Non Armo Films that reference Armos

[ara87]

So I thought we should make a list of non armo movies that reference armenians. I'll start off, you can list the reference from the movie if you want but don't have to.

- Author! Author! -
Al Pacino plays Ivan Travalian, a playwright who was adopted by Armenian parents. He tells his love interest that you know when someones Armenian b/c their last name rhymes with the word Armenian. (Not a good film fyi)

- My Big Fat Greek Wedding -
When Toula, the Greek lead, is having dinner with her American fiancee's parents, her mother in-law to be mistkes her husbands former Guatemalan secratary to be Armenian, and asks Toula if Armenia is close to Greece.

- Bad News Bears (2005)-
Jeffery Tedmori plays an Armenian boy named Garo Daragabrigadian, who is on a baseball team of made up of misfits. When their coach (Billy Bob Thorton) calls roll for the first time he looks at the roster and says "What the hell? ...Garo Daragabrigadian..? Is that Aztec or something?" garo replies that it is "Armenian" to which the coach says, "Same xxxx, they both buit pyramids."

- The Truth About Charlie -
This film never mentions Armenians specifically, but it mentions Charles Aznavour enough to make anyone want to find out who he is. Charles even makes a cameo and sings through the end credits

[freakyfreaky]

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Copland-

If I recall, the movie starts in a bar with a couple of off duty Jersey cops telling a derogatory joke about an Armenian and a goat. My recollection may be incorrect though.

See also - Woody Allen & Armenians - something about someone being so depressed that he tried committing suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

[ara87]

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Sideways

Lol forgot about that one.


A Day Without a Mexican

[Pazooki]

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InblackandwHite

mykeyboardisbroken

[Thai-Samurai]

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That actor from Half Baked did a weird jay leno skit or something, where he hangs out w/ an Armenian family. It's pretty funny.

It's called a day w/ an Armenian family on youtube.

[One-Way]

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Woody Allen has made a reference to Armenians in a few films; the one that comes to mind is from Love and Death.

"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."

[Ari]

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there's one that i cant remember the name, but it is a popular action flick not too long a go that mentions the conflict in karabagh

[freakyfreaky]

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Kickass. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1250777/

In it, there is a scene where the leading male actor is introducing himself and someone jumps off of a building and thumps the roof of a taxi to which he responds "that's not me by the way, just some Armenian guy with a history of mental health problems."

http://www.superherohype.com/news/featuresnews.php?id=8562

Vaughn wanted to start off by sharing some clips from the first act of the movie, starting off with one that could very well be the opening of the movie, starting with a shot of the Empire State Building and a New York with a soaring score that sounds like it was taken right out of Richard Donner's Superman. The camera pans back to show a guy in a red costume with wings standing at the top of a building looking downwards and a serious voice-over talking about how there are all these comic books, movies and TV shows about superheroes and wondering why no one had ever thought of making themselves a costume. The narrator (our hero) asks "Is everyday life really so exciting that I'm the only one who fantasized about this? Come on, be honest with yourself. At some point in our lives, we all wanted to be a superhero." The music builds and then the figure dives forward off the building plunging straight downwards with the costume's wings outstretched. The crowd watching from below cheers and applauds at the sight of this swooping freefall but then the body hits the roof of a cab and smashes it inwards in a huge impact leaving the audience mortified. The voiceover continues, "That's not me by the way. That's some Armenian guy with a history of mental health problems. Who am I? I'm Kick-Ass." (This scene got a lot of laughs and cheers from the audience.) We're then in an establishing shot of the city, scrolling by a store made to look like Atomic Comics and then we meet Dave and his two geeky friends (one being Duke) as they're talking about exactly what the narrative asked, why no one has ever tried to be a superhero and help people. A lot of the dialogue seemed to come right from the scene in the comic with them weighing the options and arguing their theories why or why not someone might want to do something like that. One of them asks why thousands of people might want to be Paris Hilton but not Spider-Man, and the other retorts about Hilton "having no tits at all."

[Sako]

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Borat!

His producer in the movie talks Armenian like all the time, lol.

Soul Men

The same dude that played a producer in Borat plays in this movie. He's seen very briefly.

[TomServo]

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That is a depressing list of films.

Like Azamat Bagatov in Borat, many of these "Armenian" characters really have no specified ethnicity. Our diaspora is so vast that I can see how it is difficult to categorize us. Some of these characters range (in appearance and culture) from Middle Eastern to Eastern/Southern European to... WASP (Stephen Spinella's character on 24, LOL?)

I recently watched the 1995 science fiction film Strange Days. It is set in the "future" (a racially tense Los Angeles right around New Year's Eve 1999). There is a scene where Ralph Fiennes is watching the news and the anchorwoman briefly mentions Turkey making reparations to Armenians! The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who is currently receiving a lot of attention for her Iraq War film The Hurt Locker. After In the Valley of Elah I kinda never wanted to see an Iraq War movie ever again, but I might have to make an exception.

I also loved this Armenian reference on 30 Rock:

Tina Fey: We've come a long way from that apartment we shared in Little Armenia.
Jane Krakowski: Oh, it was so weird there! Do you remember that neighborhood festival where they killed a goat in the street?
Tina Fey: Yes! But we did have really good luck that year.
Jane Krakowski: Yeah.