July 03, 2004

Buckaroo Banzai

I'm a big fan of Buckaroo Banzai. It was a funky and fun movie from the 80s that all of my high school buddies and I rallied around. But I was left wondering how the movie ever got made. It was so odd.

Turns out that it was sold as an action film but during the filming the producers obviously saw that they had been duped and basically gave up on it. To make sure that was the case the director inserted a watermelon prominently in one scene that was never supposed to be there. The dailies went out and not a peep from the production company. So from then on they just did what they wanted to do.

Posted by jherr at July 3, 2004 11:41 PM
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