![]() The title was an endearingly easy joke and an easier punchline "Snakes on a Plane" was shorthand before shorthand became the dominant form of online communication. As the internet became the place to share an opinion, Snakes on a Plane re-defined "hype." It rose to prominence alongside meme culture until the film itself became more meme than movie, not because of quality but because of sheer shareability. ![]() It was one of the first pre-Twitter films to catch fire primarily because of online word-of-mouth across the blogosphere. ("No homo," he'd tell you, for no discernable reason.) This is largely because Snakes on a Plane wriggled its way, serpent-like, into the very foundation of that year's evolving culture. ![]() Were the film Snakes on a Plane to gain sentience and become a real human man he would be wearing a white belt and listening to Akon's "Smack That" on a bright-blue iPod Nano. For example: Snakes on a Plane, the creature-feature about snakes that are on a plane, is impossible to separate from the concept of "2006." Snakes on a Plane is 2006, 2006 is Snakes on a Plane. It becomes more of an artifact, unearthed by later generations for a taste of exactly what it was to live in that period what people did, what they wore, what they watched, what they cared about. It's always fascinating when a film acts as a sensory snapshot of a specific moment in time.
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