I don’t think I’ll ever be over Macho Grande.
Airplane! is a parody of the 1957 movie Zero Hour!. In Zero Hour!, the pilot and co-pilot acted friendly toward little Joey in an odd way (apparently the Zucker brothers thought so). Check out the following YouTube video.
An amazing number of lines and plot points in Airplane came right from Zero Hour.
BTW, in Police Squad there were similar scenes where the lab guy was talking to a kid before Nielsen came to see him about the case.
Weird, I’d always thought Airplane! was a parody of Arthur Hailey’s Airport and the disaster genre that started. But I see on the Wiki site that Zero Hour was Hailey’s work too. Strangely, neither Wiki entry references the other.
(Anyone also remember Hailey’s Wheels? He was Michael Crichton prolific in his day.)
I’ve got a copy somewhere around here.
See post 55
His *Hotel * was turned into a TV series for a few years starring Connie Selleca.
Saw it. I thought my post still warranted posting.
Didn’t say it didn’t. But you were ninjad!
hey! We’re join date siblings!
How 'bout that?
I agree. I had no idea what
meant. I, too, had always thought it was a parody of Airport.
Roger, Over.
I figured that, by this time, every Airplane! fan on this board knew about Zero Hour. We’ve talked about it in many threads.
oh well…
Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop taking amphetamines!
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"I remember listening to the DVD commentary from the directors, where they talked about initially having the line of dialogue “Joey, have you ever been in a cockpit before?” followed by “Joey, have you ever sucked a grown man’s cock?”
Yeah the ensuing X rating would not have been a problem.
Surely that one line wouldn’t bump it up two entire ratings from PG to X. Even the tits bouncing around in the panic scene didn’t even bump it up to R.
I did a piece about the whole gladiator movie thing. It’s illustrated with caps from an old 1960s sword and sandal movie, but on first glance it LOOKS kinda NSFW, so I’ll NSFW spoiler it just in case:
That’s a good sight, but it needs more slavegirls.
(Rather funny as well.)
Wait these movies were mostly guys wrestling?:dubious: I think of something like the 82 Conan movie when I hear sword and sandal.
No, that movie had a pretty extensive scene of the opponents wrestling, but there were also swords and spears and such. Lots of general fighting in such movies, and the hero often eschewed weapons, being so mighty and all. In that particular movie there were also scenes of spear tossing and boulder throwing.