In one scene an old man named Homer, played by actor Curt Bois ( 1901 – 91 ), searches in vain for Potsdamer Platz, but finds only rubble, weeds and the graffiti-covered Berlin Wall.

* In a scene of the The Simpsons Movie ( 2007 ), Homer Simpson is shown throat singing with an Inuit woman in order to have an epiphany.

The ode plays upon the fact that those who are listening to Bacchylides have also read the epics of Homer, and understand the whole story behind this scene that would speak poorly of Achilles if people did not know the role he played in the Trojan war.

As is often the case with ancient Greek literature, Bacchylides plays of the audience ’ s knowledge of Homer without repeating a scene told by Homer.

In his 1892 lecture, " The Humor of Homer " ( collected in his Selected Essays ), Samuel Butler concludes that Nausicaa was the real author of the Odyssey, since the laundry scene is more realistic and plausible than many other scenes in the epic.

Also, in Remember the Titans, there were many scenes shot on " The Square " and the final football scene in was shot at Homer Sharp Stadium, which is located right off " The Square " in downtown Covington.

The comic book version of The Simpsons, Simpsons Comics, also published a story called ' The Last Fat Man ', based partially on ' Time Enough at Last ' and actually has a short scene where Homer Simpson shoos a bespectacled man who is reading a book out of a nuclear bunker so he can eat in it, unintentionally taking shelter in it.

In the original script, Homer and Bart were not talking in the scene where they concealed their private parts with mud and moss, but Sam Simon thought it would be " too funny to leave as a stage direction " and they added dialogue to the scene.

Like Géricault, Homer makes a black man the pivotal figure in the scene, though here he is the vessel's sole occupant.

In " Homer the Smithers " he is seen in the opening scene with his arm around a woman who appears to be his girlfriend.

During the outro scene, Homer has difficulty opening a wine bottle, but is surprised to hear his son speak French, and eventually opens the wine bottle.

In an episode of The Simpsons titled " How I Spent My Strummer Vacation ", Homer receives song-writing lessons from Tom Petty, and in the original airing the track " The Last DJ " can be heard playing over the radio in the final scene.

In an extra scene from The Simpsons Movie DVD, Marge, Lisa, and Homer, acting as Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, and Simon Cowell, respectively, audition the actual Simon Cowell for a role.

* The Monolith scene at the start of 2001 is also featured in the Simpsons episode " Lisa's Pony " with primitive man represented by Homer Simpson.

The song " Word Up " is played in The Simpsons, season 20 episode 6 ( titled " Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words ") when Lisa Simpson is performing in a crossword competition and also in Everybody Hates Chris when Chris says that his mom always wanted to be in a band and it goes to a cut scene of Rochelle dancing and singing to the song.

The scene where Homer dances in his underwear to the song " Short Shorts " is almost identical to the scene in the 1983 Tom Cruise film, Risky Business.

The scene would show a man named Hassan Jay Salam being arrested by policemen, who think the rocket Bart and Homer launched was launched by him ( The rocket bears the abbreviation HJS, which stands for Homer J Simpson ).

The mountain is the scene of several mythic events in the works of Homer.

The Simpsons team encountered trouble with the network censors in the scene where Homer answers the phone and pretends to be Tony Dow from Leave it to Beaver.

Examples of this include the scene where Homer drives through the treacherous mountain roads, a parody of a scene in Sorcerer, and the scene in which Kent Brockman reports Barney's accident, in which his attire ( including glasses ), camera angles and facial expressions are in reference to the manner of Walter Cronkite's reporting of the Kennedy shooting.

As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually `` all mine '', with nearly every scene built around me.

Tracing every particle of light in a scene is nearly always completely impractical and would take a stupendous amount of time.

In July, the Ramones crossed the Atlantic for two London shows that helped spark the nascent UK punk scene and affected its musical style —" instantly nearly every band speeded up ".

Star Trek ( 2009 ) also references " Yesteryear ", featuring a nearly identical scene in which a young Spock is confronted by several other Vulcan children, who bully and provoke him for being part human.

