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[keirarts]

Great dictator is a cheat of sorts. It parodies Hitler and the Nazi's rather than another film or genre. Team America is similar but at least also parodies action movie tropes and the depiction of America in its own cinema.



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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I didn't go with Airplane seeing as it parodies the Airport series.

The Airport series parodies itself following the first film. I mean, look at Airport 75 - Charlton Heston boarding the plane via the cockpit window whilst the plane is in flight. Far funnier than Nielsen and co.

Then there's this. A nun strumming guitar songs to Linda Blair.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I didn't go with Airplane seeing as it parodies the Airport series.

The Airport series parodies itself following the first film. I mean, look at Airport 75 - Charlton Heston boarding the plane via the cockpit window whilst the plane is in flight. Far funnier than Nielsen and co.

Then there's this. A nun strumming guitar songs to Linda Blair.

That's a fair point. Though the airport films are unintentional parodies.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by keirarts

That's a fair point. Though the airport films are unintentional parodies.

Definitely. Have you seen them all, K?

Watched one after the other they are hilarious. The box set is a must have. Fantastic casts as well, including, Dean Martin, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Myrna Lot, Gloria Swanson, Christopher Lee, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Alain Delon and of course George Kennedy.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I didn't go with Airplane seeing as it parodies the Airport series.

The Airport series parodies itself following the first film. I mean, look at Airport 75 - Charlton Heston boarding the plane via the cockpit window whilst the plane is in flight. Far funnier than Nielsen and co.

Then there's this. A nun strumming guitar songs to Linda Blair.

Originally Posted by keirarts

That's a fair point. Though the airport films are unintentional parodies.

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Definitely. Have you seen them all, K?

Watched one after the other they are hilarious

This is what I was getting at yesterday when I posted

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

I foresee a problem filled week

Define: Parody film?

There are many films which are not perceived as parodies, but that *do* fit within the criteria of 'what a parody is'. Then there are other films that (depending on how you watch them) are perfect parodies even tho they are not meant to be

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Great dictator is a cheat of sorts. It parodies Hitler and the Nazi's rather than another film or genre. Team America is similar but at least also parodies action movie tropes and the depiction of America in its own cinema.

I have The Great Dictator on my (provisional) list as my understanding is the film parodies The Triumph of the Will and the other Nazi newsreel footage of Hitler, and its counterpart in Italy with Mussolini.

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I didn't go with Airplane seeing as it parodies the Airport series.

The Airport series parodies itself following the first film. I mean, look at Airport 75 - Charlton Heston boarding the plane via the cockpit window whilst the plane is in flight. Far funnier than Nielsen and co.

Then there's this. A nun strumming guitar songs to Linda Blair.

I may be wrong, but I thought the reference point for Airplane! was a much earlier film: 1957's Zero Hour! Has anyone seen it?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

According to Wiki - The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot and the central characters,[6] as well as many elements from Airport 1975.

I haven't seen Zero Hour!.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

According to Wiki - The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot and the central characters,[6] as well as many elements from Airport 1975.

I haven't seen Zero Hour!.

If you watch the side-by-side YouTube video, you'll see the intentional similarities between Airplane! and Zero Hour!. It's probably possible to make a similar video with either Young Frankenstein or Dracula: Dead and Loving It and the films Mel Brooks was spoofing

[Demoncrat]

They mention as much in the comm for Airplane! D

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Definitely. Have you seen them all, K?

Watched one after the other they are hilarious. The box set is a must have. Fantastic casts as well, including, Dean Martin, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Myrna Lot, Gloria Swanson, Christopher Lee, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Alain Delon and of course George Kennedy.

I haven't seen them in a while but I have the set myself.

Ultimately it's the same as with previous lists.

Can you offer sound reasoning?