Filmmaker reacts to Top Secret! (1984) for the FIRST TIME!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2022
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Eric Andre fans anyone?
The giant phone gag is absolutely brilliant, one of the best visual gags ever IMO. 😁
If I'm not already dying laughing by the "he's just a little horse" joke The French Resistance introduction gets me every single time!!! Loved this movie for 30+ years, I believe it didn't do too good at the box office but damn it is now a classic spoof film all the way.
My favourite bit of trivia for this film is that the mold of Peter Cushing's head used to make his weird eye for the library scene ended up being stored and was later used as a primary reference for the CG recreation of Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One.
Val Kilmer is an incredible actor. Diverse and full of depth. His comedy movies - Top Secret and Real Genius - are just as amazing as his dramatic roles. He had the kind of confidence we all wished we had. He had amazing comic timing. And he was a damned good looking dude. He is one of the few actors that has made infinitely replayable movies as a norm and not the outlier.
I saw this when it first came out and it really blew me away. The movie doesn't let up from start to finish and they used so many great movie tricks to pull off the humor. Plus Val Kilmer put in a great performance for a ridiculous comedy. He really showed his range in his film.
One of my favorite jokes in this I only got because I was taking a German class at the time. At one point in the German's office, the phone rings. The officer picks it up, listens, snarls in German and hangs up. Because of my class, I heard him snarl, "Ich liebe dich, meine schatz!" and burst out laughing. It translates to, "I love you, sweetheart!"
The little horse joke kills me every time.
This movie doesn’t get as much love as Airplane or Naked Gun but I actually think it’s funnier than both. The ballet scene is worth the price of admission, a great debut from Val Kilmer.🤣👍
The reason the Swedish Bookstore scene is backwards is because Swedish is often referred to as sounding like English backwards.
Oh, and REAL GENIUS (1985) with Val Kilmer
"It's like a dad joke that's really good," is honestly the best description I've ever heard of this movie ever.
The underwater bar fight scene is so impressive. And the library scene of course That backwards technique was later used by David Lynch in Twin Peaks to great effect. The scenes were plentiful, featured in the series pilot (international version), two episodes later, and in the final episode of season two. It was also used multiple times in season 3 as well as the feature film "Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me". In each scene, the actors had to learn their lines phonetically backwards as well as physically perform their movements backwards to achieve the desired effect. Amazing stuff.
"Who the heck was that and why?"
YOU MADE ME CRY !!!
This movie is just so much *FUN*. I've been watching it for atleast 20 years and it's still amusing to this day. When I present this movie to my friends, it's always the funniest movie they ever seen. The gags just NEVER stop which is why I think this movie is so great. It's just plain simple fun. A good ol' slap stick movie.
I love this film. It's non stop jokes. I also like Val Kilmer. My favorite movie he did was Real Genius. If you haven't seen that definitely check it out. It's a gem.
Watching how much James couldn't even deal with this classic is just the pick-me-up I needed after a shift in a kitchen on a hot-ass day. Thank you, sir.
Zucker and Abrams movies like Top Secret and Airplane all follow a specific rule. There is never a joke going on with both the actors and in the background at the same time. If there is a joke going on the background the actors will always play the scene completely straight. You can see this in all of their productions.
I was glad to see your filmmaker reaction to this one. It’s so full of creativity and subversion of tropes.