Portmanteau movies

[barondave]

A few more of the Shockwave bits read/performed at Applecon. These are Portmanteau Movies, a term I made up to describe the title of a movie that comprises two (or more) other movie titles. I started a list circa 1991 and keep adding to it and editing it for spelling and more recent movies. Some were used on Shockwave Radio, and some I was hesitant to read out loud... but some people liked them. You know who you are. Here is a small sample of some of my favorites. You are encouraged to come up with your own.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Earnest

(the Australian bondage film) Tie Me Up, Tie Me Kangaroo Down

Jungle Book of the Dead

The Magnificent Seven Year Itch

The 39 Stepford Wives

Brief Encounters of the Third Kind

Vampyr Gynt

License To Kill A Mockingbird

Seven Amadeus in May

Amos and Gandhi

The Twelve Angry Chairs

Honey, I Shrunk the Bismark

The Lady and the Tramp Sing the Blues

8 1/2 Men Out

Day For Night Shift

Hardboiled Egghead Adventures (IQ, the Jury)

Naked Gun With The Wind

The Paper Chase for Red October

It's A Big Red Wonderful Life

Brother Can You Spare Another Planet?

Stand By Roger and Me

The Bicycle Thief of Baghdad

Jules and Lord Jim

Comments

my bad thought for the day

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

You could make that first one into a triple... "The Unbearable Lightness of Being Ernest".

For those of you who cannot get the image of Ernest in a sex scene written by Oscar Wilde out of your head for the rest of the day, I sincerely apologize.

Re: my bad thought for the day

[barondave.livejournal.com]

The (or a) triple would be "The Unbearable Lightness of Being Ernest Goes To Camp". Which, in front of the right crowd, could be further morphed to...

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Some of those are just plain lovely. I take it you know ISIHAC play a similar game?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. Who's ISIHAC?

[powersalad.livejournal.com]

I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue - hilarious BBC comedy quiz show ("the antidote to panel games"). Sometimes find-able at bbc.co.uk/radio

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Anything like "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" on NPR?

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Their version of the film game is Double Features (http://www.g0akh.f2s.com/isihac/Double_Feature_Page.php) and is premised on the movie industry going broke and having to make films by combining old ones....

I think we need to get you a recording of a show or two.

[lukeski.livejournal.com]

"It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad Love"?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Or alternately, "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Wayne's World".

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are good. I know costumers who've portrayed portmanteau characters: Will Scarlett O'Hara and Red Sonja Henje are two that I remember.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

And I once appeared at a Mythcon masquerade as "Rupert Giles of Ham".

This being possibly obscure to some readers I'll explain it as a portmanteau of Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Farmer Giles of Ham from Tolkien.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

For "Closing Ceremonies" aka "The Fall of House of the Usherette", one of my characters was Dashiell Hamlet, the hard-boiled yet indecisive detective.

"To be, or 221B, that is the question..."

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Shakespeare in Love with the Proper Stranger?
Doctor Zhivago in the House?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

heh

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

Jumping Jack Flash Gordon
Jumping Jack Flesh Gordon
Run Silent Run Deep Throat
This is Spinal Taps
The Empire Strikes Back to the Future
Mother Jugs and Speed 2
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alices Restaurant
Black Sunday in the Park
Fiddler on a hot tin roof
Brigadune
The Running Man of La Mancha
Cant Stop the Sound of Music

heres one that we could chain 4 together but gets unwieldy so this works instead
Free Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory



Clint Eastwood double feature
When Dirty Harry Met Sally
Dirty Harry and the Hendersons

[barondave.livejournal.com]

heh

Though these were for the radio, so we'd probably have to go with

Brigadune Messiah

and leap whole heartedly into

Free Willy Wonka and the Water for Chocolate Factory

or simplify with

Triumph of the Willy Wonka