How the film "Mars Attacks" was filmed (14 photos)

Back in 1996, the screens of world cinemas came out science fiction film by Tim Burton "Mars Attacks", in which participation of a large number of famous actors. I suggest you find out some interesting facts about this unusual film.





1. The Martians themselves were not invented from scratch. Their image was copied from chewing gum liners of the 50s.



2. In general, the film "Mars Attacks" has a huge amount of references to the 50s. Even the sounds of gunshots from the weapons of the Martians was planned to be taken from the film "War of the Worlds" (1953), but the studio Paramount, which owned the rights to the film, did not give their consent. Therefore, the creators had to invent a similar sound.



3. When writing the script, the alien language was decided leave for later, so in those places where the Martians were supposed to to give a speech, the writers put "ack ack". As a result, on an alien language and decided to score at all, leaving those same "ack ack".



Well, the reproduction of their speech itself is the sound of a quacking duck, reproduced in reverse.

4. Since the movie "Mars Attacks" came out after the movie "Independence Day", then many decided that this film is parody. Burton himself said that the film "Mars Attacks" is in to some extent a parody, but not on the film "Independence Day", but in principle on low-budget sci-fi films about aliens.



5. Many have noticed that the film is literally stuffed to capacity famous actors, including Pierce Brosnan, Jack Nicholson, Michael Jay Fox, Sarah Jessica Parker, Danny DeVito, Glenn Close, Tom Jones and etc. It was Tim Burton's personal Wishlist. He wanted to collect as many well-known actors as possible (albeit in cameo) to challenge himself as a director.






6. With a budget of $ 70 million, the film "Mars Attacks" collected only 101 million, while with about the same budget (75 million dollars) the film "Independence Day" collected 817 million.



7. We all remember that when the Martians fire their weapons on people, only green or red skeletons remain of them. Burton specifically chose these colors, as the film was planned for release. for the Christmas holidays, and as you know, green and red are main colors of Christmas.



8. The famous British singer Tom Jones played in the film himself. Tim Burton personally asked him to do this. The only one, John in exchange for this, he asked at the same time to shoot his backing vocalist in the film. Naturally, Tim did not object.



9. Burton resisted for a long time such a huge amount of computer graphics was used. That's why, even the Martians themselves, he proposed to create using the frame-by-frame method animations. But after several tests, he realized that it all came out very well. bad, so I agreed to computer graphics.



10. There are a huge number of main characters in the film. (more than 20), but this is not at all what I originally expected Burton. Tim Burton wanted 60 main characters including a housewife, students and many more characters. But the bosses simply did not allow this, so the number It was decided to cut the main characters in three.



11. In addition to directing, Tim Burton also worked on the script for film. But he is not listed in the credits as a writer. The point is that he Burton ordered not to enter him as a screenwriter, so as not to take a share fame from other screenwriters who worked on the film.



12. Jack Nicholson played in the movie "Mars Attacks" not only President of the United States, but also Art Land. Initially, Burton wanted the role Art was played by Michael Keaton. Thus he wanted to make some reference to his film "Batman", where Keaton played Bruce Wayne (Batman), and Nicholson - Joker.