WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:05.799 Meaning a light Man like this man letting butterfly flapping 2 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:07.440 and wan big down in the forest. 3 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:10.240 Man, it gonna cause the tree fold, letting five thousand 4 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:10.919 miles away. 5 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:19.359 Man, nobody seen nobody else. You don't need no man. 6 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:22.039 They liked you, followed another story and. 7 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:25.160 You got back in like that. That's when man got 8 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:26.519 blackly dag on the Panama Man. 9 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:37.880 Man, you don't don't matter. Man, all right, the Prudentialist. 10 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:39.159 Welcome back to the Jay Burden Show. 11 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:41.399 How you doing, Man, I'm doing good. 12 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:43.799 You know. It's we're just we're off the heels of 13 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.520 a of a certain conference. So it's good to talk 14 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:48.679 to friends. I was just talking to in person again. 15 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:53.000 Yeah, it's funny not to be too modeling about it. Uh, 16 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:55.079 but I just hit episode five hundred, and you know, 17 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:58.079 so I've been reminiscing a little bit. And very very 18 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:01.679 early in my pot casting career, you gave me some 19 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:06.560 phenomenal advice. This is like single digit episodes. And you 20 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:08.120 and I were talking and I had sent you an 21 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:12.400 outline for the show, and you were like, man, that's 22 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:15.200 great and all, but if you consider just talking and 23 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.719 not being weird and autistic and following an outline, and 24 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:23.239 genuinely I hadn't, and so, honoring your advice, I haven't 25 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.680 planned really a damn thing about the show ever since, 26 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:27.760 and so I appreciate that. 27 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:31.959 Well, I'm glad that the advice I gave you led 28 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.079 to your meteoritic rise and success that I should have 29 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:38.680 followed myself. So I'm glad I can help others but 30 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:39.040 not me. 31 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:43.079 Yeah. Oh yes, that's the what is it, you know, 32 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:45.200 a profit in their own land and all that. That's 33 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:49.959 right here, not to talk about really anything serious at all, 34 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.959 but we're here for a movie review, the nineteen eighty 35 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:59.599 classic Airplane, which this this is me kind of exposing 36 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.400 my I zoom her self. I'd actually never seen this 37 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.439 before today. Matt just completely missed it. 38 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.080 Oh man, well, I hope you enjoyed it. 39 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:11.280 So I had the great pleasure of about I want 40 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:13.840 to say, two weeks ago, I told we were going 41 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.120 through the TV just scrolling, I think, because I think 42 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:19.000 every married couple at some point just becomes someone who 43 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:21.400 just likes to scroll through what's available on their television. 44 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:23.639 And I was like, oh, Airplane, I haven't seen that forever. 45 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:25.199 This will be great. She's like, I've never seen it 46 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:27.319 before and I was like, oh, well, then you're in 47 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:29.879 for a royal treat. So I subjected my wife to 48 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:31.759 watching this for the first time and she was like, 49 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:33.719 that was great, but why are there a pair of 50 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:35.319 tits in like the middle of the film. And I'm like, 51 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:36.199 why are you complaining? 52 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.800 I mean, to be fair, uh valid question, although it 53 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:44.759 is far from the only uh non sequitur joke right, 54 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:46.080 just kind of out of nothing. 55 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:46.960 All of them. 56 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.240 I was so a couple of things. One not to 57 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.120 get two chin stroking, because let's be honest, this is 58 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:53.400 a fun movie and it's fun to talk. 59 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:54.319 Oh yeah. 60 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:56.759 But I was struck by how they genuinely don't make 61 00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:59.360 movies like this anymore, and not in the like, oh 62 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.240 they make the joke folks that you can't get away 63 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:04.199 with in Whoe Hollywood, but just like the actual structure 64 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.479 of the movie, like a ninety minute comedy movie, just 65 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:11.879 does not exist anymore. They're practically extinct, especially a sincere one. 66 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.439 Yeah, I think everyone's trying to relive that because I 67 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:17.080 know that there's the what is it Scary? 68 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:17.360 Movie? 