One of the hats the Mad Hatter presents to the Red Queen is Elsa Schiaparelli's "Shoe Hat" which was designed in the 1930s in cooperation with surrealist Salvador Dalí.
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There are three arson victims: Donald Cosgrove, Alan Seagrave and Jeffrey Holcomb. Cosgrove is named after the real-life Chicago fireman and author William Cosgrove, who served as Robert De Niro'sTechnical Advisor for the movie. Seagrave is the name of a fire apparatus (fire and ladder truck) manufacturer. Also, the firehouse where Engine 17 and Truck 46 were quartered is the real, in-service firehouse of the Chicago Fire Department's Engine 65 and Truck 52.
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In order to give fire a "character" all of its own, where it would literally creep out from beneath door spaces, effects technicians used inverted sets with anchored furniture items, and then set fire to the treated floor ("ceiling"). Since fire tends to burn upward, it was only capable of "crawling" across a floor/ceiling, giving it a more menacing appearance in the footage once flipped back to the upright position.
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This was Ron Howard's first R-Rated film since Night Shift (1982)
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Kurt Russell plays the brother of William Baldwin, and is supposed to be close to his age. Russell is actually 12 years older than Baldwin.
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The film also inspired Universal Studios Hollywood to create a special effects show based on the film. It was also the first time that a Universal Studios theme park attraction was based on an R-Rated film.
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Jennifer Jason Leigh suggested J.T. Walsh for the role of Alderman Swayzak. She said that he was a mentor to her: "He was just such a strong actor. It was effortless for him."
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William Baldwin, Kurt Russell, and Scott Glenn all got stunt credits for their work. Baldwin describes the filming as "a rock 'n' roll shoot".
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William Baldwin claims that, to this day, fire trucks honk their horn when they see him.
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Cedric Young (Grindle), Kevin Casey (Nightingale), and Richard Lexsee (Washington) are former Chicago firefighters. Jack McGee was a firefighter as well.
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The crew built a machine they called the "Ash-O-Matic" to make those embers float through the air. It was like a reverse vacuum that shredded cardboard, set it on fire and blew it into the air.
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Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Matt Dillon, and Val Kilmer turned down the role of Brian McCaffrey.
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There's a scene where John Adcox (Scott Glenn) breaks out the windows of a Mercedes-Benz blocking a fire hydrant in order to snake the hose through the car to access the hydrant. On the night of April 9, 2014, the Boston Fire Department was forced to break out the windows of a BMW that was blocking a fire hydrant, so they could respond to an eight-alarm fire across the street from the hydrant.
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The name that can be seen on the McCaffrey family boat, "Go Go", is a family nickname for Kurt Russell.
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In an interesting twist of fate, Brad Pitt lost out on the role of Brian McCaffrey in Backdraft (1991) to William Baldwin, who then had to be released from his contract to play the small part of J. D. in Thelma & Louise (1991) that was re-cast with Pitt.
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The fire station at which Brian worked had an "Engine 51", the same number as the engine on Emergency! (1972) and Chicago Fire (2012). The ambulance that took Tim to the hospital is ambulance 62; on "Chicago Fire" the ambulance number is 61.
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Kurt Russell played a former firefighter in Poseidon (2006).
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William Baldwin and Kurt Russell went to a firefighter "boot camp" to learn the ropes. They even slept at a Chicago firehouse for about a month.
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Backdraft - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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