Trivia / Strange Days

Trivia related to the film:

• Acclaimed Flop: The film's budget was $42 million and it only received $8 million in box office totals. The film is nowadays looked upon more favorably. Director Kathryn Bigelow's rising profile has helped.
• The Cast Show Off: Juliette Lewis did all her own vocals for the film.
• Cast the Expert: Perhaps unsurprisingly, the two young women who take tips from Lenny about how to make a girl-on-girl SQUID clip were both adult film actresses.
• Creator Killer: Between this film and her Career Resurrection with The Hurt Locker fourteen years later, Kathryn Bigelow only directed two films. The first, The Weight of Water, was a French-American co-production that never saw a wide release in the US, and the other, K-19: The Widowmaker, was an abortive comeback attempt that proved to be another bomb.
• Fake American: British Ralph Fiennes as Lenny.
• Fake Brit: Canadian Michael Wincott as Philo.
• Playing Against Type: Ralph Fiennes is mostly known for playing suave, educated or authoritative characters. Here he plays a grungy, slimy 'drug'-dealing loser Lenny.
• Typecasting: On the other hand, Michael Wincott is playing the same seedy, Smug Snake villainous type once again, though it's used as a Red Herring to make him seem like the Big Bad.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Tom Cruise, Andy García, Mel Gibson, Dennis Quaid, Kurt Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Travolta and Denzel Washington were considered for Lenny.
  • Bono was considered for Philo Gant and was close to being cast until withdrawing before filming began due to his band's busy commitment on their side project Passengers' Original Soundtracks 1.
  • Lance Henriksen turned down the role of Max Peltier due to his refusal to play a rapist.

Trivia related to the album:

• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: It has been said that the text of "Horse Latitudes" was written by Morrison when he was a child. Ray Manzarek has contested this, claiming that the words are "too mature".

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