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==Legacy== Tom Cox writes that many British filmmakers "have stolen from Hodges without matching the cold, realistic kick" of ''Get Carter''.<ref name=Cox>{{cite news |last=Cox |first=Tom |title=Get Hodges |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/may/28/features.tomcox |access-date=21 February 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=28 May 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430013245/http://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/may/28/features.tomcox |archive-date=30 April 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Films such as ''[[The Long Good Friday]]'', ''[[Face (1997 film)|Face]]'' and ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'' borrow from the film's blueprint. [[Steven Soderbergh]]'s 1999 film ''[[The Limey]]'' is a homage to ''Get Carter'' and other British gangster films, and contains similar plot elements and themes of revenge, family and corruption. Soderbergh said he envisioned ''The Limey'' as "''Get Carter'' made by [[Alain Resnais]]".<ref name="Palmer-2011">{{cite book |last=Palmer |first=R. Barton |title=The Philosophy of Stephen Soderbergh |year=2011 |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |location=USA |isbn=978-0-8131-2662-3 |pages=69β70 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JLEIC9E4YAkC&q=the+limey+get+carter&pg=PA69 |access-date=13 February 2012}}</ref> [[Shane Meadows]]' film ''[[Dead Man's Shoes (2004 film)|Dead Man's Shoes]]'' has also drawn comparisons to ''Get Carter'', being similarly a revenge gangster story set around a provincial English town.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dead Man's Shoes 2004 |url=https://www.empireonline.com/500/8.asp |work=Empire's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, Empire Magazine |access-date=16 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119170317/http://www.empireonline.com/500/8.asp |archive-date=19 January 2012 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bennett |first=Ray |title=Dead Man's Shoes at the Venice International Film Festival |work=Hollywood Reporter |date=9 September 2004}}</ref> The production team of the television series ''[[Life on Mars (UK TV series)|Life on Mars]]'' also cited ''Get Carter'' as one of their influences for the programme.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/12_december/08/mars_life.shtml|access-date=25 June 2021 |title=A sign of the times: How the Seventies were brought back to life |publisher=BBC |date=12 August 2005}}</ref> The film's music also enjoyed its own resurgence in popularity, for it tapped into a 1990s interest in vintage film soundtracks. [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]]'s [[Adrian Utley]] explained that they found the music to ''Get Carter'' inspiring because "it was done quickly and cheaply with only a few instruments, and it had to be intensely creative to disguise its limitations".<ref name="Johnson-1999"/> [[The Human League]] 1981 album ''[[Dare (album)|Dare]]'' contains a track covering the ''Get Carter'' theme, although it was only a version of the sparse [[leitmotif]] that opens and closes the film as opposed to the full-blooded [[jazz]] piece that accompanies the train journey. [[Stereolab]] also covers Roy Budd's theme on their 1998 compilation album ''[[Aluminum Tunes]]'', although they call their version "Get Carter", as opposed to its proper title, "Main Theme (Carter Takes A Train)". This Stereolab version was subsequently used as a sample in the song "Got Carter" by 76. The Finnish [[Rock music|rock]] band [[Laika & the Cosmonauts]] cover the film's theme on their 1995 album ''[[The Amazing Colossal Band]]''. BB Davis & the Red Orchidstra released a version of the film's title theme in 1999. [[Jah Wobble]] produced a [[dub version|dub]] cover version of the theme tune in 2009.<ref name="Honigmann-2009">{{cite news|last=David|first=Honigmann|title=Jah Wobble: Get Carter|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1f00e250-e461-11de-a0ea-00144feab49a.html#axzz1mN4vKr7q|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210231223/https://www.ft.com/content/1f00e250-e461-11de-a0ea-00144feab49a#axzz1mN4vKr7q|archive-date=10 December 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|access-date=14 February 2012|newspaper=[[Financial Times]]|date=23 December 2009|quote=This is an arrangement of Roy Budd's theme from the 1971 British gangster film, arranged for Wobble's Chinese Dub orchestra. This is a modern Britain, far removed from Mike Hodgesβ monochrome, where tablas patter like rattling trams and Wobble's deep bass rumbles underneath, while the melody is carried on serengi.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Jah Wobble- Get Carter|url=http://jp.juno.co.uk/products/get-carter/371180-01/|work=Juno Records|publisher=juno|access-date=14 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229104407/http://jp.juno.co.uk/products/get-carter/371180-01/|archive-date=29 December 2013|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Wobble had long been a fan of the bassline of the track, saying in a 2004 interview with ''[[The Independent]]'' that "There are some bass lines that contain the whole mystery of creation within them".<ref name="Wobble, 2004">{{cite news|last=Wobble|first=Jah|title=Jah Wobble: Ten Best Dub Tracks|url=http://www.fodderstompf.com/ARCHIVES/INTERVIEWS/wobdub.html|access-date=14 February 2012|newspaper=The Independent|date=13 August 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120613195329/http://www.fodderstompf.com/ARCHIVES/INTERVIEWS/wobdub.html|archive-date=13 June 2012|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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