“Airport” (1970), a conversation about a Blockbuster

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa embrace a soap opera in the sky.

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Referenced media:

• “Airplane!” (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
• “Zero Hour!” (Hall Bartlett, 1957)
• “One on Top of the Other” (Lucio Fulci, 1969)
• “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978)
• “The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964)
• “An Officer and a Gentleman” (Taylor Hackford, 1982)
• “All the President’s Men” (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
• “Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)
• “Cool Hand Luke” (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
• “M*A*S*H” (Robert Altman, 1970)
• “Patton” (Franklin L. Schaffner, 1970)
• “Zabriskie Point” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)
• “The Boys in the Band” (William Friedkin, 1970)
• “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” (Sam Peckinpah, 1970)
• “The Liberation of L.B. Jones” (William Wyler, 1970)
• “Woodstock” (Michael Wadleigh, 1970)
• “Waterloo” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1970)
• “Hi, Mom!” (Brian De Palma, 1970)
• “Greetings” (Brian De Palma, 1968)
• “A Man Called Horse” (Elliot Silverstein, 1970)
• “Let It Be” (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970)
• “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” (Ted Post, 1970)
• “Cotton Comes to Harlem” (Ossie Davis, 1970)
• “The Out-of-Towners” (Arthur Hiller, 1970)
• “Watermelon Man” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1970)
• “Two Mules for Sister Sara” (Don Siegel, 1970)
• “Crimes of the Future” (David Cronenberg, 1970)
• “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” (Russ Meyer, 1970)
• “Catch-22” (Mike Nichols, 1970)
• “Myra Breckinridge” (Michael Sarne, 1970)
• “Perry Mason” (Gail Patrick Jackson, 1957-1966)

Audio quotation:

• “Airport” (George Seaton, 1970), including “Airport Love Theme”, “Airport (Main Title)”, “Joe Patroni Plane or Plows?”, “Ada Quonsett, Stowaway”, “Inez-Lost Forever”, and “Airport (End Title)”, written by Alfred Newman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBQzJzvVCvI&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RhBK5_wKcr55aTy2erljUve&index=1
• Trailer for re-release of “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OkXef2leWA