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Airplane!' at 40: David Zucker defends the comedy classic's controversial jive-talking sequence: 'Everything is so sensitive nowadays'
Yahoo! Entertainment ^
| July 2, 2020
| Ethan Alter
Posted on 07/03/2020 8:52:32 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: frank ballenger
“Ward, you were a little rough on the Beaver last night.”
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posted on
07/03/2020 9:42:53 AM PDT
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dakine
To: dfwgator
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posted on
07/03/2020 9:46:46 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
To: Stravinsky
Airplane! is nearly a scene by scene parody remake of the 1957 movie Zero Hour!, starring Sterling Hayden, Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews as Ted Stryker. Because Zero Hour! was owned at the time by Paramount Pictures, the makers of Airplane!, also a Paramount feature, were able to use the screenplay almost verbatim, including the hero again being named Ted Striker.
Zero Hour screenplay writer Arthur Hailey went on to write the popular 1968 novel, Airport, which revisited the air disaster genre and led to a film franchise that was also spoofed by Airplane! and its own sequel.
Side-by-side comparison: Zero Hour! (1957) Vs Airplane! (1980)
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posted on
07/03/2020 9:50:07 AM PDT
by
MD Expat in PA
(No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
To: MD Expat in PA
The brilliance was using actors, who primarily played serious roles, especially Leslie Nielsen.
Now you can’t watch him in his earlier serious roles without laughing out loud.
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posted on
07/03/2020 9:52:27 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
To the Marxists no lives matter.
They have proven that over and over again....
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posted on
07/03/2020 9:56:54 AM PDT
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cgbg
(Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
To: Stravinsky
I so agree with Zucker......Mel Brooks said awhile back that political correctness has killed comedy. How right he was.....
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posted on
07/03/2020 9:57:11 AM PDT
by
Dawgreg
To: Army Air Corps
Yes, Mrs. Cleaver. Wouldn’t have been as funny with anyone else.
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posted on
07/03/2020 9:58:28 AM PDT
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bgill
To: Stravinsky
Yeah they will demand that film pulled and last night I thought of “Silver Streak”, it has that Blackface scene with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor and Pryor probably wrote the scene.
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posted on
07/03/2020 9:59:29 AM PDT
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Captain Peter Blood
(https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
To: dakine
Different school system than mine. Two paths of jokes diverging into infinity.
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posted on
07/03/2020 10:04:05 AM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: frank ballenger
Note to myself: What’s the matter with you for forgetting Caddyshack????
Apologies to all. The gags were real doozies.
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posted on
07/03/2020 10:08:16 AM PDT
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frank ballenger
(End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: frank ballenger
Don’t forget the “Watch me, Faggots!” scene.
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posted on
07/03/2020 10:09:43 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Captain Peter Blood
They may even wind up “cancelling” Richard Pryor because of his routine on Penitentiaries (”Thank God We Got Penitentiaries!”)
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posted on
07/03/2020 10:10:47 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Army Air Corps
I dug her rap. Cut me some slack, Jack.
To: frank ballenger
If Animal House, Airplane I and II, Police Squad, the Blues Brothers and all the National Lampoon Vacation movies took out all the offensive materials about someone and anyone.....wed see the opening and closing production credits and union label for stage crew members.
Three minutes long.add Blazing Saddles and it might run 3:01
To: dfwgator
Leslie Nielsen was known as a "serious" dramatic actor up until Airplane! which made him "the Olivier of spoofs" according to film critic Roger Ebert, and leading to further success in the genre with The Naked Gun and Scary Movie film series, and a leading role in a Mel Brooks comic horror, Dracula: Dead and Loving It IMO not Brooks best work but still funny.
Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves also showed great comedic talent in Airplane!
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posted on
07/03/2020 10:17:45 AM PDT
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MD Expat in PA
(No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
To: rlmorel
- There is no middle ground where people can laugh. - Very true. I think back to my high school class in a small town with families from all over - French, Polish, German, Italian, Dutch, you name it. We told all the old ethnic jokes, we all laughed, and were all great friends. I miss the old days.
To: TheRightGuy
Funny.
But those TV double features cause people to go out for snack breaks with 7-10 minutes of medical and phone deal ads between features.
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posted on
07/03/2020 10:20:23 AM PDT
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frank ballenger
(End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: Stravinsky
Wonder what Kareem Abdul-Jabbar thinks of that scene now. He's one of the real "Woke" ones.
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posted on
07/03/2020 10:24:12 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: MD Expat in PA
Leslie Nielsen was a once big name star who at the time Airplane was made was down to appearances on tv dramas and secondary movie roles. Airplane not only saved his career but in a sense made it.
To: rlmorel
Great post. Now you are encouraging all of us to watch that movie and the other comedy greats again.
Hint: buy dvds before the streaming and subscription content services later end up with 100% Muslim Sharia Law approved “women wearing modest clothing” and others with Marxist approved “showing worker collectives in favorable light”.
Taylor Swift and Katy Perry will come onscreen in videos with burkas, singing about Mecca.
Like the WKRP in Cincinnati episode where the religious leader wanted no more “man centered” content in songs on the station.
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posted on
07/03/2020 10:32:45 AM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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