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The movie references that Tony makes often connect to his real life. In the second season in the episode titled "SWAK" Tony contracts the plague when he opens an envelope sent to NCIS. When he gets the virus, he is then put in isolation. While in isolation, he references the movie "Boy In The Plastic Bubble." In doing so, he tells Kate (a former agent) how he feels like the character that John Travolta plays in that movie.
Although Tony is the show's movie buff, he is not the only one who makes movie references in the show. In an episode in the third season called "Honor Code," there is an Austin Powers reference made by Gibbs. He is talking to Abby and she is saying how the kid in that episode is like Gibbs when he was younger, and Gibbs then replies "Are you saying Zack is a mini-me?" I thought that was awesome.
On an interesting "insiders" note, two television shows that Tony loves to reference are Magnum P.I and Airwolf. I find that to be really ironic because those two shows are produced by Donald Bellisario, who is the executive producer of NCIS.
Besides his movie references, he also likes to do impressions of his favorite characters and actors from his favorite movies. There are impressions that Tony does of characters that he likes. One impression that he does is of Sean Connery as James Bond.
I love how movies and television imitate life; or rather what we want our life to be. I think one of the reasons that Tony references these movies is not only because he is a fan of them, but also because he as an image of the perfect life. It seems as though he watches those movies to attain that image.
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Tony has indeed referenced loads of films throughout the series. I think the writing for the show is incredible in this area. How they work in well known movies, to those only a fraction of folks have seen. I was well impressed when Tony referenced the movie "So I Married An Ax Murderer" - one of my favorite movies ... and one that not many people I've encountered have seen.
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ps...I wonder what the tally would be if someone started at the beginning and kept track of all the movies he references.
ReplyDeleteThere are some people in the world who know movies as well as his character does.
I want to know if they ever had him reference a Mark Harmon movie? Or any other actors films from the cast. That would be great
ReplyDeleteS1E08 - Minimum Security - Has anyone else noticed that early in the series DiNozzo was clueless about movies? In S1E1, Yankee White it was Gibbs who made all the references to Air Force One not Tony. And in S1E8 Minimum Security Both Gibbs and Caitlin referred to Shane and Alan Ladd and Tony did not seem to even know either one. He even told a bartender that he had never seen the Maltese Falcon. So, how, in a couple of years did he become such an expert in movies and TV shows.
ReplyDeleteI would like to learn more on how this evolved.~~~~