my last word on guns in Amerika

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > Come to think of it, planes are also aesthetically unpleasing &
>>  ergonomically incorrect.  Besides, flying makes my ears ache.
>
>But they are fast!

Ah yes, _fast_ -- and that is why trains are sexier than planes. 
Some like it _slow_, you see.  And there are far more intriguing 
movies about people on trains than planes.

_Shanghai Express_, Josef von Sternberg, 1932.

[In the opening scene, a train is being boarded and loaded with 
baggage at the Peking Railroad Station.  It is traveling from Peking 
to Shanghai as a civil war rages through war-torn China.  One of the 
train's passengers, Reverend Carmichael (Lawrence Grant) complains to 
fellow passenger British Medical Corps Captain Donald Harvey (Clive 
Brook) about the kinds of women traveling on the train: "Well, sir, I 
suppose every train carries its cargo of sin, but this train is 
burdened with more than its share!"  He also criticizes two of the 
them in particular: "One of them is yellow, and the other one is 
white -- but both their souls are rotten."  Harvey criticizes the 
Reverend's assumptions: "You interest me, Mr. Carmichael.  I'm not 
exactly irreligous, and, being a physician, I sometimes wonder how a 
man like you can locate a soul and, having located it, diagnose its 
condition as rotten."... <http://www.filmsite.org/shang.html>]

_The Lady Vanishes_, Alfred Hitchcock, 1938.

_Strangers on a Train_, Alfred Hitchcock (based on a novel by 
Patricia Highsmith, whom Hitchcock exploited), 1951.

_Zentropa_ (aka _Europa_), Lars von Trier, 1991.

And so on, and so forth.

What have you got on your side?  _Airplane!_ (1980)?

And any good movie with memorable scenes set on an airport?  I can 
think of only _La Jetée_, Chris Marker, 1962.  (Check out this 
website on Chris Marker at 
<http://cs.art.rmit.edu.au/projects/media/marker/index.html>).

Yoshie