Hopefully I'm in time for Liamenator...
Team NC-17 selects, under
BLACK AND WHITE...
It may not be the most asthetic movie... it actually was funnier the 2nd time I watched it... but it launched a career, and is a cult classic...
- Financed largely by credit cards and money borrowed from family and friends.
- Filmed at the same store in which director
Kevin Smith was working at the time. As he was only allowed to film outside of business hours, and because bright enough lights couldn't be afforded, the plot included an explanation for the shutters being always down.
- The cost of obtaining the rights to the soundtrack (approx. US$27,000) outweighed the entire production costs for this film (approx. US$26,800) - a first in motion picture history.
- Randall and the Happy Scrappy Hero Pup lady are not actually in the room at the same time.
Jeff Anderson refused to read the list of porno movies in front of her, and particularly in front of the child (although the reaction shots of the Happy Scrappy Hero Pup lady were obtained by reading the list to her).
- Clerks was filmed using a 16mm Arri SR-2 camera and used Kodak Plus-X film.
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Jason Mewes was left off the cover and poster because executives believed him to be too odd-looking for advertising.
- Despite having almost no violence in the film (with the exception of the fight between Dante and Randal), it was originally given an NC-17 rating by the MPAA based solely on its graphic dialogue. The film's distributor Miramax hired attorney
Alan M. Dershowitz (of the
O.J. Simpson defense team) who successfully petitioned the MPAA to lower its rating to R without any cuts.
- Dante wears a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey during the hockey game, playing against opponents wearing New Jersey Devils jerseys. Randal wears a USSR (CCCP) jersey during the game, but wears a New Jersey Devils hat.
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Kevin Smith originally cast himself as Randal which is why Randal gets some of the best lines.
- The original cut of the film ended with Dante getting shot in a robbery. This was cut out of the release version, but can be seen on the supplementary section of the Laserdisc and DVD.
- The movie was named as one of "The 20 Most Overrated Movies Of All Time" by Premiere.
- The F word and its derivatives are said 91 times throughout the film, mostly between Dante and Jay.
NHL playoffs derailed me and I never got back going. I'll rectify that soon, I have well over 100 more DVDs since then.
