Top Secret - Skeet Surfin’
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A True Classic in flimmaking, TOP SECRET, staring Val Kilmer
his time Zucker and Abrams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.
American rock star Nick Rivers teams up with the lovely Hillary Flammond to escape capture by the East German High Command. They don’t have long, as Rivers and Flammond must try to find her father, in order to stop him from creating the ultimate super weapon, known as ‘the Polaris Mine’. A host of characters join them, including Déjà Vu and Chocolate Mousse.
This is a comedy that includes a heck of a lot of other movies and seeks to rip them off in the most rediculious and hilariously over the top ways
Nick Rivers is a ’50’s rock ‘n roll heart throb, young, dumb and full of fun. He’s Elvis, The Beach Boys, The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and any other rocker from that period you can think of.
He goes on tour in Germany, featuring in the musical festival there, but is unaware that evil Nazi’s are only using this as a cover to disguise their true dream of world domination. And they use this festive bit to draw the attention of the other countries away from this fact.
Nick gets involved with a pretty young woman, Hilary. She is infact part of the French Resistance and part of a very oddly and obviously named crew of French freedom fighters. Including Chocolate Mouse and many others.
He gets into a heap of trouble, lands up in jail and then escapes in a very slap stick sort of way.
Will his heart be broken by Hilary when her ex, Nigel, who she spent time on an island with as a child and then felt stricken when he vanished, comes back into her life with an oiled six pack and a loin cloth?
And will he decide to help the resistance with a couple of tunes and moving of his pelvis? Save the day in a manner that is completely side splitting? Win the love of Hilary and still sing Tuttie Fruttie?
References and parodies
* The film features an homage to the Pac-Man craze of the early 80s, at the end of a traditional trip-plotting scene across Europe.
* In reference to The Sound of Music, Nick Rivers exits the stage during a concert to flee the soldiers pursuing him.
* The flashback scene where Hillary Flamond recounts her discovery of emotional and sexual maturity, shipwrecked in Nigel’s arms on a deserted island, is a spoof of The Blue Lagoon.
* Nick Rivers’ line, “Seems as long as I know my way around that prison, I’ll never be lonely” is a direct reference to Casablanca, where Humphrey Bogart says, “It seems as long as I have those letters, I’ll never be lonely.” There are many other less obvious references to Casablanca” throughout the film, particularly in the scene where Nick and Hillary meet in the cafe, which makes reference to ‘Rick’s’, what with the sunken floors and Gutteridge only being shot from her left side as per Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca.
* Nick Rivers rides a motorcycle through a field, then winks to the camera and jumps the motorcycle over a fence, in a scene reminiscent of Steve McQueen in The Great Escape.
* At the end of the movie, Hillary Flamond says goodbye to each resistance member in turn, and finishes off with a hug to a living scarecrow (who materializes out of nowhere); she holds him in her arms and says “And I’ll miss you most of all, Scarecrow!” This is as obvious as a nod can be to The Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy says to Scarecrow “I think I’m going to miss you most of all”.
* In one scene, a Ford Pinto is rear ended but in fact is barely touched - at which point it blows up - a reference to Ford Pinto’s poor safety record in this type of accident.
* OJ Simpson slapped Chocolate Mousse with a high five after the latter shot all the East Germans in the diner in a spectacular fashion. He is only visible for a few frames.




















