Death Proof - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Death Proof or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Death Proof

[janice]

The Sheriff and "his #1 son" discussing the crash while walking down the hall of the hospital in Death Proof are the same two, Sheriff and #1son in Kill Bill that go to the church massacre and find Uma Thurman"s character still alive.

[stephanie]

Australian actor John Jarratt was nearly selected to play Stuntman Mike until Quentin Tarantino decided to settle with Kurt Russell.

[marc]

The Circle A convenience store is the same fictional chain used in "SubUrbia" from Tarantino's friend, Richard Linklater.

[jessica]

In the end credits under special thanks "AMI the jukebox" is the first listed.

[ray]

During the first crash, the four girls are listening to Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich. In 1960, Eddie Cochran was killed in England when he was thrown through the wind-shield of a taxi which had hit a light pole. A young police cadet at the station responsible for the investigation taught himself to play guitar with Cochran's impounded Gretsch from the wrecked car. His name was David Harman, later to become Dave Dee.

[beth]

In the extended version, there is a scene where Stuntman Mike fondles Abernathy's feet while she is asleep in the car and Lee isn't paying attention. When she wakes up from it, he pretends he just touched them by accident as he was walking by going to his car. Later when he attacks the girls driving the challenger, this explains how Abernathy is the only person who recognizes him from earlier.

[kristina]

According to Tarantino Universe aficionados, this is the third appearance of "Jungle" Julia, The first was as Unruly Julie in My Best Friend's Birthday (1987), mentioned as a rival D.J. to Clarence, and the second was as Wayne Gale's assistant in Natural Born Killers (1994).

[phyllis]

In one of the film's main posters, the car is depicted without its rubber duck hood ornament.

[kristen]

The opening production company logo used is from Dimension Pictures which was a theatrical distributor of grind-house and exploitation films of the 1970s. Dimension Pictures is not associated with Dimension Films however, which actually distributed 'Death Proof'.

[aaron]

Rosario Dawson and Tracie Thoms worked together previously in the movie "Rent" (2005).

[jessica]

The cops in the hospital after Stuntman Mike crashes his car for the first time are the cops in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), who report to the scene of the wedding chapel massacre. They are played by actual father-son team Michael Parks and James Parks. The character of the father was also introduced in (From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) (where he was killed) and the son was introduced as the new sheriff in Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999), where HE was killed.

[francisco]

Mickey Rourke, Sylvester Stallone, Ving Rhames, Kurt Russell, and Australian actor John Jarratt were all considered for the role of Stuntman Mike, with Tarantino, upon the urging of Grindhouse (2007) co-director Robert Rodriguez, finally settling with Russell.

[eli]

At the beginning, Vanessa Ferlito's character is drinking from a soda cup. The restaurant on the cup is the same Mexican restaurant (Acuna Boys) that is advertised during the transition between Planet Terror (2007) and Death Proof (2007) in the original Grindhouse (2007). The Acuna boys are also mentioned in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), said to be a gang made up of the children of Esteban Vihaio's prostitutes.

[riley]

WILHEMSCREAM: When Stuntman Mike crashes into the first group of girls in the head on collision.

[terry]

When one of the girls gets a phone call before buying a magazine in the store, her ring-tone is the same as the whistling tune from Twisted Nerve (1968) Quentin Tarantino reused in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003).

[albert]

The juke-box (named AMi, pronounced "Amy"), is Quentin Tarantino's own. It was trucked to Austin to be used in the film in its very own rig. The list of songs on it was also hand-written by Tarantino. One of the songs is "You Never Can Tell" by Chuck Berry, the song that Mia and Vincent dance to in Pulp Fiction (1994).

[gerald]

According to Zoë Bell, when her friend Quentin Tarantino told her she would be starring in the movie she thought she would be just a featured extra. She caught on when she saw her name on the poster.

[dustin]

The character of Rosario Dawson are arguing with her friends and says: "So, what is it you two daredevils are doing, that i'm just so uncool, I couldn't possible understand?" 8 years after Rosario Dawson plays Claire Temple in Daredevil (2015)

[nora]

Ironically, Rose McGowan appeared in this movie and the other Grindhouse feature, Planet Terror, almost a decade after having sued producer Harvey Weinstein for sexual harassment on another Dimension Films production, Scream.