Talk:Black Sunday (1977 film)

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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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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)