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The scene where Tango (Sylvester Stallone) faces an oncoming truck with nothing but a gun was borrowed from Police Story, where Jackie Chan (a good friend of Stallone's) performed the stunt.
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When Tango and Cash escape from the prison, Cash turns to Tango and asks if he stopped "for coffee and a Danish." Tango (Sylvester Stallone) says, "I hate Danish," an in-joke referring to his recent divorce from Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen.
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Barry Sonnenfeld was the film's original director of photography but was fired by Sylvester Stallone who felt he wasn't being lit to satisfaction. Donald E. Thorin was Sonnenfeld's replacement.
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One of several films to be turned over to editor Stuart Baird, who came onto the project as an editing "doctor" when Warner where displeased with the first cut turned in by the filmmakers.
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When Brion James was originally hired to play Requin, it was a very small role with only two lines. In an effort to give the character something that would make him stand out, James decided to speak in a cockney accent. Sylvester Stallone loved it, and rewrote the script to give Requin a much bigger role.
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The climatic battle in the quarry was shot in a real quarry east of downtown LA, in Irwindale. Every shot in the sequence was shot with a minimum of 11 cameras, as some of the setups were so dangerous, the stunt team were only allowed to do it once.
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During the scene where the back of the SUV catches on fire, when filming was over, the fire wouldn't go out, and actors Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone were caught in a cross draft. Stallone was so close to the fire that his hair was singed in places.
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The production was beset with problems from its very inception. Firstly, the intended star, Patrick Swayze dropped out, then principal photography began without a completed script. As mentioned above, Sylvester Stallone had the original director of photography, Barry Sonnenfeld fired. Then, the director, Andrey Konchalovskiy was fired by producer Jon Peters. The film ultimately went over $20 million over-budget, and had to be completely reedited by Stuart Baird prior to its release.
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Director Andrey Konchalovskiy was replaced towards the end of principal photography by Albert Magnoli. In his book of memoirs, Konchalovsky says that the reason he was fired was because he wanted to give the film a more serious tone than the producers wanted, and as such, his relationship with producer Jon Peters became untenable. Konchalovsky however has nothing but praise for Sylvester Stallone, who he states was a constant voice of reason on the set.
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Gary Chang provided additional music to the film because Harold Faltermeyer could not return to re-score the final reel of the film as it was constantly being edited.
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After Stuart Baird was brought in as an editing doctor by Warner, it was he who hired Hubert de La Bouillerie to edit the film and Harold Faltermeyer and Gary Chang to compose the music. In Chang's case it was additional music.
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The glasses worn by Sylvester Stallone for the early parts of the film are his own and not just a fake prop (he usually wears contact lenses in his films). If you look closely, the glasses indicates he's quite near-sighted on one eye but not so on the other.
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