I mean Takashi Miike did a bullet-time cock-fight, for fucks sakes. The time has come to put aside those Matrix fellas. If you wanna spoof a Waschowski Brothers cinematic offering, I suggest Bound, what has a very nicely cinematographed scene about two ladies sexing.
Anyway, Kentucky Fried Movie owes much of its aesthetic success to the fact that John Landis was doing the shouting about Action and Cut. Not only do we get to see "See You Next Wednesday" on a movie billboard, as is the wont of the Films De Landis, plus a poster for his earlier Schlock in the same scene, but he's also got the camera-pointing talents required to ensure that even if one bit bores the balls off the viewer, at least it looks nice.
Airplane, which was actually known as Kentucky Fried Airplane in some quarters, would of course channel all this madness towards a more streamlined approach, and gave it a whole narrative thing to go on. A bit like when those Monty Python fellas went ahead and made a film about The Quest For The Holy Grail. There's something endearing, however, about the anarchic, formless approach of Kentucky Fried Movie, and it is quite a rarity in the world of Filmic Spoofery, in that it doesn't confine itself within any particular genre, like they would do later, and instead sees its budget and its running time as tickets for to do whatever the hell they can and take as many shots as possible at whatever the hell they deem worthy of a good shooting. It doesn't have to worry about keeping us interested, since it just skips to something else five minutes later.
It's kinda refreshing is what, and whilst Airplane gets all the kudos and the nodding and so-on, Kentucky Fried Movie is certainly worthy of our attention also.
Just a shame that Leslie Nielson isn't in it.
The Duke resides at Mondo Irlando
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Article comments
1 - Jim Carruthers
You might also want to pay attention to "Amazon Women On The Moon" which uses late night teevee as the framing device, and Sybil Danning instead of Uschi Digard for the boobs.
Plus a middle-aged man trapped in his teevee in his underwear.
2 - kirk
You definately have your own unique style of movie review! But I guess you take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street or sticking your face in a fan. But really, it's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
3 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Kirk, i am baffled by your comment. Maybe its cause its 5am, or maybe its cause you've hit upon some hitherto undetected plateau of commentary. Either way, im lost
:)
4 - Vic
I loved KFM when I first saw it many years ago and I have to say that I am amazed that there you found enough there to do such an in-depth review!
Props to you, dude. :-)
Vic
5 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Thanks Vic. Recieving Props from the screen ranter himself is something of an honour for The Duke is what.