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Trivia: Richard Linklater's 1990 film Slacker was Kevin Smith's inspiration for this film.

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Trivia: Samuel L. Jackson believes Mace Windu is still alive.

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Trivia: Samuel L. Jackson wanted to be in this movie so much that he told George Lucas he would even play a Stormtrooper.

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Trivia: While appearing on a talk show in London, Samuel L. Jackson was asked if there were any directors he's never worked with, but would like to. Knowing George Lucas was on the verge of making this film, he said he'd like to be in a Star Wars film. Jackson was later in Vallejo, CA, working on Sphere, which was shooting down the street from Skywalker Ranch. He received a message that Lucas heard he was interested in being in this film and invited him to come to the ranch to discuss it.

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Trivia: Samuel L. Jackson auditioned for a role in this film. He attended the film's Sundance screening and ran into Quentin Tarantino, who remembered him. Tarantino told him he was writing a new film, which would end up being Pulp Fiction, and sent Jackson the script in the mail a couple of weeks later, with a note for him to not show it to anyone else.

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Trivia: In an interview with GQ, Samuel L. Jackson revealed that the scene where Nick Fury is trying to elude the HYDRA forces is his favourite moment for the character in the entire MCU.

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Trivia: Mitch Hennessy died in the original cut of the film, but the biggest feedback provided by test audiences was that the character should live.

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Trivia: In an interview with GQ, Samuel L. Jackson said he was unable to secure an audition for this film because the studio told him the character was supposed to be white. He secured the part after running into Geena Davis and director Renny Harlin at a Christmas party. Jackson told Harlin that the studio wouldn't let him have the part, and Harlin cast him on the spot.

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Trivia: According to Thomas Jane, the studio held a sneak screening of this film in New York before its premiere, and when Samuel L. Jackson is eaten by a shark in the middle of giving a motivational speech, the movie was inaudible for the next few minutes because the audience was losing their minds. The reaction prompted studio execs to try to put more money into the film's advertising, but by that time, it was too late.

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Trivia: The beginning of this series sees a young mutant serving as a proxy for the audience, where they discover their mutant powers, try to elude sinister forces that are after them, and meet and later join the X-Men along the way. Showrunner Larry Houston claims director Bryan Singer borrowed this idea for the first X-Men film, substituting Rogue for Jubilee.

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Sixteen Candles and Four-Hundred-Pound Men - S4-E9

Trivia: One of the plot points of this episode sees Vader challenging Jake "The Snake" Roberts for the WWF Championship. Interestingly, in real life, neither Vader nor Roberts ever won any kind of championship during their respective WWF tenures.

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A Rogue's Tale - S2-E9

Trivia: Rogue's voice actress Lenore Zann titled her memoir after this episode.

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Remember It - S1-E5

Trivia: Lenore Zann's vocal performance for this episode was inspired by a family member who passed away from bone cancer at the age of 17.

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Trivia: In this film, Dennis Quaid plays a sleazy entertainment executive named Harvey. This is likely a reference to film producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein.

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Trivia: Ciara and Paddy are mentioned as having been together for 17 years. If we grant that the characters are the same age as the actors portraying them, that would have made her around 13 or 14 when they first got together, which would suggest that she was the child of one of Paddy's earlier victims and would give credence to her defensive plea to Louise late in the film that she was a victim just like the protagonists.

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Trivia: Christian Tafdrup, the director of the original Danish film, criticized the ending of this film for its opposite approach to its counterpart.

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Tape 7, Side A - S1-E13

Trivia: This episode originally featured a scene depicting Hannah's graphic suicide. Netflix removed the scene following complaints from viewers.

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Trivia: The vulgar reference to Pinocchio that Deadpool makes regarding Disney getting cheap is a substitute for a similarly vulgar line referencing Mickey Mouse that Disney CEO Bob Iger asked Ryan Reynolds to remove from the film.

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Seekest Thou the Road - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Agatha is talking to Herbert at the police line, the position of her arms varies over several shots.

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Trivia: Robert Downey Jr. did not find making this film to be an enjoyable experience, and has referred to it as "possibly the worst action movie of all time."

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