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- Snoop Dogg, who played Rodney in this film,
had a scene where a little kid named Joe-Joe
made a fort around him with pillows in the
same living room Rodney was in. Originally,
Snoop's character was supposed to kick the
kid but Snoop refused because he doesn't like
to be mean to kids. So they changed it to
him kicking the kid's pillows. Even then,
he still didn't want to do it, but decided
to just go through with it. (Source: Baby
Boy Special Edition DVD: Director's comments
(2001)) - Max Gardner
- In Back to the Future Part II, Biff Tannen
brings a copy of Gray's Sports Almanac back
to his younger self and tells him to use the
book for betting on sporting events. Biff,
skeptical, looks through the book and comes
across the entry "Florida's going to
win the World Series in 1997 ... yeah right!!"
At the time of the movie, there wasn't even
a major league baseball team in Florida. By
1997, Florida did have a baseball team - the
Florida Marlins, and they did win the World
Series in 1997.
- Correction:
There is no mention of Florida in that
part of the movie. This is an old Internet
myth, or "fib" if you prefer.
(Source: Snopes.com)
- tom
- Elijah Wood
plays one of the two boys in the Cafe 80's
who are trying to figure out how to get the
Wild Gunner arcade game working.
- Comment: The
game the kids try to play in the cafe
is actually called "Wild Gunman".
I used to play it on NES a lot. (Source:
personal knowledge) - spiffywonderboy
- In the future there is an advertisement
for Jaws 19 directed by Max Spielberg. Max
Spielberg is Steven Spielberg's son. (Source:
http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/moviesecrets/backtothefuture2.html)
- TAZ
- When Marty is walking down the street, he
talks to old man who says, ".... I should
have bet on the Cubbies." This shows
you that the World Series was between the
Cubs and whatever team Florida was. The Marlins
are the team now but back in 1989 the Florida
Marlins did not exist. There is also an image
of an alligator when when a screen says "
FLORIDA WINS WORLD SERIES!". (Source:
The movie) - Moviemaster
- Not exactly trivia but just something interesting.
Obviously because Marty McFly and Seamus McFly
were both played by Michael J Fox and appeared
in the same scenes, they cut them to look
like they were talking directly to each other.
But when Marty is eating dinner with his ancestors,
Seamus passes him the baby (Marty's great-grandfather
even!) and because this was impossible to
film, they cut it together with a wipe of
Maggie walking in front of the camera. - Sidewinder
- When Marty and Doc are looking at the amp
at the train station, standing in the background
is Clara Clayton waiting for Doc to pick her
up. (Source: DVD) - expert
- In the first movie the dad was played by
Crispin Glover but in the 2nd and 3rd movie
he did not want to be in the movie so they
used his character as little as possible and
used Crispin Glovers picture from the 1st
movie for the 3rd one to appear that Glover
was still part of the film. (Source: Personal
knowledge) - me
- When the two L.A. riots cheerleaders are
shaking their breasts, look st the cheerleader
on the left. She looks like academy award
winner Mira Sorvino. Please correct me if
I am wrong. - jimbo
- At the end when Trey Parker has to intimidate
the fat guy, he uses the voice of Eric Cartman
from South Park which he and Matt Stone created!
(Source: Watching the movie) - Bill
- During the scene where the two fighter planes
attack Vietnamese ground forces, the two aircraft
in question are F-5E Tiger II aircraft. While
it's true the F-5 did see combat during the
Vietnam War, it was the earlier F-5A Freedom
Fighter variant that saw service. The aircraft
in question have wingtip missile rails, while
during Vietnam the F-5A usually carried fuel
tanks on the wingtips. (Source: Experience)
- Cooper
- This film was extensively edited and re-arranged
from its original version. The following lists
the alternate arragement and some extra 'needed'
information which was lost in the theatrical
cut of the film. - BatJam
- The movie was to open in Arkham Asylum,
where Harvey Two-Face's escape is discovered.
