FILM 1946: SLEEPY HOLLOW

FILM 1946: SLEEPY HOLLOW

TRIVIA: Johnny Depp adopted Goldeneye, the horse that played Gunpowder, Ichabod Crane's horse in this movie, when he heard it was going to be put down.

It was only after being cast as The Headless Horseman, that Christopher Walken admitted to Director Tim Burton that he actually did not know how to ride a horse.

Johnny Depp initially found the idea of Christina Ricci being his love interest in this movie, to be rather odd, seeing as he's known her since she was nine-years-old.

Historically, Ichabod Crane was a very unattractive man. Johnny Depp offered to add prosthetics to his face to make himself look ugly, but Director Tim Burton wanted to base the character on Crane's more unattractive personality traits, his reported squeamishness and eccentricity.

This movie was almost entirely shot with a blue filter. So, for the blood to appear red, the liquid used had to be bright orange.

(At around fifty-seven minutes) At the start of filming the three-way axe battle with Ray Park, Johnny Depp, and Casper Van Dien, Van Dien broke the index finger of his left hand. Although it was extremely painful, he carried on without telling anyone, as he didn't want his part cut short.

The cast and crew often said "The feeling one had walking around Sleepy Hollow's sets, and in particular the town at Lime Tree, was almost as if you were walking around the inside of Tim Burton's head."

Michael Gough came out of retirement to play Notary Hardenbrook.

Tim Burton included scenes as an homage to Disney's animated version of the Sleepy Hollow tale (featured in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)). These include the scene in which Ichabod Crane crosses the covered bridge and hears the frogs underneath croaking "Ichabod" and "Headless Horseman", the following chase sequence where Ichabod is run down and unhorsed, apparently by The Headless Horseman, and the moment in the climactic chase scene in which Ichabod runs into a tree limb, and, thrown through the air, ends up landing on the Horseman's horse backwards.

Director Tim Burton says the movie was inspired by the Gothic horror movies of Mario Bava and Hammer Film Productions. Burton brought Hammer veteran Michael Gough out of retirement for a small role, and recruited Sir Christopher Lee, a veteran of both Hammer and Bava's movies, for a cameo.

This is the first adaption of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that doesn't involve the actor playing the Headless Horseman having to conceal his head in the cloak, thanks to advancement in technology. The head of the actor was covered with a blue mask, that was deleted by means of computer graphics. The collar was also created with CGI, to match the flow of the robe.

The Western Wood was built on a soundstage, so everything, including the weather and light, could be controlled.

Crane's final line in this movie, "the Bronx is up, but the battery's down" is in reference to the song "New York, New York".

Christopher Walken (The Headless Horseman) played a schoolteacher in The Dead Zone(1983), in the beginning of which he tells his class to read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".

Johnny Depp's third collaboration with Tim Burton.

Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken appeared in Nick of Time (1995).

Ichabod's mother in the flashbacks, played by Burton's then-wife Lisa Marie Smith.

DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Tim Burton): (distorted female face): The Crone's Medusa-like appearance.

FILM 1830: STARSHIP TROOPERS

FILM 1830: STARSHIP TROOPERS

TRIVIA: The year in the movie is 2197.

Director Paul Verhoeven's favorite movie of his own.

The scenes involving explosions and fire after the destruction of Buenos Aires were actually videos taken from the Oakland Hills fire in October of 1991.

In a 2016 interview, Casper Van Dien revealed in an interview about an funny incident when he was picking up his two daughters from school, "I went by the line at school to pick up my kids. You know, you drive up to the school and when I get there and there are these six 10 and 8 year old boys hanging out with my daughters. I pull up in the line and the boys go "JOHNNY RICO! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US YOUR DAD WAS JOHNNY RICO!" and I said " what are you boys doing watching STARSHIP TROOPERS!" and they said "our dads made us watch it with them!" then my daughters get in the car and my 10 year old says "dad were you really naked in STARSHIP TROOPERS?" and I said "yeah" and she said " HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO ME!" then my 8 year old says "wait, like naked naked?" and I said "yup" and she said "OH MY GOD MY LIFE IS RUINED!". That was the longest three minute ride home I have had in my life"

More ammunition was used in this film than in any previous movie.

During filming Jake Busey (Ace) suffered heat stroke after working all day in 120 degrees desert sun, this stopped production for a week, when he recovered several large holes were cut into his uniform so he could cool off, many other cast members suits had this modification as well in order to prevent further cases on average there were 25 people per day being treated for heatstroke during filming.

The opening recruitment scene of the Mobile Infantry is modeled after the propaganda movie Triumph of the Will (1935).

Mark Wahlberg turned down the role of Johnny Rico.

The base that houses the Fleet Academy is named "Tereshkova" after Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. There are many more examples in the movie of the future being gender-neutral (meaning there is no bigotry based on gender), such as the mixed-shower scene and the female captain.

The combat helmets were repainted again and used by the SWAT team at the end of the 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes.

Dialogue changes in German version: when Mr. Rasczak is talking about failure of democracy and how the veterans took control. Only citizens are allowed to vote, in the German version all this is changed about some talking about the war against the bugs,democracy is not mentioned. "Service guarantees citizenship" is changed to "Fight for the Future" * also during the classroom scene when Mr. Rasczak is talking about violence he says "I wonder what the city fathers of Hiroshima would say about that" and Carmen replies "They probably wouldn't say anything Hiroshima was destroyed" this scene was removed from the Japanese version. In the German version Mr. Rasczak says "I wonder what the citizens of Washington would say about that". And Carmen replies "They probably wouldn't say anything Washington was destroyed during the first Bug War".

In an early Federation broadcast, there is a psychic who says, "If you think you're psychic, maybe you are." The psychic is played by Timothy Omundson, who stars in the TV series 'Psych'. In the series, he plays a police detective who is constantly at odds with 'psychic' Shawn Spencer and determined to prove him a fraud.

Dale Dye was the movies Military Adviser, reportedly putting the main actors through a one week long intense boot camp, just like all of his other films.

Cameo: Edward Neumeier: The screenwriter appears as the criminal sentenced to death during one media break.