22 unknown facts about the film "I see nothing, I don't know anything" I hear" (13 photos)

Dave witnesses a murder, but he is deaf. Wally heard everything, but he is blind. Together, they are the perfect witnesses to the crime... for the criminals themselves, and the only suspects for the police. Both begin searching for the elusive couple.





1. This is the third of four films in which Gene Wilder (Dave) and Richard Pryor (Wally) played the leading roles together.

1.1. Other collaborations: Silver Arrow (1976), Raving Crazy (1980), and Another You (1991). In the first two films, Wilder was credited first, while Pryor was credited in the others.

2. The original screenplay for the film was written by Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor (uncredited), who sold it to Columbia Pictures for $200,000 in 1984. After the premiere of See No More, Hear No More, the authors filed a lawsuit against the studio for $10 million, believing that it had violated the terms of the contract: Bologna and Taylor were to receive an additional $500,000 if Pryor agreed to play the lead role and 5% of the film's profits. It was not possible to find out how the trial ended.

3. But the list of screenwriters includes... Gene Wilder! Indeed, the actor twice turned down offers to star in the film. The third time, he was given an offer he couldn't refuse: the opportunity to adapt the script to his own tastes (and Pryor's, of course).



3.1. Director Arthur Hiller's first choice for the role of Dave was James Belushi.

4. The long list of those who contributed to the script also includes Arnie Sultan (who also acted as a producer). The film's closing credits are dedicated to him. Sultan died of cancer three years before the premiere, but his contribution was apparently decisive.

5. By the way, the English Wikipedia article about the film does not have Kevin Spacey's name in the brief information. Instead, the fourth line is occupied by Anthony Zerbe, who is sixth in the credits. The culture of "Undoing" detected!





6. One of the reasons Wilder turned down the role in the film twice was his concerns about trolling the hearing and visually impaired. Who wanted to get caught for political incorrectness and be ostracized in the English Wikipedia "Cancellation" (see p.5)? To minimize this possibility, the actor took his preparation very seriously: in particular, he took lip-reading lessons from Karen Webb from the New York League for the Hard of Hearing. Two years later, they got married (this was Wilder's fourth approach to the altar).

7. This scene is started by a stunt double. Note the barely noticeable pink panties, which later, when the real Eve Joan Severance appears in the frame, miraculously disappear.

7.1. A small handbag also miraculously disappears in the scene.



8. Kevin Spacey really did have a cyst on his left cheekbone. In later photographs of the actor, a scar from the surgery can be seen there.



9. What was the first thing that came to Dr. Conrad Johansen Walley's mind at a psychiatric convention? "Pussy." In the TV version, "Pasta" came to mind.

10. Richard Pryor also seriously prepared for the role: he attended the Braille Institute in Los Angeles to master the tactile cane and study the behavior of the blind.

10.1. Despite this, after the pilot screening, the institute wished to exclude itself from the film's credits due to Pryor's vulgarities and vulgarities.



11. Kevin Spacey and Joan Severance migrated to the film from the TV series "Smart Guy", in which they played a married couple.

12. Pay attention to the magical metamorphosis of the ice cream cones in both scenes of Dave and Wally's "philosophical" dialogues. As if someone is constantly putting new ones on them :)

13. Eve and Kirgo are driving the third generation of the iconic Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce. Some experts even see the year of its production in the car - 1986.



14. Adele, Wally's sister, is driving a rare luxury coupe Volvo 780 Bertone.

15. Note: During the chase for Dave and Wally, who escaped from the police station, Braddo and Gatlin swap cars with them :)



16. Audrey Neenan actually played two cameo roles in the film: a police officer and Marilyn's maid.





17. Lauren Tom's character is listed as Mitzie in the credits. However, her name tag clearly states Cindy.



18. By the way, there is an obvious movie gaffe in this scene: Cindy-Mitzi did not ask the respected "doctors" for their passports. Despite the fact that it was the late 80s, in New York, showing an ID upon check-in has been a rule since time immemorial.

19. Who is this couple of "little red riding hoods" coming out of the subway? This is "product placement" of the American "vigilantes" - members of the civil non-profit organization "Guardian Angels", engaged in maintaining law and order.



20. Is the yellow "Moving" ad a coincidence or a hint at the previous film starring Richard Pryor?



21. The film's title in other languages ​​demonstrates a riot of creativity. The original clearly refers to sanzaru, a composition of three monkeys covering their ears, mouth and eyes with their paws. The translation turned out to be so successful that it is no longer possible to imagine it as "See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil." Other translations: Latin America - "Blind, Deaf and Crazy", Spain - "Don't Yell at Me, I Can't See You", Denmark - "Can You Hear What I See?", Italy - "Don't Look at Me, I Can't Hear You".

22. Budget - $18 million, box office - $46.9 million.