A Scene from The Kentucky Fried Movie
Sunday, September 11. 2016
Last year, I mentioned how Rumble in the Bronx used an establishing shot of New York City to set the scene despite the movie actually filming in Vancouver, British Columbia. The use of these establishing shots is an old trope, one played for laughs in A Fistful of Yen, a sketch in John Landis' The Kentucky Fried Movie.
The longest single sketch within TKFM, A Fistful of Yen parodied several cinematic classics including the James Bond movies, The Wizard of Oz, and most notably Enter the Dragon. When martial arts master Loo is hired by the UK government to stop the nefarious Dr. Klahn, he travels to "Hong Kong" as noted in the above shot featuring lower Manhattan - complete with the Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty.
The longest single sketch within TKFM, A Fistful of Yen parodied several cinematic classics including the James Bond movies, The Wizard of Oz, and most notably Enter the Dragon. When martial arts master Loo is hired by the UK government to stop the nefarious Dr. Klahn, he travels to "Hong Kong" as noted in the above shot featuring lower Manhattan - complete with the Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty.
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