MOVIE TRIVIA … CLUELESS

MOVIE TRIVIA …

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Alicia Silverstone did not know how to correctly pronounce "Haitians" in the classroom scene. Amy Heckerling told the crew not to correct her because she liked it so much and wanted it to be in the film.

Sarah Michelle Gellar was originally offered the role of Cher Horowitz, but had to turn it down do to scheduling conflicts with "All My Children"

During the game of "Suck and Blow" the cast was unable to sustain the breath to make a real credit card pass from mouth to mouth; a prop card made of cardboard was substituted that still did not work. Holes were drilled into it to make it easier, and when this failed also, the whole cast's lips were heavily coated in chapstick to force the card to stick.

When Christian first appears at the class, Cher has new hopes for high school boys. But as the shot pans from her gaze to him in the doorway, just over his left shoulder on the wall in the classroom is a cut out headline from the newspaper which reads On the Road to Nowhere.

The films that Christian watches on video with Cher - Some Like It Hot (1959) and Spartacus (1960) provide clues to his sexual orientation. The first movie deals with cross-dressing men. The second includes the famous scene where a Roman master (Laurence Olivier) tries to seduce his male servant (Tony Curtis). The book Christian is reading during class, Junky by William S. Burroughs is another clue and indication of his sexual orientation - as the author, Burroughs had strong homosexual desires.

The film was shot in 40 days.

Although Paul Rudd's character, Josh, is in college and is older than the other characters who are still in high school, Stacey Dash, who plays the best friend Dionne, is actually 3 years older than Paul Rudd.

Brittany Murphy's character Tai means faeces in Indonesia.