The Naked Gun: One of the Funniest Films of the 80s?

Rigs and merto Tango and cash starski and Hutch John McLean Frank bullet dirty hary Kahan now you have to ask yourself one question do I feel lucky well do you punks well those are tough movie cops none of them are as hard as Nails as perhaps the toughest most dangerous movie cop of all time I'm Lieutenant Frank dreon police squad and don't ever let me catch you guys in America so unnecessary jump back to 1980 lesie neelen was a character actor best known for playing dead pan Ultra serious roles he was typically the bad guy of the week on TV shows and TV movies and his biggest claim to fame at the time was playing the captain in 195 six's Forbidden Planet people used to make fun of him for being so stiff and humorless his career was pretty middling at the time but David Zucker Jame Abrams and Jerry Zucker AKA zaz Zucker Abram Zucker wanted to cast him in their movie Airplane he would play the third lead a dead pan doctor that would perfectly ape similar roles he played in movies like The Poseidon Adventure while the studio initially bulked saying that neel's the kind of guy you cast the night before shooting starts rather than actually want the directors had their way into everyone's surprise the movie was a mammoth Blockbuster what's more every critic singled out nielson's hilariously dead pan performance and suddenly lesie Nelson was a Bonafide comedy star can you fly this plane and land it surely you can't be serious I am serious and don't call me Shirley yet airplane didn't really make him a top draw at the box office although it certainly elevated his status in Hollywood he stayed pretty loyal to his airplane directors skipping the sequel when he heard they weren't coming back turned out to be a pretty good move they actually had plans for him at the time with them developing a TV show called police squad it was designed as a takeoff on the popular cop shows the ' 50s 60s and70s and in it he would play a Nuno bright cop named Frank drebin who had narrate the show in nielson's classic dead pan style there had been a recent wave of gorgeous fashion models found naked and unconscious and laundromats on the West Side unfortunately I was assigned to investigate holdups of Neighborhood Credit Unions despite some rave reviews police squad was canceled after six episodes hey what wait a minut what what happened what happens next come on let's see the next episode that's it what the show was cancelled after that and neelen went back to the kinds of roles he played in the 70s playing a college dean in the well let's say problematic soulman a rapist in the Barbara star sign movie nuts and other just undistinguished Parts although he was pretty great in Creep Show opposite Ted dancing no no no that's a trick you son of a [ __ ] got some uh some kind of a special effects trick in there you just take a look at the VCR back there I'm sorry you can't turn your head yet team zaz still felt that their character Frank dreon had a lot of potential they convinced Paramount Pictures to finance a big screen version of the show called The Naked Gun from the files of police squad they couldn't just use the name police squad because at the time the police academy series was riding high and they didn't want to confuse people Frank they're not here for you Weird Al Yankovic is on the plane neelen would return as drebin opposite a unique cast that included Kennedy a legendary character actor as Dre's boss he's alive Frank though he's on life support doctors say he's got a 50/50 chance of living though there's only a 10% chance of that and the somewhat let's use that phrase problematic again OJ Simpson has his beloved partner nordberg hey nurse Qui give this man some drugs quick cat you see his in pain give him a shot quickly no heroin heroin Frank nober that's a pretty tall odor you're going to have to give me a couple of days on that one well Simpson wasn't problematic in 1988 but as neelon himself later said he became known for something other than comedy as the years went by perhaps the most unconventional piece of casting was Priscilla Presley who of course was known mostly then for being the late Elvis Presley's ex-wife Presley's acting career had gotten off to a quiet start by some TV roles but the gorgeous actress proved to be shockingly Adept at comedy nice Bieber thank you I just had it stuffed let me help you with that most importantly your Chemistry with the bumbling neelson was Pitch Perfect with her always citing him as a dream co-star I'm boiling a roast how hot and wet do you like it very hot and awfully wet while the TV series mostly mocked other cop shows the Naked Gun with its bigger budget served as more of a spoof of the the Dirty Harry series with several scenes directly riffing on classic moments from the first film Callahan I don't want any more trouble like you had last year in the Filmore District understand that's my policy yeah well when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape I shoot the bastard that's my policy oh dreon I don't want any more trouble like you had last year on the South Side understand that's my policy yeah yes well when I see five weirdos dressed in toer stabbing a guy in the middle of the park and full view of 100 people I shoot the bastards that's my policy that was a Shakespeare in the park production of Julius Caesar you [ __ ] in the movie dreon after singlehandedly demolishing a room full of America's greatest adversaries in the opening including EDM Min and a mohawk raring Ayatollah has to prove that his partner nordberg played by Simpson is innocent of a trumped up drug charge making matters worse nordberg is on his deathbed after an ambush something not helped by the fact that drevan accidentally keeps injuring him further every time he goes to visit him eventually the path leads to a drug running businessman named Vincent ledwig played by Khan himself Ricardo monoban who scks his sexy secretary andrein to distract him only for her to be powerless against dren's seductive charms the movie's premise which centers around ludwick's plot to assassinate the queen using sleeper assassins is actually lifted from an old Charles Bronson movie called telepon the movie itself is a complete blast with surprisingly tight action that's expertly mixed with non-stop polarity it's probably one of the funniest films ever made to be honest there's something on the side of your mouth now no no the other side with even throwaway gags including dreon and Jane walking out of Oliver Stone Splatoon and hysterics being top shelf neelon himself is superb as the none too bright but heroic dreon if ever neelon was cast in Perfection this was the part with him loving the role so much that he had iron newborn's theme song for the series play at his funeral okay was safe taged him with the ball you idiot he was out when you're around the Baseline the B all right I've had enough you're out of here what do you mean you can't going on far out of the game all right Presley is shockingly funny as dren's love interest with romance precc convincing and Kennedy is a riot sending up his iconic airport character roles as dren's boss and best pal even OJ Simpson is really funny as nordberg although watching him dressed in black stalking around heavily armed in the opening sequences has a bit of a different context now than it did way back in 1988 Norberg me Frank your buddy get it the film was a Smash Hit at the box office grossing $78 million domestically which was pretty hefty for the era and about the same amount overseas considering the movie only cost about $12 million it was a huge Blockbuster and that's not even counting video and cable it spawned a very profitable franchise for the studio and made neelen a bankable comedy star although for my money no one ever used him quite as well as Z abs and Zucker so that's it for the Naked Gun if you like this video let us know in the comments and hey maybe we'll cover the rest of the series that's wonderful wa oh Frank everyone should have a friend like [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music]

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Published: Tue Jan 02 2024