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Trivia: In the scene where the helicopters come in and they retrieve the President's briefcase containing a message, one of the people in the chopper points down and says "People down in the park. Can you see them?" That guy is the film's director, John Carpenter. (01:07:35)

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Trivia: In an attempt to have more futuristic stuff in the movie, the crew was brain storming ideas. One that Kurt Russell came up with was the idea of a self lighting cigarette. They tried a few times to get such a prop to work and look good on film, but all they managed to do was burn Kurt's fingers.

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Trivia: The girl Snake meets in the Chock full of Nuts place is Season Hubley. She was Kurt Russell's wife in real life during this time. They met during the filming of director John Carpenter's previous movie, "Elvis". In that, Kurt played Elvis and Season played Priscilla. (00:40:30)

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Trivia: The plane that was shown crashed in the movie was bought as a junked plane, but in one piece. The film crew cut the plane into sections, trucked it into the city during the night and set up for filming. People saw the 'wreckage' and the next day there were stories in the newspapers about a plane crash, referring to this plane, pictures and everything. And it had eye witness accounts of people saying they saw the plane crash. Total lies as it was trucked in in pieces. (00:30:30)

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Trivia: The production team soon realized during editing and early screenings that it was easy to lose track of where Snake was, or when. So in post production, they went back and did some additional shooting of just moments where Snake or someone would look at the time on his wrist clock to show where he was at. This also helped greatly to add to the suspense of the movie, allowing the audience to know how much time was passing and how much Snake had left. (00:22:15)

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Trivia: Kurt Russell kept the outfit he wore in Escape from New York. The very first day of shooting Escape from L.A., he stepped out of his trailer in that very same outfit for shooting. He and producer Debra Hill looked at each other and began laughing. Debra Hill said it was like going into a time machine.

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Trivia: The bridge used in the movie was a bridge that was no longer used. The film crew bought the entire bridge from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers for just 1 dollar.

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Trivia: Only one shot of this entire movie was actually filmed in New York. That is the shot where they pan down, showing the Statue of Liberty and several guards walking around on it. In other parts where you see the city from afar it's actually a miniature, not the real thing. (00:06:15)

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Trivia: During the beginning of the movie, as the female voice starts telling about what has happened, there is a map showing the island of Manhattan and illustrates the prison. This part was added very late in production because producer Debra Hill realized that a lot of kids in early screenings did not know that the Manhattan was an island. (00:03:10)

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Trivia: If you can get to where you can see an enemy without him seeing you, and he is standing still, just sit and watch for a moment. The solders in this game can have some funny idle animations. The best is when they start swatting at the air for a moment like a bug is bothering them. Then they'll even point their gun around as if they're threatening to shoot the bug.

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Trivia: On the second Surface level, one of the buildings has some models on the tables. One is a motorcycle, and one is a chopper. They are obviously models, possibly remote control toys. Shoot either one even once and it will fall off the table and explode with very deadly force.

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Trivia: The blade that Gandalf presents to the high Elves and Saruman is the same blade that Frodo gets stabbed with in Fellowship of the Ring on Weathertop. Confirmed in the director's commentary. How the blade makes its way back to the witch-king hasn't been revealed.

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Trivia: Kurt Russell says that the character of Snake Plissken is his favorite role he's ever played.

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Trivia: This movie has approximately 1200 shots that are composed of CG animation. The director Gary Ross' previous movie, The Tale of Despereaux, was also composed of approximately 1200 CG animated shots. The Tale of Despereaux was a fully CG animated movie, yet the live action Hunger Games had just as many CG shots.

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Trivia: When Hydell makes "Hairdo" open up all the stasis chambers, a prisoner steps out of one and is disoriented from still being half frozen. He steps out and falls over the edge, and lets out a Wilhelm scream. (00:18:55)

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Trivia: The release date of this game in Japan, 1987-12-17, was used as Dr, Wily's Swiss Bank Account number in MegaMan 9. 19-871-217.

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Trivia: The promotional commercials in Japan for this game show Mega Man using the wrong weapons against the Master Bots. Like using Thunder Beam on Guts Man, who is weak to Hyper Bomb. Using Rolling Cutter against Fireman who is weak to Ice Slasher. And Fire Storm against Ice Man who is weak to Thunder Beam.

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Trivia: It is of popular belief that the stag music on ElecMan's level was inspired by the Journey song, "Faithfully" from their 1983 album called "Frontiers." The songs do indeed sound very similar, and are even played in the same key signature. However, nobody from Capcom USA or Japan has confirmed this to date. The song also has similarities to "All the Right Friends" by R.E.M.

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Trivia: The names Rock and Roll are a pun, named after the musical genre. In later games more are added, like Blues (ProtoMan) as well as Bass and Treble.

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Trivia: Rock, Roll and Dr. Right go unnamed throughout the whole game; they are only seen at the end. (Rock goes unnamed; NOT Rockman.) The Yellow Devil, the Copy Robot, and the seven CWU-01P(s) are also unnamed in the game, although the Copy Robot can just as well be referred to as MegaMan; it's an exact copy. Dr. Wily is the only part of his name given; there's no "Albert W." The weapons are not given names either. (M stands for Magnet, and P may stand for Power or Player.).

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