Heathers

Trivia: At one point, Heather Chandler asks Heather Duke, "Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?" Ironically and tragically in real life, actress Kim Walker (Heather Chandler) died of a brain tumor in 2001.

Trivia: Veronica Sawyer and Betty Finn's names are a combination of the girls from the 'Archie' comic books, and Mark Twain's characters Tom and Huckleberry.

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Trivia: The high school (Westerburg High) is named for Winona's favorite rock singer at that time, Paul Westerburg, of The Replacements.

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Trivia: The writer Daniel Waters thought of a few different endings for this movie. In one version, JD would successfully bomb the school, and the students would be shown at a prom in the afterlife. In another ending, Martha (A.K.A. "Dump Truck") would decide that Veronica was just another Heather, and kill Veronica.

Trivia: Daniel Waters (writer) came up with a possible sequel in which Veronica now lives in Washington DC, working for a senator who is an adult Heather. Meryl Streep would play the senator. However, Waters has always been against making a sequel, and only pitched this idea to Winona Ryder for fun. Ryder has talked about a sequel multiple times.

Trivia: While praying at Heather Chandler's memorial service, Peter Dawson hopes that "this never happens to me", because he doesn't think he could handle suicide. The actor, Jeremy Applegate, committed suicide in 2000.

Revealing mistake: When they show Heather Chandler in her casket in the funeral scene and everyone is praying, she's clearly breathing.

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Kurt Kelly: It'd be so righteous to be in a Veronica Sawyer/Heather Chandler sandwich. Punch it in, Ram.
Ram Sweeney: Oh, hell yes. I wanna set a Heather on my Johnson and just start spinnin' her around like a goddamn pinwheel.

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Question: Why did JD expect anyone to believe his plan for the bomb at school - that all of the students signed a mass suicide note? Nobody would think that so many people, with different personalities and interests, agreed to die together. He later tells Veronica, "Pretend I did blow up the school, all the schools" - implying that he wanted to do this again. He might be crazy, but he was careful in how he executed the murders of Heather, Kurt, and Ram. Why the ridiculous bomb plan?

Answer: He doesn't care if anyone believes it or not; he is trying to make a statement about society and that no matter how we see ourselves in life, we are all the same when we're dead.

Answer: Not only is JD crazy, he is overconfident now. He and Veronica got away with the other murders. He thinks a fake mass suicide could be successful.

Answer: The students didn't know they were signing a "mass suicide" pact. They thought it was a petition to win a free concert from a popular band. JD covered the suicide wording on the paper with a sticker that made it look like a contest entry. He pulls off the sticker and reads the real message after he finds Veronica hanging in her room.

That was not the question. It's a question of why JD thinks anyone will believe the note, after all the students are dead. Has nothing to do with the students knowing what they were signing.

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