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[1980 American satirical comedy film] [Flying High!] [date=January 2025]
[date=July 2018] {{Infobox film | name = Airplane! | image = Airplane! (1980
film).jpg | alt = A plane flying in the sky, with its front half being
twisted. The top tagline reads "What's slower than a speeding bullet and able
to hit tall buildings at a single bound!" The film's title is placed below the
aircraft with another tagline reading "Thank God it's only a motion picture!".
The films credits are placed below it. | caption = Theatrical release poster
by Robert Grossman | director = {{Plainlist|
- Jim Abrahams
- David Zucker
- Jerry Zucker
}} | producer = Jon Davison | writer = {{Plainlist|
- Jim Abrahams
- David Zucker
- Jerry Zucker
}} | based_on = ''{{based on|Zero Hour!''|Arthur Hailey<br />Hall Bartlett<br
/>John Champion}} | starring = {{Plainlist|
- Robert Hays
- Julie Hagerty
}} | music = Elmer Bernstein | cinematography = Joseph Biroc | editing =
Patrick Kennedy | studio = Paramount Pictures<br />Howard W. Koch Productions
| distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = [1980] | runtime = 87
minutes[1] | country = United States | language = English | budget = $3.5
million[2] | gross = $171 million<ref name=ww/> }}
_AIRPLANE!_ (alternatively titled _FLYING HIGH!_)[3] is a 1980 American
disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David
and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut,[4] and produced by Jon Davison.
It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert
Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna
Patterson.<ref name="Airplane!"/> It is a parody of the disaster film genre,
particularly the 1957 Paramount film _Zero Hour!_, from which it borrows the
plot, central characters, and some dialogue.[5][6] It also draws many elements
from _Airport 1975_ and other films in the _Airport_ series. It is known for
using surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and
verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and dark humor.[7]
Released by Paramount Pictures, it was a critical and commercial success,
grossing $171 million worldwide against a budget of $3.5 million.[8] The
creators received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy,
and nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical
or Comedy and for the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.
Since its release, the film’s reputation has grown substantially, and
_Airplane!_ is now considered one of the greatest comedy films ever made,
inspiring numerous references, homages, and further parodies in popular
culture. It ranked sixth on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies.[9] In a 2007 survey
by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, it was judged the second-greatest comedy
of all time, behind _Monty Python's Life of Brian_.[10] In 2008, it was
selected by _Empire_ magazine as one of 'The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time',
and in 2012 was voted #1 on The 50 Funniest Comedies Ever poll.[11] In 2010,
it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry
by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or
aesthetically significant".[12][13][14]
** Plot
Ex–fighter pilot Ted Striker is a traumatized war veteran turned taxi driver.
Because of his pathological fear of flying and subsequent "drinking
problem"—he splashes beverages anywhere but into his mouth—Ted has been unable
to hold a responsible job. His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson, now a
flight attendant, breaks off her relationship with him before boarding her
rostered flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. Ted abandons his taxi and buys a
ticket on the same flight to try to win her back. Once on board, however,
Elaine continues to reject him, causing Ted to inadvertently drive several
other passengers to suicide as he sadly reminisces.
After the in-flight meal is served, the entire flight crew and several
passengers fall ill. Passenger Dr. Rumack discovers that the fish served
during meal service has caused food poisoning. With the flight crew
incapacitated, Elaine contacts the Chicago control tower for help and is
instructed by tower supervisor Steve McCroskey to activate the plane's
autopilot, a large inflatable dummy pilot dubbed "Otto", which will get them
to Chicago but cannot land the plane. Elaine and Rumack convince Ted to take
the controls. When Steve learns Ted is piloting, he contacts Ted's former
commanding officer, Rex Kramer—now serving as a commercial pilot—to help talk
Ted through the landing procedure. Ted becomes uneasy when Kramer starts
giving orders and he briefly breaks down amid more wartime flashbacks. Elaine
and Rumack both bolster Ted's confidence and he manages to once again take the
controls.
