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Friday, 20 May 2016
FILM 1528: DEMOLITION MAN
TRIVIA: Wesley Snipes's kicks and
punches sometimes look lurchy and awkward. Snipes is a black belt in real life,
and his kicks and punches were so fast that they blurred on camera. Hence the
producers asked him to slow them down.
Sylvester Stallone has
stated, in interviews, that the idea behind the three seashells was that two
were used like chopsticks or to clamp together to pull waste out of the body
and the third was used to scrape what was left over. No explanation was made
about how they were to be cleaned or sanitized between uses.
Fred Dekker did uncredited
rewrites on the script. When he was brought on, the script began in the future
and Spartan was introduced when he was brought out of suspended animation.
Dekker suggested that the film open with a prologue set in 1996 to showcase
Spartan and Phoenix in their natural environment, saying that "If you
don't show Kansas, Oz isn't all that special."
Sandra Bullock's costume
during the Taco Bell sequence was made of stones and gems weighing
approximately 40 pounds. After the fight scene outside the restaurant when her character
gleefully jumps and replays the action, her dress actually started to rip,
which is why she is holding her arms to her sides after Stallone walks away.
Wesley Snipes hated his
blonde dye job and shaved his head to get rid of it as soon as filming was
complete. After the film's release, professional basketball player Dennis
Rodman (who was part of the San Antonio Spurs playing roster) began dying his
hair since the 1993/94 NBA season.
The action figure of the Demolition
Man in full armor is actually a repainted He-Man action figure from the line of
1990.
Lenina Huxley tells John Spartan
about the Arnold Schwarzenegger
Presidential Library, explaining that, based on the sheer popularity of his
movies, a Constitutional amendment was passed in order for Schwarzenegger to
run for president, which, according to Huxley, he did. In 2003, ten years after
this film's release, Arnold
Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California and shortly after
his election, three senators separately proposed amendments to the US
Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to become president. Additionally,
Stallone, along with Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Demi Moore backed the
opening of the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain.
Though the movie was released in
1993, Simon Phoenix and John Spartan were supposed to have been imprisoned in
the cryo-prison in 1996. In the scene where Wesley Snipes' character
Simon Phoenix is releasing the other cryo-prisoners, he makes a reference to
serial killer Jeffrey
Dahmer. Dahmer was killed in prison in 1994, after the film's
release but before the cryo-prison would have been built. During TV replays,
the Dahmer references were edited out because they seemed anachronistic.
Lenina Huxley's name is a
combination of Lenina Crowne and Aldous Huxley. Crowne is a character in Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New
World' (1932), a novel about a future society where everything is predetermined
for you so as not to offend others(among other reasons) and where showing even
moderate emotion is considered to be unusual and possibly even illegal.
Crowne's first name Lenina itself was chosen by Aldous Huxley after the
pseudonym of the first dictator of the Soviet Union, Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich
Ulyanov).
According to screenwriter Daniel Waters, the
inspiration for the three shells came about when he was writing a scene where
Spartan has to use a restroom. He was trying to come up with futuristic things
you'd find in there. He was having trouble, so he called a buddy, another
screenwriter across town, asked him if he had any ideas. Ironically enough that
person was in the bathroom when he answered the phone, looked around his
bathroom and said 'I have a bag of seashells on the toilet as a decoration.'
Waters said 'Ok, I'll make something out of that.'
Lori Petty was initially
cast as Huxley, but was fired after two days of filming due to creative
differences.
CAMEO: Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Schwarzenegger made a uncredited cameo in the film as a muscular thug in the
police station, as a personal favor to his friend Sylvester Stallone, and
accepted no payment for doing so.
Sunday, 12 April 2015
FILM 1304: FAR OUT ISN'T FAR
ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi
Ungerer Story depicts one man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal
boundaries through his use of subversive art. This 98-minute film combines
traditional documentary storytelling with original animation from over 70 years
worth of art from the renegade children's book author and illustrator. Using a
historical palette of 20th century events to paint an artist's epic yet
controversial life story, this HD documentary film offers a feature-length
retrospective of Ungerer's life and art, pondering the complexities and
contradictions of a man who, armed with an acerbic wit, an accusing finger and
a razor sharp pencil, gave visual representation to the revolutionary voices
during one of the most tantalizing and dramatic periods in American history.
Far Out Isn't Far Enough explores the circumstances of his meteoric rise and
fall on American soil, but also delves into Ungerer's formative years leading
up to, and prolific years since, his time in America.
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Sunday, 18 January 2015
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Book 90:
Fight Club – Chuck
Palahniuk
History:
Palahniuk once had an altercation while camping, and though he returned to work
bruised and swollen, his co-workers avoided asking him what had happened on the
camping trip. Their reluctance to know what happened in his private life
inspired him to write Fight Club.
Palahniuk
first tried to publish another novel, Invisible Monsters, but
publishers rejected it as too disturbing. Therefore, Palahniuk instead
concentrated on Fight Club, intending it to be more disturbing. Initially Fight
Club was published as a seven-page short story in the compilation Pursuit of
Happiness (1995), but Palahniuk expanded it to novel length (in which the
original short story became chapter six); Fight Club: A Novel was published in
1996.
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