The story then moves to Wayne Enterprises
and the introduction of Edward Nygma. Seeing
the Bat-signal, Bruce becomes Batman after
the speedy trip to the cave and confronts
Two-Face at the Bank. - BatJam
- After the circus, Bruce suffers from his
"trauma" concerning the mysterious
journal, which originally leads him to think
that he was the reason that they (Bruce and
his parents) went to the theatre which led
to his parents death. That is why he tells
Alfred "I killed them". He then
sees the Batsignal and proceeds to police
headquarters, only to discover that Chase
Meridian sent the signal (in the released
version, this happened before Bruce Wayne
had actually met Chase and invited her to
the circus). After leaving police headquarters,
Batman is lured into an ambush by Two-Face,
leading to the big car chase. - BatJam
- After the Riddler and Two-Face reek havoc
upon Wayne Manor and the Batcave, Bruce Wayne
suffers a memory loss from the bullet wound
to his head. All that he can remember is a
vision of a terrifying giant bat. With Alfred's
help, he regains his memory by confronting
the terrible bat. He then sees the journal
again, and upon reading it, discovers that
he wasn't the one who wanted to go to the
theatre the night his parents were killed
afterall. This ends his trauma now that he
knows that he wasn't responsible for the fate
of his parents. The finale then plays out
as normal. - BatJam
- When Robin falls into Poison Ivy's pond,
he goes under water, comes up, then goes under
again, then comes up again. When he goes under
the second time, it is just the first scene
being rewinded, & played twice in a row
for length. - angel
- Annette Bening was supposed to play Catwoman
in Batman Returns, but she couldn't do it
because she was pregnant. - Dana
- Michelle Pfeiffer was chosen for the part
of Catwoman when director, Tim Burton saw
her climb up the ladder during the song, Cool
Rider, in Grease 2 as her movements were so
feline-like. (Source: Knowledge) - poshbird
- "Spitfire Productions" rebuilt
four Percival Proctors to half-scale Ju-87
Stuka dive-bombers. Two of them became airworthy,
but since they had no diving-brakes and therefore
could not make steep bombing-runs, they were
substituted for large radio-controlled models.
- Olav Westerman
- Since there were only three flyable Hurricanes
left in the world, the filmmakers filled out
some scenes showing Hurricane-squadrons with
"Messerschmitts" (Spanish "Buchons")
in British markings. - Olav
Westerman
- All the German planes in the movie were
Spanish-built versions of German designs.
Several of the Heinkel-bombers were assembled
from a "scrap-heap" as the type
was about to go out of service. The film-company
bought 28 "Me-109"-fighters and
2 "He-111"-bombers and hired 29
bombers and 2 "Ju-52"-transports
from the Spanish Air Force. All but 10 fighters
were airworthy. One fighter was lost in a
fatal crash during test-flying before the
filming began. - Olav Westerman
- Oddly enough, the British types were harder
to find. Of 27 Spitfires only 12 were airworthy,
and several of them differed so much from
the right types in their appearance, that
they only appeared far in the background in
the mass-scenes. Of 7 Hurricanes only 3 were
airworthy. - Olav Westerman
- Many of the planes seen in the airfield-scenes,
and all who are destroyed on the ground are
fiber-glass mock-ups. - Olav
Westerman
- Several of the main actors had, for the
close-up shots, to learn how to taxi the vintage
aircraft on the ground. After the British
actor Robert Shaw had made a simulated take-off
run in one of the Spitfires, he pushed the
brakes too hard, and the aircraft went up
on its nose, wrecking its propeller. - Olav
Westerman
- In one of the scenes a hangar at Henlow
is blown up during a German bombing-attack.
When the scene was filmed, only a small part
of all the explosives in the building went
off, so the special-effects crew had to go
into the rigged hangar to fix the problem
so the scene could be remade the next day.
- Olav Westerman
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- The German "Kingtiger" tanks are
American M-47:s and the American M-4 "Sherman"
tanks are M-24 "Chaffee:s". The
observation-aircraft that probably is meant
to be a Piper Cub, is actually a Cessna "Bird
Dog" designed in 1950. All of the German
trucks and half-tracks are of American origin.
The miniature tanks used on the plotting-table
are "Rocco" plastic-models from
the '60:s. None of the characters in the film
existed in real life, not even the commanding
generals. The whole story is made up, loosely
based on historical facts. - Olav
Westerman
-
In the basketball scene, Brendan Fraser
appears to be looking over 7 feet tall.