69 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:20.400 Six is still in movie theaters right now, and they're 70 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:23.319 still banking, of course off nostalgia from the early two 71 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:26.520 thousands comedies that they were obviously making fun of, and 72 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:30.000 those were parody movies, which we only really get those 73 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.560 because of you know, Zucker Abrams and Zuckers. So, I mean, 74 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.719 Airplane is their first directorial debut. They have like a 75 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:39.280 shoe string budget of like three and a half, like 76 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.840 million dollars, and this thing just it sells like hotcakes, 77 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:45.080 Like this is one of the funniest movies that's kind 78 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:47.919 of brought on into pop culture history. It kind of 79 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:51.879 brought Leslie Nielsen's career away from being a dramatic, more 80 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:55.479 serious actor who's done like science fiction and television to 81 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:58.120 now just sort of being the straight man who plays 82 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:01.479 a completely dead pan in a comedy. So yeah, I mean, 83 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:03.960 we don't get scary movie and all those other things 84 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:07.199 without airplay and Sucker Abrams and Sucker. 85 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.800 Yeah. Well, it is interesting. I can't remember if you 86 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:15.159 were at the table for this conversation or not, Prude, 87 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:18.399 but at the conference, one of the things that came 88 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:22.199 up was the sort of bizarre situation Hollywood has found 89 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:26.519 itself in where they can't seem to make money back 90 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.279 with big tent poles. Obviously, exceptions to the rule. But 91 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:33.319 if you look at the Juggernauts of ten years ago, 92 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:38.040 they're flounder. Look at the suite of Disney products. But also, 93 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:42.399 you know, the recent spat of remakes. Funny enough, I mean, 94 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:45.759 I don't think the Naked Gun remake did particularly well, 95 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:52.240 but Hollywood Inc. Is flounder, and so there's been a move. 96 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.040 And I know friends who are on the receiving end 97 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:57.000 of this right who've been approached. But also just look 98 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.040 at the box office sort of a return to we 99 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.480 would call kind of micro budget films, you know, five 100 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:06.120 million dollars in down basically just as a financial decision, 101 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:09.360 like a chase man, like we can't keep losing, you know, 102 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:11.839 one hundred and eighty two hundred million dollars every film. 103 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:14.040 We got to have something, and so you know what, 104 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.240 even if it only makes five million dollars back, at 105 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:20.720 least we broke even. But also they're pushing young talent, 106 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:25.600 you know, guys who aren't established screenwriters, who aren't established properties. 107 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.480 Really I think, in an attempt to regain some sort 108 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.480 of authenticity and relevance, and so that kind of chin 109 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:36.160 stroking aside prude, It is interesting to see a very 110 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:39.480 much kind of before times film obviously just in the 111 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:43.079 kind of construction and funding of it, but also it's 112 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.839 a silly movie, but it's pretty sincere. There's none of 113 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.399 that kind of like you know, would get the camera. 114 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:53.480 Like all of the actors are playing their silly roles seriously, 115 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.439 like they're they're selling out, which I think makes it 116 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:58.040 really refreshing. It's a lot of fun. 117 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:01.560 Yeah, Like the closest equivalent I can think of is 118 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:04.360 the I want to say it's the mid nineties, you know, 119 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:08.439 Muppet Christmas Carol, where Michael Caine plays a Benezer Scrooge 120 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:11.800 completely straight despite being surrounded by you know, the Jim 121 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.480 Henson Companies Muppets and just you know he's He gives 122 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:16.079 one of the best performances. It is one of my 123 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:21.519 top like three favorite Christmas Carol adaptations, so I always 124 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:23.720 recommend it to people. But it is nice to see 125 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:25.600 something like this exists, because you're right, there is so 126 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.800 much meta commentary in a lot of comedy these days. 127 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.639 Like even when they were trying to market the Naked 128 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.800 Gun remake with Liam Neeson, you know, Liam Neeson is 129 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:39.160 basically parodying an ASPCA commercial saying like, you know, comedy 130 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:41.480 films in Hollywood are dying, but like you can save 131 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.360 them by like going to our film and it's like, well, 132 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:45.439 it sounds like a pity party at this point, because 133 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:49.279 you know, we've gone through such a tumultuous you know, 134 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:52.839 culture of what wokeness, whatever you want to call it, 135 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:55.600 