A couple of months ago, I was at a party somewhere, and a boy
came up to me who was, like, 8 or 10 years old, and he said, “Oh, I
really liked Airplane! I thought it was really funny!” And I
said, “How was it that you came to see it?” And he said, “Well, my
grandfather made me watch it.” [Laughs.] If you’d told us in 1980
that the grandkids of the audience would be the ones who’d
keep the movie going, it would’ve been very gratifying. But I don’t
think we ever anticipated it. And it’s one of the great thrills, I
think, of all of our lives that it still remains well
known.
Via Instapundit,
Surely
you can’t be serious: An oral history of Airplane! · Oral
History · The A.V. Club
It's an oral history of the making of “Airplane!” from many people who were involved in the making of one of the funniest movies to ever come out of Hollywood.
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