Other mistake: In the credits, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's name is misspelled Kareem Abdul-Jabaar. (01:23:40)
Airplane (1980)
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Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Robert Hays, Lorna Patterson
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10/10.One of the most genius comedies ever made.The Zucker brothers and Abrams were brilliant here.I would call this one amazing movie because everyone keeps a straight face.Not an easy task considering all the funny as hell stuff being said or done throughout the movie.Leslie Nielsen delivers one of the best lines ever in comedy"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." Robert Hayes, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, and Robert Stack are also great here."Billy you ever seen a grown man cry?"I also enjoyed many of the gags, three of the best being people in line waiting to wallop a hysterical passenger,"I gotta get outta here!I gotta get outta here!." One passenger who said"It's all right stewardess, I speak jive." The last being the fighting girl scouts.One great running gag is where someone says "We need to get these people to a hospital."What is it?"It's a big building with patients."No doubt about it, Airplane was made for people who love comedy back when they did comedy right.
More mistakes in Airplane
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
Trivia: The credits list "generally in charge of a lot of things" as one of the job titles. (01:26:00)
Question: Captain Oveur was saying things to Joey. What I didn't understand is the jokes behind the lines "Have you ever been in a Turkish Prison" and "Do you like movies about gladiators." What are the jokes behind these? Please explain. Thank-you.
Answer: I believe this joke is just to make the watcher extremely uncomfortable and it works great.
Answer: The Turkish prison question is a reference to the movie Midnight Express.
Chosen answer: All of his questions to Joey are filled with homosexual innuendos; the perverted captain is trying to see if Joey has any such tendencies. In a Turkish prison, men who are sexually frustrated will resort to "companionship" with other men (even forcefully). Movies about gladiators depict ripped, muscular men, and the question about seeing a "grown man naked" obviously fits the pattern.
Matty Blast
The gladiator reference is about Spartacus. There is a scene in there about homosexuality.
What scene are you talking about? If you mean the "snails and oysters" scene, that was not part of the movie until it was restored in 1991.
And also a veiled reference to the "Sword and Sandals" movies that the ultra-buff actor Steve Reeves made back in the 1950s and 1960s that featured well-built and handsome male actors playing characters from ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
Scott215