When the news report Damien's (Alexis Arquette) found body, they show a less-than-goth, nerdy portrait of him. This is a nod to shock rocker Marilyn Manson and his pre-fame alter-ego Brian Warner, Marilyn Manson was even considered for the role of Damien as it was written with him in mind, he ultimately turned it down, and they settled on Alexis Arquette.
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The movie was banned in South Korea until 1999.
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Dirk and Reed record "You Got the Touch" at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys. This is the same studio where Rick Springfield recorded "Jessie's Girl" - later heard during the drug deal scene on Rahad's mix tape.
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Julianne Moore and William H Macy have both appeared in The Jurassic Park franchise
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William H. Macy's character is loosely based on porn actor Cal Jammer, whose girlfriend Jill Kelly was having a secret relationship with actress P.J. Sparxx and another with a male porn actor. Jammer later shot himself in the head on Kelly's front lawn.
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Paul Thomas Anderson: [long take] The opening scene is three minutes long, taken in a single camera shot, beginning in the street where Jack Horner and Amber Waves drive up and following them as they get out of the car and walk into a nightclub. Most of the characters are introduced in that shot.
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The character Buck Swope is a nod to Putney Swope (1969), a film by Robert Downey, Sr., who played Burt in the film. That film was a satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world, where an African-American was appointed President of an ad company,
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Melora Walters' character, Jessie St. Vincent, is based on two real porn figures: actress Jesie St. James and producer Julia St. Vincent.
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The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Julianne Moore and Philip Seymour Hoffman; and five Oscar nominees: John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, Burt Reynolds, Mark Wahlberg, and William H. Macy.
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Paul Thomas Anderson used Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story (1981), a documentary about John Holmes, as a reference for some of the scenes in this film. Many interview scenes, including one where a strung-out Dirk tells the interviewer about how Jack allows him to block and edit his own sex scenes, are identical to the interviews in "Exhausted", especially one where a strung-out John Holmes, for no clear reason, lies about how director Bob Chinn allows him to block his own sex scenes.
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The sequence where Dirk, Reed, and Todd are at Rahad Jackson's house, an attempted scam involving drugs, a rich and violent man, and a robbery plot that turns into a scene of bloodshed, is a reference to the Wonderland murders that centered around John Holmes and gangster Eddie Nash.
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The original oil painting of Dirk Diggler, featured in the party scene at Dirk's house, was sold on eBay in 2001 for five hundred dollars.
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The entire film is based on the short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), also by Paul Thomas Anderson. It was a This Is Spinal Tap (1984)-like mockumentary, which would go on to be redone for the short "Dirk Diggler Story" in this film. In the original short film, Robert Ridgely, who plays The Colonel here, played Jack Horner. The man with whom Don Cheadle is talking in the stereo store is Michael Stein, who played Dirk Diggler. The original script was three hundred pages, cut down to one hundred eighty pages.
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During his attempt at a singing career, Dirk records a cover of "The Touch," which originally appeared in The Transformers: The Movie (1986). Mark Wahlberg would later appear in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017).
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When he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio (1994), William H. Macy recalled that at the wrap party, Nina Hartley, who played his character's wife and who is a real-life porn star, gave all the cast gifts of her own porn films. Macy's present was a copy of Nina Hartley's Guide to Anal Sex (1996).
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Boogie Nights - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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