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Revision as of 00:47, 21 April 2015
| Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock | |
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| Battle information | |
| Release date | December 15, 2014 |
| Number | 51 |
| Views | 22,000,000+ (As of April 6) |
| Length | 4:00 (longest to date) |
| Timeline | |
| Previous | Oprah vs Ellen |
| Next | Epic Rap Battles of History 52 |
| Beat Information | |
| Other information | |
| Actors | Nice Peter EpicLLOYD Wax Ruggles Outbound |
| Rappers |     
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| Location(s) | Jurassic Park Bates Motel Overlook Hotel The Moon |
Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock is the fifty-first installment of Epic Rap Battles of History and the sixth episode of Season 4. It features science fiction and action film director, Steven Spielberg, suspense and horror film director, Alfred Hitchcock, film noir director, Quentin Tarantino, arthouse director, Stanley Kubrick, and blockbuster action film director, Michael Bay in a five-way director battle royale. It was released on December 15, 2014.
Cast
Nice Peter as Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay
Ruggles Outbound as Stanley Kubrick
Lyrics
Steven Spielberg:
Picture a child sitting next to a projector,
Learning from your films to become a much better director.
Now, picture a 3 billion dollar dream machine
Who can block bust all over your crop duster scene!
Try to Duel with me, Alfred, you must be Psycho!
I'll bring back JAWS and take a bite of your Lifeboat!
I'm Always so on top of my game. I get the Vertigo!
My jet's in the Terminal waiting for me to Murder! ya.
I rock the Academy and the DGA!
You rock as many Oscars as that schlep Michael Bay!
Next time you're filling up those jowls with three steaks and soufflé,
Check the trades; see me Amblin to my next big play!
I produce cartoons and make games for all ages.
You produce Jimmy Stewart making one of two faces!
Maybe next time I visit, you'll be a bit more gracious!
Now kiss my full moon and just bask in my greatness!
Alfred Hitchcock:
That was a close encounter of the turd kind,
But there won't be a pretty ending this time.
Half your billions should go to John Williams!
Now brace yourself as I reveal my brilliance!
I'm the master…of suspense, so intense,
No defense against Hitchcock once he presents! (Ahh!)
My skill is enormous, orchestrate brilliant performance.
You're more horrible than Megan Fox's acting in Transformers!
C'mon! Fish puppets and Muppets to stir the fears up!
I squeeze screams out of chocolate syrup!
I'm the best mamma-jamma ever stood behind the camera!
Damage panderers and haunt you like the last Indiana!
Quentin Tarantino:
Cut! Gimme a Tylenol. Stop rhyming, y'all!
Alfred, you got no style, dog. I'm the king of dialogue!
There's only one movie I know you from,
And I've seen more blood in the shower when I stubbed my toe in one.
You tried to fight in World War I but couldn't do that.
The British Army wouldn't let you join 'cause you were too fat!
Look it up; it's a true fact. Wikipedia that!
Now allow me to attack Steven the hack.
Due to War of the Worlds, a failure's what I label you.
It looked like some sellout bullshit Michael Bay would do!
Ask anybody, "What's your favorite Sam Jackson part?"
No one's gonna say, "What's-his-name from Jurassic Park!"
Scripts that I write ain't the…cleanest, (Fuck!)
But when I grip mics I'm the…meanest. (Dick!)
Quentin Tarantino is a…genius.
A bad mother fucker from the wallet to the penis!
Stanley Kubrick:
Genius is a powerful word, but there's no reason to use it,
'Less you're talking about the Kubrick, then there's really nothing to it.
Everything I do is visionary.
Every single frame a painting made exactly how I wanna make it.
Do another take and get it right, 127 times!
I'll make you learn to love me! I'm the bomb, drop ultraviolent rhymes!
Like Clockwork, make you all hurt, beat Spielberg The Color Purple!
A.I. is the worst waste of potential since the Ninja Turtles!
Michael Bay:
That's enough! I've heard enough crap from all of you!
Why don't I come down there and show you what a real star can do?
I swoop low with the telephoto, no Bruckheimer, I work solo.
If there's one thing I've learned, bitch, this game is about mother fucking money!
I make that dollar, y'all, mother fucking money!
Even make Mark Wahlberg make some mother fucking money!
I set up shop and got a few drops of that Got Milk money!
Rose to The Rock, now I got that socks made of silk money!
I ain't got that guilt money! I don't give a fuck!
I take my checks to the bank, and I sign 'em with my nuts!
I give the people what they love while the critics say I'm evil!
