The Naked Gun

The Naked Gun is the name of a series of comedy movies starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley and O. J. Simpson. The three films (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, ', and ') chronicle the adventures of Nielsen's character, the bumbling police detective Lieutenant Frank Drebin.

Plot

The plot of the series is a basic parody of detective film clichés, featuring stereotypical characters, settings, and situations. Many other film genres and styles are mocked as well, and the movies are full of references to current events and contemporary pop culture. The style of the humor is similar to that of The Simpsons with frequent parodies of other films.

Related Topics:
Parody - Cliché - Genre - Pop culture - The Simpsons

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The movie starts in a meeting a Beirut with a collection of anti-American leaders; Ayatollah Khomeni, Gorbachev, Gaddhafi and Idi Amin, who are planning a terrorist act. The man who later turns out to be Pap Shmear is seen at this meeting. It turns out that Frank Drebin has been posing undercover as a waiter and starts beating up everyone before escaping out the window.

Related Topics:
Beirut - Ayatollah Khomeni - Gorbachev - Gaddhafi - Idi Amin

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Back in Los Angeles, officer Nordburg is investigating a heroin drug operation at the docks when he is seen by the person who is later found out to be Vincent Ludwig, and is shot by his goons. It is a running joke that Nordburg keeps getting badly injured, but somehow manages to survive. Frank visits him in hospital, where there is later another attempt on his life, which leads to Frank following the assassin in a Learner driver's car, until the assassin crashes an army rocket into a fireworks factory.

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Pap Shmear is seen meeting with Vincent Ludwig in his office, where Ludwig says that he will assassinate the Queen of England for $100 million. Ludwig demonstrates that he has a way of turning anyone into an assassin by pressing a beeper.

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Later the Queen is at a baseball match while Frank must find out how Ludwig plans to assassinate her. Frank pretends to be an umpire to search the players, and eventually saves her life by accidentally shooting a fat woman with his sleeping induced dart fired from his cufflinks, who falls on top of the player who was about to shoot the Queen. Ludwig escapes, and holds Jane hostage, where Frank shoots him with the cufflink dart, and he falls off the balcony, getting run over by a steamroller. The mayor thanks Frank, saying the whole world owes him a debt of gratitude, and he is also congratulated by Nordburg, who seems much better, but Frank pats him on the back which sends him flying down the aisle and up over the edge of the stadium as the movie ends.

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