just like where comedy is not something that's acceptable unless 136 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.240 you're somewhat being brash and edgy, which has led to 137 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:01.720 I think the uh rye of people like Shane Gillis 138 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:03.759 and others for being funny. But I mean that's really 139 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:06.160 in stand up that's not so much in film. 140 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.199 Well, and I think it's such a refreshing change. You know, 141 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.680 really in the last two years we've witnessed the birth 142 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:16.199 of this term millennial writing. The examples would be like that, well, 143 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:19.839 that was awkward, you know, the kind of like deliberate 144 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.399 release of tension through kind of you know, undercutting the 145 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:26.000 core premise of the scene. And look like, I'm not 146 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:28.600 gonna pretend this is an Oscar winning film. It's a comedy. 147 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:30.800 It's genuinely funny, and as we've said, there are a 148 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.680 lot of it's sort of non sequitors, right, just throw 149 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:35.879 away jokes that aren't essential to the pot. It's a 150 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:41.160 comedy movie, but there's none of that sort of obnoxious 151 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:45.000 millennial smirking going on like that. You know, A large 152 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.079 portion of this is a romance. It is a classic 153 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:50.600 comedy in that sense. And of course there are jokes 154 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:52.399 in it, you know. There there's sort of these like 155 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.120 you know, I guess you would say, sort of cutaways, 156 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:57.920 you know, where each party to the romance is, you know, 157 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.639 imagining how they met each other moments from their relationship. 158 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:05.879 And of course they're ridiculous, but it is sincere yeh, 159 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.480 and I've found that to be just like a very 160 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:13.480 refreshing tonic. So the other thing this movie does very 161 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:17.199 very well is that there are a number of repeat 162 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:23.600 gags that just genuinely made me laugh and again brutal 163 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:25.240 I'll throw it back to you in a second, But 164 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.079 as someone who's been on the Internet for a while, 165 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:31.079 I was astonished by how many memes and famous like 166 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.679 you know, images or gifts or whatever were from this movie. 167 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:36.879 So there were certain parts where like, oh, I remember that, 168 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:38.879 you know, like I've seen that before, and so I 169 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:40.600 feel like I finally have context for a lot of 170 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:41.399 these things. 171 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:44.679 Yeah, I think that modern meme culture has certainly made 172 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:48.200 a lot of previous movies either unwatchable or ten times 173 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.360 more enjoyable because of the meme culture around it. Last 174 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:55.600 year in twenty five in May, a friend of mine 175 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:58.639 sort of dragged me to the twentieth anniversary like re 176 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.919 release into theaters of Star Wars Episode three, Revenge of 177 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.559 the Sith. And I was ten years old when that 178 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.159 movie came out. I remember going to the like late 179 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.039 night premiere with my dad on bass and we did 180 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:12.240 like a trivia contest and everything, and so like now 181 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:14.720 it's twenty years later, and like Hayne Christiansen's like doing 182 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:17.039 the memes when he gets his little clip off before 183 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:19.039 the film begins. But it was kind of funny for 184 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:20.919 me because I'm sitting there and then I'm watching people 185 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:23.480 who are clearly younger than me, who probably grew up 186 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.000 with like are slash the prequel memes, and like they're 187 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:28.399 just like scrolling through the phone during every scene and 188 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.480 like pointing to the phone when like a meme moment 189 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.159 gets quoted. So for me, I did you know, I 190 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:36.519 watched this movie probably a little too early in life 191 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:40.039 before I was like really an overly online person, maybe 192 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:41.840 when I was just beginning to become on the Internet. 193 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:46.519 But yeah, no, there's a lot of quotable, memeable moments 194 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:48.600 in there, and I think people forget that, Like before 195 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.399 social media, there would just be like those three or 196 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:54.440 four movies that you and your friends would quote in 197 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:57.360 reference to each other because they were such a universal 198 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:00.759 Everyone's seen this and everyone knows that this is funny moment, 199 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.679 regardless of the context. And Airplane is certainly one of 200 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:04.279 those movies. 