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Trivia: Years after the film's release, Zelda Rubinstein went on record that, at least for the six days that she was on set, it was Steven Spielberg who performed all directing duties, possibly because in her observation the credited director, Tobe Hooper, was hampered by an obvious drug problem.

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Trivia: Laurie's final line is often misquoted as "Was that the boogeyman?" Even the subtitles in some video releases have mistakenly transcribed it that way. The line is actually "It was the boogeyman."

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Trivia: Richard Lawson, who played the paranormal researcher Ryan, would later go on to wed Tina Knowles, Beyonce's mother.

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Trivia: This is the only film in which Jason arguably ends up as a "good guy." He's depicted much more benignly than usual (even "aggressive" fan-favorite Kane Hodder lost the role this time), with repeated emphasis that he is an innocent with the mind of a child only trying to please the memory of his psychotic mother. Even his murders in this film are merely him doing the manipulative Freddy's bidding. When the childlike Jason turns on the child-killer Freddy, it's a shockingly poetic justice.

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Trivia: In order to attract investors, the producers bought an ad in the industry publication 'Variety' that simply displayed the title along with the text "The scariest movie ever made!" They were bluffing, of course, as they didn't have a script or even fully decided on the story concept at that point in time.

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Trivia: Danielle Harris refused to reprise her role as Jamie Lloyd as, among other things, she found the amount they were willing to pay her was insulting.

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Trivia: As Michael Myers' mask in the original film had been made from a Captain Kirk costume mask, it seems fitting (even if almost certainly coincidental) that in this film Myers resembles Commander Data, the popular character from 'Star Trek: The Next Generation,' which was running on television at the time.

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Trivia: Early posters bore the tagline "There Is No Comparison," which many interpreted as referring to Star Wars. Later advertising carried the slogan, "The Human Adventure is Just Beginning."

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Trivia: Saavik was originally written to be a male character, which would explain why her name begins with 'S' when traditionally female Vulcan names start with 'T'.

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Trivia: Every shot of the Enterprise that doesn't also contain another element exclusive to this film (such as the Reliant, Space Station Regula I, the Mutara Nebula, et al.) is stock footage from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Yes, all of them. Every last one! If it's a solitary shot of the Enterprise floating through space, it's re-used footage.

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Trivia: Jamie Lee Curtis had to wear a wig in order to match her look from the original Halloween; by then she had cut her hair much shorter.

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Trivia: It's been noted that the villain Khan represents the book 'Moby Dick'. In addition, the heroes of the film represent 'A Tale of Two Cities', the Charles Dickens tome Spock gives to Kirk as a gift. Like the character Sydney Carton, Spock makes a noble sacrifice, and at the end Kirk quotes, "It is a far, far better thing I do now..." Star Trek II is essentially "Moby Dick Vs. A Tale of Two Cities (in Space!) "

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Trivia: Broke the record for highest grossing opening weekend at the time, earning $14 million in three days.

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Trivia: James Horner would later use the melody of the main theme from this movie as an action motif in 'Aliens'. His villainous music for 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' is also quite similar.

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Trivia: Laura Dern and Justin Theroux both admit they have no idea what this movie is about despite being its stars.

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Trivia: The music played while Alice is floating on a canoe and over the end credits is the same melody as the country song that can be heard over the radio in the two diner scenes ("Sail Away Tiny Sparrow"). It's just much slower.

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Character mistake: There's no apparent reason for Spock's conviction that the gravity boots are a damning piece of evidence that will reveal the assassins, especially considering how useless they prove to be after being found planted in an innocent man's locker.

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Trivia: Broke the record for highest grossing opening weekend at the time, earning nearly $12 million in three days.

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Trivia: Early script drafts featured Khan gaining psychic powers with the ability to create illusions in the minds of others. One draft even replaced Khan entirely with an original villain who better suited such fantastical mental powers. By the time Nicholas Meyer wrote the shooting script, Khan was reinstated as the villain and the psychic angle was dropped.

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Trivia: Although credited to Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, most of the script was actually written by George Lucas himself. He felt Brackett's draft got the tone and feel of the movie all wrong, and he rewrote the second draft from scratch. Kasdan's main contribution was to redo all the dialogue (admittedly a crucial element especially since Lucas is famously bad with dialogue), but otherwise nearly the entire screenplay was Lucas' work.

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