What is meaning of movie title "The Naked Gun"?
What is the meaning of the title "The Naked Gun" in the series of detective-spoof movies starring Leslie Nielsen? Is it a joke based on an existing detective movie with a similar name? Or perhaps a play on a phrase like "the naked eye"?
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The Naked Gun is a fabricated title designed to evoke the old police thrillers of yesteryear.
The film is an offshoot of a short-running TV series, Police Squad! (1982), which starred Leslie Nielsen in the same role and which itself is a pastiche on an older series from the 50s called M Squad (1957) - even going so far as to emulate the theme tune and keep the main character's christian name.
The title might also be an homage to Naked City (1958-1963), another TV show from the 50s and 60s that dealt with the day to day lives of homicide detectives in New York's 65th Precinct.
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How many Naked Gun movies are there?
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!1988The Naked Gun 2\xbd: The Smell of Fear1991Naked Gun 33\u2153: The Final Insult1994Who wrote Naked Gun movie?
David ZuckerJerry ZuckerJim AbrahamsPat ProftHow old was Priscilla Presley Naked Gun?
Just one more not-so-young actress (she's 42) trying for the same juicy dramatic movie roles, she narrowly lost out to other actresses again and again.Who was the woman in Naked Gun?
Jane Spencer (later Drebin) (Priscilla Presley) A beautiful and gorgeous woman who becomes romantically involved with Drebin. Adaptational Dye-Job: In the first film, she's portrayed as blonde. In 2 1/2, her hair is brown. In 33 1/3, it's back to blonde.The Naked Gun Super Moments
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Answer 2
A Naked Gun is a gun attached to a cowboy's belt for a quick draw- it's not in a holster, it's attached via a slide mechanism and appears "naked" outside a holster. No idea if it was really used in the old west or just in books, movies and TV shows in the 1950s-60s.
Answer 3
In addition to the other answers - and maybe a bit too obvious - the movie is very prone to slapstick and sometimes sexualized humor. To have the word "naked" in a movie title, might already raise some brows. While accompanied with the word "gun", a phallic device known for its willingness to propel emissaries out of it, it is a quite graphic description of a naked member.
A title like that evokes more connotations of another genre than the detective one.
It is comparable with the Austin Powers sequence where characters are completing each others sentences about Guns, Wieners, Members and such.
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