Sci-fi movie 'curse' may have doomed American Airlines
29 Nov 2011, 15:42 UTC
SCI FI MOVIE 'CURSE'
MAY HAVE KILLED OFF AMERICAN AIRLINES' FUTURE
By David
Todd
As American Airlines
files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it may well be suffering from the
"sci-fi movie curse of the airlines". As science fiction film makers have
found, predicting the future is fraught with hazard as those companies that are
strong now may not be so in the future. This curse usually results in such
airlines which do appear usually not having any future at all. For example,
American Airlines appeared in the well regarded eco-science fiction drama Silent
Running (1972) which starred Bruce Dern, some very sweet robots, and a lot of
trees. Of the airline, robots and trees....now it looks as if only the trees
will survive.
American Airlines is
not the only victim of this curse. In Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - A Space Odyssey
(1968) the Orion shuttle which carried space passengers to the rotating Earth
station was seen in the livery colours of the then great, but now defunct, Pan
American World Airways (PanAm). Perhaps PanAm was asking for ...
