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It’s been 30 years since its release and “My poor little angel“(” Home Alone “in the original language) remains one of the favorite movies during the Christmas season. Although most have seen the film starring Macaulay Culkin several times, they probably don’t know all the curious details. .
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That’s why Time shared a list of things you probably didn’t know about the film that was released on November 16, 1990 and features actors like Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, Roberts Blossom, John Heard and John Candy in the lead roles.
1. THE TARANTLE WAS REAL
One of the things Kevin does to get rid of the ‘Wet Bandits’ is to put his brother Buzz’s tarantula in Marv’s face. Turns out the arachnid was real, Daniel Stern agreed to film with her as long as the scene was in a single shot. The production team got it, but they preferred to record the scream separately so as not to risk scaring the spider.
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2. THE LITTLE BROTHER Macaulay
a “My poor little angelKieran Culkin played Cousin Fuller and more than 15 years later, Macaulay’s younger brother Culkin became Roman Roy in “Succession,” a series of HBO about a dysfunctional family that owns an empire of audiovisual and entertainment media.
3. THE SCREENPLAY WAS CREATED IN LESS THAN 10 DAYS
James Hughes, son of screenwriter John Hughes, explained that his father wrote the script for this film in less than 10 days, the idea came to him because of his anxiety about the family’s first trip to Europe in 1989.
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“Two weeks later, after returning home, he revised the premise: what if one of the children had been left behind accidentally?” wrote James in a 2015 article for Chicago magazine. “Over the next nine days, he completed the first draft of Home Alone.”
4. THE HOUSE OF THE McCALLISTERS
The house Kevin defended with everything he had on hand is now worth more than $ 1.5 million. According to the Chicago Tribune, the 4,250-square-foot Georgian-style property in Winnetka, Illinois, sold for $ 1,585,000 in 2015 after nearly a year on the market, though more was expected for it.
5. “MY POOR ANGELITO” AND HIS WORLD RECORD
Following its release in November 1990, “My rotten little angel“He swept the U.S. box office during the 1990 Christmas season and his success continued until the first half of the following year. By staying in first place for 12 weeks and earning $ 285,761. 343 during this period became the highest-grossing film of the year and the highest-grossing comedy in history, holding this world record until 2017 when Chinese blockbuster Die Never Say took its place.
6. Joe Pesci ACCIDENTALLY bit Macaulay Culkin
While rehearsing the scene where the Wet Bandits finally catch Kevin and Harry threatening to bite his fingers, Joe Pesci accidentally bit Macaulay Culkin, the actor recounted in a 2004 interview with Rule Forty Two.
“In the first Man Alone, I was hung from a hanger and Pesci says, ‘I’m going to bite all your fingers, one at a time.’ And during one of the rehearsals, he bit me and broke my skin.” explained.
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7. ROBERT DE NIRO CAN BE A ‘WET BANDIT’
According to Mental Floss, before considering Joe Pesci for the role of Harry Lyme, the production thought of Robert De Niro. But the famous actor turned it down, as did Jon Lovitz from “Saturday Night Live.”
8. ELVIS PRESLEY’S THEORY OF CONSPIRACY
Even though “My poor little angel“It premiered 13 years after Elvis Presley died, some believe the King of Rock and Roll made a cameo for the tape. He allegedly appears during the scene in which Kevin’s mother tries to get tickets to the airport. Scranton However, others claim that this is the extra Gary Grott who appeared in several Chris Columbus films.
9. BUZZ’S BRIDE WAS A CHILD IN DISGUISE
In 2013, Devin Ratray told Yahoo that Buzz’s girlfriend was actually a boy in disguise, as the producers considered choosing a girl for the role to be cruel. “They decided it wouldn’t be nice to put a girl in the role of just being funny. The art director had a son who was more than willing to volunteer for the role. I think if he had known he was it would become the highest-grossing family comedy of all time, I could have thought better of it. “
10. OLD MARLEY WASN’T PART OF “HOME ALONE”
Old Marley (Roberts Blossom) was not part of the first draft of John Hughes’ screenplay, but the writer added it as a gesture of complicity to Charles Dickens’s Christmas Tale to give the story a little more of color.