Question: Does anyone know the story behind the "Creepy Thin Man?" Like why he likes to pull hair and smell it? Anything that helps me understand his character is appreciated.
Question: Does anyone know whether the African Prince in the opening sequence was actually Drew Barrymore herself in disguise, or whether it was an actor who was replaced by Drew in the revealing scene ("I think you mean crazy bitch"..."Damn I hate to fly" etc...) Thanks.
Question: At the start of the film Drew (disguised as an African Prince) drags a guy with a bomb strapped to his chest from an aircraft. What was the bomber hoping to achieve? If he was going to destroy the aircraft - why was he interested in diamonds if he was about to die? If he was selling the device to the African - why was it ticking? If he was negotiating to be paid to not destroy the aircraft - what was his plan for escaping after he deactivated the device?
Chosen answer: I suspect that like much in this movie, it was merely conceived to be an 'exciting' opening for the movie and logic played little part in its inclusion.
Question: In the scene when Lucy Liu is in the trailer and it gets shot up, she looks at her dessert, it goes flat, and then she says "Murphy O'Meyer. That does it." Who is Murphy O'Meyer?
Answer: Murphy O'Meyer is a phrase used instead of cursing (like when someone says "fudge" or "sugar" in place of swearing) Also the phrase was used in the TV show in the episode Three Angels for Charlie.
Question: I was just wondering if anyone knew the name of the song that Sam Rockwell does the snazzy little dance to near the end of the movie?
Answer: If it is the one I am thinking about, it is called Simon Says by Pharoahe Monch.
Question: In the old TV show do the girls ever meet Charlie or find out more information about him?
Chosen answer: in the last episode of the show Let Our Angel Live (6/24/81), Kelly is shot in the head and the other angles and Bosley go to the hospital. The Angels finally got a sneak peek at what Charlie really looks like when he shows up at the hospital to visit her.
Answer: They've never been face to face with Charlie. In S2 E1, Angels in Paradise, Sabrina caught a glimpse of him as he swimmed away, escaping from kidnappers. In S2 E11, Magic Fire, Kris was a magician's assistant. Charlie said, he handed her his pen, for a mind reading trick, but couldn't remember what he looked like. In the final episode, Kelly said, she thought she heard Charlie's voice after surgery but was under heavy medication. It was Bosley who recognized Charlie standing in the background in hospital scrubs.
Question: Just out of curiosity, what exactly went on between Bill Murray and Lucy Liu that they didn't get along?
Answer: Bill and Lucy were arguing over one of her lines, in part due to a misunderstanding, but it blew over - Bill Murray has said "I feel very warmly for her now." He stated that he didn't want to return for the sequel due to someone involved in both productions, but beyond it not being Lucy Liu, he's never clarified who.
Question: In the "Heidi" scene, when the girls are singing in German, what do they say?
Answer: In the German version of the movie, the text is a rather normal advertising song about the company, the Angels pretend to work for. In the US version however, the actresses' accents are so horrible, it is, besides some "typical German words", impossible to make out if their song has any meaning at all.
Question: When they introduce Dylan (where she smokes and has a cast... and looks almost like a man) in the "Once Upon a Time" starting segment, there is a part of a song that goes "I love rock and roll". A recent version is sung by Britney Spears, but who sings that version in the movie?
Answer: The original version was by The Arrows. Joan Jett's version was a cover. But yes, that's Joan's version.
Answer: It's the original version of *I Love Rock N' Roll*, by Joan Jett and The Blackhearts.
Question: Where did the creepy thin man go after the fight, when they find Knox?
Answer: Somewhere on the DVD they explain he jumped through a gap in the fan you see in that scene and ran off.
Question: Why is the director credited simply as "McG?"
Answer: Joseph McGinty Nichol is his real name. McG is most probably a nickname.
Question: Unless Dylan or a stewardess closed the plane's door, wouldn't passengers get sucked out as she and the would-be bomber parachuted out of it?
Answer: A plane's altitude is a factor. If flying low enough so that the cabin's internal air pressure is equal to the external air pressure, there would not be a huge suction; the danger would be passengers falling out the open door. At a higher altitude, the door being blown open or a hole in the fuselage would suck people out until the pressure equalized within a few minutes. (Those left inside would suffocate without oxygen masks.) It's impossible to open the door if the inner and outer air pressures are unequal. Think of skydivers jumping from planes. The altitude must be under 10,000 feet for divers not to pass out from low oxygen during the descent and be below the sub-freezing air temperatures. The whole scene is ridiculous; the bomb's shockwave would likely kill or seriously injure all three. Jumping from the plane that way could have sucked them into the jet's engine or hit the wing or tail resulting in death.
Answer: Yes, you're correct, they would. But once the door was opened, there was no reclosing it. The way I look at it is that this was just a pre-credit action set piece which had zero to do with the rest of the movie. Similar to the Bond movies, only excruciatingly dumb.
Answer: This character gets a backstory in the sequel (Charlie's Angels Full Throttle). Supposedly he was a runaway from a circus, who found refuge at an orphanage. He didn't much like haircuts when he was little.
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