The incredible journey in a crazy plane

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Movie
German title The incredible journey in a crazy plane
Original title Airplane!
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1980
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jim Abraham's
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
script Jim Abraham's
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
production Jon Davison
Jim Abraham
Howard W. Koch
music Elmer Bernstein
camera Joseph F. Biroc
cut Patrick Kennedy
occupation
synchronization
chronology

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The unbelievable journey in a crazy spaceship

The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Airplane (original title: Airplane! ) Is an American comedy from 1980. Directed by the ZAZ trio Jim Abrahams , David Zucker and Jerry Zucker , who also wrote the script. The film is considered a breakthrough for the actor Leslie Nielsen , who previously had been seen in mostly serious film roles for more than two decades.

The unbelievable journey in a crazy airplane satirizes well-known airplane disaster films of the 1970s such as Airport and Giants in the Sky . The basis for the plot, however, is the 1957 film 714 does not answer, directed by Hall Bartlett and based on a script by Arthur Hailey (original title Zero Hour! ).

Due to its success, a sequel was produced in 1982 entitled The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Spaceship .

action

After the pilot Captain Oveur and the copilot Murdock fell ill with fish poisoning on the Trans-American flight 209 from Los Angeles to Chicago, in addition to some passengers, a passenger who can land the aircraft has to be found. Ted Striker is such a passenger, but the former fighter pilot has suffered from fear of flying since a traumatic experience from his military service , as he feels responsible for the death of his flight comrades who died years ago during an operation he led.

Striker had previously decided spontaneously at the airport to buy a ticket for the flight in order to win back his ex-girlfriend Elaine, who accompanies the flight as a stewardess . At first Elaine doesn't believe that Striker can land the plane and that he can take responsibility. However, he is the only one on board who has flight experience and has not eaten the rotten fish, so you let him on the control stick. Striker himself doubts himself too, and so he soon gives up again. Only when the passenger Dr. Rumack, who took over the medical first aid on board, tells a story of a man who had entrusted his last words to him, Striker's opinion changes suddenly: The dying patient of Dr. Rumack was one of his former flight comrades, who defended Striker's decisions at the time on his deathbed.

Striker receives instructions over the radio from his former supervisor, Captain Rex Kramer, and from air traffic controller Steve McCroskey. This enables him to crash-land the aircraft on the runway.

The passengers are rescued and Ted and Elaine's love finds a happy ending.

Others

  • The film was shot in just 34 days, mostly in August 1979, and cost $ 3.5 million.
  • Rumack's encouragement, which he repeated three times to Striker (before, during and after landing): “I just wanted to wish you both luck. We're all counting on you. ”Was revisited in Scary Movie 3 , another Sugar film, again by Leslie Nielsen (this time as US President). The saying is also quoted in Family Guy in the episode Blue Harvest .
  • The directors David and Jerry Zucker make a brief appearance in the film as aircraft guide .
  • The third director, Jim Abrahams, makes a brief appearance as the sixth religious zealot at the airport.
  • Charlotte Zucker, the mother of David and Jerry Zucker, also makes a brief appearance: She tries to put on makeup while the plane is in turbulence.
  • Peter Graves initially did not want to play the role of Captain Oveur, as he - as he said in a newspaper interview in 2000 - considered the content of the script to be "the biggest rubbish" he had ever read. It was only after meeting the team of authors that he changed his mind.
  • Gregory Itzin , who later played Charles Logan in series 24 , played the first religious zealot at the airport.
  • The film is based on the film 714 does not answer (Zero Hour) from 1957. Some scenes and dialogues were taken almost one-to-one from this film, but often with a punch line.

synchronization

In the German dubbing , some of the original gags have been changed. So Dr. Rumack's (Leslie Nielsen) reference to Anita Bryant , who is rather unknown in German-speaking countries, was removed. After passengers fell ill with fish poisoning and vomited, he explains in the original: "Haven't seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant Concert." ), while in the German version he refers to his birthday party. The dark-skinned passengers who originally spoke in an Afro-American dialect (Jive) speak in the German version with Bavarian dialect .

Other language versions have also been adapted: In the Turkish dubbing, the dialogue between Captain Oveur and the boy in the cockpit: “Have you ever been to a Turkish prison?” Has been changed to “Have you ever been to a Greek prison?”

The script and dialogue direction of the German version were in the hands of Arne Elsholtz . The synchronization was created by Berliner Synchron .

role actor Voice actor
Ted Striker Robert Hays Randolf Kronberg
Elaine Dickinson Julie Hagerty Liane Rudolph
Cpt. Clarence Oveur Peter Graves Heinz Petruo
Steven McCrosky Lloyd Bridges Edgar Ott
Dr. Rumack Leslie Nielsen Hubert Suschka
Cpt. Rex Kramer Robert Stack Arnold Marquis
Dr. Brody Jason Wingreen Wolfgang Völz
Johnny Stephen Stucker Georg Tryphon
Randy Lorna Patterson Rita Engelmann
Roger Murdock Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Helmut Krauss
Jim Hammen Nicholas Pryor Norbert Gescher
Black passenger number 1 Norman Alexander Gibbs Norbert Gastell
Victor Basta Frank Ashmore Norbert Langer

Reviews

“The well-known plot merely serves as a vehicle for a totally over-the-top parody of countless Hollywood films from ' Jaws ' to ' Airport '. Of varying levels and not always tasteful, in the German version still very coarse, the film can still be quite enjoyable for connoisseurs. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Conclusion: Here the gags pop like fresh popcorn."

- Cinema

“'Airplane!' - tasteless, gross, grotesque, and extremely enjoyable - is a motley gag collection [...]. "

- Helmut W. Banz, Die Zeit

The film was also a financial success: at a production cost of $ 3.5 million, US box office revenues were over $ 80 million and video rentals were $ 40 million.

Awards

DVD release

  • The incredible journey in a crazy plane . Paramount Home Entertainment 2003

Soundtrack

  • Elmer Bernstein : Airplane! Music From the Motion Picture . 2 CD Collection. La-La Land Records. Sound carrier no. LLLCD 1093 - Original recording of the film music conducted by the composer (contains some pieces not used in the film)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ imdb.com: filming locations
  2. ↑ a b boxofficemojo.com: Airplane!
  3. ↑ Comparison of the scenes from Airplane! and Zero Hour , video on YouTube .
  4. ↑ The incredible journey in a crazy plane. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ The incredible journey in a crazy plane. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Cinema.de: film review
  7. ↑ Helmut W. Banz: Crazy . In: The time . No. 49/1980 , November 28, 1980, Filmtips, p. 48 .