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

[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..."