Harold Ramis Videos : Stripes(1981) Movie Review 1/2

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Stripes(1981) Movie Review 1/2

Part one of my review of the comedy classic, Stripes(1981) starring Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, PJ Soles, Sean Young, John Larroquette, John Voldstad, Judge Reinhold, and Conrad Dunn. Directed by Ivan Reitman. Trivia # The character nicknamed "Psycho" is actually named "Francis". Francis is Norman Bates' middle name in Psycho (1960) # John Winger's habit of hiding his money when removing it from his pocket is lifted from Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush in A Day at the Races (1937). # Originally created and written as "Cheech and Chong Join the Army." # According to the DVD special features, the film was originally conceived as a vehicle for Cheech & Chong; Ivan Reitman has also stated that the reason this fell through was because their manager insisted (without the pair's knowledge) on a 25% share of Reitman's next five films, which he wasn't willing to give up. The script was then rewritten for Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, and most of the "stoner" humor was shifted to the "Elmo" character played by Judge Reinhold. # An Ivan Reitman prank to have some of the characters drag Warren Oates' character into the mud during the obstacle course scene, led to Oates chipping a tooth and Reitman getting a tongue lashing from Oates. # John Winger's use of the phrase "We are the wretched refuse" to describe how the platoon was made up of men from around the world is a reference to a poem, "The New Colossus", by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus. "The ...

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