Mr. Robot | Movies & TV references and inspiration

song: intriguing possibilities - trent reznor and atticus ross

all references in the video were confirmed by usanetwork's website and/or on r/MrRobot by several redditors

hellooo! here's a video that i've been meaning to post for months, took me a lot of time to watch at least 80% of what's mentioned in the video so i could catch all the references lol.

hope u enjoy!

movies/tv shows and how they're referenced:
- a clockwork orange (cinematography)
- the girl with the dragon tattoo (darlene's disguise, hacker protagonist)
- a space odyssey (cinematography, end scene)
- the social network (ctf tournament, protagonist's voice over, programming scenes)
- fight club (lol)
- the shining (confirmed by sam esmail: 3x03 was inspired by this movie)
- risky business (musical reference "tangerine dream - love on a real train)
- v for vendetta (mask, revolution)
- casablanca ("louis, i think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship")
- breaking bad (confirmed by usanetwork, hat is meant to represent heisenberg)
- american psycho (tyrell wellick's character)
- the sopranos (characters lost in the woods)
- pump up the volume (christian slater having social anxiety + revolution)
- vanilla sky (empty times square scene)
- twin peaks (dream sequences)
- the master (confirmed by martin wallström, referenced in the interrogation scene)
- hackers (on tv)
- requiem for a dream (elliot on adderall)
- eyes wide shut (rich people secretly doing nasty stuff)
- the king's speech (confirmed by martin wallström, scenography)
- the third man (ferris wheel's scene)
- the shawshank redemption (learning the rules about prison)
- superman (on tv)
- pulp fiction (same dialogue)
- full house (intro)
- alf (character cameo)
- lolita ("the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket")
- comet (photography, referenced multiple times in the show)
- back to the future (lol)

some honorable mentions to movies i couldn't find a way to incorporate into the video:
- heathers
- the parallax view
- dr. strangelove
- one flew over the cuckoo's nest
- matrix
- butterfly effect

p.s 1: there are definitely a ton of movies missing that i probably forgot to add, so sorry in advance
p.s 2: yes i'm still not over this show