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Film Courage: What is acknowledgement? And can you think of any examples when you made this mistake?
David Zucker, Director/Writer/Producer: A lot of the rules kind of bleed into each other.
Acknowledgement is like looking at a joke or sometimes you just have to ignore the joke.
When Leslie Nielsen is talking to Julie Hagerty and Peter Graves is experiencing all the symptoms of the food poisoning, they have to ignore that.
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So you just can’t acknowledge background.
But there’s sometimes when you want to have a character react to something that’s said that’s odd and you want to have a reaction.
When George Kennedy says in Naked Gun, Doctors say Nordberg has a 50/50 chance of living, but there’s only a 10% chance of that. And then Leslie looks at him, but we keep it in the same shot. We want to cut to it.
When Ricardo Montalbán is…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
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About:
Born on October 16, 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, director/writer/producer David Zucker, along with brother Jerry (Ghost, 1990) Zucker and longtime friend, Jim (Hot Shots, 1991) Abrahams, has established himself among Hollywood’s (or at least Wisconsin’s) most successful filmmakers. Starting out after college, with a borrowed video tape deck and camera, the soon to be legendary trio created the Kentucky Fried Theater, on the UW Madison campus, and moved to California in 1972, quickly becoming the most successful small theater group. in Los Angeles history.
After parlaying this success into The Kentucky Fried Movie, the three conceived the idea that would create a whole new film genre. Airplane! (1980) broke all conventions, featuring dramatic actors like Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen performing zany jokes with straight-laced sincerity. The spoof became the surprise hit of 1980, beginning a streak of hilarious movies including Top Secret! (1984) and Ruthless People (1986), after which David branched out on his own to direct The Naked Guns (1988, 1991, 1994), BASEketball (1998), Scary Movies 3 (2003), and 4 (2006), and others.
David also found time to produce the successful, but somewhat less hilarious A Walk in The Clouds (1995) and Phone Booth (2002), and recently completed a feature script, The Star of Malta, a comedy set in the Film Noir era, and an international spy thriller, “Counter Intellijence!”.
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