Behind this scene, they had him stand on
green elevated wide beams behind the green
screen, then with computer technology, they
made him look 7 feet tall. I saw on celebritywonder.com
that Brendan Fraser stands 6'3" tall,
so obviously that in the basketball scene
was not his real height. (Source: Bedazzled
DVD;Behind the scenes featurette (2001))
- Max Gardner
- In the beginning of the movie, you can clearly
notice the names on the side of the Harrier
jet when the two aviators step out of the
plane. The call-sign for Owen Wilson's character
is "Longhorn". The longhorn happens
to be the mascot of the University of Texas,
which is Wilson's alma mater. This is the
only time Wilson's call-sign is ever seen,
and no one ever vocally refers to Wilson as
"Longhorn" in the movie. - whiteb0i
- During filming of the chariot race scene,
one of the extremely expensive cameras ($100,000.00
in 1958) was completely destroyed when a chariot
ran right over it. The footage right up to
the camera's destruction was used in the final
film. - Cathy
- The mountains in the background and the
upper crowd-seats in the wide-shots race-scenes
were glass paintings, that were optically
blended with the live action during post-production.
The special-effects department went furious
when they got scenes filmed with a moving
camera, that needed background paintings to
be completed. Those days computer-animation
was not even heard about, so the painting
artists had to calculate every single frames
movement to get it right, so the background
didn't move relative to the foreground. -
Olav Westerman
- In the big sea battle scene, the same footage
of a sinking galley is used several times,
apparently to represent the sinking of several
galleys. The galley in question is the white
one in which Ben-Hur was a rower. (Source:
I saw the movie a hundred times) - ian
- It is widely said that a stuntman was killed
in the famous chariot scene, but in fact there
was no death at all. Charleston Heston specifically
says in his autobiography that no one was
killed during the filming of the epic movie.
(Source: Snopes.com)
- Moviemaster
- The part of Josh (played by Tom Hanks) was
originally intended for Harrison Ford. - Nate
- Kristy Swansen who plays the small role
of Adam Sandler's girlfriend at the beginning
of the movie was also in a college football
film called "The Program." Believe
or not, Joey Lauren Adams who plays Adam Sandler's
new lawyer girlfriend in the movie also played
in "The Program." She plays the
coach's daughter (James Caan) who seems to
be sleeping with the backup quarterback. Looks
like the tables have turned as far as starring
roles between these to actresses huh. (Source:
movie) - Kid
Dragon
- Sam Elliot wondered what the hell he was
doing in the movie and the Coen brothers don't
know either. He just is. - Webmaster
- The Coen brothers wrote the part of the
Dude specially for Jeff Bridges, who fits
in the part as a glove. - Webmaster
- Comment: Then
the Brothers must have been lying in the
interview featured on the DVD when they
say that they in fact did not write the
part specifically for anyone, but once
they saw Bridges in the role, they knew
he was a perfect fit.
- You don't see Jeff Lebowski (The Dude) bowl
any time in the whole movie. Despite this,
he is a "bowler". - Obese
- Every time Steve Buscemi's character bowls
he gets a strike, except for his very last
throw. (Source: I watched the movie) - ricachica
- In a deleted scene from the movie, in which
"magic" is thrown around a Chinese
butcher shop; the carcasses come to life,
including a beheaded beef (which lumbers out
of the refrigerator/freezer door), Peking
ducks and other assorted goodies. I have been
unable to obtain any info on this deleted
scene, but I have seen it! - speck
- Correction:
I believe the movie you may be mistaking
this scene from was one called "Dead
Heat" with Treat Williams and Joe
Piscopo. The movie has a very similar
air to it as Big Trouble. - Manco
- In American International Pictures' 1964
release "Bikini Beach," veteran
character actor Keenan Wynn plays a bad guy
named Harvey Huntington Honeywagon. "Honeywagon"
is movie-crew slang for a trailer or truck
that contains toilet facilities. The term
supposedly came into use because it sounds
a lot nicer than "shitwagon." (Source:
employment in movie industry) - Scot
Penslar
- The first thing that came into my mind
when seeing this movie was Austin Powers.
