"We wanted to make references, but we also had to make sure that those references worked if you'd never seen the series".
"I don't think we'll make references for the sake of making references," Tancharoen said.
Instead they make several references to culture.
Make creative references.
Never make obscure references to things.
I'd guess that less than a sixth of the script's lines make direct reference to those candidates, and far less to the catastrophe called Sandy.
Fireballs and white lights exploded behind him; he made AC/DC references ("For those about to rock! For those about to rap!"); the camera zoomed up an aisle like a fan bum-rushing the stage; Brian Johnson wailed "Hey, yeah!"; and we got to see what Paul McCartney looks like at an AC/DC concert.
Ms. Schmidt indeed makes loose references to those artists' masculine work, like Mr. Snow's semen-covered news clipping and Mr. Colen's graffiti-sprayed phallic boulders.
The last act of the current Delacorte production of "The Merchant of Venice" was recently performed under a heartbreakingly radiant moon, an orb to which Shakespeare's script makes several references in those scenes.
