I’ve seen Zero Hour, and Airplane! is far closer to it than I ever imagined. I haven’t checked, but I think the WW II footage of the disastrous mission are taken right from Zero Hour. No jive translation, though.
I suspect many more people have seen Airplane! than the original.
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The jive is, no question about it, the high point of that movie.
Well, after the boobies.
How many people have read it? How many even know Swift wrote a satire with that name?
The copyright having fallen off:
A lot of the ones already mentioned here, especially Yoda/Lola.
“I met her in a swamp down in Degoba…”
Also, the deconstruction of the riddle of the Sphinx in Pratchett’s Pyramids.
Quite a lot of people, I’d think. I’ve read it, but I had no idea (apart from a general understanding that pamphlets were a more common method of political speech at the time than they are now) that it was a parody of anything in particular.
There are many Gilbert & Sullivan parodies, but those by Anna Russell and Tom Lehrer (the Elements) overwhelm the originals in my mind. The Cole Porter version of Clementine that he does is also right on (yearning, churning, burning…)
And in a broader sense, who can listen to Wagner’s Ring without thinking of “You remember Alberich, don’t you?” and thinking of the Valkyrie as Siegried’s Aunts?
I watched Hot Shots! long before I saw Top Gun. However, I pretty much kept thinking of Hot Shots! during the entire movie.
Not as many as should. I wrote a column for our local paper, titled “A Modest Proposal for our Schools” where I suggested that the problems of school overcrowding, low test scores, and too many children per class could be remedied by laying off low scoring students. Who ever was in charge of headline writing changed it to something to indicate he or she did not understand the reference. I also discovered that about half the readers thought I was serious.
On a happier note, when my daughter was in HS History (or English, I forget) they assigned it.
You’re kidding, right? “A Modest Proposal” is one of the most famous literary works of its time. It’s read in high schools.
“You know, I’m not making this up.”
Huh? Link?
The Incredibles technically came out before the movie version of Fantastic Four, but mines the same source material better.
Anna Russell. If you’re at all familiar with the Ring Cycle, it’s beyond hilarious.
The torch song version of “My Humps”. Beats the heck out of the original.
Weird Al – “Amish Paradise”
Dude, you are in for a treat.
Thanks to this board, I can never listen to Pachelbel’s Canon without hearing Rob Paravonian singing, “DA, dadadadaddada,” and segueing into Green Day.
Fistful of Yen was way more entertaining than Enter the Dragon.
Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist. So brilliantly absurd, and amazingly executed for such a unique approach. For an even further dive into parody, the is the “what they’re really saying” audio track of the dvd.
Likewise, even though I’ve never seen Key of Keys, I can’t imagine it’s anywhere near as good as What’s Up, Tiger Lily?