Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Top Secret!

Val Kilmer passed.  His debut film, Top Secret! remains a reminder of what a skilled comic actor he was, and what skilled filmmakers Abraham's, Zucker, ans Abraham's were.  The opening sequence with the song Skeet Surfin' is so utterly unexpected.

After watching it again,  I realized that if you are under 50, many of the cultural references and movies may be incomprehensible gags: The Blue Lagoon, exploding Pintos, Casablanca, all World War Ii movies, the East German Women's Olympic Team (which were fiercely hormonal abused men, or severely roided up women).

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  1. And another running gag from back in those days was the sequence of scores for ice-skating or water dancing, 9.2, 9.3, 9.3, 9.1, 9.0, 9.2, 9.1, 9.0, and a 5.0 from the Russian Judge.

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