![]() ![]() The cast of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. Very quickly, with its opening scene of Banzai performing surgery before driving an experimental jet car that can drive through matter, the movie establishes itself as having very little to do with reality. Kael called their lives “a boy hipster’s dreams of glory that are almost pre-sexual,” though she didn’t mean this in a particularly harsh way. Together with his best friends and backup band the Hong Kong Cavaliers (who are also all scientists), Banzai tests really cool cars, plays in bands, and fights evil villains. He’s a physicist, neurosurgeon, experimental test pilot, and rock star all at the same time. Buckaroo Banzai (pre- Robocop Peter Weller). If you asked a particularly imaginative 10-year old what they wanted to be when they grew up, their answer might accurately describe Dr. ![]() Buckaroo Banzai aimed to adopt a similar storytelling ethos but unlike its influences, Buckaroo Banzai wanted to be weird. Above all else, these sci-fi stories sought to wow audiences with far-out worlds, aliens, and never-ending twists. Not a direct parody of those franchises Kael mentioned, Buckaroo Banzai still shares an important strand of their DNA: namely, the golly-gee excitement of Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and other comic-book or radio serials of the 1930s and ‘40s. ![]()
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