Got no time to read reviews while I'm working on the sequel!
Got a gift from above and the eyes of an eagle!
When it comes to blowing up, no director is my equal!
Scrapped lyrics
Alfred Hitchcock:
Hitchcock's scrapped lyrics as seen in the Behind the Scenes
Well that was a close encounter
of the turd kind
But there won't be a happy little ending this time
I'm the master…of suspense
No defense
Against Hitchcock once he presents
uh!
You wouldn't be anything without me
I'm the one who invented all your best techniques!
fish puppets and Muppets to stir the fear up
I can squeeze screams from some chocolate syrup
I'm enormous
orchestrate a brilliant performance
You're as boring to watch as dialogue in Transformers
Here's the reveal
you may be worth billions,
But half that cash should go straight to John Williams
And not to put your pictures into black and white
But you did Schindler's List for free
Got paid for Amistad, right? Yikes.
I'm the best mamma jamma
ever stood behind a cameras
Hitch put this mainstream (I'll DP E.T. post it on IMDB)
Poll
Trivia
General
- This is the first mid-season finale to not be a holiday battle.
- This battle was released three days before Steven Spielberg's birthday.
- This is the fifth battle with third parties and the second battle with multiple ones, after Rasputin vs Stalin.
- This is the first battle where more than one guest plays a third-party rapper.
- This is the first episode of Season 4 in which Nice Peter physically portrays a solo title rapper.
- The last time he acted solo was as George Washington in George Washington vs William Wallace.
- This is the second battle to feature film directors, the first being Bruce Lee vs Clint Eastwood.
- However, it is the first battle to feature individuals known primarily for being a film director. Both Bruce Lee and Clint Eastwood are better known as actors.
- This is the longest battle to date at 4:00, beating Rasputin vs Stalin at 3:38 seconds.
- Coincidentally, both of these are battle royales.
- This is the first battle to feature footage which was not filmed in front of a screen (Kubrick riding down the halls of Makers Studios).
- During Michael Bay's verse, an eagle is seen disappearing in an explosion in the background. The eagle reappears at the end when the Epic Rap Battles of History logo explodes.
- This battle has the second/third most locations (without counting reused footage), with 4 different locations, behind Zeus vs Thor and tied with Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters.
- The battle alternates between having a rapper who is currently living and a rapper who is deceased. Spielberg, Tarantino, and Bay are all still alive at the time of the battle's release while Hitchcock and Kubrick are both deceased.
- This is the first battle since Romeo and Juliet vs Bonnie and Clyde that Peter has made a physical appearance in.
- When the video was first released, Stanley Kubrick was credited as "The Ghost of Stanley Kubrick" in the description of the battle.
- The description has since been changed to credit him.
- This is the third battle to have an acapella version, following Zeus vs Thor and Jack the Ripper vs Hannibal Lecter.
- The title of the video doesn't include the season number, making it the first since Season 1.
Production
- Not including the recording sessions or green screen cuts, this is the third battle to have more than one Behind the Scenes video. The first two were Darth Vader vs Hitler and Zeus vs Thor.
- This is the sixth battle where one actor voiced/played more than one rapper, the first five being Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates, Rasputin vs Stalin, Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge, Artists vs TMNT and Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters.
Continuity
- This is the first time the creator of a character appears after the character, and the third instance a character and their creator have both rapped in the series, after Dr. Seuss appeared with his characters, the Cat in the Hat and the Things against William Shakespeare, whose characters, Romeo and Juliet, eventually appeared later.
- This battle has the most beats out of any battle at five, beating out Rasputin vs Stalin and Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge, which both had three.
- This is also the first battle in which every rapper has their own beat.
- The scream heard in Alfred Hitchcock's verse is the same scream heard in the end sequence of Jack the Ripper vs Hannibal Lecter.
- This is the first battle where a character cannot be directly seen in his title card.
- This battle has many similarities to Rasputin vs Stalin.
- Both feature five rappers, each in their own party.
- Both have a character portrayed by Nice Peter start with a verse, a character portrayed by EpicLLOYD with the second verse, and a character portrayed by Nice Peter with the fifth and final verse.
- Just like the last royale, every character is in color except for one (Vladimir Lenin and Alfred Hitchcock).
- Both have a character enter the battle through a seeming hole in the battle (Mikhail Gorbachev and Quentin Tarantino).
- Both have characters portrayed within a projection screen (Vladimir Putin, Steven Spielberg, and Alfred Hitchcock).
- Both have a character enter from above (Vladimir Lenin and Michael Bay).
