Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[christina]

Huntress' origin story is loosely adapted from Greg Rucka's Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood limited series, where she was a member of the Bertinelli family who witnessed her entire family being slaughtered by a rival Gotham gang. The Huntress: Year One miniseries established she was trained in Sicily, but most of the other details have been switched up.

[melinda]

Production designer K.K. Barrett makes a cameo as Dr. Aguilar, the scientist who gives Black Mask a botox injection.

[nora]

Jurnee Smollett was inspired by Black Canary as seen in the videogame Injustice 2 (2017) for her role in this movie.

[marc]

Sionis rants about his family background. He should have inherited the Janus Corporation, which is shown several times in the background (usually with the "J" blocked). Janus was also the parent company of ACE Chemicals in the comics. There's actually a Janus Corporation Easter egg in Justice League, when Batman and a Parademon fight on a sign for Janus Cosmetics.

[jesus]

The shot of Harley Quinn as a roller-skater is lifted straight from 2013's Harley Quinn #1, and she has a number "92" - referencing the year of her debut in Batman: The Animated Series.

[dustin]

Dinah's car, which Harley steals at the end, is a 1987 Jaguar XJ-S 5.3 V12 Convertible Hess & Eisenhardt [XJ27].

[miriam]

Renee Montoya and Cassandra Cain are referred to by their civilian names, while the rest are introduced by their code names (Harley Quinn instead of Harleen Quinzel, Black Canary instead of Dinah Lance, and Huntress instead of Helena Bertinelli). Then again, neither Cassandra nor Renee use their comic book superhero identities in this story anyway. On the villains side, Roman is only ever referred to as Black Mask once.

[jesus]

Harley take on Black Mask at the so-called "Founders Pier" though that isn't a location we know from Gotham City, it seems like it could be a mashup of Founders Island in the Arkham series of games and Gotham Pier in various Batman movies and comics. That's not the only landmark familiar to gamers, as Amusement Mile, the location of the Funhouse is a key location in the North East of Gotham in both the Batman comics and the award-winning Batman: Arkham games.

[miriam]

Being produced under the working title of "Fox Force Five." Fox Force Five was the name of a fictional television show that never made it past the production of its pilot in the movie Pulp Fiction (1994).

[kenneth]

In the scene where Harley Quinn walks into a pet store and sees a pig and hyena in their cages, the set consisted of a wood floor, high ceilings, and glass window storefront. The set was decorated with taxidermy animals, stuffed animals in cages, and live animals. The animals were loaded, one by one, into their enclosures. There was avulture on a wood perch; a pig was housed in a wire cage; a python and lizard in a tank; a dog and cat also in cages; a capuchin monkey in wire cage; a parrot with a perch; and a fox.

[aaron]

We don't get to see too much of Gotham's landmarks no Wayne Manor, no Gotham Zoo, no Crime Alley in Birds of Prey, but we did get a couple of set-pieces that take place in classic territory. Ace Chemicals is the most obvious locale. Harley blows up the factory, where a man named Jack Napier turned into the Joker in Batman (1989), as a "middle finger" to her former beau. Amusement Mile, meanwhile, provided the setting for the movie's final act, and was often seen as a haunt for Harley and Joker in Batman: Arkham City.

[riley]

Margot Robbie pitched the idea of Birds of Prey to DC and Warner Bros. as a female-led superhero action movie and they agreed with her vision. "I think there's a perception that a PG female-led action film is kind of considered a chick flick," says Robbie, which is why we're going to see an R-rated version of the story. In addition to starring in the upcoming movie, Robbie is also on board as producer with her LuckyChap production company, so her hands are all over the project. Birds of Prey is LuckyChap's largest project to date at $75 million.

[javier]

The Logo Joke depicts a frowny face on the DC logo. In one sense it represents Harley having a bad time at the beginning, but in another sense it represents Harley doing her best to distace herself from a villain whose trademark is a smile.

[steve]

This is the second film in which Margot Robbie skates to the song "Barracuda" the first being I, Tonya (2017).

[aaron]

Harley's favorite nickname for Joker, "Puddin," gets a shoutout during her break up story

[amber]

This is one of three female lead, female-directed comic book movies coming out in 2020. The others being Wonder Woman 1984 directed by Patty Jenkins and Black Widow directed by Cate Shortland. Additionally, the ensemble cast picture The Eternals, directed by Chloé Zhao, has Angelina Jolie (Thena) as its top-billed star.

[veronica]

It is said frequently that Renee Montoya talks/acts as if in an 80's cop show. When running after Harley, Montoya growls in homage to Sgt Belker from 80's police drama 'Hill Street Blues'.

[bernice]

The egg sandwich that is made for Harley Quinn is not made with chicken eggs, but instead with duck eggs, as Margot Robbie is allergic to chicken egg whites (she gets migraines from them).

[christina]

Toward the end of the film, Harley uncovers a chest of her old things - grenades, her old Suicide Squad outfit, and most crucially, her old corset. Though Harley most notably wore a corset in her New 52 reimagining, the corset is also notably reminiscent of her original full body harlequin outfit.