![]() ![]() 10-Minute Retirement: After accidentally overhearing Kramer discussing how hopeless it is for him to land the plane, Ted puts the autopilot back in charge and gives up."Surely these aren't examples!" "They are examples, and don't call us Shirley.": It was followed by a sequel called Airplane II: The Sequel in 1982, which didn't have any involvement from ZAZ, who collectively claim neither to have seen it nor have any interest in seeing it. In fact, for Stack, the reverse happened - he became the host of Unsolved Mysteries, which required a serious man to say ridiculous lines while remaining dignified.Īirplane! was hardly the Trope Maker, but it's often viewed, even today, as a major Trope Codifier of the parody film. The same happened to Lloyd Bridges (Steve McCrosky), but not Robert Stack (Rex Kramer). In fact, Nielsen's subsequent Leslie Nielsen Syndrome kind of ruined the main joke of his casting, which was to have a deadly serious leading man (he'd been in Forbidden Planet!) saying utterly ridiculous lines. Rumack) out on a whole new career starring in silly comedies. Along the way, it singlehandedly destroyed the Disaster Movie as a serious genre for over a decade. Of course, further analysis of the jokes will just hurt the humor of it all. In fact, that is partly what makes the film work: if a joke falls flat, move on to the next one. Take that basic plot, and have a silly joke every three seconds. The plot: Ted Striker (Stryker in Zero Hour!), an ex-military pilot, has to get over his personal traumas to pilot a commercial plane after the crew is stricken by food poisoning, and reconcile with his estranged girlfriend at the same time. note In fact, even though lawyers assured the creative team that they were protected under parody, they went ahead and bought the Zero Hour! script and license for $2500 just to be sure! Subplots from Airport (1975) also appear, such as an airline stewardess (or flight attendant) having to keep the plane under control for a while, a singing Nun, and a little girl on-board in need of an organ transplant. ZAZ's directorial debut, note They previously wrote The Kentucky Fried Movie, but John Landis directed Airplane! (1980) - titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and the Philippines - is a comedic remake of the 1957 disaster film Zero Hour! (itself based on the TV movie Flight into Danger written by Arthur Hailey). ![]() The film that solidified the team of Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker as comedy icons. It's a big metal thing with wings, but that's not important right now. ![]()
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