- Both had connections that were hinted at before the battle's season began without revealing they would be royales.
- Rasputin vs Stalin was hinted at by the "quote" by Vladimir Putin saying that he would kill Nice Peter if there was no Russian in Season 2 at the end of Nice Peter vs EpicLLOYD.
- This battle was hinted at by Nice Peter in this Wiki's chat, where he mentioned there would be a director battle in Season 4.
References
- An early version of the video description was:
"Directed by Woody Allen.
Written by Martin Scorsese.
Edited by George Lucas.
Musical Score by Prince."- These credits were also posted by ERB in the comments of the video.
- During Steven Spielberg's title card, he points out his finger and it glows, a reference to E.T.
- In Alfred Hitchcock's title card, Alfred Hitchcock is shown as a silhouette from the side, a reference to the intro of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Later, both Spielberg and Hitchcock can be seen as silhouettes during the end of Spielberg's verse and start of Hitchcock's verse.
- During the "Who won? Who's next?" sequence, Alfred Hitchcock dances with his hands flapping like a bird, a reference to his movie The Birds.
- During the end slate, Quentin Tarantino's dance is a reference to his movie, Pulp Fiction.
- During the "Who won? Who's next?" part, Michael Bay dances as if starting a chainsaw, a reference to the remake of the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which he had helped produce.
- Many references are made to common tropes within each director's works:
- Spielberg: The dolly zoom (in his first 4 lines)
- Tarantino: The trunk shot (at the end of his verse)
- Kubrick: Long periods of silence (the intro leading up to his verse)
- Bay: Explosions (throughout his verse)
- Quentin Tarantino's background is a reference to his Kill Bill movies. The promotional posters for the movies often used the color yellow, and the character of The Bride wears a yellow jumpsuit.
- Stanley Kubrick can be seen riding a tricycle based on the one from The Shining during Quentin Tarantino's verse.
- The music before Kubrick's entrance is Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra, which was used as the theme of Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Kubrick's line, "Every single frame a painting made exactly how I wanna make it", references Every Frame a Painting, a YouTube channel about film techniques. This channel helped inspire the battle (confirmed in a comment by the ERB channel on one of their videos).
- In Kubrick's line "Like Clockwork, make you all hurt, beat Spielberg The Color Purple!", he points at his right eye, referencing his movie "A Clockwork Orange", where the main character, Alex DeLarge, wears makeup on his right eye.
- The colorful background that starts with Kubrick's line "Do another take and get it right, 127 times" is a reference to the Stargate sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- All movies referenced in the battle:
- mentioned by Spielberg
- Duel (directed by Spielberg)
- Psycho (directed by Hitchcock)
- JAWS (directed by Spielberg)
- Lifeboat (directed by Hitchcock)
- Always (directed by Spielberg)
- Vertigo (directed by Hitchcock)
- The Terminal (directed by Spielberg)
- Murder! (directed by Hitchcock)
- Amblin' (directed by Spielberg)
- mentioned by Hitchcock
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (directed by Spielberg)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Hitchcock's TV show)
- Transformers (directed by Bay)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (directed by Spielberg)
- mentioned by Tarantino
- Reservoir Dogs (directed by Tarantino)
- War of the Worlds (2005) (directed by Spielberg)
- Jurassic Park (directed by Spielberg)
- mentioned by Kubrick
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (directed by Kubrick)
- A Clockwork Orange (directed by Kubrick)
- The Color Purple (directed by Spielberg)
- A.I. (directed by Spielberg)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (produced by Bay)
- mentioned by Bay
- The Rock (1996) (directed by Bay and partially written by Tarantino)
- Eagle Eye (produced by Spielberg)
- Indirect references (not explicit in the lyrics)
- North by Northwest (directed by Hitchcock)
- mentioned by Spielberg
Errors
- At 0:19, the animation of the inside of the T-Rex's mouth glitches for a few frames.
- Quentin Tarantino's opening line has a misspelled "Gimme" – "Cut! Gimmie a Tylenol!"
- During the line "Ask anybody, 'What's your favorite Sam Jackson part?'", Quentin Tarantino's right hand gets cut off.
- As Kubrick rides the tricycle into battle, the camera zooms in on the wheels showing a space background instead of the moon.
- This, however, could have been done intentionally as a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- During the line "I make that dollar y'all, motherfucking money!", Michael Bay's left hand gets cut off.
- During Michael Bay's verse, the subtitles say "got few a drops" instead of "got a few drops".
- During the line "Got no time to read reviews while I'm working on the sequel!", Michael Bay's left hand gets cut off.
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