How High: The two main characters in
this movie tuck explosives on pigeons and blow them up! Dustin Abraham is the ingenious
scipt-writer of this film. (We should really start crediting these guys!)
2001:
The Others: One of the dialogues that
takes place between the 2 kids goes something like this:
[talking about the Bible] "_It says the Holy Ghost is a dove!". "Doves are not holy!"
"Yes, they pooh in our windows!"
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2000:
Satan's School for Girls (TV): Karen
Oxford enters an abandoned building inside the campus and gets scared by some pigeons.
1999:
The Fight Club: One of the vandalism acts
that is performed by the members of the Fight Club during the movie is to feed flocks of
pigeons on rooftops and then let them do... what they do best!
1994:
Major League II: The rival team's batter hits a pigeon.
The pigeon falls down on the ground and Pedro Cerrano runs to rescue it instead of
catching the ball. The Indians loose the game. The sport-casters comment at the end
of the game: _"At least the bird survived."
_"Who cares! It's a rat with wings!"
1993:
The Tower: An automated system for the protection of the tower detects a pigeon sitting in the
air-duct. The system exterminates the pigeon and the computer monitor informs: "SECURITY BREACH DELETED"!
1989:
Sea Of Love: Al Pacino runs after someone who has entered his
apartment building. He looks out of the corridor window to see where the stranger/intruder
went. 3 pigeons, sitting right out of the window fly away with a noise, scaring him.
1986:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off: About 34 minutes into the movie, as the 3 kids enter the garage in Chicago, Cameron objects to leaving the Ferrari there: "It could get wrecked, stolen, scratched, breathed on wrong, a pigeon could shit on it!..."
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1980:
Stardust Memories: A pigeons enters the apartment where Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling are together. He gets scared and tries to drive it out of the apartment using the fire extinguisher.
"Geez...no, it's not pretty at all. They're...they're...they're rats with wings....
...
No...no, get it out of here. It's probably one of those killer pigeons...
...
You see, it's got a swastika under its wings."
See YouTube video, at about 6 minutes into this clip
1968:
The Producers: As Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom go to meet Franz Liebkind they stumble upon the concierge of his building. She says to them: "He's
up on the roof with his birds. He keeps birds. Dirty, disgusting, filthy, lice-ridden birds. You used to be able to sit out on the stoop like a person. Not anymore. No sir. Birds! You get my drift?...”.
Of course the “birds” are nothing but pigeons. The script of the movie describes the next scene as follows:
"HE CROUCHES BESIDE A HUGE PIGEON COOP. IN HIS LEFT HAND HE TENDERLY HOLDS A PIGEON. IN HIS RIGHT, A SMALL PHOTO OF ADOLPH HITLER. HE SHOWS THE PICTURE TO THE BIRD. HE MOVES IT BACK AND FORTH UNTIL HE IS SURE THE BIRD IS FOCUSED ON IT PROPERLY.
LIEBKIND
(to pigeon) Hilda, look ... look good ...
Hilda, you're not looking. Hilda,
if he lives, I know you will find
him.
LIEBKIND
(looking up) Oh joy of joys! Oh, dream of
dreams! I can't believe it.
(he turns to the pigeons)
Birds, birds, do you hear? Otto,
Bertz, Heintz, Hans, Wolfgang, do
you hear? Ve are going to clear
the Fuhrer's name. Fly, fly,
spread the words.