10 Movies That Subtly Homaged Other Movies

Once one of the brightest actors in Hollywood, John Travolta's career didn't pan out as well as it could have. That may sound like a disparaging remark for an actor with two Oscar nominations to his name but it feels like the truth. Travolta isn't a box office draw and has not been for a long time. Most of his performances over the last decade have been hammed up to the extreme - and that's now his greatest quality. Travolta has an ironic appeal and anyone who is to watch 2010 film From Paris With Love should delight in his over-the-top performance.

Directed by Pierre Morel, whose previous work includes Taken, From Paris With Love is an action film about CIA operatives that pairs a jarringly bald Travolta with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Critics didn't take to it kindly and panned it for being repetitive and dull. One standout moment that viewers of the movie may remember involves Travolta making an exchange with two shadowy figures before returning with a paper bag.

Meyers' character James Reese asks what's in it and Travolta tells him it's 'something that will get him killed one day' before taking out a Royale with Cheese. This whole scene is a homage to what may be Travolta's finest hour. As Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Travolta shares facts about the wider world with Samuel L. Jackson's Jules Winnfield. He talks about the weed in Amsterdam and the differences in Parisian cuisine, such as Royales. The discussion has been referenced by many movies since but none with such a direct connection.