Spy Hard
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Directed by	Rick Friedberg
Produced by	Doug Draizin Jeffrey Konvitz Rick Friedberg
Written by	Rick Friedberg Dick Chudnow Aaron Seltzer Jason Friedberg
Starring	Leslie Nielsen Nicollette Sheridan Charles Durning
Music by	Bill Conti
Cinematography	John R. Leonetti
Editing by	Eric Sears
Distributed by	Hollywood Pictures
Release date(s)	May 24, 1996
Running time	81 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$18 million USD
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Spy Hard is a 1996 movie starring Leslie Nielsen, parodying James Bond films and other action films. The title itself is a spoof of Die Hard which, strangely enough, is not lampooned in the actual film. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 405 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (580 × 858 pixel, file size: 72 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Jeffrey Konvitz was born in 1944. ... Dick Chudnow is a U.S. comedian and entrepreneur. ... Aaron Seltzer is an American film director and screenwriter. ... Jason Friedberg is an American film writer and director. ... Leslie William Nielsen OC (born February 11, 1926) is a Canadian-American comedian and actor. ... Nicollette Sheridan (born Colette Sheridan on November 21, 1963) is a Golden Globe nominated British actress, primarily on soap operas, movies and television. ... Charles Durning Charles Durning (born February 28, 1923 in Highland Falls, New York) is an American actor of stage and screen, born to an impoverished Irish American Catholic family, which he left as soon as possible to ease the financial pressure on his mother. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... John R. Leonetti is a cinematographer and film director whose career in film began in 1991. ... The Hollywood Pictures sphinx logo Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Companys several alternate movie labels. ... is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... The year 1996 in film involved some significant events. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Leslie William Nielsen OC (born February 11, 1926) is a Canadian-American comedian and actor. ... In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Look up Action film in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Die Hard is a Hollywood action film released in 1988. ...

The plot is the standard story of secret agent Dick Steele, Agent WD-40 (a play on 007) who, along with Veronique Ukrinsky, Agent 3.14 (Nicollette Sheridan), must stop the evil genius, General Rancor (played by Andy Griffith), from taking over the world. Rancor was wounded in an earlier encounter and no longer has arms; however, he can 'arm' himself by attaching robotic limbs with various weapons attached. Secret Agent is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. ... WD-40 is the trademark of a widely used penetrating oil (cleaner, lubricant and anti-corrosive solution) spray. ... When a circles diameter is 1, its circumference is π. The mathematical constant π is an irrational real number, approximately equal to 3. ... Nicollette Sheridan (born Colette Sheridan on November 21, 1963) is a Golden Globe nominated British actress, primarily on soap operas, movies and television. ... Not to be confused with Andy Griffiths. ...

"Weird Al" Yankovic sings the title song and directed the title sequence. It is a parody of title sequences from the James Bond films designed by Maurice Binder- specifically 1965's Thunderball, complete with multiple colored backgrounds, silhouetted figures, and "wavy" text. Additionally, an urban legend states that during the recording of the theme to Thunderball, Tom Jones held the song's final note long enough to pass out; in this film, Yankovic holds it long enough to make his head explode. Originally, Yankovic had planned to loop the note to the required length, but in the studio, he discovered he was able to hold the note long enough that no looping was required. The video was later included on "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection, although, for legal reasons, all names (except his own) and titles had to be taken out. This article is about the musician himself. ... Spy Hard is a song by Weird Al Yankovic used as the theme song to the film of the same name. ... Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Maurice Binder (August 25, 1925 - April 4, 1991) is a famous title designer best known for his work on 14 James Bond films beginning with the first, Dr. No in 1962 and ending with Licence to Kill in 1989. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... An urban legend or urban myth is similar to a modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. ... Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE, (born 7 June 1940), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Grammy Award-winning Welsh popular music singer particularly noted for his powerful voice. ... An exploding head is a surreal, involuntary gesture in fiction. ...

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Many critics panned this film upon its release. The film's gross domestic revenues were about $26 million.

Two of the film's writers, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, went on to help write Scary Movie and Date Movie, other feature films which parody genres. Jason Friedberg is an American film writer and director. ... Aaron Seltzer is an American film director and screenwriter. ... Scary Movie (2000), an American film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, is a comedy-gross-out film spoof that parodies the horror and mystery genres. ... This article is about the spoof. ...

