2008 Woodie Awards
"We've gotta get these muthaf-in' snakes off the muthaf-in' plane"
Yekaterina Barilov
Issue date: 4/24/06 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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New Line Cinema is scheduled to release a new air disaster film in August starring Samuel L. Jackson. The name of the movie is Snakes on a Plane.
To anybody who's still curious about the plot, it's going to be about snakes. Snakes which are on a plane that Samuel L. Jackson is also going to be on. There is probably going to be some biting involved.
Of course there is some deal about a mafia boss being transported to testify as a witness to another mafia guy and has an assassin after him who is hoping to wipe him out, but mainly it's just about snakes on a plane.
According to an interview with the director David Ellis on the Ellen DeGeneres show, the snakes are extra angry because the bad guys have released "pheromones" in the air system.
Jackson said that he was sold on the title. A few months ago, New Line Cinema tried to change it to "Pacific Air One- Twenty-One" but Jackson adamantly insisted that they changed the name back to Snakes on a Plane, refusing to participate if the title wouldn't be changed.
The film has recently opened auditions for the soundtrack and released atrailer which features Jackson saying in a tone of voice that can only be described as fierce; "Enough is enough. I've had it with the snakes."
The whole thing is so ridiculous and audacious, that it has become a huge Internet phenomenon. More so even than the concept of the movie itself, the cultural bedlam it's causing is incredible in its own right. Ever since a blog entry by Josh Friedman and a few mentions in Internet portals, the movie's name and concept have inspired songs, clothing, pages of fan art and fiction, parody films, and even a poker game.
Just by Googling "Snakes on a Plane" you can already find thousands of hits like www.snakesonablog.com", and a few dozens of independent t-shirt makers featuring designs like a t-shirt with vintage street signs used to spell out; "snakes + plane = snakes on a plane" or "I (heart) snakes. Snakes (heart) planes. I (heart) snakes on a plane."
The movie has generated so much pre-release buzz, that it is becoming the movie's main marketing tool "I'm trying to live every day more carefully, just to give myself a better chance of living to see this movie" said Ilya Gershov, a second year Technical Writing major at De Anza College.
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Anonymous
posted 5/22/06 @ 9:37 AM PST
Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes? /
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