Subj : Re: And good new comedies
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Apr 19 2025 12:33:07

On 18 Apr 2025 at 10:08a, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>   Re: And good new comedies
 Ni>   By: boraxman to All on Thu Apr 17 2025 11:26 pm
 Ni> 
 Ni>  bo> I'm someone who enjoys screwball comedies, the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker
 Ni>  bo> movies (Naked Gun, Flying High, etc), some of the Police Academy, Mon
 Ni>  bo> Python.  John Candy was in some good movies, Uncle Buck, Planes, Trai
 Ni>  bo> and Automobiles. Other favourites are Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, This i
 Ni>  bo> Spinal Tap, Mrs Doubtfire.  Tropic Thunder was a good one, more recen
 Ni>  bo> but even that is well over a decade old now
 Ni> 
 Ni> I like movies like that too.  The Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker movies are some
 Ni> of my favorites.  And I've heard "Flying High" is the Australian title;
 Ni> in the US and other parts of the world, it's called "Airplane!".  I
 Ni> think "Flying High" is a good name for the movie, but I'm not sure why
 Ni> the changed it for Australia.
 Ni> 
 Ni> Nightfox

I didn't know it was called Airplane! until much later.  I also didn't realised that ZAZ didn't make Flying High 2 until much later too.

I think it was to make the name more distinctive.  There was an Australian movie called "Airport 80" at the time, and perhaps it was too similar.  We also call Burger King "Hungry Jacks" because there was an already existing Burger King business in Australia.

Here is another tidbit.  Airplane! is largely a parody of an earlier flight "disaster" movie called Zero Hour!.

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