10 Movies That Made You Watch Other Movies
3. Deadpool 2 - Yentl
Though the Deadpool franchise is rife with finger-on-the-pulse pop-culture references, perhaps the single most unexpected and weirdly specific in the entire trilogy is Wade's (Ryan Reynolds) rant about Barbra Streisand's Oscar-winning 1983 drama Yentl in Deadpool 2.
Mid-way through the movie, Wade makes a crack about how Frozen's hit song "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" sounds extremely similar to Yentl's Oscar-nominated track "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
And while he's right, it's such a bizarre comment to make in the middle of a superhero movie that, of course, it had to be Ryan Reynolds who made the discovery himself. In explaining the gag, he said:
"I had watched Yentl on Turner Classic Movies a couple of weeks before, and I've watched Frozen 700 times with my daughter. Which is weird because Frozen is my favorite movie and Yentl is hers... But I had noticed that the song, 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?' and Yentyl's 'Papa Can You Hear Me?' sound suspiciously alike. [laughs] Some poor, hardworking songwriter's gonna go, 'What? I didn't... I didn't mean it.' I know."
All the same, this was likely the first time that many of the tens of millions of people who watched Deadpool 2 had ever heard of Yentl, and it's fair to say that a decent handful of them then went and checked it out for themselves.
Or in the very least, they gave the song a listen to see if Wade's claim held water.