The Thomas Crown Affair - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of The Thomas Crown Affair or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Thomas Crown Affair

[darrell]

John McTiernan decided to change the heist from a bank robbery, as was seen in the original 1968 version, to an art heist, as seen in this version. McTiernan felt that at the time the film was released, audiences would be less forgiving of Thomas Crown if he staged two armed bank robberies for fun, than if he staged an unarmed art heist.

[janice]

Crown's watch is a Jaeger-Lecoultre Reverso, but the logo doesn't appear because Pierce Brosnan has an exclusive deal with Omega watches.

[willard]

When Catherine casts doubt on Thomas' future, the newspaper he is holding features a large ad about retirement plans, asking "What kind of game is your 401K provider playing?" Thomas' extreme risk taking, both in terms of physical and financial risk, is to him a game.

[tamara]

The suit designer who appears in Thomas Crown's office is Gino Campagna, who has been featured on CNN's Richard Quest's segment. He is also the designer responsible for the look of the clothes in this film.

[michele]

The Etruscan horse the thieves hide in at the start of the movie would not be big enough to hold four men and their gear

[riley]

The Shelby Mustang driven by Crown in Martinique is highly modified (to the horror of Mustang collectors) but it is not the only Mustang with a connection to Thomas Crown. The most famous Shelby Mustang in cinema was associated with one actor and one film, Steve McQueen and Bullitt (1968). In the original The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Crown was played by McQueen.

[jeffrey]

The house used as Crown's Caribbean getaway is owned by one of the thirty original families who settled in Martinique in the 1600s.

[michele]

Faye Dunaway, who played the psychologist in this movie, played the insurance investigator in the 1968 original.

[frances]

The scene of Crown racing a catamaran replaced a similar scene in the original script (and the original movie) that was set at a polo match. John McTiernan deemed a polo match to be too much of a cliché, and wanted a scene that conveyed more action and excitement, and not just wealth.

[maureen]

Rene Russo performed the first nude scenes of her career in this movie.

[ella]

The teacher leading the students states that the painting, which is subsequently stolen, is credited with starting the impressionist movement. Actually, it is Monet's Impression, Soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise).

[javier]

The Claude Monet paintings used in the film, "San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk" and "Wheatstacks", are reproductions, and were supplied by "Troubetzkoy Paintings" in New York City, New York. What's more, the originals are not owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk" is owned by the Bridgestone Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan, and is currently on display in the National Museum and Art Gallery, Cardiff, Wales. "Wheatstacks" is at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. The painting Crown admires and calls "his haystacks" is Vincent van Gogh's "Noon: Rest From Work (After Millet)", the original of which is in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.

[norma]

The dark green Shelby Mustang that Crown drives on Martinique was originally intended to be used for Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Last Action Hero (1993), another John McTiernan film, and was retrieved from the McTiernan's garage for this film.

[nora]

The glider is a Schempp-Hirth Duo Discus, a German high performance two seater. However, it is physically impossible to reach from the rear seat to the front in flight. So this was arranged in the studio. The glider was flown by Thomas Knauff, a famous glider pilot from the U.S. In the original 1968 film, there are similar scenes in another glider, a Schweizer 1-23, an American high performance glider from that time.

[liam]

The last U.S. studio cinema film of Ben Gazzara.

[ivan]

When Crown (Pierce Brosnan) sees Catherine (Rene Russo) off after they meet at the museum (when he donates the painting), he gives the limo two taps on the hood to signal the driver. This was Pierce Brosnan's trademark send-off to Fred (Blake Clark), the driver, in his breakthrough role in Remington Steele (1982).

[ivan]

The bongos being played at the dance are original 1964 Latin Percussion bongos with mahogany shells. The "macho" (smaller of the two) has a more recent head whereas the "hembra" (the larger one) has the original sixties vintage head.

[sara]

At the time of filming, Pierce Brosnan was not a golfer, and thus he had to take lessons for a couple of weeks to make his scene hitting out of a sand trap look believable.

[chris]

When Crown first enters the museum, there is a banner advertising an exhibition called "Japan". However, the Kanji (Chinese characters) in Japanese say "konbu", which means seaweed.