Here is a thing I didn't know: "Airplane!" wasn't a satire of "Airport" - it was a line-by-line parody of a deadly-earnest 1957 potboiler called "Zero Hour". Seeing them side-by-side only makes it funnier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs …
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Based on the Canadian novel, Flight into Danger, where, as I recall, people are flying to Grey Cup! I had to study it in Grade 8. A CanLit “classic.”
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You mean you *got* to study it in Grade 8.
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yes - I thought it was satirizing stolid tropes, not an actual ur-text. It's fun to see where the conventional tropes come from!
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