As the plane nears Chicago, the weather worsens, complicating the landing.
With Elaine's help as co-pilot and Rex's guidance from the tower, Ted is able
to land the plane safely, despite the landing gear shearing off, and the
passengers suffer only minor injuries. Rescue vehicles arrive to help unload
the plane. Impressed by Ted's courage, Elaine embraces and kisses him,
rekindling their relationship. "Otto" restarts the plane and takes off as a
female companion inflates beside him.
** Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Robert Hays as Ted Striker
- Julie Hagerty as Elaine Dickinson
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as First Officer Roger Murdock
- Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
- Peter Graves as Captain Clarence Oveur
- Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack
- Lorna Patterson as Randy
- Robert Stack as Captain Rex Kramer
- Stephen Stucker as Air Traffic Controller Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs
- Frank Ashmore as Flight Engineer Victor Basta
- Jonathan Banks as Gunderson
- Craig Berenson as Paul Carey
- Barbara Billingsley as jive lady
- Lee Bryant as Mrs. Hammen
- Nicholas Pryor as Jim Hammen
- Joyce Bulifant as Mrs. Davis
- Maureen McGovern as nun
- Kenneth Tobey as Air Controller Neubauer
- Marcy Goldman as Mrs. Geline
- Barbara Stuart as Mrs. Kramer
- Ross Harris as Joey Hammen
- Norman Alexander Gibbs as first jive dude
- Al White as second jive dude
- David Hollander as young boy with coffee
- Michelle Stacy as young girl with coffee
- David Leisure as first Krishna
- Jason Wingreen as Dr. Brody
- Jill Whelan as Lisa Davis
- Ethel Merman as Lieutenant Hurwitz
- Lee Terri as Mrs. Linda Oveur
- Jimmie Walker as windshield wiper man
- James Hong as Japanese general
- Howard Jarvis as man in taxi
- Michael Laurence as newscaster
- Herb Voland as Air Controller Macias
- Otto as himself
}}
** Production
Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (collectively known as Zucker,
Abrahams and Zucker, or ZAZ) wrote _Airplane!_ while they were performing with
the Kentucky Fried Theatre, a theatre group they had founded in 1971. To
obtain material for comedy routines, they routinely recorded late night
television and reviewed the tapes later primarily to pull the commercials, a
process Abrahams compared to "seining for fish".[15] During one such taping
process, they unintentionally recorded the 1957 film _Zero Hour!_, and while
scanning the commercials, found it to be a "perfectly classically structured
film" according to Jerry Zucker.<ref name="commentary"/><ref name="avclub
oral"/> Abrahams later described _Zero Hour!_ as "the serious version of
_Airplane!_" It was the first film script they wrote, completed around
1975,<ref name="avclub oral"/> and was originally called _The Late Show_. The
script originally stayed close to the dialog and plot of _Zero Hour!_, as ZAZ
thought they did not have a sufficient understanding of film at the time to
structure a proper script.<ref name="avclub oral"/> ZAZ's script borrowed so
much from _Zero Hour!_ that they believed they needed to negotiate the rights
to create the remake of the film and ensure they remain within the allowance
for parody within copyright law. They were able to obtain the rights from
Warner Bros. and Paramount for about $2,500 at the time.<ref name="avclub
oral"/> The original script contained spoofs of television commercials but
people who proofread it advised them to shorten the commercials, and they
eventually removed them. When their script was finished, they were unable to
sell it.<ref name=directors>[pages=337–342]
While failing to sell their script, the trio met director John Landis, who
encouraged them to write a film based on their theatre sketches. They managed
to put _The Kentucky Fried Movie_ into production in the late 1970s. David
Zucker said "it was the first time we had ever been on a movie set. We
learned a lot. We learned that if you really wanted a movie to come out the
way you wanted it to, you had to direct. So on the next movie, _Airplane!_,
