Elizabethtown - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[jessie]

On Jesse's wall there is a sticker with the text "ear-x-tacy" on it. Ear-x-tacy is Louisville's biggest independently owned record store.

[frederick]

Louisville, the city in which much of the film was shot, does not consider itself "Part" of Kentucky. It's an inside joke that any Louisvillian would consider true. Louisville is on the border with Indiana but does have its own unique vibe. It is simultaneously considered the southern most northern city while also being the northern most southern city hence the the many different dialects and the many different pronunciations of "Louisville." Which leads to the joke on the plane about the different pronunciations of "Louisville."

[kyle]

While shooting a scene in a cemetery with actors Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, filming was interrupted due to an unexpected rain storm. Cameron Crowe suggested they shoot the scene anyway because it looked more beautiful and natural.

[riley]

On Claire's road map for Drew, there is a quote by R. Hammond and J. Bebe. Russell Hammond and Jeff Bebe were two of Stillwater's members in Cameron Crowe's previous film Almost Famous (2000).

[ivan]

Judy Greer plays Orlando Bloom's younger sister. In reality, Greer is two years older than Bloom.

[ava]

When searching the 2nd Largest Farmer's Market in the World for a woman in a red hat, Drew walks past a signpost with arrows pointing to "Success" and "Failure". He takes the "Failure" route to reach Claire.

[edgar]

Cameron Crowe's sixth film as writer and director.

[jamie]

The Claire Colburn character in this movie was the reason for "The A.V. Club" columnist Nathan Rabin's coinage of the term "The Manic Pixie Dream Girl," which later entered into common usage in movie writing. Rabin's definition of the term, which first appeared in a 2007 article titled "My Year Of Flops/The Bataan Death March of Whimsy Case File #1: Elizabethtown," was: "The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is an all-or-nothing-proposition. Audiences either want to marry her instantly (despite The Manic Pixie Dream Girl being, you know, a fictional character) or they want to commit grievous bodily harm against them and their immediate family. As for me, well, let's just say I'm not going to propose to Dunst's psychotically chipper waitress in the sky any time soon...(see Natalie Portman in Garden State (2004) for another prime example)."

[alyssa]

Jessica Biel auditioned for the role of Claire but was cast as Ellen instead.

[ray]

The mobile phone used by Claire (Kirsten Dunst) is an LG VX3200.

[steve]

Cameron Crowe had written the role of Drew Baylor with Orlando Bloom in mind. When Crowe originally offered Bloom the part, Bloom was unable to take it due to scheduling conflicts with Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Crowe then cast Ashton Kutcher in the part but later felt that Kutcher and co-star Kirsten Dunst had no chemistry and decided to let him go. Crowe then pushed his January 2004 start shoot date back to July 2004 for a summer shoot. Many young actors that included Seann William Scott, James Franco, Colin Hanks and Chris Evans auditioned for the part of Drew. Scott was seriously considered and nearly nabbed the part but Crowe pushed to get Bloom instead. When Bloom was able to work the film into his schedule, Crowe cast him in the part.

[fred]

This film was inspired by Cameron Crowe's visit to his own father's grave. It was his first trip to Kentucky since his father died 16 years earlier, and he found himself overwhelmed with emotion.

[caroline]

Cousin Jesse wears a shirt that says, "Let's go rockin'". That is from a locally famous bar in Bozeman, Montana, called The Rocking R Bar.

[ava]

The picture of Susan Sarandon holding a baby on the mantelpiece in the flashback, is the same picture used in Stepmom (1998).

[christina]

A scene was shot in the John Wayne Airport in Orange County. It was the first time since the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001 that a film has shot there. The crew was given only one night to shoot.

[tom]

Exterior shots of the 747 seen in the film are lifted from the disaster film Airport 1975 (1974).

[lena]

When Drew arrives in Elizabethtown, you're actually seeing downtown Versailles, KY. Shops on Main Street redressed their windows to accommodate filming.The funeral home "Clark Funeral Home" is also located in Versailles, KY.

[jesse]

Claire's instruction, "Make time to dance alone with one hand waving free", takes a line from Bob Dylan's 'Mr Tambourine Man' ("...Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free...").

[manuel]

The last film featuring character actor Gailard Sartain, who retired from acting.