201 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.600 I'm actually I'm curious to get what those movies were 202 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:16.840 for you, because for me, it was Napoleon Dynamite. This 203 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:22.759 sounds really stupid listing about Napoleon Dynamite, MONI just all 204 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:27.480 of Monty Python and then Shrek, which it kind of 205 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:31.120 neatly places exactly what culture I was in. But what 206 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:32.559 were those movies for you, prude? 207 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.399 Yeah, so Shrek was definitely one of them, absolutely for sure. 208 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:37.799 I don't know. 209 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:39.720 I was always I didn't wash a lot of this 210 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:41.759 stuff when I was when they came out, in part 211 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.879 because I just my parents. So it's like I have 212 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.039 the honor that I only know of the Simpsons through 213 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:50.279 cultural osmosis because I've never seen a full Simpsons episode. 214 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.679 I know, I'm one of the weird people I guess 215 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:54.600 who's not completely exposed to culture. I think it also 216 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:57.960 has to do with like growing up overseas, so I 217 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:02.480 have a lot more of British television references I can. 218 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:04.559 I do a lot of Faulty like Faulty Towers was 219 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:08.159 something I would reference a lot, as well as Father 220 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:10.360 Ted and things like that. But I mean for my 221 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:12.799 friend group and those around me, it would definitely be 222 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:16.360 things almost any Will Ferrell movie that came out in 223 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:21.879 the early two thousands, whether you know, quoting Talladegan Knights 224 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.159 or step Brothers. Those were always really popular. And then 225 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:29.960 like you had said, like Monty Python and the Holy 226 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:31.960 Grail I think was the one that was cited almost 227 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.240 all of the time. But for me, yeah, that's sort 228 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:37.559 of how it was. And then TV shows I think 229 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.200 really started taking off once you found something to do that. 230 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:41.960 But now it's kind of been relegated to like a 231 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:44.600 woman thing where they'll they'll quote TV shows all the time, 232 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:47.000 especially with a certain generation like I work with a 233 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:50.480 lot of gen X women and for them it's friends 234 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:51.759 that they quote constantly. 235 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:57.000 Yeah, I mean it does sort of and I can 236 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:00.320 even think of, you know, the kind of video game equivalent, right, obviously, 237 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:04.360 like the early Valve games. Like honestly, I sort of 238 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.759 instinctually cringe anytime I hear a portal reference because it 239 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.080 just sort of takes me back to being eleven. 240 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:12.480 Right you remember the cake being a lie? 241 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:16.679 Oh yes, yes I do, And just hearing those words 242 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:18.799 the song starts to go through my head and I 243 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.399 just feel this kind of like sense of self revulsion. 244 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:23.120 You know, it's probably. 245 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:28.240 Relatively universal, but at the Halo theme where you'd get 246 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.960 a bunch of guys to like it in a choral 247 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.840 arrangement in a bathroom or a gym. And people are 248 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:35.799 still doing that because I know that they're making the 249 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.679 second remake of Halo Combat of all that comes out 250 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:39.480 next month. 251 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:43.440 Time is a flat circle. And somehow this is even 252 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:48.440 more grim than true to Decative. But to return to 253 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:54.519 the film again, one of the sort of repeat, I 254 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:56.919 guess kind of gags that really got me in this 255 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:03.039 is the running into the airport being waylaid by random 256 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:06.840 religious groups and political activists asking for like to pin 257 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:08.919 a flower on you, And of course you know it's 258 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:11.279 ridiculous at first, and then there's a scene kind of 259 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:13.480 two thirds of the way through whereas you know this 260 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:18.080 airplane disasters continued, this kind of weathered you know, like 261 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:22.320 war veteran turned airline pilot has to storm into the 262 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:25.360 airport right to go to air traffic control and land 263 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:30.720 the plane, and there's just a John Wicks style fight scene, 264 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:34.120 which was so far from what I expected, even seeing 265 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:36.639 the joke run again. And this movie does a very 266 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:41.480 good job of repeating a joke but amplifying it so 267 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:44.039 it becomes funnier. Another example is the you know, the 268 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:47.720 air traffic controller. He starts off with the classic eyecots 269 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:49.799 the wrong you know, I picks the wrong week to 270 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:54.960 quit coffee, and basically every ten minutes that gag is repeated, 271 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:59.720 but whatever substance he's recently quit gets more and more extreme. 