Shortly after their visit to a recruiting office, John and his best friend, Russell Ziskey, are sent off to complete basic training. He decides to join the army to find a sense of purpose. Depression quickly settles in and John realizes that his life has been a failure. He just doesn’t care enough about any of them, though, causing him to lose all three within the span of a day. John Winger had a job, a girlfriend, and an apartment. Candy invited the company to his house to watch the famous Roberto Duran/Sugar Ray Leonard fight and enjoy a spaghetti dinner made by his wife. Murray arranged a screening of the 1968 film The Bofors Gun, a dark military drama set in West Germany following World War II. MURRAY AND JOHN CANDY HAD DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO BOND WITH THE PLATOON. The young actor was very happy with the salary. DIEHL WAS PAID $1500 A WEEK TO PLAY CRUISER. Hulka then grabbed it out of his hand and threw it to save their lives. A SCENE WITH CRUISER AND HULKA WAS CUT, TOO.Ĭruiser pulled a grenade pin and counted too slowly before losing count entirely. Reitman didn’t think it fit with the tone of the rest of the movie. John and Russell took LSD and went on a mission to fight rebels in the Colombian jungle. A NINE-MINUTE ACID TRIP SCENE WAS SHOT BUT CUT. He came up with “I wish I was a loofah.” After Reitman yelled “Cut!” he asked the actor what a loofah was. Reitman told Larroquette to improvise stuff to say while looking at naked women in the shower. LARROQUETTE AD LIBBED “I WISH I WAS A LOOFAH.” Ramis said that the third act was set in that country because Reitman’s family were Czech refugees. The Czechoslovakia scenes were filmed at the Jim Beam-owned Chapeze Distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. The character and actor were too well liked for that part of the script to not change. The fall from the high platform was meant to be fatal. After his tooth got chipped and he screamed at Reitman, he insisted that they could just shoot from the other side of his face and filming could continue before he was talked into seeing a dentist. Unbeknownst to Warren Oates, Reitman told the actors to grab Hulka and drag him into the mud in one of the obstacle course scenes. Larroquette permanently scarred his nose running into a door in the scene where he discovers that the EM-50 has been stolen. Hulka) had a drunken evening beside the grave of late actor Strother Martin. Even after filming moved to Los Angeles, Murray and Warren Oates (Sgt. Stillman) later admitted that he was drunk in the scene when he dressed down the company after they watched and participated in mud wrestling. MOST OF THE CAST WAS DRUNK FOR TWO WEEKS FOLLOWING JOHN LENNON’S DEATH.
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ARMY RECRUITMENT NUMBERS WENT UP AFTER THE MOVIE WAS RELEASED.īy about 10 percent. He reasoned with himself that if guns were used to save your friends, it was okay. MURRAY WAS UNEASY ABOUT MAKING A MOVIE WHERE HE CARRIED A MACHINE GUN. So they gave the crew a ton of access, including allowing Ivan Reitman and company to shoot in Fort Knox and letting real troops play extras. SOLES DID BOOT CAMP FOR THREE DAYS.īoth John Winger and Stella initially planned to wake up at 0500 and jog with real soldiers for two weeks. Bill Murray stepped in and insisted that he only wanted to work with Ramis. Soles’s husband at the time) read for his part. With the knowledge that the studio didn’t want him, and more comfortable with writing at that point than with acting, Ramis was reluctant to play Russell. HAROLD RAMIS AND COLUMBIA PICTURES DID NOT WANT HAROLD RAMIS IN THE MOVIE. Here are 17 things you might not have known about the 1981 hit. It was also the first shot in the spotlight for Sean Young, John Larroquette, Judge Reinhold, Timothy Busfield, and “Hey! It’s that guy!” actor John Diehl. But it turned into a modern comedy classic featuring an embarrassment of acting riches with a cast that included Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, John Candy, and P.J. Stripes was originally pitched by director Ivan Reitman as a Cheech and Chong Army movie.
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