291 Twelve Monkeys (1995)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
291 Twelve Monkeys (1995)
- Director 'Terry Gilliam' (qv) first met 'Bruce Willis' (qv) while casting
his film "The Fisher King (1991)" (qv). He was impressed by the sensitivy
shown by Willis in the scene from "Die Hard (1992)" (qv) where McClane
(Willis) talks to his wife while pulling glass from his feet. Talking to
Willis, Gilliam discovered that this part was ad-libbed by Willis. Gilliam
remembered this, and was convinced to cast him in
"Twelve Monkeys (1996)" (qv).
- Willis said that this is only the second film where he decided to take
a role in a film after only one reading of the script. The other film was
"Pulp Fiction (1994)" (qv).
- Gilliam gave willis a list of ``Willis acting cliches'' not to be used
during the film, including the ``steely blue eyes look.''
- Features a fresnel (flat) lens, as did "Brazil (1985)" (qv), also directed
by Gilliam.
- Many 'Alfred Hitchcock' (qv) and "Vertigo (1958)" (qv) references:
- title sequences similar
- long clip from "Vertigo (1958)" (qv).
- Like 'Kim Novak' (qv) in "Vertigo (1958)" (qv), Dr. Railly's transformed to
a blonde, but the result doesn't look like Novak. Instead it's the
spitting image of 'Eva Marie Saint' (qv) in
"North by Northwest (1959)" (qv), another 'Alfred Hitchcock' (qv)
masterpiece.
- The theme from "Vertigo (1958)" (qv) can be heard when Dr. Railly leaves the
airport bathroom with a blonde wig (both trademarks of Hitchcock's).
- The insane asylum rec room is introduced by a shot of a TV showing a
cartoon of an animal bouncing off a mattress and doing flips. Near the
end, the whorehouse is introduced by a shot of kids in a vacant lot
doing the same thing.
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