Michael Cain as Harry Palmer looks exactly
like Austin Powers. He has the same glasses,
same haircut and shows his teeth a lot (though
cleaner than Austin's) This movie is also
a spoof on Bond movies like the Austin Powers
movies. Furthermore; the scene where Austin
walks around naked seems is like a scene in
this movie; Michael Cain is in a sauna, behind
him lies a woman, whose breasts are covered
by Cain's hat, the same way as different objects
constantly hide Austin's private parts in
the first AP movie. Also the fembots in AP
resembles a woman, who tries to kill Harry
Palmer while they're getting it off in this
movie. This movie has with no doubt had a
major influence on the makers of the Austin
Powers movies, mainly Mike Myers I suppose.
Sidenote: One scene of this movie was shot
only 1.2 km from my home (in Finland). It's
the scene where a truck drives down a small
hill and slips into a snowy ditch, after which
Cain escapes into the forest only to be captured
and taken to a prison (or such) in Latvia!
I drive down that hill every day and the stable
on top of it, also seen in the movie, still
stands there, barely. - Webmaster
- When the main woman in the film is in the
bird store in the city, you can see numerous
people walk by outside. Look carefully, and
u can see the director himself (Hitchcock)
walk by with a dog. - casamann
- Comment: Hitchock
is the scene in the elevator when the
woman is delivering the birds to the guys
apartment. Hitchhock has cameos in a lot
of his movies including this one so it
would be likely to see him in one of his
movies. - TAZ
- The movie has no musical score. - kyara
- Tippi Hendren was actually hit by one of
the birds in one scene. - kyara
- In the movie on the streets you can see
a vampire sucking a persons blood. That vampire
is played by the director himself to be in
a short cameo like that late Alfred
Hitchcock. (Source: TV) - TAZ
- In the scene where the sun rises and sets
over a shot of the city, rapidly showing the
passing of time, you can clearly see a giant
fly crawling over a scyscraper... Clearly
Blade has more than just vampires to deal
with! Maybe an idea for the third installment?
(Source: DVD) - Gabe
- The end sequence (flying through the clouds)
to the directors cut of Blade Runner was footage
that Stanley Kubrick discarded from the opening
of The Shining. (Source: University lecture)
- office_pest
- The day they filmed the big "Field
full of dead bodies after the big shoot-out
scene", the commissary had served up
a lunch of Boston Baked Beans. While they
were filming the scene, when everyone was
supposed to be dead, someone really cut the
cheese and suddenly all the supposedly dead
people started writhing on the ground with
laughter. - Cathy
- At the end of the movie, when the cast crashes
through the set wall to the set where they
are dancing "the French Mistake",
the camera pans briefly to a pair of men doing
synchronized swimming in tuxedos: James Caan
and Burt Reynolds in an uncredited cameo.
- SAM
- Correction:
That is not James Caan or Burt Reynolds
in the scene described, any amateur can
see that. Please have a look. It is immediately
following the moment where the effeminate
man hits the cowboy in the chest exclaiming
"you brute, you brute, you brute,
you vicious brute" and then the cowboy
consoles him. The scene in question immediately
follows this, with the two men in the
swimming pool. It ain't Caan and Reynolds.
The one on the left looks nothing like
Burt, and the one on the right only "slightly"
resembles James. Do some research before
leaving a post like this for God sake!!
- OLDMANPERIWINKLE
- In the TV version, several new scenes are
added in. Some of those include one that follows
the exploding Candygram scene: Bart tricks
Mongo into going diving for Spanish dubloons
and stops giving him air to take a lunch break.
Another involves the mayor trying to start
a conversation with the fake citizens of Rock
Ridge. Also on the television edit, the flatulence
in the campfire scene has been completely
taken out and on Fox Family (now ABC Family),
the "Schtupp" in Lili Von Schtupp's
name is dubbed out. - Nate
- During an interview with Bob Costes on NBC's
Later, Mel Brooks admitted that although he
was told to cut out alot of the offending
jokes the only one he did was when Lili took
Sheriff Bart in her dressing room turned off
the light and asked "Is it true what
they say about you people?" proceeded
with a loud zip and saying "It's true,
it's true!" Mel claimed he took out Cleavon
Little's response of "Your sucking on
my arm." (Source: TV) - Nineisfine
- As Mongo makes his first entrance into town,
an hispanic man in sombrero exclaims "Mongo,
Santa Maria!' This is the name of a recently
deceased 60's jazz/pop musician. (Source:
Myself) - Terry
- In the "All The Small Things"
video when Mark is getting hot wax poured
on him, in the background you can see Tom
making out with his future wife. - Samantha
- In "Dammit" when the band is playing,
Tom mouths to Mark "I love you".
