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Started by Noa, August 11, 2006, 11:02:30 PM

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Noa

I watched Demolition Man tonight.  Three things that struck me as funny.

1.  When checking who was being interviewed for parole, alongside Simon Pheonix was an inmate named Scott Peterson.

2.  They mention the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.  Keep in mind that the movie was made before Aahnold became the govenator.

3.  Simon says the name Rambo (a stallone character) in the armory.

I love oddities and trivia bits in movies.

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From Internet Movie Database: Re: Demolition Man trivia


Sandra Bullock replaced Lori Petty after a few days filming.


Sylvester Stallone wanted the Simon Phoenix character to be played by Jackie Chan. Chan refused, since Asian audiences don't like the idea of actors who have always played heroes suddenly playing evil characters.


At one point Bullock surprises Stallone by showing her karate moves. He asks her where she learned that and she said from old Jackie Chan movies.


"Lenina Huxley" is a reference to the character "Lenina Crowne", a character in "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. At one point she says to John Spartan, "You are a savage creature, John Spartan" thus alluding to the Brave New World character John the Savage. Also, when Phoenix picks up the ray gun after it has finally charged, he says "It's a brave new world."


In the museum armory, Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) referred to one of the mannequins as Rambo, a character played by Sylvester Stallone in three earlier movies.


A poster for Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) can be seen in Lenina Huxley's office. Both films had Mark Poll as a set designer.


Many of the cars in the movie were prototypes of future models, supplied by General Motors.


For some non-American releases, references to Taco Bell were changed to Pizza Hut. This includes dubbing, plus changing the logos during post-production. Taco Bell remains in the closing credits.


The "ray gun" used by Wesley Snipes in the Museum Armory sequence is based on the Heckler and Koch G11, a prototype weapon for the German army that would have been the most advanced rifle in the world, firing caseless ammunition (bullets, not death rays).


Benjamin Bratt's character, "Alfredo Garcia", is named after the Sam Peckinpah film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974).


At one point, Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) says to John Spartan "While you were sleeping... ", referring to the time he was frozen. Bullock later starred in the movie While You Were Sleeping (1995).


During TV replays, the computer announcing the reanimation of Jeffrey Dahmer and Simon Phoenix's line "I love that guy!" is deleted. Dahmer was killed in "normal" prison after release of the movie so the line became anachronistic.


After breaking out of the cryogenic prison and using the information booth, Wesley Snipes refers to the booth as HAL from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).


Warden William Smithers is named after the actor William Smithers who played the sadistic Warden Barrot in Papillon (1973).


The building used for exterior shots of the SAPD building was the California Headquarters of GTE in Thousand Oaks.


In the strange attempt to entirely replace the Taco Bell name with Pizza Hut (the name was dubbed over and computer generated images of the logo were pasted over), the editors missed a spot. At the start of the battle outside the restaurant, when everyone is flocking to the window, one pane still holds the logo for Taco Bell and the Taco Bell sign is visible in the first shot of the van (in the background when people are running) on the door.


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.


Lenina Huxley tells John Spartan about the Arnold Schwarzenegger 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.


The title was taken from The Police song of the same name. Hence, the use of Sting to remake the song for the film.


The two original choices for the roles were Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Van Damme was offered the role of the bad guy, but didn't want that role. He agreed to star in it if both the lead roles could be switched, the producers tried to get Seagal to play the bad guy, he declined.


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.
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