Talk:Black Sunday (1977 film)

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==Reception== The film was a commercial hit when it was released in 1977. Although director John Frankenheimer lamented serious shortcomings in the visual effects of the climax (due to time and budgetary shortfalls), many critics trumpeted the final scene featuring a helicopter/blimp chase over the Orange Bowl as one of the more riveting and unusual in movie history, parts of which (both ground and aerial scenes) got filmed before the actual Super Bowl so the game could go ahead as scheduled without the film production interrupting the game or creating a panic. Black Sunday also features a film score from John Williams. Behind the scenes A significant portion of the filming was done during actual Super Bowl X at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on January 18, 1976. In the movie, Kabakov discusses the security arrangements for the game with Miami Dolphins owner Joe Robbie, who plays himself. In the movie, Jimmy Carter is shown as the President of the United States who attends the Super Bowl, although Gerald Ford was President when Super Bowl X took place. In reality, no sitting President has ever attended the Super Bowl due to security concerns. One scene shows game MVP Lynn Swann's touchdown reception from the stands behind the north endzone. Blimps The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company granted use of all three of its U.S.-based blimps for Black Sunday. The landing and hijacking scenes were photographed at the Goodyear airship base in Carson, California with Columbia (N3A); a short scene in the Spring, Texas base with the America (N10A), and the Miami, Florida Super Bowl scenes with the Mayflower (N1A), which was then based on Watson Island across the Port of Miami. While Goodyear allowed the use of their airship fleet, they did not allow the "Goodyear Wingfoot" logo (prominently featured on the side of the blimp) to be used in the advertising or movie poster for the film. Thus, the words "Super Bowl" are featured in place of the logo on the blimp in the advertising collateral. In popular culture In Tom Clancy's novel The Sum of All Fears, Marvin Russel mentions Black Sunday to the main antagonists when he notes the similarity of their plan to that of the film. Mad magazine satirized the film as "Blimp Sunday".

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==Production== The novel is the only one by author Thomas Harris not to center on serial killer Hannibal Lecter. In his introduction to the new printing of the novel, Harris states that the driven, focused character of terrorist Dahlia Iyad was actually an inspiration for and precursor to Clarice Starling in his later Lecter novels. The film was produced by former Paramount Pictures chief Robert Evans. He had earlier produced Chinatown (1974) and Marathon Man (1976). As it hinged on filming a real Goodyear Blimp at a real Super Bowl, there were many challenges. Luckily, Frankenheimer had a good relationship with the heads of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company as a result of working with them on his earlier film Grand Prix. He was able to negotiate the use of their blimp, on the condition that the pilot be specified as a freelancer, not a Goodyear employee, and that the blimp itself never actually kill anyone with its propellers or any other working part. Frankenheimer states in Charles Champlin's biography that he helped convince Goodyear by telling them that if they declined, he would rent the only other large blimp in the world from Germany, paint it silver, and people would assume it was theirs anyway. Evans helped secure the unprecedented cooperation of the NFL and the production was allowed to film at Super Bowl X and shoot extensive footage with the principal actors for the final half hour of the film as the Dallas Cowboys played the Pittsburgh Steelers. Frankenheimer found that many of the TV crew covering the game were friends from his time at CBS and he was able to secure their help in hiding his film cameras among their television cameras so they would not be distracting to the crowd in the stadium, or to audiences watching the movie. The final attack on the stadium was filmed later, using a mock-up of the forward section of the blimp and 10,000 extras supplied for free by The United Way charity, in exchange for Frankenheimer directing a promotional film for them, which Shaw would narrate. The film was among the highest scoring ever in the history of Paramount Pictures test screenings, and was widely predicted in the industry as a second Jaws. When it came out in March 1977, however, it fell short of expectations. Still, the critics and audiences applauded the film, which is regarded as one of Frankenheimer's best thrillers.

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Misleading talk of bans in Germany and Japan

In the article, it says that the film was banned in (either East or West) Germany and Japan. There is no evidence of a ban on this film in either country. What happened, as the Japanese version of the article can tell you, was that it was scheduled to be shown in movie theaters in the latter country, but screenings were forcibly cancelled after a threatening letter was sent to the Tokyo office of its distributor, CIC; it goes on to say that Middle Eastern ambassadors to Japan had requested the cancellation of theatrical screenings but that the film was eventually released on video on Japan without much trouble. Do you think it merits a rewrite in that regard? 2600:8800:7D96:5400:CE2:2E07:7806:6FA6 (talk) 20:24, 13 March 2021 (UTC)