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Director David Koepp (who is credited as screenwriter for this movie) Didn't have the budget to shoot a cliff with water at the bottom for one of Johnny Depp's characters dream sequences, so he asked for Steven Spielberg's permission to use a clip of the footage from when the mobile vehicle is dangling over the side to substitute for what the dream sequence called for.
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Camera zoom on heroine's chignon (hairdo)
Police officer with sunglasses staring into side window of car
Jonnhy Depp uses the names John Wayne and Pilgrim in reference to Charles Dutton. Pilgrim is the name John Wayne used for James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Scene where Mort goes crazy with his house cracking apart is echoed in Roman Polanski's Repulsion, with Carol's descent into madness, this is shown with the cracking of the walls.
While Johnny Depp is looking to a mirror, you faintly hear him whisper, "When Sister Veronica found out about the windows she withdrew the school from the competition". This is a line from Rosemary Woodhouse's first dream in Rosemary's Baby.
Johnny Depp, taking a rock and breaking with it the glass of a car window in order to attack his ex-wife. (Just like the famous cemetery zombie scene. The camera angle and position is identical)
Mort sings part of the theme song to his dog, Chico.
Writer/director Koepp points out numerous references to the Polanski thriller in the audio commentary (all-though he refers to it by it's English title: The Tenant)
When Mort answers the phone before realizing the house has burned down, he asks "is that you John Wayne?" A reference to Mathew Modine's joke to the drill instructor in the opening scene of Full Metal Jacket.
Another filmed Stephen King story where a character looks into a mirror and sees the back of their own head.
When Mort covers the phone with Shooter's hat he also partially covers a book by Hunter S. Thompson. Depp portrayed Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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The poster for this title is featured multiple times in the game as posters and advertisements.
At the end of the movie when Mort Rainy (played by Johnny Depp), Mort sees himself standing in numerous places throughout the room and converses with himself just like Captain Jack does thorughout Pirates
Features
B-roll footage from Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997) was used for one of Mort's intense dreams.
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