[bryanrasmussen]

Airplane could be made today, the central premise would hold up well, some of the skits in it would have to be dropped or altered. Most things that were made in one period could not be made whole cloth in another period.

[TMWNN]

>Airplane could be made today, the central premise would hold up well, some of the skits in it would have to be dropped or altered.

In other words, not Airplane!.

[bryanrasmussen]

and to say what I said before, hardly any movie that was made in one generation can be made in another. There will always be things that have to be changed. This same thing applies to basically every other work of art - despite the valiant efforts of Pierre Menard.

[ta1243]

The protagonist with Vietnam flashbacks would obviously have to be altered, you couldn't have skits about Ronald Reagan - nobody knows who he is, nor do they know who Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is.

Having the autopilot smoking after being inflated doesn't make sense in a world where barely anyone smokes.

[bryanrasmussen]

autopilot rates Elaine's Social media profile.

[sellmesoap]

There is an airplane movie from this year! No idea if it can hold up to the old ones and I don't have time to watch movies these days: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34956433/

[OJFord]

You think they'd do the jive bit (or an equivalent)? Closest I'd expect would be gen whatever slang with the yeeting sigmas to Ohio etc.

[AngryData]

There are tons of dialects and accents and group slang that the joke could be done with. Doing basic generational slang would likely flop, but you could easily use something like a thick accent from Texas like Boomhower in King of the Hill, or a Louisiana Creole accent, or some deep Appalacian accent, or some Spanglish.

[bee_rider]

I think either way it would be unfunny because

1) jive isn’t something many people have encountered nowadays and

2) “internet slang is incomprehensible” is an overdone joke.

[OJFord]

1 is why I said or an equivalent - you could do the same with pidgin or any creole or, I don't know if this is a PC way to say it, but any kind of 'hood' or 'ghetto' type slang. The joke is just person is 'fluent' in an unlikely dialect/way of speaking. If cockney rhyming slang were more prevalent you could do that, with you know a black American or Asian person or whatever being the unlikely fluent one.

2 is is not really the point, sure it could flop, my point was just that I couldn't imagine it going further than that, not that that would be funny.