The filmmakers took great care to continuously remind their viewers that what they're seeing is not happening in the Soviet Union. To ensure this, a lot of foreign items have been placed in the backgrounds which surely immediately caught the eye of the contemporary viewer. There is not a single object with Cyrillic letters, but there are plenty with English ones. Many items are Western consumer goods which were rare in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Particular examples are beer cans and a bottle of Jagermeister on a desk. The weapons the soldiers wield are also not even resembling Soviet rifles which would've been familiar to all viewers who completed their military services. They look more like a strange "crossbreed" of American M-16 and M-1 rifles. The vehicle the soldiers are using is a MAZ missile trailer truck, but the same vehicle was also built for the civilian market and sold to many countries. The helicopter that shows up in one of the scenes is a Kamov Ka-26 which was never used by the Soviet military (and in fact only one Warsaw Pact country did, Hungary). The hovercraft that is seen turning and leaving is also not a (known) military vehicle, but anyone in the 1980s should've associated the image with the air-cushion ferries on the English Channel which were a famous and novel technical achievement at the time.
The Goonies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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During the opening credits sequence, Andy is the first of the Goonies to appear on screen. She is also the only character to have the actress's name (Kerri Green) appear with the character they're playing.
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In the scene when Chunk breaks the water cooler bottle, his line "I got it! I got it!... I don't got it!" is a nod to the film High Anxiety (1977).
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Was given a nationwide cinema re-release in the UK (for one week only) over Easter week in 2019 in 4k digital format. The release did surprisingly well for a film originally released a third of a century before and it out performed several contemporary family orientated films that were already on release at that time. The version that was released was the original 1985 cut.
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According to director Richard Donner in an interview with "The Directors", producer Steven Spielberg instructed the cast members to act cold and distant toward Donner on the last week of filming which puzzled him. Shortly after filming wrapped, Donner went to his beach house in Hawaii, ran into a frenzied neighbor who took up his entire day. When he arrived home, the entire cast was there to celebrate with a cookout. Spielberg flew them over to Hawaii on the promise that they not speak a word of the surprise to Donner, which prompted them to act the way they were on the last week of filming.
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The script gives One-Eye Willie's full name as William B. Pordobell. This resembles Portobelo, a Panamanian port which has long been home to pirates.
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In the scene with the skeleton piano, Andy reads the musical notes on the back of the treasure map and comments that she doesn't know if one note is an A sharp or a B flat. Musically, an A sharp and a B flat are the same note.
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Ma Fratelli and her sons are based on the early-20th-century legend of Kate Barker (known as Ma Barker) and her boys.
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The scene which Jake Fratelli is found hanged in his jail cell, which he pretends to have committed suicide and overpowers the guard was edited in the 1988 ITV broadcast in the United Kingdom. It cuts from the guard saying "You too down there. Hey turkey..." to the next scene, which Francis Fratelli is seen pouring a ring of gasoline around the front entrance of the jail.
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In 2017, a LEGO Dimensions video game of the film for PS4 "LEGO Dimensions - The Goonies Level Pack" was released. In the trailer for the game, Excalibur Batman tells the story of "The Goonies" and is seen giving Sloth a Batman costume and is seen playing on the bone piano. In the game, Chunk and Sloth set off into the caves and go after the other Goonies and The Frattelli's whom are searching for One-Eyed Willy's ship.
The Goonies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Goonies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Goonies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Goonies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Goonies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Goonies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Goonies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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