your quote of the day.

[phosfate]

The appeal of the title does not derive from its simplicity or its specificity but rather from the existential truth of it. It's as if the author read the screenplay aloud to his two sons and asked them what the film should be called. The first son might reply, "Death Flight! Wait, wait, no! Poisonous Air!" The second son, if he were autistic, would reply, "Snakes on a Plane." The second son would be right.

--Aemilia Scott ponders the mysteries of you know what in this morning's Salon at http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2006/07/17/snakes/

Comments

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

I think the secret of the title is in the sounds--the chiming of the two long A sounds in "snakes" and "plane" balanced by the contrast of the sibilants in "snakes" and the plosive beginning of "plane". *nods sagely* [/linguistics geekery]

[respndines.livejournal.com]

hahahahahah! well done, salon. yeah, it's just so straightforward. snakes on a plane, man, snakes on a plane.