272 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.720 Untiled by the climax of the movie, he's just huffing 273 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.039 glue in the corner and I don't know, maybe I'm 274 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:06.559 a child prood, but that made me laugh. 275 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:12.360 Yeah, there's always consistency, escalation and follow through and the 276 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:17.240 glutt The gags throughout this film are so viscerally physical. 277 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:19.919 One of my favorites that never fails to get a 278 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:21.720 chuckle out of me, despite the time I've seen this 279 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:25.080 movie probably like five or six times. Is Shit's gonna 280 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:27.399 hit the fan? And then just it immediately cuts to 281 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:29.799 just like a fake pile of fece he's slamming into 282 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:32.320 like one of those little tiny office fans that oscillates, 283 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:34.480 and it's just like, this is exactly what I expect 284 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:37.039 out of this movie. It consistently sets up, it delivers. 285 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:39.519 I think my favorite repeating gag is that every time, 286 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:44.639 you know, Striker is trying to talk about Elaine and 287 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:46.440 how he met her and how they fell in love, 288 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:52.120 like whoever's listening to him just kills themselves. Yeah, And 289 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:56.320 it finally stops right before like the the the Buddhist 290 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:57.600 prepares for self immolation. 291 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:03.799 It's it's incredibly unexpected the first time because he's talking 292 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.440 to this like nice old lady, and then when the 293 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:09.080 flashback is done, the camera pulls back and it's just 294 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:15.120 her feet dangling. Such a simple joke, but it genuinely 295 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.399 got me. One are the other elements of this, which 296 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:23.039 is very much of another time, is uh the racial humor, 297 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:26.519 Like there are multiple elements to this. Uh you know, 298 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.120 of course you have you know, the two black guys 299 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:32.519 on the on the plane and they're speaking in Jive 300 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:37.519 and the film translates it for you. They have subtitles 301 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:41.120 and like very proper Queen's English decoding what they're saying, 302 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.360 which that made me laugh. And then of course the 303 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:46.960 follow up is, you know when another one of these 304 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.080 kind of you know, uh, you know, floral hat wearing 305 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:54.120 old ladies comes forward to translate and drops into perfect 306 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:57.960 aa ve and uh yeah, man, it got me. What 307 00:15:58.000 --> 00:15:58.480 can I say? 308 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:01.039 It's a funny appreciated that she was speaking. 309 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:04.799 There were no subtitles and it was just left entirely 310 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:07.960 up to the imagination of the viewer to understand. And 311 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:09.639 I mean it was played out so perfectly because of 312 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:11.039 their tone and facial expression. 313 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:15.039 I mean, it worked out great. And it's you know, 314 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:15.559 it's funny. 315 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:17.759 We were talking about remakes and reboots, you know, just 316 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:19.919 a few minutes earlier, and it's like, this is the 317 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:22.799 one time. You know, so many shows get adapted from 318 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:26.279 say the Greater Anglo sphere into America, and they usually 319 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:29.120 are not as good, but this is one of the 320 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:32.559 few times where a Canadian film is adapted for American 321 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:36.440 audiences and it just blows it away. Airplane is sort 322 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:41.639 of a plot for plot remake slash parody of Zero 323 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:44.879 Hour or you know, Striker as a Canadian fighter pilot 324 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:46.440 and here Striker's American. 325 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.960 Well that's one of the other things that's just completely 326 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:56.480 nonsensical is the relative timeline of this, right, because of 327 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.360 course this is a film in the eighties, but most 328 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.759 of the callback are sort of dripping with like like 329 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:07.160 World War two Americana, you know, like the kind of 330 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:10.319 c D bar that he meets his uh, you know, 331 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:12.759 the love interest in right, it's sort of you can 332 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.480 imagine it out of something like South Pacific, you know, 333 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:17.960 the kind of you know bar in the Pacific where 334 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:20.519 you know, all the sailors and pilots are you know, 335 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.279 enjoying sort of a you know, beer and some music. 