Airplane! And The Movie That Inspired It

I'm almost positive it was Airport 75' that Airplane was spoofing

 

I did and they spoofed stuff from that movie but the one the one they mainly were spoofing was Airport 75

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OH! You right!!! :grin:!

 

Perhaps they were spoofing air plane movies in general.

 

Impossible!

 

Surely you can't be serious!!!

 

excuse me, stewardess, I speak jive.

 

Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked... in the head... with an iron boot?

Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens.

 

In the DVD commentary, they cite "Zero Hour" as the inspiration for the film. Jim Abrahams called "Zero Hour" the serious version of "Airplane".

 

Yeah I've heard that but they'd purchased the rights to that movie, hence some of the lines are lifted line by line. Airport 75' always seemed closer to the target, sans a few plot details, just take a peek at the trailer.

 

wow the original guy was General Jack Ripper!

 

I did, and it seems a lot closer to the plot of "Zero Hour" to me. Nearly all spoof movies borrow from different sources but they generally choose one film to server as the basis for the plot. "Hot Shots" was "Top Gun" and "HS part Deaux" was "Rambo II" for the most part. The nun in "Airplane" was definitely lifted from "Airport" but the structure of the plot is just too close to "Zero Hour".

I think one reason why "Airport" gets thrown around is because "Airplane" came out in 1980 and the four "Airport" films came out in 1970, 1975, 1977 and 1979 so they were fresher in peoples minds than "Zero Hour" which came out in 1957. There's also the similarity in titles.

 

Spaceballs - Mostly Star Wars, but also had some Star Trek & that scene at the diner spoofing Alien.

 

I am serious.


... and don't call me Shirley.


this thread is full of win.

 

I encourage all thread participants to watch 1976's "Drive-In". The plot is your typical slice of life variety fare, invloving a small town Texas Drive-In theatre, and its patrons on a given day.

However, the interesting part is that the movie showing on the screen througout the movie (Disaster '76) is very similar to 1980's "Airplane" as well.

 

I caught Zero Hour one time on cable. I started watching it right in the middle of the movie and didn't realize what it was until they showed the part where they ask "Johnny" to get some coffee. That was when I realized it was the movie Airplane was based off of.

 

Cut me some slack, jack!