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Detroit, for example, makes performance art about The Last Dragon (1985), the cult classic martial arts movie produced by Motown kingpin Berry Gordy.
To say any more—like how cocaine, horses and the 1985 Motown-produced film The Last Dragon fit into all of this—is to risk ruining the considerable and utterly unpredictable fun.
For example, there is a long sequence in which Detroit does her performance art—an act that involves her being pelted with various objects while reciting from the hallowed text that is the screenplay for “The Last Dragon”—that must have seemed funny on paper but which pretty much grinds the movie to a halt and just the point where it needs to be building momentum.
Cassius’ upward mobility at work drives a wedge between them, but he’s there for Detroit’s shining moment: an art-gallery show where she recites lines from the 1980s kung fu cult film "The Last Dragon" while attendees throw random stuff at her.
Her gallery exhibition involves giving a near-naked recitation from ’80s martial-arts cult film “The Last Dragon” and urging her audience to pelt her with sheep-blood-filled balloons.
Riley’s left-of-center vision of Oakland takes on more texture with an Idiocracy -style game show where contestants submit themselves to vicious beatings and an experimental art collective that gives way to Detroit getting pelted with balloons filled with sheep’s blood while reciting lines from The Last Dragon .
I checked the production materials for “The Intouchables” and failed to find confirmation that any of this was inspired by 1987’s “Disorderlies,” in which the Fat Boys push old Ralph Bellamy around to his heart’s content.
Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe points out that "The Intouchables" resembles 1987's "Disorderlies," in which the Fat Boys shared their love of life and rap with wheelchair-bound millionaire Ralph Bellamy.
Yet Schumacher was also a screenwriter and since his best scripts were humorous ensemble pieces like "Car Wash," it seems strange that he couldn't juice up this concept-ridden screenplay--by Janice Fischer & James Jeremias and Jeffrey Boam.
The name, Lightning McQueen is similar to other character names in the film which conjure up images of real people and movies, like legendary driver and actor Steve McQueen, and the Richard Pryor car racing film “Greased Lightning.”