Paramount Pictures senior management, dissatisfied with the early rushes, considered replacing Francis Ford Coppola with Elia Kazan, with the hope that Kazan would be able to work with the notoriously difficult Marlon Brando. Brando announced that he would quit the film if Coppola was fired, and the studio backed down. Paramount Pictures brass apparently did not know of Brando's dismay with Kazan over his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s.
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When Addie and Zora are talking in her room earlier in the film, one of the books on Zora's end table is entitled "They Came From Below", which foreshadows the arrival of the Tethered from the underground tunnels.
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It appears to be an unwritten rule that the Tethered only murder their own doppelganger. The Tylers, for example, die at the hands of their own doppelgangers, but when confronting the Wilsons, they only appear to toy with and capture the family, despite multiple opportunities to kill them. The same appears to be true when the Zora/Umbrae chase scene is interrupted by the car owner, as the car owner is stabbed by Umbrae, but only in the leg.
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By the end of the film, each member of the Wilson family has killed their own respective counterparts.
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When the Wilson family visits the beach, they are shown in a bird's eye view shot walking across the sand with long shadows that resemble the numbers '1111', a reference to Jeremiah 11:11, the bible verse that appears multiple times throughout the film. Their long shadows also allude their doppelgängers, or 'shadows', who appear later in the film.
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The baseball game is tied at 11-11... and one team is Minnesota. Minnesota's team is named the Twins.
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Like The Lost Boys (1987), several key scenes take place on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. This is even referenced in-universe, when Adelaide's mother (Anna Diop) says, "You know, they're shooting a movie over there by the carousel."
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While the Wilsons are in the Tylers' house, Jason eats a bowl of dry Froot Loops. This references a scene in Jordan Peele's previous movie, Get Out (2017), in which a character eats Froot Loops and drinks milk from "segregated" glasses.
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The main cast contains three recent alumni of the Yale Drama School: Lupita Nyong'o (class of 2012); Winston Duke (class of 2013) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (class of 2015).
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Jordan Peele: voice of the fun house narrator.
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Anna Diop have both appeared in DC Comics productions. Yayha plays Black Manta in Aquaman (2018) and Anna portrays Starfire/Koriand'r in Titans (2018).
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The only doppelgänger that Adelaide actively seeks out to kill is her own, despite her whole family being in danger, possibly to avoid being responsible for the destruction of a fellow doppelgänger. She's alone with her daughter's doppelgänger and instead of finishing her off, she just gently says "shh, shh" and lets her die. She tries to convince her son's doppelgänger to not walk into the fire. The only doppelgänger she kills other than her own is one of the twins', and that could be because the twin posed a threat against her. Ultimately, she only sought out to kill Red so she could remain the only Adelaide.
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Partly filmed in Santa Cruz California.
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A dumb made-up thing: the fact that Adelaide is a dancer is another nod to Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983), which was revered for it's incredible dance moves. It also invokes reminders of George Michael: Careless Whisper (1984)' "I'm never gonna dance again, my guilty feet have got no rhythm" George Michael was highly referenced and featured in Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key's film, Keanu (2016). Keanu Reeves starred in The Matrix (1999), which features a world where society was controlled by the powers that be. This mirrors Us and the general population who are "asleep" with doppelgangers in a sort of underground. Both Us and The Matrix have ties to Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In Us, Through the Looking Glass is the hall of mirrors, leading to the underground and following the white rabbit. Red can even be seen as a comparison to "The red queen/the queen of hearts".
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Evan Alex wears a Chewbacca mask throughout the film, Lupita Nyong'o appeared in three Star Wars movies.
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