By contrast, Peter Hall's production at the Shakespeare Memorial presented nearly the entire play, including the long-neglected dream scene ( although a golden eagle designed for Jupiter turned out too heavy for the stage machinery and was not used ).

In a scene in which her character Margot Wendice is nearly murdered, a struggle breaks out between her and her would-be-killer Tony Dawson as she kicks her legs and flails her arms attempting to fight off her killer.

The establishment of the Commission ushered in more than 20 years of relative " peace " to the New York and national organized crime scene, and Bonanno wrote: " For nearly a thirty-year period after the Castellammarese War no internal squabbles marred the unity of our Family and no outside interference threatened the Family or me.

In this tale, loosely based upon the life of Kazan's uncle, the director uses little-known cast members, with the entire storyline revolving around the central performance of Greek actor Stathis Giallelis ( born 1941 ), twenty-two years old at the time of production, who is in virtually every scene of the nearly three-hour movie.

In fact, it is an almost word-for-word dramatization of the novel, including nearly every scene and using Cain's original dialogue.

The use of extensive location shooting caused logistical problems ; a scene in which Kirk is nearly run over by an irate driver required 12 – 15 cars to be repositioned if the shot was incorrect, taking a half-hour to reshoot.

When the Avengers arrive on the scene they immediately try to destroy him but the Cube imbues him with nearly unlimited power, making him absolutely invulnerable.

The film Titanic used computer effects in nearly every scene of its three-hour running time ; one of the film's 11 Oscars was for special effects.

( Episode 1. 5 – " The Outsider "); The Devil Wears Prada ( Although it is uncredited an instrumental version of the song is played at nearly every pivotal moment in the film, as well as during the end credits ); One Tree Hill ( Episode 1. 17-" Spirit in the Night "); Duane Hopwood ; Friday Night Lights ( TV Series ) – song provides inspirational back-drop in scene where back-up Matt Saracen takes the field and excels

As leader of the Colorado Party, Stroessner exercised nearly complete control over the nation's political scene.

Appearing in nearly every scene of the series, doing many of his own stunts — including one that injured his back — was wearing him out.

Except for her participation in 1998's successful Reencuentro Tour with Timbiriche, Rubio was absent from the music scene for nearly four long years.

Kaunas, along with Vilnius, became the scene of nearly constant demonstrations as the Lithuanians, embarked on a process of self-discovery.

The Shaft of Hands sequence was filmed on a rig that was roughly forty feet high, and required nearly a hundred performers to operate the grey, scaly hands integral to the scene.

In fact it was so strong that it nearly lifted him off the ground and it took all his might to finish the scene.

In Stranger Invasion, he revealed himself to be Buzz's father ( a parody upon The Empire Strikes Back and a nearly identical scene in Toy Story 2 ), but quickly took it back, using the statement as a ' Made You Look ' in order to stun Buzz and gain the upper hand.

Planning and justifying the merger took nearly a decade, during which time the eastern railroad scene had changed dramatically, in large measure because of the impending merger of the NYC and PRR.

* Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide ( Part 2 ) – The beginning of the Rolling Stones ' " Sympathy for the Devil " was originally heard during the opening scene ; it was replaced by generic music ( however, the new music remains at the same volume even after Jennifer turns down the speaker, and nearly drowns out her subsequent conversation with Andy ).

Hume Cronyn suffered two cracked ribs and nearly drowned when he was caught under a water-activator making waves for a storm scene.

" In a scene noted by Spoto as an example, a Nazi passenger is " barking inanities " about how Germans should purify their race, to which a German-Jewish passenger responds, " There are nearly a million Jews in Germany.

The latter include the Pase stela ( depicting two figures wearing crowns who are nevertheless identified as a king and queen by the three uninscribed cartouches ); the Berlin 25574 stela ( depicting Akhenaten and Nefertiti but with an extra, fourth, cartouche added to indicate two kings rather than a king and queen ); and in Meryre II's tomb, a scene in which the figures of Akhenaten and Nefertiti are nearly superimposed over each other ( which is interpreted as indicating the oneness of their co-rule ).