- Samantha
- In one of the fight scenes Van Damme opponent
is knocked to the ground and the fight is
ruled over. The villain gets up and grabs
Van Damme's shoulder. Van Damme turns around
and elbows the fighter in the jaw. This strike
is real. The actor grabbed the wrong shoulder
and when Van Damme elbows the guy in the face
he really was knocked out as shown in the
scene. (Source: Documentary) - The
Equalizer
- Brooke Shields spent a lot of time standing
and walking in a trench beside Chris Atkins
so that she wouldn't tower over him in the
scenes that they had together. - Cathy
- Jon Landis (director) is famous for using
"See You Next Wednesday" in many
of his films - it happened to be the title
of his first script which never became a feature.
He claims that the movie will never exist,
but when he uses ideas from it, he pays tribute.
In "The Blues Brothers" the police
car hides behind a billboard (shown for a
couple seconds) advertising "See You
Next Wednesday" right before pulling
out and hitting the Good Ol' Boys' van. -
Andrew
- The Blues Brothers held the record for crashing
the most police cars in a movie. According
to this
site "One person has suggested 13
bluesmobiles and around 30 police cars, which
were rebuilt as they were crashed. Another
person has said 13 bluesmobiles and 60 'Chicago
cars'." The record was broken by Blues
Brothers 2000.
- At the end when Jake an Elwood go to the
bank to pay the tax the clerk (the guy eating
the sandwich) appears to be Steven Spielberg.
(Source: familiar face) - violinist
- Correction:
In fact the clerk that Jake and Elwood
pay the taxes to is Frank Oz. He was the
voice of Miss Piggy, Gonzo the Great and
about 10 other muppets. He was basically
Jim Henson's co-hort. (Source: The movie)
- gizmo
- Correction:
Frank Oz doesn't play the tax clerk
he plays the jail worker who hands
jake his belongings on his way out,
spielberg is the tax clerk..frank
oz is also known for the voice of
the infamous Yoda... (Source: general
knowledge) - jonny
- Correction:
Frank Oz is not the tax man, he is
however the police officer at the
item reclamation room in the jail
at the beginning of the movie. (Source:
rolling credits) - PudBoy
- Correction:
Spielberg appears near the end as the
Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk. -
Nate
- Correction:
The tax clerk eating the sandwich
is, in fact, Steven Spielberg. The
credits say so. (Source: Film Credits)
- amers
- Correction:
It is in fact Steven Spielberg
at the end of The Blues Brothers.
Check at www.imdb.com. (Source:
www.imdb.com) - craiger
- Ugh, someone
should make a trustworthy list
of who played who.
- The band Cradle Of Filth has made countless
hidden references to this film. Some of the
most obvious are the similar settings and
objects used in the torture room in Brazil,
and the dentist torture room in the From The
Cradle To Enslave video, and the sound clip
"care for a little necrophelia"
from the end of the movie which is inserted
into the intro of Cradle's song Lord Abortion.
- Raven
- The guidance counselor's name plaque reads
"R. Hashimoto". Richard Hashimoto
was the production supervisor. (Source: watching
the film) - person
- The quote at the beginning of the film is
taken from David Bowie's "Changes".
(Source: watching the film) - person
- The school's "Man of the Year"
is none other than Carl Reed, the janitor
who talks to the kids in the library. (Source:
watching the film) - person
- Anthony Michael Hall's real mother dropped
him off at the school, at the beginning of
the film. (Source: watching the film) - person
- The planes featured in this movie are Grumman
F9F Panthers, but the aircraft-carrier used
for the filming, the "USS Oriskany",
was in real life equipped with McDonnell F2H
Banshees. Since the F2H:s with their anodized
aluminum skins didn't photograph well, a few
dark blue F9F:s were taken onboard to fly
for the cameras. In some scenes one can see
the F2H:s in the background on the flight
deck. The scene where several F9F:s are launched
to attack the bridges was shot on another
carrier, one can see that the identification-number
on the fore-deck has been painted over. The
reconnaissance-plane that photographs the
Toko-Ri bridges while William Holden acts
as an escort, is a standard fighter-plane
with painted-on camera-windows. - Olav
Westerman
- When Missy comes to the cheer casting, she
is being told about no wearing tattoos. She
looks at her arm, showing that she has a removable
one, and she made it because she was bored.
