Revealing mistake: When Kit Ramsey shoots at the drums set, you can see the explosive charges on the cymbals.
Bowfinger (1999)
1 revealing mistake
Directed by: Frank Oz
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Martin, Heather Graham, Terence Stamp, Jamie Kennedy, Christine Baranski
Genres: Comedy
Factual error: Daisy is an out of work jobbing actress but she has a credit card that will take the cost of developing and printing the stock used to shoot a feature film in 35mm! Since they are watching colour rushes with synchronised sound on film (not cheaper video) they are not doing this on the cheap, either. Minimum cost, for a 90 minute feature, allowing four takes of each shot (which we see them do) - £41,000.00 or around US$85,000.00. That's some credit card. Anyone got the name of the issuing company?
Kit's Agent: This is a great script! Look, it's not Shakespeare, but it.
Kit: Hey, what did you just say?
Agent: I said, 'it's not Shakespeare'.
Kit: 'It's not Shake... ', 'It's not Shake... ' (to Freddy) Do you hear what he's doing?
Freddy: I know he's doing something, I just can't put my finger on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah... What's he doing?
Kit: Shakespeare, Freddy, Shakespeare.
Freddy: Shakespeare?
Kit: Shake a spear! Spearchucker! I'm a spearchucker now.
Trivia: During Daisy's topless scene, Jiff Ramsey says to Daisy, "You're doing great! You're gonna be a star." Eddie Murphy ad-libbed this line.
Answer: It's done with CGI. Such freeway scenes are impossible to do with stunt drivers as you would need very complicated choreography to make it look believable.
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