we insisted on directing".<ref name=directors/>
Eventually the _Airplane!_ script found its way to Paramount through Michael
Eisner. Eisner learned of the script via Susan Baerwald, another scriptwriter
with United Artists, and had Jeffrey Katzenberg track down and meet with ZAZ
to discuss details.<ref name="avclub oral"/> Avco Embassy Pictures also
expressed interest in producing the film, but ZAZ decided to go with
Paramount.<ref name="avclub oral"/>
Paramount insisted the film be shot in color rather than black-and-white as
ZAZ wanted, and to be set aboard a jet airliner rather than propeller plane to
better identify with modern filmgoers. In exchange, Paramount acquiesced to
ZAZ's desire to cast serious actors for the film rather than comedy
performers.<ref name="telegraph 40th"/> Principal photography began on June
20, 1979, and wrapped on August 31, with the bulk of filming having been done
in August. Jerry Zucker stood beside the camera during shooting, while David
Zucker and Jim Abrahams watched the video feed to see how the film would look;
they conferred after each take.[16]
*** Casting
David Zucker explained that "the trick was to cast actors like Robert Stack,
Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, and Lloyd Bridges. These were people who, up to
that time, had never done comedy. We thought they were much funnier than the
comedians of that time were".<ref name=directors/>
David Zucker felt Stack was the most important actor to be cast, since he was
the "linchpin" of the film's plot.<ref name=directors/><ref name="avclub
oral"/> Stack initially played his role in a way that was different from what
the directors had in mind. They showed him a tape of impressionist John Byner
impersonating Robert Stack. According to the producers, Stack was "doing an
impression of John Byner doing an impression of Stack".<ref
name="commentary"/> Stack was not initially interested in the part, but ZAZ
persuaded him. Bridges' children advised him to take the part.<ref
name=directors/> Graves rejected the script at first, considering it
tasteless. During filming, ZAZ had explained to Graves that his lines spoken
to a young boy, like "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?", would "be
explained later in a part that you aren't in".<ref name="telegraph 40th"/> On
the DVD commentary, Abrahams said: "I don't understand. What did he think was
tasteless about pedophilia?"<ref name=nytimes1/>
For the role of Dr. Rumack, ZAZ initially suggested Dom DeLuise, Christopher
Lee (who had appeared in _Airport '77_), Vincent Price, and Jack Webb, all of
whom turned it down, before they considered Nielsen,<ref name="telegraph
40th"/>[17] who was "just a fish in water" in his role, according to Jerry
Zucker.<ref name="avclub oral"/> Nielsen's career to this point had consisted
mostly of serious leading roles but he wanted to work in comedy and was
looking for a film to help in the transition. He was considered a "closet
comedian" on set, pranking his fellow actors between shots, but immediately
adopted his somber, serious persona when performing as Rumack.<ref
name="telegraph 40th"/> During filming, Nielsen used a device that made
farting noises to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played
that thing like a maestro".[18][19] Christopher Lee would later acknowledge
that turning down the role (to star in the film _1941_) was a huge
mistake.<ref
name=TFInterview>[url=http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the_total_film_interview__christopher_lee
]
The role of Ted Striker was written for David Letterman, who had auditioned
for a news anchorman role in _Kentucky Fried Movie_. Letterman did a screen
test in 1979 that ZAZ liked and they wanted him to do a second audition, but
Letterman did not want to pursue the role and was not selected.[20][21] Chevy
Chase, Barry Manilow, Bill Murray and Fred Willard were also considered for
the role.<ref name="How We Made: Airplane!"/>[22]<ref name="telegraph 40th"/>
Caitlyn Jenner[At the time of production, Caitlyn was still presenting as male