It is the same tattoo that has Faith, her
recurring role in "Buffy the vampire
slayer" and "Angel". - Emepol
- At the end of the movie, Christian Slater
picks up a slightly burned $20 bill. The number
of the locomotive in the movie is "1814,"
the year Andrew Jackson - pictured on the
$20 bill - fought the Battle of New Orleans.
- Chip
Levine
- When Bruce (Jim Carrey) and God (Morgan
Freeman) are mopping the floors, God says,
"Alrighty then," obviously a reference
to Carrey's character Ace Ventura. (Source:
Theater) - Nate
- If you look at the TV in the beginning when
Jimmy's mom is cleaning and the dad is watching
TV, he is watching an advertisement for the
Bright and Shiny cult. (Source: observation)
- Pickle
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- At the basketball game when the Hawks are
down and the one kid on the team is a vamp,
he goes up to a guy on the other team and
hisses at him. If you pay attention to the
kid who got hissed at, it's ol' Ben Affleck!
- Paige
- Pixar, shows the same trailer and pizza
planet truck in A Bugs Life, Monsters Inc,
and of course Toy Story 1 and 2. In Bugs Life
its when Flik goes to the city and in Monsters
Inc. Its when Randall is mistaken for a gator
in a trailer. - trapperjohnmc
- The car that is supposed to crash into a
gasoline-station can be seen passing by behind
the explosions. The reason is, that in that
scene the two cars involved in the chase were
hooked together, side by side, with the stuntdriver
Carey Loftin towing the car that should crash.
He aimed at the gas-station in 90 mph and
released the other car, but it missed its
target. Despite that, the explosions were
set off and the scene used in the finished
movie. - Olav Westerman
- There is a rumour that the motorcyclist
that gets involved in the car chase and falls,
is a person that happened to drive into the
film-shooting by accident. That is not true,
the scene was planned and the biker was Bud
Elkins, a stuntman. The scene was deliberately
shot in a way that it wouldn't look like a
planned stunt. - Olav Westerman
- The actor who played the part of the driver
of the bad guys car was Bill Hickman, an expert
stuntdriver, who actually drove the car in
the chase-scenes. - Olav
Westerman
- Steve McQueen had planned to do all his
driving himself, but after the first day of
shooting he was replaced in most of his scenes
by stuntdrivers, because he wasn't good enough
as a driver. - Olav Westerman
- Correction:
According to the director of the movie,
in a "behind the scenes" movie
report, McQueen did start out doing his
own driving, he even modified the mustang
himself so it would handle properly, but
after a near disaster they decided they
couldn't afford to loose the star of the
film and used a stunt driver from that
point on. While filming the "in car"
shots, the brakes went out on the car
during the chase down the hill in the
city and McQueen had to bring the car
to a stop by down shifting the transmission.
- Hoss
- Did you know that during the 9 minute 42
second centerpiece car chase, they went passed
the same VW Bettle six times and that they
also go passed the same Pontiac Firebird more
than once too. (Source: Book) - Dave
Gorman
- In the scene where Cherie (Marilyn Monroe)
runs across the rodeo and falls down losing
her shoe - this was for real and she actually
tripped. The director Joshua Logan decided
not to re-shoot the scene as it was shot between
real rodeo shows. The crowds cheered and the
fall stayed in. (Source: Barbara Leaming "Marilyn
Monroe") - Joey
- In the scene where they blow up the box
car to rob it, during filming the rail car
was made of balsa wood and toothpicks. The
crew could not afford a second take and so
"just in case," three different
people added explosives to make sure it went
"boom." It is rumored each didn't
know the other had added the extra explosives
that the line "you sure you used enough
dynamite, Butch?" was an ad lib. (Filmed
where and when I went to college in Durango
CO) - kayak22
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