Napoleon Dynamite Facts

[komodo]

* The name "Napoleon Dynamite" is a pseudonym used by Elvis Costello for his 1986 album, "Blood and Chocolate". Executive producer Jeremy Coon has stated that the similarity is a coincidence and that the producers were unaware of Costello's usage of the name until the film was in production.

* Every dish shown during the opening credits is eaten by a character later in the movie. The dishes presented in the opening credits were the work of the three people who present them.

* Due to the film's surprise success at festivals and at the major city box offices, Fox Searchlight is going to re-release the film with nationwide distribution and add a 5 minute epilogue at the end of the film. This epilogue, which was filmed after the initial theatrical run, apparently features a surprise "wedding scene". And cost about half of what the entire feature cost to make.

* Jon Gries (Uncle Rico) was asked to do many scenes in which he was eating steak. Gries, who is a vegetarian, would chew the steak and later spit it out. In fact, there is one scene, in which you can see Gries spitting the chewed meat into his hand.

* In the second cafeteria scene, when Napolean and Pedro discuss prospective dance dates, Napolean is wearing a Ricks College t-shirt. Ricks College was a junior college in Idaho that maintained close association with Brigham Young University up until 2000, when Ricks was formally named an official satellite of BYU, henceforth BYU-Idaho. Jared and Jerusha Hess, the film's co-writers, both attended BYU.

* Features one of the longest credited cast lists in movie history; all 181 student extras' names are listed in the closing credits.

* The movie was edited in producer Jeremy Coon's apartment using a $6,000 Macintosh with Final Cut Pro.

* Behind-the-scenes at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Fox Searchlight engaged in a bidding war with Warner Independent Pictures over the distribution rights to this movie, until Fox Searchlight put in a last-minute bid of over $3 million, and won. They would later join forces with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films to distribute the film, a mere 17 days before its release.

* Jon Heder was paid $1,000 to play Napoleon Dynamite. The movie grossed over $40,000,000 in the United States.

* Jon Heder drew all of the "drawings" in the movie except the unicorn.

* The "liger" is a real animal, created when a male lion mates with a female tiger.

* For Napolean's dance routine, director Jared Hess had Jon Heder improvise and dance to three different songs. Hess then took the "best" moves from each song and put them in one routine, using one song.

* The scene where Uncle Rico hits Napoleon in the face took four takes.

* Shot in 22 days.

* Jon Heder's big dance scene was the last scene scheduled and they ran out of film while shooting it. The sequence was edited together from less than 10 minutes of him dancing.

* The scene of the farmer shooting the cow in front of the school bus full of children is a true anecdote from the director's childhood.

* Jon Heder helped to make the boondoggle keychains between scenes.

* Jon Heder credits Tina Majorino (Deb) with helping to choreograph the dance scene. He also states that some of the dance moves were "borrowed" from Michael Jackson, Backstreet Boys, John Travolta, Soul Train, as well as some of his own moves.

* Idaho has unanimously passed a bill praising Jared and Jerusha Hess for making the film, citing amongst their reasons that the Preston High School administration and staff, particularly the cafeteria staff, have enjoyed notoriety and worldwide attention. Tater tots figuring prominently in this film has promoted Idaho's most famous export.

* 'Aaron Ruell ' (Kip) had braces put on his teeth for this role (two dentists are thanked in the credits).

[xsperf]

heres another fact:

*the move sucked

dunno, i still havent met anyone that actually LIKED it

[jrhaile]

by far, one of my fav movies of all time...

[guywithblack88e30]

MOVIE IS HILAROUS!!!!!!!!!! check this some liger info

Tigers and cave lions in the wild in North America

By Der Voron, author of book Starcraft

Tigers are nice and attractive animals, and it could be possible to introduce them in the wild of North America. I believe there wouldn’t be problems with this:

First, tigers, as scientific explorations showed, are originally from the North, and the cold continental climate is their natural habitat. The tigers that live in South Manchuria (in China), Bengal (India), Sumatra, etc) migrated there from the North Eurasia. The original tiger type is represented in Siberian tiger subspecies, with its warm coat and ability to live in the Siberian continental climate. Thus, introducing wild Siberian tigers into the Northern United States and Canada could be possible. Bengal and other south subspecies could perhaps be introduced into some Southern United States and the South America.

Second, as for the danger that they may present: Tigers are not stronger than grizzlies, nor more agressive, and therefore will not present a danger bigger than do grizzlies, to forest and national parks visitors.

Also it could be possible to introduce the cave lion. We are well-aware that this animal is a species that became extinct in the North America about 10,000 years ago. The cave lion was about 1/3 bigger than the modern lion so it could be possible to replace it with the liger, the modern world's biggest cat, which is the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger, named after the combination of their names: li(on)+(ti)ger. It is bigger and stronger than either of it’s parents, has the length of up to 14-15 feet, with the tail, the weight of 1,000-1,100 and up to 1,400 pounds –- especially males. For comparison, a male Amur tiger, the largest naturally occurring wild cat, weighs on average between 400 and 600 pounds, with the maximum weight recorded about 900 pounds. Nonetheless, the liger is able to reach the same speed as it’s parents: up to 50 miles per hour at short distances, and it walks as silently as they do.

Ligers might be the biggest cats that ever existed. Encyclopaedic data for fossil cats—saber-toothed Smilodon, including the biggest of Smilodons, Smilodon populator; Homotherium, Dinofelis, Metailurus, Megantereon, Machairodont, others, and their ancestor Pseudaelurus—show that these cats were not as big as ligers. Thus, the liger could be called the cave lion of our days.

Ligers roar like lions and chuff like tigers, but not always: some ligers can only roar. Some of male ligers have leonine manes, which are more modest than those of the lions

Liger pics

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[Hoppy]

fact.

* that movie sucked.

[beem]

you people are on crack.. that movie was hilarious.. its a classic

[528man]

great movieovie awesome facts

[B3M2W5i]

those facts are from the directors commentary i know cuz i watched it

[spiff]

i loved it, its a very good movie to watch for those who are into film and making movies.

whats good about it, is, there are very few angles for most scenes, and each scene and angle shot is pretty long in terms of movement, and it still keeps you watching, which shows its a good movie, because most movies you'd get bored just watching from that same angle.

-dan

ps.s.

movie owned.

[SHAHAB323IS]

Originally Posted by spiff

i loved it, its a very good movie to watch for those who are into film and making movies.

whats good about it, is, there are very few angles for most scenes, and each scene and angle shot is pretty long in terms of movement, and it still keeps you watching, which shows its a good movie, because most movies you'd get bored just watching from that same angle.

-dan

ps.s.

movie owned.

agreed

[jrhaile]

"I guess I will!"

[///Milk]

that movie sucked ass...and i only saw the 1st 10-15 mins of it

[pimpin328is]

how can you say the movie sucked ass when you only saw the first 10-15 mins? you have to watch the whole thing before you can decide whether you liked it or not.

Movie was funny, but not one of my all time favs

[Spieluhr]

its one of those movies you can watch a few times and then you need to lock it up for a year or so. It was a good movie, but definately not one of the best movies of all time. it will be remembered however due to the large publicity of the film, everyone running around screaming "frickin idiot" and other catch phrases are what this movie will be remembered by.

[donald1476]

pretty funny at first, until every person that thought they were hilarious quoted it every 5 min. Everyone would chuckle, and i died a little inside..