Influence of Stanley Kubrick homages to Kubrick in his work, notably using actual footage from "" in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and modeling the look of Tweedledee and Tweedledum in his version of "Alice in Wonderland" on the Grady girls in "The Shining". Film critic Roger Ebert also noted that Burton's "Mars Attacks!" was partially inspired by "Dr. Strangelove".<ref name="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19961213/REVIEWS/612130302/1023"></ref> The video for The Killers' song "Bones" that Burton directed includes clips from Kubrick's "Lolita", as well as other films from the general era. Kubrick's influence on Todd Field was perhaps the most direct. After acting in Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut", Field immediately
Muzio Scevola Giovanni Bononcini had also been resident in London and composing operas for the Academy since 1719 and some music lovers preferred his lighter, more Italianate style with straightforward melodies to Handel's more weighty music. The rivalry between those who supported one of the composers more than the other inspired a satirical ditty from John Byrom: <poem> Some say, compared to Bononcini That meinherr Handel's but a ninny. Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee!</poem> To capitalise on this rivalry, according to Handel's first biographer