Factual error: At the diner scene at the Gimli Slider, there's an ashtray with a lit cigarette on the table. Manitoba has had a smoking ban in all enclosed public spaces for over a decade.
Tusk (2014)
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Starring: Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, Michael Parks
Factual error: In the background, outside the Gimli Slider diner, you can see mountains. Gimli, MB is flat, and on the shores of Lake Winnipeg.
Trivia: The profuse drooling that Wallace suffers once he has been "transformed" into the walrus could not be helped - actor Justin Long was constantly drooling due to the heavy prosthetic makeup, and the fact he had to hold his tongue back to simulate the fact that his character's tongue had been cut out.
Trivia: During the flashbacks of Howe stranded on the island, in one brief shot we see the carcass of the dead "Mr. Tusk" after he has killed it - the deceased walrus's body wasn't originally planned to be on-camera, and was constructed by the prop and makeup crew in less than an hour using bits of fabric, pieces of filming equipment and any other odds and ends they could find lying about on or near set.
Trivia: Director Kevin Smith originally wanted Quentin Tarantino to portray the character Guy, though Tarantino had to turn it down. Smith then asked famed actor Johnny Depp to take the role, as he had recently become friends with Depp. Depp immediately accepted, finding the role and the entire script intriguing and amusing. Depp's daughter Lily-Rose also appears in the film (alongside Smith's own daughter) as one of the two clerks at the "Eh-to-Zed" convenience store.
Howard Howe: Your life as you knew it is over, Mr. Bryton. So if you wish to continue living, you will be a walrus, or you'll be nothing at all.
Howard Howe: We survive at all costs. Only to butcher again. And again. Until we ourselves are at last butchered in turn.
Howard Howe: To solve a riddle older than the Sphinx. To answer the question which has plagued us since we first crawled from this Earth and stood erect in the sun. Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?
Question: How did Wallace manage to survive in the walrus suit? Like how does he poop and pee? Wouldn't he get sick from eating only raw fish? So many questions.
Question: After Wallace was found as a walrus, why couldn't his friends get him to a hospital to surgically make him human again?
Answer: There's no clear answer but after defeating and killing Howe, Wallace seemed resigned to his fate that he was now living as a walrus and may have refused corrective surgery. It wasn't until the end when Ally said that she still loved him that his humanity began to resurface.
I agree with this, and I also think it wouldn't be worth correcting. He would still not look human.
Answer: They left him as a walrus because Kevin Smith wanted to leave the possibility for a sequel; which is slated for 2024 as "Tusks."
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Answer: He couldn't possibly function or survive living that way. The movie's entire premise was utterly ridiculous.
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