and TV have a wider variety of influences that we tend to imagine, sometimes verging on the positively surprising…

14 The Golden Girls

THE GOLDEN GIRLS was inspired by MIAMI VICE. In 1984, NBC shot a humorous skit titled Miami Nice, starring two older actresses, for a special advertising their new shows (like Miami Vice). Execs liked it, and the idea was developed into a full series about old ladies living in Miami. — Source: Entertainment Weekly

13 The Office

THE OFFICE was heavily influenced by THE SOPRANOS. The Sopranos was actually the biggest influence on The Office, actor and producer B. J. Novak has said. The way Michael Scott will say something very serious but mispronounce a word I feel is a direct descendant of the Tony Soprano sense of humor. — Source: Yahoo

12 James Bond

James Bond's 007 came a bus. After author lan Fleming moved to Kent in the 1950s, he would often travel back to London by bus - specifically, the 007 bus. It still runs today, and is very popular with Bond fans. — Source: MyLondon

11 Spider-Man: Homecoming

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING takes cues from Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa's High and Low served as a model for the Vulture as a ground-level villain and his relationship to Tony Stark - as producer Amy Pascal put it, somebody who looks up at a wealthy person almost in a tower ... and feels the need to respond to that in a villainous way. — Source: SlashFilm

10 Black Panther

BLACK PANTHER took inspiration from THE GODFATHER. a man's Ryan father Coogler dies, and suddenly he has to step into realized that this position of power was pretty much a summary of The Godfather - so he watched all the Godfather films, taking notes. — Source: Esquire

9 Logan

LOGAN was inspired by LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. I want to make Little Miss Sunshine with Logan, Charles Xavier, and X-23, director James Mangold pitched to the studio. Trap these superheroes in a van on a highway ... and see what happens. — Source: Empire

8 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. was inspired by Steven Spielberg's imaginary friend. The film is partly autobiographical - when Spielberg's parents got a divorce, he made up an imaginary friend to deal with that. Except that in the movie, the friend is an actual alien. — Source: Best in Film

7 Wonder Woman

WONDER WOMAN's theme was inspired by Led Zeppelin. LED-ZEPPELIN According to Hans Zimmer's collaborator Thomas Holkenborg (a.k.a Junkie XL), both he and Zimmer are fans of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song, and Wonder Woman's powerful theme in the DCEU is their tribute to it. — Source: Screen Rant

6 DuckTales

The DUCKTALES reboot was influenced by X-MEN. Showrunners Matt Youngberg and Francisco Angones have said they took cues from Chris Claremont's X-Men comics, with their self- contained stories that feed an ongoing narrative. — Source: Vulture

5 The Lord of the Rings

The Ents in THE LORD OF THE RINGS were inspired by Shakespeare. No, there aren't talking, walking trees in Macbeth - and that pissed off a young J. R. R. Tolkien, who expected that the prophecy about the woods coming against Macbeth's castle became literally true. So years later, he wrote that into his own book. — Source: Tolkien Gateway

4 Eternals

ETERNALS took inspiration from FINAL FANTASY VII and SPIRITED AWAY. Hayao Miyazaki's movie and the role-playing video game were both constantly brought up during production, as illustrations of the gray areas and moral complexity and the movie was aiming for. — Source: Polygon

3 A Christmas Story

The leg lamp in A CHRISTMAS STORY was inspired by soda. Author Jean Shepherd got the idea for the wonderfully tacky lamp NEH DRIVER from an ad for Nehi Soda that featured female legs. (Nehi still QUALITY BEVERAGES exists today - it's called RC Cola.) — Sources: A Christmas Story House & Museum, The A.V. Club

2 The Purge

THE PURGE was inspired by road rage. Director James DeMonaco and his wife were almost killed by a drunk driver once. She was so blindingly mad at the guy, she said, Wouldn't it be great if we could have one free one a year? — Source: Den of Geek

1 Supernatural

SUPERNATURAL was partly inspired by Jack Kerouac. Kerouac's novel On the Road is about friends Dean and Sal as they travel across America. Supernatural is about brothers Dean and Sam (showrunner Eric Kripke didn't like the name Sal) as they hunt monsters and demons across America. — Source: The Daily Telegraph

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