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- 136 VOTES. Blake In ‘Last Days’ Is Obviously Kurt Cobain. Photo: Fine Line Features. Gus Van Sant wanted to make a movie about the mysterious final days of Kurt Cobain’s life since the Nirvana frontman took his own life in 1994 at 27.
- 190 VOTES. Brian Slade In ‘Velvet Goldmine’ Is Obviously David Bowie. Todd Haynes’s 1998 tribute to the glam rock movement of the 1970s would have been a biopic of David Bowie if the pop star hadn’t threatened to sue him.
- 205 VOTES. Miranda Priestly In 'The Devil Wears Prada' Is Obviously Anna Wintour. Photo: 20th Century Fox. When Lauren Weisberger published her 2003 bestseller, The Devil Wears Prada, no one was under any illusions about who her villain was modeled after.
- 231 VOTES. Johnny Fontane In 'The Godfather' Is Obviously Frank Sinatra. When filmmakers create characters who are based on real-life celebrities, it’s often a harmless parody like in Blazing Saddles or a loving tribute like in Velvet Goldmine.
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- Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Russell Brand's best movie is, of course, the first appearance of Aldous Snow in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," where he's essentially designed to be the polar opposite of Jason Segel's anxious and more buttoned-up main character Peter.
- Get Him to the Greek. In the character of Aldous Snow, Russell Brand found the perfect recipe for movie stardom. A larger-than-life rock star with little control over his mouth or impulses in general, Brand got to let loose in all the ways that play to his strengths as a performer, nowhere more so than in "Get Him to the Greek."
- Death on the Nile. "Death on the Nile," the second entry in Kenneth Branagh's Poirot Cinematic Universe after "Murder on the Orient Express," has such a stuffed cast of suspects that it's actually easy to nearly miss Russell Brand, who for perhaps the only time in a movie neither looks nor acts like his typical self.
- Penelope. In truth, Russell Brand has a glorified cameo in the movie "Penelope," appearing for all of five minutes as "Sam the Jazz Club Owner" but sounding a lot like Russell Brand.
Thinly Veiled: Directed by Adolfo Doring. With Hamish Allan-Headley, Nathan Crooker, Liberty Ross, Kimberly Laferriere. From Award Winner director Adolfo Doring comes this narrative feature that takes an uncompromising look into the lives of a diverse group of people in New York City.
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- Adolfo Doring
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- The Director Did Her homework.
- The Big, Final Prank Necessitated Three Months of Popcorn-Popping.
- The Popcorn Scene Wasn’T Scientifically Accurate, however.
- There’S A Real Story Behind The Frito-Lay Contest Scam.
- The "Ice-Skating" Scene Had A Real-Life Inspiration, too.
- There’S Significance to The Initials "D.E.I."
- There’S A Disney Afternoon Connection.
- It Was One of The First Movies Ever to Be Promoted Using The Internet.
- It’S One of The More Successful Comedies Directed by A Woman.
Director Martha Coolidge didn’t want to make a dumb teen comedy, and consequently, before production began, she threw herself into research – about Caltech, about lasers and about the CIA. In a recent interview, Coolidge said she aimed for as much realism as one can get in a comedy. “We brought in top-level consultants from the military, weapons de...
William Atherton, who plays the film’s villainous Prof. Hathaway, gave an interview to the A.V. Cluband explained what went into the scene in which his character’s home gets destroyed as a result of the world’s biggest serving of popcorn. It took three months’ worth of popcorn to film the scene, he said. “[The crew] had to worry, because they had t...
Not that it should flavor your opinion of the movie, of course, but a 2009 episode of MythBusters sought to determine whether rapidly popping popcorn could actually explode a house. It couldn’t, it turns out; however, a later experiment did verify that it is possible to pop popcorn using ordinary, consumer-grade lasers.
In the film, Hollyfield (Jon Gries) uses a Frito-Lay promotional contest’s “Enter as many times as you want” rule to his advantage by sending in more than a million entries. Ten years before Real Genius hit theaters, Caltech students tried to take advantage of a similar rule in a McDonald’s prize giveawayby creating a program to tilt the odds in th...
Val Kilmer’s character coats the dorm’s floors in ice so the students can skate inside. According to this list of Caltech references in Real Genius, the prank was inspired by a real-life tradition, “alley-surfing,” wherein the cement floors of one of the dorms would be coated in a soapy film that would allow students to skid down the hallway.
The film contains references to Darlington Electronic Instruments and Drain Experts, Inc. In real life, the initials “D.E.I.” are associated with Caltech’s Dabney House, and there’s a long-running tradition to get those initials displayed as prominently as possible. According to this page, they’ve purportedly appeared in an episode of Mission: Impo...
Jordan (Michelle Meyrink), the group’s sole female nerd, helped bring about a similarly technologically adept character on the Disney animated show Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Gadget, the mouse inventor and the only female member of that show’s main team, was inspired by Jordan, explained Rescue Rangerswriter and producer Tad Stones in a 1991 int...
According to Film School Rejects, Coolidge and other members of the film’s crew held a promotional press conference for Real Geniusvia CompuServe. Entertainment writers submitted questions digitally. This may not sound impressive in 2015, but when you consider that this happened in 1985, it must have seemed like the world of the future.
It’s rare for mainstream comedies to be directed by women, and by virtue of helming this film, Coolidge gets to be part of an exclusive club that includes Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Penny Marshall (Big), Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World) and more recently Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect 2). Real Geniusmade $12 million at the box ...
Thinly Veiled carefully examines these characters who are driven by the same cultural forces that flow through our daily lives, seeking to profit from the selfishness of our overly glorified ...
Jan 1, 2009 · Overview. From Award Winner director Adolfo Doring comes this narrative feature that takes an uncompromising look into the lives of a diverse group of people in New York City. Carefully bringing to light the things that inter-connect their lives with ours.
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