Regarding the sequence from the Buckaroo Banzai DVD:
> It was quite original as well, as I certainly cannot recall anything
> like it before.
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's _Thunderbirds_ TV series, episode 1, "Trapped in the Sky"... original airdate 30 Sep. 1965. If you're patient you can catch this in reruns on TechTV.
It's not quite the same, though: In both _Thunderbirds_ and the BB clip, those were deliberate rescue attempts to rescue a crippled aircraft. (Spacecraft... whatever.) The SUV driver in _405_ was where he was by accident, and tried doing everything he could to get away from the DC-10! (Well, not everything. Why didn't he go for an offramp? Or at least the shoulder? :)
Ok, the visual is very much the same. But ideas are common. If you're going to fault _405_ for using this bit, you also have to fault huge numbers of movies for following the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl" formula. It's how you develop an idea into a story and how you tell the story that matters.
Really, though, if you focus on that aspect, you're missing the real point of _405_. Which is that two guys (yes, just two guys, and no, they weren't ex-FS employees; if you read their web site you'll find they're seeking work in the industry) with a DV camera and some fairly ordinary PCs were able to make this movie with its utterly convincing visuals.
That they gave us some dramatic and funny visuals and a funny story as well is icing on the cake.
> It was quite original as well, as I certainly cannot recall anything
> like it before.
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's _Thunderbirds_ TV series, episode 1, "Trapped in the Sky"... original airdate 30 Sep. 1965. If you're patient you can catch this in reruns on TechTV.
It's not quite the same, though: In both _Thunderbirds_ and the BB clip, those were deliberate rescue attempts to rescue a crippled aircraft. (Spacecraft... whatever.) The SUV driver in _405_ was where he was by accident, and tried doing everything he could to get away from the DC-10! (Well, not everything. Why didn't he go for an offramp? Or at least the shoulder? :)
Ok, the visual is very much the same. But ideas are common. If you're going to fault _405_ for using this bit, you also have to fault huge numbers of movies for following the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl" formula. It's how you develop an idea into a story and how you tell the story that matters.
Really, though, if you focus on that aspect, you're missing the real point of _405_. Which is that two guys (yes, just two guys, and no, they weren't ex-FS employees; if you read their web site you'll find they're seeking work in the industry) with a DV camera and some fairly ordinary PCs were able to make this movie with its utterly convincing visuals.
That they gave us some dramatic and funny visuals and a funny story as well is icing on the cake.