and known as Bruce Jenner.] also read for the part. Instead, ZAZ opted for
Robert Hays, co-star of ABC situation comedy _Angie_.<ref name="telegraph
40th"/> Elaine's part was auditioned for by Sigourney Weaver and Shelley Long
but eventually went to Julie Hagerty.<ref name="telegraph 40th"/> The
directors advised the pair to play their roles straight.<ref name=AVClub/>
Hays and Hagerty developed an on-screen chemistry that worked in the film's
favor; they spent time to practice and perfect the bar dance routine set to
"Stayin' Alive", among other scenes.<ref name="avclub oral"/><ref
name="telegraph 40th"/>
For the "red zone/white zone" send-up of curbside terminal announcements in
which public address announcers "Betty" and "Vernon" argue over the red and
white zones, ZAZ went through the usual process of auditioning professional
voice actors, but failed to find ones who could provide the desired
authenticity. Instead, the filmmakers ultimately sought out and hired the
real-life married couple who had recorded the announcement tapes which were
then being used at Los Angeles International Airport.[23] ZAZ lifted some of
their dialog directly from the 1968 novel _Airport_, written by Arthur Hailey
who had also written _Zero Hour!_['s] script. The lifted lines included ones
about an unwanted pregnancy; David Zucker said the couple "got a kick out of
it".[24] The role of the Hare Krishna in the airport went to a college
roommate of Hays's, newcomer David Leisure, due to Leisure's willingness to
shave his head for the bit part;[25] it would be several more years before
Leisure landed his breakthrough role as Joe Isuzu.<ref
name=people>[url=https://people.com/archive/david-leisure-a-k-a-joe-isuzu-finds-that-the-road-to-success-is-paved-with-lies-lies-lies-vol-26-no-19/]
Baseball player Pete Rose was originally considered for the role of Roger
Murdock.<ref name="avclub oral"/>[26]
ZAZ got businessman and Republican politician Howard Jarvis to make a cameo
appearance. Jarvis, who was well known in California at the time for getting
his tax policy Proposition 13 passed in 1978, plays the patient passenger who
gets into Ted Striker's cab at the start of the film. He then spends the
entire movie sitting in an empty cab with the meter running. He also has the
final line, which he says after the end credits: he looks at his watch and
says "Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes, but that's it!", the joke
being that Jarvis was wasting money while being known for his stance on fiscal
responsibility and limited spending.[27][28]
*** Music
The film's score was composed and conducted by Elmer Bernstein, who had
provided soundtracks for classic films like _The Ten Commandments_, _The
Magnificent Seven_, _To Kill a Mockingbird_, and _The Great Escape_, and
performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony. ZAZ told Bernstein they did not
want an epic score like his past works but "a B-Movie level score, overdone
and corny".<ref name="telegraph 40th"/> According to ZAZ, Bernstein completely
understood what they were trying to do, had laughed throughout a previous cut
of the film, and wrote a "fantastic score".<ref name="avclub oral"/>
In 1980, an LP soundtrack for the film was released by Regency Records which
includes dialog and songs from the film. Narrated by Shadoe Stevens, it
features only one score track, the "Love Theme from _Airplane!_" composed by
Bernstein. The soundtrack was altered for the European _Flying High_ release,
with several featured tracks swapped for pieces original to the LP.
In April 2009, La-La Land Records announced it would release the first
official soundtrack album for _Airplane!_, containing Bernstein's complete
score.[29] The soundtrack was released digitally on February 19, 2013, by
Paramount Music.[30]
** Release
Prior to the film's release, the directors were apprehensive following a
mediocre audience response at a pre-screening, but the film earned its entire
budget of about $3.5 million in its first five days of wide release.
