Varietyssä kirjoitetaan pitkät pätkät Jerry Bruckheimerista, tuosta A-luokkaisesta B-elokuvien tuottajasta. Eräässä jutusa analysoidaan Bruckin leffoja ja etsitään niistä yhtäläisyyksiä varsin kieli poskessa. And I quote:

KING ARTHUR
Social revelation: Contending sides in the Dark Ages were organized on the principles of modern American high schools.
Villains: Conniving Eurotrash Italian bishop on the inside; invading Eurotrash Danish Scots (with bad haircuts) led by Stellan Skarsgaard on the outside.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
Social revelation: Contending sides in 18th-century Caribbean were organized on principles of American high schools.
Villains: Snotty English governor on the inside; Eurotrash English pirates on the outside.

PEARL HARBOR
Social revelation: American society in general, and the Canadian and American military in particular, are organized on principles of modern American high schools.
Villains: Foreigners again — Japanese Empire.

ARMAGEDDON
Social revelation: Outer-space drill teams are organized on principles of modern American high schools.
Villains: Doubting bureaucracy on the inside; foreign-born space debris on the outside.

CON AIR
Social revelation: Escaping convicts organize themselves on principles of modern American high schools, perhaps inspired by organization of U.S. law enforcement.
Villains: On the inside, DEA agent Duncan Malloy (not Eurotrash, but played by European actor Colm Meaney). On the outside, sundry, led by fiendish Cyrus ”the Virus” Grissom (not Eurotrash, but highly affected John Malkovich).

CRIMSON TIDE
Social revelation: Contending factions on submarine organize themselves on principles of modern American high schools.
Villains: On the inside, Capt. Frank Ramsey; on the outside, Eurotrash Russian commies.

BAD BOYS
Social revelation: Police department organized on principles of modern American high schools.
Villains: Cop bureaucracy on the inside; Eurotrash heist gang boss on the outside.

TOP GUN
Social revelation: Navy has organized elite fight pilot school on principles of modern American high schools.
Villains: Rival pilots, mostly blonds, on the inside; commie pilots of unidentified nationality (though certainly could be Eurotrash) on the outside.

BEVERLY HILLS COP
Social revelation: Police departments, including class clown, organize themselves on principles of modern American high schools.
Villains: On the inside, police brass; on the outside, Eurotrash smuggler.

Joo joo, punchline puuttuu, mutta silti.