Parts: The Clonus Horror

(a security guard is talking on his headphones, and it looks like he’s talking to himself)
Crow (in a bad Jimmy Stewart imitation): Now, Harvey, Harvey…

The same thing goes for Jimmy Stewart imitations as it does Humphrey Bogart imitations. Actually, Crow didn’t do that bad a job. He’s referencing Stewart’s comedy Harvey, where Stewart plays a man with an imaginary friend, a giant rabbit named Harvey. It’s cute, although the portrait of Harvey used in the movie is kind of creepy. Like, I would be scared if I saw Harvey. Harvey's creepy.


(Clone Boy runs down the hallway)
Mike: No one’s guarding my father!

This is a line from The Godfather. Michael Corleone notices, at some point, that no one is guarding his mafia pop Don Corleone from assassins. Don Corleone is in the hospital, either having had a heart attack or having had been shot down. I haven’t seen the film in a while, you see. By the by, Don Corleone is played by Marlon Brando, who was in A Streetcar Named Desire, which also starred Vivien Leigh…


(Pearl Forrester asks for help keeping the evil space children docile.)
Mike (holding a knife): “Ah, so you need me. Once again you realize that there is nothing you possess which I cannot take away. The Hovidos should have warned you. If only you spoke Hovidos—acondemetusu, howugai! Sh! Sh!

Whoo, that was too funny. It’s a reference to the first scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark (which, coincidentally, I’m watching right now), where Indiana Jones has just gotten a Chachapoyan Fertility Idol and escaped from the temple (remember the scene where he’s chased by a huge boulder? That’s it.) Renee Belloq meets Indy outside with a group of Hovitos and he takes away the idol, saying the line Mike said above (without the “Ah, so you need me”). I’m going to say a couple of things about Raiders of the Lost Ark, because—after Notorious—it’s my favorite movie. The first of the Indiana Jones movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark is arguably the greatest adventure movie of all time. It cemented Harrison Ford’s place as a movie star (I think he’s one of the greatest working actors right now) and indeed, he’s great in it. He typifies the anti-hero (handsome, intelligent, but mercenary), both here and in Star Wars. Karen Allen is the best of the Indiana Jones Girls: she’s tough, she’s funny, she’s smart; she’s not whiny like Kate Capshaw in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom or bland like Allison Doody in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Who could forget John Williams’ theme song, which, when humming it, makes any menial chore you’re doing seem exciting? And then there are the great action scenes—the aforementioned first scene with the boulder, the great Tibetan barroom fight scene, the scene in the Cairo marketplace, and the exhilarating horse/truck/plane scene in the middle (considered by Roger Ebert to be the best chase in movie history; you’ve got to see it). It’s no wonder I never get tired of watching this movie (ever since I was a little kid I’ve loved Indiana Jones; I pretended I was his little sister, and would run around yelling, “Those damn Nazis! I hate those guys!”)


Clone Girl: I’ve grown accustomed to you.
Crow: Like breathing out and breathing in…

My Fair Lady, starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. A musical in the Pygmalion vein. Rex Harrison sings the above line in “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face”, one of those “I’m about to give her up but, hey, wait a minute—I’m in love with her!” scenes. Despite the fact that Audrey Hepburn gave a darling version of “Moon River” in the previous Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the fact that she prepared to sing in this role, she for the most part doesn’t actually sing in this movie. Marni Nixon does her singing for her. Hepburn was reportedly pretty disappointed by it.


(Clone Boy is still running down the hallway)
Tom: I’m going to free Randall McMurphy!

Randall McMurphy was the hero of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a novel by Ken Kesey about a guy in a psychiatric hospital who gives the other patients the power to be free and think for themselves. He’s smothered by a mute Indian at the end, by the way. In the movie, he was played by Jack Nicholson. I myself have never seen the movie (read the book though) but I do know that it was the second movie to win all four of the major Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress. The first movie to do such a thing was It Happened One Night: Frank Capra won Best Director, Clark Gable won Best Actor (his only win ever, although he was nominated for…uh…Gone with the Wind), and Claudette Colbert won for Best Actress. After Cuckoo’s Nest, the last movie (as of 2008) to win all four categories was Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme for Director, Anthony Hopkins for Actor, and Jodie Foster for Actress). In MST3K’s Invasion of the Neptune Men episode, Mike cries out “Ken Kesey’s got a gun!” If anybody out there has any idea as to why he yelled this, contact me. It’s driving me crazy.


(Clone Boy is sitting by the river)
Tom (singing): I’m all out of lunch! No, no, I’m all out of breath! No, I’m all out of Africa. No wait…

Out of Africa is a 1985 drama starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. See what I have to say about it in the Leech Woman section.