_Airplane!_ opened on June 27, 1980, in seven theatres in Toronto, grossing
$83,058 in its opening weekend.<ref name=op>[magazine= Variety]<ref
name=Adv>[magazine= Variety] It also opened in two theaters in Buffalo,
grossing $14,000 in its first week.[31] The film then expanded on Wednesday,
July 2 to 705 theaters in the United States and Canada, grossing $6,052,514 in
its first five days of wide release, finishing second for the weekend with a
gross of $4,540,000.[32] Overall, it grossed $83 million at the US and
Canadian box office and returned $40 million in rentals,<ref name=gross/>
making it the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1980.[33] Worldwide, the film
earned $130 million in its initial release,[34] and by 2002 it had made $171
million.<ref name=ww>[magazine= Variety]
** Reception
[align=right] _Airplane!_ received universal acclaim from critics and is
widely regarded as one of the best films of 1980.[35][36][37] [score=97][38]
[78][39]
Roger Ebert of the _Chicago Sun-Times_ wrote "_Airplane!_ is sophomoric,
obvious, predictable, corny, and quite often very funny. And the reason it's
funny is frequently because it's sophomoric, predictable, corny, etc."[40]
Janet Maslin of _The New York Times_ wrote "_Airplane!_ is more than a
pleasant surprise... As a remedy for the bloated self-importance of too many
other current efforts, it's just what the doctor ordered".[41]
In 2008, _Airplane!_ was selected by _Empire_ magazine as one of 'The 500
Greatest Movies of All Time'.[42] It was also placed on a similar list—'The
Best 1000 Movies Ever Made'—by _The New York Times_.[43] In November 2015, the
film was ranked fourth in the Writers Guild of America's list of '101 Funniest
Screenplays'.[44]
MaximOnline.com named the airplane crash in _Airplane!_ as number four on its
list of "Most Horrific Movie Plane Crashes". Leslie Nielsen's response to
Hays' "Surely you can't be serious" line—"I am serious. And don't call me
Shirley"—was 79th on AFI's list of the best 100 movie quotes. In 2000, the
American Film Institute listed _Airplane!_ as number ten on its list of the
100 funniest American films. In the same year, _Total Film_ readers voted it
the second-greatest comedy film of all time. It was also second in the
British 50 Greatest Comedy Films poll on Channel 4, beaten by _Monty Python's
Life of Brian_. _Entertainment Weekly_ voted the film the "funniest movie on
video" in their list of the 100 funniest movies on video.[45]
A number of actors were cast to spoof their established images: prior to their
roles in _Airplane!_, Nielsen, Stack, and Bridges were known for portraying
adventurous, no-nonsense tough-guy characters. Stack's role as the captain
who loses his nerve in one of the earliest airline "disaster" films, _The High
and the Mighty_ (1954), is spoofed in _Airplane!_, as is Lloyd Bridges'
1970–1971 television role as airport manager Jim Conrad in _San Francisco
International Airport_. Peter Graves was in the made-for-television film
_SST: Death Flight_, in which an SST was unable to land owing to an
emergency.[46]
Nielsen enjoyed a major career boost subsequent to _Airplane!_[']s release.
The film marked a significant change in his film persona towards deadpan
comedy, notably in the three _Naked Gun_ films: _The Naked Gun: From the Files
of Police Squad!_ (1988)_; The Naked Gun 2 [1] : The Smell of Fear_ (1991)_;_
and _Naked Gun 33 [1] : The Final Insult_ (1994). The films were based on the
six-episode television series _Police Squad!_ which starred Nielsen and was
created and produced by Zucker–Abrahams–Zucker. This also led to his casting,
many years later, in Mel Brooks' _Dracula: Dead and Loving It_. Brooks had
wanted to make the film for a long time, but put it off because, as he said:
"I just could not find the right Dracula". According to Brooks, he did not
see _Airplane!_ until years after its release. When he did, he knew Nielsen
would be right for the part. When it was suggested that his role in
_Airplane!_ was against type, Nielsen protested that he had "always been cast
against type before", and that comedy was what he always really wanted to
do.[47]
** Influence
Peter Farrelly said of the film: "I was in Rhode Island the first time I saw
_Airplane!_ Seeing it for the first time was like going to a great rock
concert, like seeing Led Zeppelin or the Talking Heads. We didn't realize
until later that what we'd seen was a very specific kind of comedy that we now
call the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker school".<ref name=nytimes1/> Farrelly, along
with his writing partner Bennett Yellin, sent a comedy script to David Zucker,
who in return gave them their first Hollywood writing job. Farrelly said:
"I'll tell you right now, if the Zuckers didn't exist, there would be no
Farrelly brothers".<ref name="nytimes1"/>
During the Qantas Flight 72 incident over the Indian Ocean west of Australia
in 2008, the captain recited some of Lloyd Bridges' lines to relieve tension
while trying to land the plane. This was commented in the _Air Disasters_
episode "Free Fall".
