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The sunglasses, Christian Slater wears throughout the movie, can also be seen being worn by Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). She takes them from Buck after she wakes from her coma, and wears them to shield her eyes from the florescent hospital lights.
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[35:10]Dick Ritchie mentions he is auditioning for T.J. Hooker (1982), to which Clarence Worley responds, "you're going to meet Captain Kirk?". Christian Slater appeared previously in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) and Saul Rubinek (who plays Lee Donowitz) appeared in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) (Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Most Toys (1990) to be exact).
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When Cody Nicholson (Tom Sizemore) and Nicky Dimes (Chris Penn) are talking with Police Captain Quiggle (Ed Lauter), after Elliot Blitzer (Bronson Pinchot) was caught with the cocaine, during their conversation, Nicholson mentions a Roman Gladiator. Director Tony Scott's brother Ridley directed Gladiator (2000), about a Roman Gladiator.
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The first draft was completed in late 1988 by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary.
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Upon hearing that his friend Dick auditioned for a part in the new T.J. Hooker series, Clarence (Christian Slater) says how cool it would be to actually be playing across from Captain Kirk himself. Christian Slater missed that opportunity when he had about five lines in a cameo appearance in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). But his lines were with Captain Sulu, not Captain Kirk.
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Aside from the main cast comprising of Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson is the first of the supporting cast to appear on-screen.
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The movie that appears on the television, when Clarence and Alabama check in to their motel room, is Freejack (1992). Coincidentally, Floyd is watching the same movie when Virgil visits.
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Robert De Niro had been going to play Blue Lou Boyle in this film, but he wasn't cast in the end. De Niro and Director Tony Scott worked together on The Fan (1996).
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One of the original directors set up to do this was B-movie veteran William Lustig. But Tarantino turned him down because he did not believe he could do like Jonathan Demme (who went from B-movies to "regular" feature movies).
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The scene in which Nicky (Chris Penn) and Cody (Tom Sizemore) interrogate Elliot (Bronson Pinchot) was improvised by the three actors.
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Quentin Tarantino said that he never visited the set of the movie during filming.
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Uma Thurman was considered for the role of Alabama Whitman.
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Although this movie was not directed by Quentin Tarantino, it is still considered part of the Tarantino universe. The two key pieces of evidence, is Lee Donowitz being the grandson of Sergeant Donnie Donowitz from Inglourious Basterds (2009), this being confirmed by Tarantino. The second piece of evidence, is the fact that Mr. White from Reservoir Dogs (1992) mentioned working with a girl named "Alabama".
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Copies of the original script sent out to studios had the tagline, "When you're tired of relationships, try a romance."
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The scene on the roller coaster was filmed over two days. Michael Rapaport unfortunately has a fear of roller coasters, and suffers from acute motion sickness, facts which no one knew during the first day's filming. By the second day, the crew was prepared for this, and they gave him something to calm his nerves. As a result, one can easily tell from cut to cut on which day a particular moment was filmed by watching his face in the background. His expression goes back and forth from apprehensive and nauseous (the first day) to bland and oblivious of his surroundings (the second day).
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When Dick Ritchie (Michael Rapaport) throws the suitcase full of coke into the air, a "D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs" bumper sticker can be seen.
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The word "fu-ck" and its derivatives are said two hundred twenty-five times.
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Director Tony Scott gave Patricia Arquette the Cadillac featured heavily in the film, as a gift after shooting wrapped.
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Quentin Tarantino sold the script for fifty thousand dollars, which was the minimum amount of money that could be paid for a script at the time (according to WGA rules).
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