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"De plane! De plane!", or "The plane! The plane!", is a catchphrase originating from the opening titles of every episode of the U.S. TV series Fantasy Island (1977–1984). Each episode began with the diminutive Tattoo (played by Hervé Villechaize), one of the main characters, spotting the seaplane approaching the island and running up a tower and excitedly yelling, "De Plane! De Plane!" and ...
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize (French: [ɛʁve vilʃɛz]; April 23, 1943 – September 4, 1993) was a French actor and painter.He is best known for his roles as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the American television series Fantasy Island that he played from 1977 to 1983.
Tattoo would run up the main bell tower to ring the bell and shout "De plane! De plane!" to announce the arrival of a new set of guests at the beginning of each episode. This line, shown at the beginning of the series' credits, became a catchphrase because of Villechaize's spirited delivery and French accent. In later seasons, he would arrive ...
Only six men have played the British superspy, and each brought their own unique interpretation to the role—often for good, occasionally for ill. This is how the canon stacks up.
The phrase "de plane, de plane!" is exclaimed, by a Pacific Islander character, long before "Fantasy island" in the the 1962 Spencer Tracy-Frank Sinatra film, "The Devil at 4 O' Clock" and is so similar in context to Herve Villechaize's delivery that it must have been an inspiration for it.
In an interview published by Entertainment Weekly Wednesday, Dinklage clarified that Villechaize is not of Filipino descent, as many of Dinklage’s critics assumed, and that those people who have ...
De Plane, De Plane! is what he actually said, but some know-nothing created the page and called it "Ze Plane!" Until that is changed, the Wiki police will keep undoing my (or anyone else's) attempts to correct his famous Fantasy Island exclamation in his Wiki article.
The film stars Peter Dinklage as Villechaize, Jamie Dornan as a struggling journalist, and Andy García as Villechaize's Fantasy Island co-star Ricardo Montalbán. It premiered on HBO on October 20, 2018, [ 2 ] and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances of Dinklage and Dornan.