Influences
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." 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."
Thirty-years later, the documentary film Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story opened with a scene from the movie.
At the beginning of the epilogue mission in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the film is quoted. Person 1 says "Surely you can't be serious", and Person 2 replies "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."
In the 2012 movie Ted, the main character, John Bennett, tells the story of how he met Lori Collins. The flashback is an exact recreation of the scene where Ted Striker met Elaine Dickinson in the disco.
Read more about this topic: Airplane!
Famous quotes containing the word influences:
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)
“I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.”
—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)