The 2010 documentary _Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story_ opens with a
scene from the film, in which a passenger is offered the very short book
_Famous Jewish Sports Legends_ by a flight attendant.<ref
name=latimes1>[url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-nov-19-la-et-jews-baseball-20101119-story.html]<ref
name=jewsandbaseball1>[url=http://www.jewsandbaseball.com/film1.html]
The _MythBusters_ TV show episode "Airplane Hour" reenacted the climax of the
film to see if an inexperienced pilot could land a plane with only a call from
Air Traffic Control. The Mythbusters had to use a simulation to test the myth
but concluded that the scene was plausible. They did, however, mention that
most planes today have an autopilot to land the plane safely.
In the 2012 film _Ted_, main character John Bennett tells the story of how he
met Lori Collins. The flashback is a close recreation of the scene where Ted
Striker met Elaine Dickinson in the disco.[48]
In early 2014, Delta Air Lines began using a new on-board safety film with
many 1980s references, featuring an ending with a cameo of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
reprising his role as co-pilot Roger Murdock.[49]
In 2014, Travel Wisconsin began airing an ad with Robert Hays and Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar reprising their roles from the film. Kareem makes the comment
"Why did I ever leave this place?" referring to his time playing for the
Milwaukee Bucks.[50][51][52] Hays also reprises his role as an airline pilot
in _Sharknado 2: The Second One_.
The first episode of the eighth season of the TV series _The Goldbergs_
re-enacts certain scenes.
** Related works
*** Sequel
_Airplane II: The Sequel_, first released on December 10, 1982, attempted to
tackle the science fiction film genre, though there was still emphasis on the
general theme of disaster films. Although most of the cast reunited for the
sequel, the writers and directors of _Airplane!_ chose not to be involved. In
the DVD commentary for _Airplane!_, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry
Zucker claim to have never seen nor to have any desire to see _Airplane II_.
*** Book and audiobook
An oral history on the making of _Airplane!_, was published on October 3,
2023.[53] An audiobook version was also released, featuring David Zucker, Jim
Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker as well as guests Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Hader, "Weird
Al" Yankovic, Molly Shannon, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, Beau Bridges,
John Landis, Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, among others.[54]
** References
INFORMATIONAL NOTES [notelist]
CITATIONS [Reflist]
** External links
[wikiquote]
- _Airplane!_ essay by Michael Schlesinger (see https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/airplane2.pdf) at the National Film Registry
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- Airplane! (1980) (archived 2023) (see http://web.archive.org/web/20230928213234/https://www.paramountmovies.com/movies/airplane) on ParamountMovies.com
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- Surely It’s 30 (Don’t Call Me Shirley!) (see https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/movies/27airplane.html) [--] Retrospective article on _The New York Times_ , June 25, 2010
- Airplane at 30! The ride of their lives (see https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/22/airplane-at-30-zucker-abrahams-interview) [--] Retrospective article from _The Guardian_ , Aug 22, 2010
- "The Two Troubled Commutes of Ted Stryker (see http://remakechronicles.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/the-two-troubled-commutes-of-ted-stryker/) ", comparison of _Zero Hour!_ and _Airplane!_ by Adam-Troy and Judy Castro.
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