336 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:29.240 And then of course it's completely ridiculous, right, the people 337 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:32.359 fighting in the back, it's basically like two women mud wrestling. 338 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:35.160 The one joke I will say that and maybe this 339 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:38.119 is just my zoomer attention span that didn't age great 340 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:41.119 was the disco number just because of how long it 341 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:42.799 went on, Like it was still funny, but you know, 342 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:44.720 look like I can't watch a film with up subway 343 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.640 surfer at the bottom. That's a very tepid point of criticism. 344 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.759 I did appreciate that it's like there it's two girl scouts, 345 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:54.480 or at least they look like girl scouts that are 346 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:56.640 like cheating at cards, and they just keep fighting the 347 00:17:57.279 --> 00:17:59.039 remainder of the scene. But I mean, like, this is 348 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:00.839 what makes it to me, what I appreciate abut it 349 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:03.160 is is that like this is clearly riffing off of 350 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.160 a World War two, you know, kind of like flashbackstory, 351 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:10.599 but you know, this is disco and we're in the 352 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:14.680 sixties now over an unknown and it's just as the war, 353 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:16.799 which of course, you know, we're thinking World War two, 354 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:20.119 the big one, and then of course there's like you know, 355 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:24.440 Kennedy's Peace Corps, and I don't know, just the whole 356 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:26.799 thing is fine with me because it's just like this 357 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:29.400 is so out of place and out of time despite 358 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:32.039 the fact that this is nineteen eighty that it kind 359 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:35.119 of has a strange sense of timelessness for a film. 360 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:38.480 Now that's what forty six years old. 361 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.480 Yeah, plus or minus. I mean, the there's another it's 362 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:47.440 this tiny, little like throwaway gag, but you know, obviously 363 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:50.759 the drama is that our main character was forced to 364 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:53.720 land the plane dude to you know incapacitation of the crew, 365 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:56.240 and he's got it, you know, a bad experience from 366 00:18:56.240 --> 00:19:00.119 the war and when he's having this sort of dramatic flash. 367 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:02.880 It starts out first with kind of you know World 368 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:05.599 War two combat footage, you know, playing over his you know, 369 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:08.160 sweating face, and then over the course of it, it 370 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.200 gets to more and more primitive airplanes, until it's the 371 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:15.640 kind of like multi winged bicycles falling off clips. And 372 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:18.359 I don't know why, but for some reason I found 373 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:21.960 that incredibly amusing. What are the other, if we're talking 374 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.279 about kind of gags in this that you see constantly 375 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:29.359 is the brief aside when he and his girlfriend are 376 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:32.079 in the Peace Corps and they go to a tribe 377 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.440 in Africa, which is an image I've seen, prude, Do 378 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:36.319 you remember that part? Yeah? 379 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:39.119 Yeah, and they're doing the whole well, we're trying trying 380 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:41.640 to teach them American culture and they have no sense 381 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:45.079 of calisthenics and they're just naturals in basketball. 382 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:53.359 Yeah. Again, it's funny. The uh. There's also a bunch 383 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:55.559 of you know, cultural references. Some of which I got, 384 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:58.359 some of which I didn't, you know obviously, just you know, 385 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:01.160 I'm not familiar with h you know, the specifics of 386 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:04.519 whatever basketball team Kareem Kareem abdul Jabbar was playing with 387 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:09.319 in nineteen eighty. But the cutaway gag to you know, 388 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:12.480 the heroin in this movie trying to sell tribesmen tupperware. 389 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:17.799 It's just such a ridiculous idea, and the gag goes 390 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:19.960 on for long enough to make it much funnier than 391 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:20.880 that is any right to be. 392 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:25.680 Yeah, I mean, I'm not you and I are both 393 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:28.839 well past the time of I think the original Tupperware 394 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:32.519 and the emergence of multi level marketing, But I think 395 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:35.039 there is still sort of this timeless quality of just 396 00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:38.160 like now, remember you know, like if you get like, 397 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.559 if you sell X number of things, that's you you're 398 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:42.279 going to get to hear because I like, when I 399 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:45.039 was in college, like, there were certain MLMs that were 400 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:50.200 incredibly predatory to guys that needed extra cash, and they 401 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:52.400