Influences
The movie title is reported to have been the influence for the name of the popular annual live music festival South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, started in 1987, with the name idea coming from Louis Black, editor and co-founder of the local alternative weekly The Austin Chronicle as a play on the Hitchcock movie title.
The Family Guy episode "North By North Quahog" not only parodies the film's title but also recreates a few of the film's iconic scenes including the biplane attack and the chase across Mt Rushmore.
The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror XX contains several scenes from the film as well as other Hitchcock films in its first segment, Dial 'M' for Murder or Press '#' to Return to Main Menu. Bernard Herrmann's main theme from the soundtrack of North by Northwest is used extensively during that part of the episode.
In the NCIS episode "Enemy on the Hill" (Season 9, episode 4), the prime suspect being pursued is named "George Kaplan" and appears to exist only on paper. Towards the end of the episode Tony realizes that their Kaplan may have been inspired by the George Kaplan in Hitchcock's North By Northwest. This ultimately leads to the arrest of the real suspect.
In the movie Charley Varrick just prior to a variant of a crop duster chase scene, a romantic scene references directional lovemaking in a round bed, specifically "south by southwest".
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Famous quotes containing the word influences:
“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Whoever influences the child’s life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child’s future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)