Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Written by the Zucker Brothers of Airplane and Naked Gun fame and directed by John Landis, this to me is one of the most insane, disjointed, tasteless, and impossibly funny movies I’ve ever seen. It’s a series of skits and goofs on everything from Kung Fu movies to TV air freshener commercials. It was part of the trend of movies at the time including Young Frankenstein, Airplane, Blazing Saddles, Top Secret, The Groove Tube, and others that also poked fun at formal movie conventions. You don’t hear too much about this movie anymore but I think it was a comedy masterpiece of craziness.
When I was reading scripts for producers in Hollywood in the mid 80s, I read a submission by the Zuckers with the title “Bull” which was about the Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull (remember the commercial where it broke through a barrier in a wild rampage?) that went on a killing rampage and a hero was brought in to stop it. It was wild. I remember at one point early on the hero was recuperating in the hospital and, like in the old movies of the 40s, we see from his point of view that everything around his hospital bed is blurry and slowly comes back into focus … except for the heroine at his bedside whose face never comes into focus and remains blurry throughout the movie. The script was insane, probably too outrageous to invest in by a film studio.
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when you look at that way.
