. . . and before watching the movie!
Any Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl fans out there? I need to read this book!
The movie has a great subplot of mini parody movies that some viewers might actually enjoy more than the movie itself. I tried to find a youtube clip of just the mini - movies, but no luck. This explanation about the making of them will give you some idea.
The titles alone are hilarious!
A partial list follows:
• “Anatomy of a Burger,” based on 1959’s “Anatomy of a Murder,” directed by Otto Preminger.
• “Ate 1/2 (Of My Lunch),” based on “8 1/2,” directed by Federico Fellini.
• “A Box O’ Lips, Wow,” based on Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.”
• “The Battle of All Deer,” based on “The Battle of Algiers,” by Gillo Pontecorvo.
• “Breathe Less,” based on Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless.”
• “Burden of Screams,” based on Les Blank’s “Burden of Dreams.”
• “Can’t Tempt,” based on Godard’s “Contempt.”
• “Crouching Housecat Hidden Housecat,” based on Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
• “Death in Tennis,” based on Luchino Visconti’s “Death in Venice.”
• “My Dinner With Andre the Giant,” based on Louis Malle’s “My Dinner With Andre.”
• “Don’t Look Now Because a Creepy Ass Dwarf Is About to Kill You!! Damn!!!” based on Nicolas Roeg’s “Don’t Look Now.”
• “Eyes Wide Butt,” based on Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.”
• “Hairy, Old and Mod,” based on Hal Ashby’s “Harold and Maude.”
• “La Gelee,” based on Chris Marker’s “La Jetèe.”
• “Gone With My Wind,” based on Victor Fleming’s “Gone With the Wind.”
• “Grumpy Cul-de-Sacs,” based on Scorsese’s “Mean Streets.”
• “It’s a Punderful Life,” based on Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
• “The Janitor of Oz,” based on Fleming’s “The Wizard of Oz.”
• “The Lady Manishness,” based on Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes.”
• “Monorash,” based on Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon.”
• “My Best Actor Is Also a Dangerous Lunatic,” based on Werner Herzog’s “My Best Fiend.”
• “Nose Ferret 2,” based on F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu.”
• “Pooping Tom,” based on Powell’s “Peeping Tom.”
• “Rear Wind,” based on Hitchcock’s “Rear Window.”
• “Rosemary Baby Carrots,” based on Roman Polanski’s “Rosemary’s Baby.”
• “Senior Citizen Cane,” based on Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane.”
• “The Seven Seals,” based on Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal.”
• “A Sockwork Orange,” based on Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.”
• “Vere’d He Go?” based on Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.”
• “2:48 p.m. Cowboy,” based on John Schlesinger’s “Midnight Cowboy.”
See further: A guide to fun movie references in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl / Austin Movie Blog: "Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has slipped in lots of sly movie references . . . related to the director’s past — his association with Martin Scorsese . . . ."
