Video: ‘Airplane!’ vs. ‘Zero Hour’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.03.07 | 11:03 AM ET
“Airplane!,” a comedy classic and one of the greatest travel movies ever made, was famously inspired by the 1957 B-movie Zero Hour. How inspired? YouTuber icecoldkatie has meticulously spliced together scenes from each movie, demonstrating Picasso’s maxim, “Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.” See for yourself after the jump.
Part One: “Airplane!” vs. “Zero Hour”
Part Two: “Airplane!” vs. “Zero Hour”
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MONIQUE E 08.05.07 | 11:47 PM ET
of all the years I have loved the movie Airplane! I never knew of it’s correlation to Zero Hour. So cool!