List of Gags and Parodies

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1. Dick Steele is a pun off of Remington Steele, a character which Pierce Brosnan (who later became James Bond) played on TV in the 1980s.
2. When Steele is given his mission, it having been recorded onto an audio tape. The tape is a spoof of game show Jeopardy! and the conclusion of the message "And do not forget, WD-40, as always, this tape will self destruct in five seconds." This explosion, a spoof of Mission: Impossible is much to the dismay of the pilot of the helicopter that Steele was in at the time.
3. The name General Rancor, is a phrase, which means "widespread feelings of bitterness and hatred".
4. General Rancor interrogates a mime, then has him shot, saying "He doesn't want to talk, take him outside and shoot him!". He also tells his henchmen to "use the silencer" - as an effect, a pillow is used to silence the shots (the weapon used was a Browning .50 Caliber machine gun).
5. Steele's arm elongates and snaps as he is holding onto Victoria Dahl at the edge of a cliff. This is a spoof of Cliffhanger.
6. The theme to the movie is a parody of a James Bond-style theme song and is sung by "Weird Al" Yankovic. "Weird Al's" head explodes at the end, referencing the urban legend that says Tom Jones passed out while singing the last note in the theme to Thunderball.
7. The title scene where naked people's silhouettes is similar to the title scene in Thunderball. And "Weird Al"'s appearance in the titles is similiar to the titles of For Your Eyes Only where singer Sheena Easton appears appears and sing the title tune.
8. The hostage videotape of Barbara Dahl that Steele watches has a Blockbuster Video case.
9. Barbara Dahl references the popular doll Barbie, whose real name is Barbara Roberts, and Bibi Dahl, a Bond girl in For Your Eyes Only.
10. The secret service secretary, played by Marcia Gay Harden, is called Miss Cheevus, a take on the word "mischievous."
11. During the countdown to the launch of the nuclear missile, the audience sees the woman reciting the countdown into a microphone. This occurs several times throughout the film. In one instance, she is drinking a cup of tea while counting.
12. The secret code between Steele and Kabul about lighters and smoking comes from the movie From Russia With Love, where a similar line is used.
13. When Steele tests one of his gadgets in the laboratory (poking fun at the character Q from the James Bond movies), a fire was ejected on it and burned the hair of a Michael Jackson lookalike, causing him to exclaim "Not again!" and jump through the window of the building.
14. Steele and Veronique get on a bus, and a group of punks threaten the driver with lines like "Pop quiz, hot shot!". They hold up the disconnected brake cables. Steele opens the floor of the bus and tries to stop the bus with his legs while Veronique replaces the apparently blind bus driver (played by Ray Charles). This sequence is a spoof of Speed. When the bus takes off of the ramp it parodies the infamous jump in the film and the bus flying in front of the moon is similar to one of the final scenes of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
15. The entire scene with Steele in the hotel building on the horse is a parody of the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film True Lies including Steele in the Harrier Jet. There is also similar music featured.
16. When Steele and Veronique are in the club, they dance to the same song and wear the same clothes and hairstyles as Mia and Vincent in Pulp Fiction.
17. Steele rode a horse while being followed by Slice (leader of the thugs) riding a lawnmower motorbike. He entered a hotel and went to the elevator while riding the horse (a spoof of True Lies). When he was escaping to Slice in the rooftop of the hotel, he and the horse shot off the building into a swimming pool. When Slice tried to look for Steele, he saw him riding a Harrier jet and was so surprised that he fell off the building himself and landed on a passing jogger (possibly the one from before). The Harrier turned out to be a fake and just a billboard advertisement.
18. Steele has to infiltrate a nunnery, which contains a group of singing nuns, A la Sister Act.
19. When Steele meets Professor Ukrinsky for the first time in his lab, the professor hands him the chip for Gen. Rancor's missile. Steele then sets the chip down on a table and tries to smash it with a hammer, but Ukrinsky pushes him out of the way before he could do it. This is a spoof of a deleted scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day where Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) takes out the chip in the Terminator's head and attempts to smash it with a hammer to render him inoperable. Her son, John Connor (Edward Furlong) pushes her out of the way before she could destroy it.
20. McCluckey (a parody of Macaulay Culkin) performs several pranks (that backfire) on the thugs that are searching for Professor Ukrinsky (Veronique's father). This is a spoof of Home Alone. Later, the thugs mention Culkin's movies as they spank McCluckey.
21. Two raptors were seen in General Rancor's headquarters. One outside that ate Slice (leader of the thugs) and one inside General Rancor's hideout. This is a spoof of Jurassic Park.
22. In the fight scene at the end, Steele tags in Hulk Hogan when he is tied up and against the wall, to get him to fight for him.

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Translations

• French : Agent Zéro Zéro
• Italian : Spia E Lascia Spiare
• Bulgarian: Шпионирай Трудно
• Spanish: Espía como puedas
• German: Agent 00 - Mit der Lizenz zum Totlachen

See also

• Airplane!
• The Naked Gun
• "Spy Hard" (song)

Airplane! is an American comedy film, first released on 27 June 1980, produced, directed, and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker. ... The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is the first film in a series of comedy movies starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, and O.J. Simpson. ... Spy Hard is a song by Weird Al Yankovic used as the theme song to the film of the same name. ...

External links

• Spy Hard at the Internet Movie Database