Talk:Planes, Trains and Automobiles/Archive 1
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Abbott and Costello
Comparing the characters to Abbott and Costello is not WP:NPOV and WP:OR, so I removed them. Chewbacca1010 20:08, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject class rating
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Correction
The character Neil Page uses the word 'fuck' 18 times in the famous scene, not 19 as mentioned in the article. The word is said 19 times but the final usage comes from the ticket agent (Edie McClurg). --Bentonia School 12:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
It also wasn't the word "fuck" that Neil uses, it was "fucking", Edie McClurg says "You're fucked"...... If any of that really even matters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fireman71 (talk • contribs) 20:11, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, I forgot to sign the last post. --Fireman71 (talk) 15:21, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Quotes
I recommend removing this quote. It seems to be obviously there for the sake of plastering "fuck" all over an article with legitimate purposes. It looks pretty pathetic to have a short summary and a big quote at the end (which really contributes nothing to the article). We should develop the article to look more like other movie articles. If there are no votes against removal, please remove it.--Will2k 17:26, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
- If does stay (which I don't think it should) it should be uncensored. Cosmos 23:28, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
I removed it. It was not necesary for that to be on there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.106.28.118 (talk • contribs) 02:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I found a youtube clip that counts 19 f*%ks in total, but it is 18 for Steve Martin and 1 for Edie McClurg (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-9g9lZSefI) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dresi (talk • contribs) 22:30, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
The moral to the story
As long as you are more patient enough, you will never know where your next friend will be. SolanaRanger (talk) 22:05, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
They were in Wisconsin when their car was impounded
Although the map shows that Neal and Del went from Missouri into Illinois and to Chicago; they did go to Wisconsin for a short time. This is where they met Wisconsin State Trooper Michael McKean who impounds their car and they have to ride in the back of a milk truck to get to Chicago. This can be proven by looking at the right side panel of the police car when he pulls out of his hiding place to chase Neal and Del. The right side panel of the police car clearly shows the state of Wisconsin. It was states at the IMDB that there was a scene that explained how they wound up in Wisconsin, but, obviously after the fire that almost destroyed their car, they got lost, and their maps were burnt up.204.80.61.110 (talk) 15:20, 30 November 2010 (UTC)Bennett Turk
Duration of trip
Was it two days, as stated in the intro paragraph, or three days, as given in the plot section? IIRC they have two nights, so might depend on your definition - could have been ~48 hours [2 days] or included time in a total of 3 days.137.222.114.238 (talk) 19:46, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
Lawyer
Who played him? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnny 42 (talk • contribs) 19:27, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Reception
The reception section is a mess, and is in need of a complete reorganization, improvement of the refs, and a more clear description of what specific critics said about the film. One assertion is that the film received critical applause, with a reference that says "the film never gets off the ground." This simply makes no sense. ---The Old JacobiteThe '45 21:09, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
- Indeed! Miles Creagh (talk) 21:12, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
- The business figures, both for earnings and budget, are very suspect too. I've replaced the claim that it "earned over 150,000,000" with the figure for its domestic gross. I seem to recall the budget was nearer to $30m than $15m, but I'll need to find a source for that. Miles Creagh (talk) 21:20, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
House
Is the house Steve Martin and his family live in, the same one used for Home Alone? It looks like it. 72.86.42.38 (talk) 02:57, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Unsourced material
Below information was tagged for needing sources long-term. Feel free to reinsert with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 18:57, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Production
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==Production==
In a 1987 interview, John Hughes said that the movie was inspired by an actual trip he took from Chicago to New York in which he was supposed to return the same evening, but wound up in Wichita and made it home five days later. Hughes shot over 600,000 feet (180,000 m) of film, almost twice the industry average. The rumored three-hour version of the film does indeed exist, although not in order. Hughes later commented that "it's a mess of footage" that would take "months, maybe even years" to transform into an actual film. The excess footage remains locked away in a Paramount vault, and according to Hughes (who died in 2009), most of it has "probably deteriorated by now". No transportation company wanted to appear inept or deficient in any way, so crews had to rent twenty miles (32 km) of railway trackage and refurbish old railway cars, construct a set that looked like an airline terminal, design a rental car company logo and uniforms, and rent 250 cars for the car rental scene. The interior of the Wichita airport scene was filmed on a studio lot in Los Angeles and was the final scene using extras on the shoot. Hughes had originally selected Kankakee, Illinois (60 miles (97 km) south of Chicago) for its train station for several scenes, but a lack of snow prevented the filming from occurring. Indeed, the winter weather was so warm that film crews were unable to utilize snowmaking equipment. While actors and crews waited for colder weather, several interior scenes were shot in a deserted warehouse in Kankakee using what are called "cover sets". Ultimately, the crew opted for Buffalo, New York for snow scenes. Local officials in Kankakee that were working with producers worked feverishly to keep the crew in town in the hopes of the arrival of colder weather. The hotel scene in which Candy and Martin share a hotel bed was shot during this waiting period at a hotel in nearby Braidwood, Illinois, thanks to the efforts of the local Convention and visitor bureau. The hotel which Steve Martin and John Candy stayed in when they drove the rental car into the building, was filmed in Gurnee, Illinois at the El Rancho Motel located on US 41, which has now been converted into studio apartments. The film is rated R by the MPAA for a scene where Steve Martin goes on a tirade against a car rental agent (Edie McClurg) and says the word "fucking" 18 times in a minute. It ends with the agent stating "Oh, boy... you're fucked." The US is the only body which internationally awarded it a 17+ rating; in most countries (in Canada and New Zealand, for example), the film is rated PG. The rental car was a 1986 Chrysler LeBaron Town and Country with a 2.2L turbo engine that was customized for the film. Modifications included the tail lights, steering wheel, and owner's manual from a Dodge 600, custom paint, custom wheel covers, a very long antenna, a 'D' hood ornament, fender badges that appear to say 'Gran Detroit', 'Turbo', and 'Farm & Country', and a trunk lid that was off of an older K-car convertible due to the luggage rack. In one of the shots during the night-time drive, the original burgundy metallic paint can be seen on the interior of the car. |
Budget
The current entry says that the budget was $30 million. This is almost certainly incorrect; it's almost unthinkable. Ghostbusters (with all its special effects and three well-known actors) had a budget of $30 million. Compared with other movies from 1987, Three Men and a Baby was $11 million, Beverly Hills Cop II was $20 million, Good Morning, Vietnam was $13 million, and Lethal Weapon was $15 million. For John Hughes movies, The Breakfast Club was $1 million, Pretty in Pink was $6 million, Ferris Bueller's Day Off was $6 million, Uncle Buck was $15 million, and Home Alone was $18 million. I highly doubt the $30 million figure for this movie. Bueller 007 (talk) 08:30, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
Googling "Planes, Trains & Automobiles budget" gives an answer of $15 million which seems more likely although there's no source and no information on any of the top search results. ClarkF1 (talk) 00:23, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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Steve martin discusses the film
Majinsnake (talk) 21:05, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
TIL
People trains don't run outta Stubbville because it doesn't exist. Instead people trains run outta Newton.
Quote: "The nearest Amtrak station is in Newton 25 miles (40 km) north" Maikel (talk) 10:30, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
dvd versions
I have two dvd versions of the movie. One is the "Those Aren't Pillows!" Edition, which has the airplane food scene in it that the other doesn't have. Yet they are both listed as being 92 minutes. I wonder what the total differences in the two versions are. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8804:A00:C900:A47A:5205:F094:92F0 (talk) 15:39, 12 July 2019 (UTC)