6. The Untouchables (1987) The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The most famous set-piece homage of all-time, Brian De Palmas prohibition-era gangster flick made no bones of openly copying a sequence from another early landmark propaganda movie, The Battleship Potempkin by Sergei Eisenstein. The 1925 Russian Communist classic is a mainstay of every college film course, as is the inevitable comparison between the Odessa Steps Sequence and De Palmas tense gunfight at Chicagos Union Station, in which Kevin Costner is distracted by the plight of a baby in a pram. The Untouchables isnt the only film to pay tribute to the carriages descent down steps either: in The Naked Gun 33 1/3 its up to O.J. Simpson to save the baby, or babies in his case, although the spoof was actually lampooning De Palmas knock off first and foremost
