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The Last Boy Scout (1991) More at IMDbPro »

• Shane Black became the first writer to sell a script for $1 million.
  
  
• The gun Joe takes from the alley pimp is a Desert Eagle .357 Magnum.
  
  
• Joe's tan car is a 1971 Buick "Boat tail" Riviera.
  
  
• In the original script, the entire third act was set on water. Also, Hallenbeck's grudge with senator Baynard was completely different from the movie. In the script, Hallenbeck was working security for the Baynard family when Louis Baynard, President Baynard's son, kills a mother and her child in a drunken car accident. When Hallenbeck refuses to cover for the president's son, they plant half a kilo of crack cocaine in his house. Louis Baynard was also a villain in the script, and in the end both he and his father die.
  
  
• The word "fuck" is used 102 times.
  
  
• Number of times a character is struck by another character: 31 (nine being applied to Joe Hallenbeck).
  
  
• The card Jimmy Dix signs for Joe's daughter is a Pro Set Superbowl Super Heroes card. That set, which was produced by the only card company ever fully endorsed by the NFL, was made only in 1991 and featured stars of the NFL's biggest game.
  
  
• The conversation between Joe and Jimmy about the $650 pants was taken from a deleted scene in Lethal Weapon (1987). Murtaugh's daughter is wearing an expensive dress for a New Year's Eve party, and he asks "It doesn't have a little TV in it?" She says no, and Murtaugh mutters "I am very old."
  
  
• The movie that Darian is watching on TV is Lethal Weapon (1987), which was also written by Shane Black. More specifically, Darian is watching the scene in which Mel Gibson is being tortured by Al Leong. Leong was also one of the terrorists in Die Hard (1988), starring Bruce Willis.
  
  
• Joe (Bruce Willis) mentions "reindeer goat cheese pizza", which Willis also mentioned in Hudson Hawk (1991).
  
  
• Composer Michael Kamen hated the film when he first saw it. The only reason he provided the score was out of his personal friendships with Bruce Willis and producer Joel Silver.
  
  
• In a "New Yorker" profile, Joel Silver said the making of this film was "one of the three worst experiences of my life."
  
  
• In both Shane Black scripts for The Last Boy Scout (1991) and The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), the hero mentions sarcastically that someone is so funny he's going to wet himself.
  
  
• According to Time Magazine, screenwriter Shane Black was originally offered US$2.25 million for the script by Carolco Pictures but decided to go with Warner Bros. for the lower bid of US$1.75 million so that he could work with his Lethal Weapon producer Joel Silver.
  
  

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