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So, this movie is scheduled for a remake. I imagine they will change the setting, as the original was set in the distant future of 2019. In this future, it is said in the movie's promotional material, America's finest people don't run for president. They run for their lives.

It's not a documentary, although some of its "reality tv" predictions did come true (if you paint with a broad enough brush).

The rights to the story on which this movie was based were purchased by someone who didn't know who the author was. 

Appropriately, the name of the movie was the nickname of a political campaign tour bus in the early aughts (a little over 20 years ago).

The villain was played by a man remembered less as an actor than by the profession he parodies in this movie.

With a non-literal wink and a nod, the main character utters a line made famous by the actor who plays him in another movie/franchise entirely.

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Makes sense.  The author was "Richard Bachman."  Richard Bachman was a pen name for STEPHEN KING.  He wrote under a pen name to see if his books only sold because they had his name attached to them.  (Bachman's books became successful enough a reporter started looking into Bachman, and found SK's signature on something....  When re-released as SK books, those books sold a lot better.  So, with a nobody's name on them, they sold well.  With SK's name, they sold even better.)

 

Fun movie. Props for Dweezil Zappa's line- "Don't touch that dial." 

 

"WHAT'S THE GREATEST TELEVISION SHOW IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD?" "THE RUNNING MAN!!!" "WHO LOVES YOU AND WHO DO YOU LOVE?" "KILLIAN!!!" "IT'S SHOWTIME!!!"

(No, not a round, I just like those lines.)

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Vincent Price's role was intended to be larger, but the veteran actor was very ill with emphysema and Parkinson's disease, so his scenes were cut to a minimum. This was his last cinema film role.

The title character says only 169 words in the 105-minute film.

George

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20 hours ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

Vincent Price's role was intended to be larger, but the veteran actor was very ill with emphysema and Parkinson's disease, so his scenes were cut to a minimum. This was his last cinema film role.

The title character says only 169 words in the 105-minute film.

George

A little accidental humor??

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Among the actors in this movie....Steven Williams (Captain Fuller from 21 Jump Street), Steve Lawrence, Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman), Henry Gibson.  Charles Napier (space hippie from ST TOS),  Twiggy.

 

This film needed to get certification from the FAA to confirm that one of their props was NOT airworthy.  They had to confirm it wouldn't get picked up by the wind, and instead would drop like a stone.

 

In one scene, the actors did their own stunt, and fell down a flight of stairs. It looks real because it is real. However, one actor, I'm sure, regretted it afterwards.  He was injured and had to use a back brace for the rest of the filming.

 

The director had a part for his mother in the film.  Her moment onscreen was cut, so she never appeared in the film that was released.  If you read the closing credits, she's actually listed as "woman on the cutting-room floor."

 

There's a running gag about broken watches in the film. 3 different watches are said to have been broken in the dialogue. "They broke my watch."  (Repeated line.)

 

This movie became a box office hit because it was a hit overseas when it was released. It wasn't one in the US when it was released because many theaters in the South refused to air the movie.

 

Among the extras for the next-to-last scene were 15 horses, and 3 Sherman tanks. Most people wouldn't remember them despite being on camera.

 

If you still can't figure this one out, I'll 'See You Next Wednesday.'

 

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