If I hadn't seen such riches, I could live with being poor
This time, I'm gonna do a pointless trivia about my favourite movie of all time, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. And a little about the comic too.
Scott Pilgrim is named after the song of the same name by the band Plumtree. In one scene in the movie, Scott wears a T-shirt with the logo of Plumtree's album Mass Teen Fainting, which the song "Scott Pilgrim" appears on.
In the comic, Ramona is said to change her hair colour every month. In the movie, she changes it every week and a half.
When the movie was screened for the first time, two alternate endings were shown - one where Scott gets back with Knives and another where Scott gets together with Ramona. Audiences vastly preferred the Ramona ending, so that became the "true" ending to the movie.
Originally, the final battle in the movie would have had Gideon transforming into a giant mecha, which Scott, Ramona and Knives would have teamed up to destroy. It was cut for time.
Another ending idea, which was never filmed due to time constraints, had the movie turning out to be all in Scott's head, and Scott actually being a serial killer who murdered seven people. Though the actual movie makes it ambiguous about whether all this stuff is actually happening, Bryan Lee O'Malley, the director, says that it is all in Scott's head.
A few characters have different hair colours in the comic compared to the movie. Envy is a redhead in the comic, but a blonde in the film. Knives dyes her hair blue in the film, instead of red like in the comic. Todd has brown hair in the comics, but grey in the film. Young Neil was blond in the comic, but has brown hair in the film.
In the movie, Gideon controls Ramona through a chip on the back of her head. In the comic, Scott finds a subspace portal in Ramona's bag that leads into Ramona's mind, and enters it to discover a mental Ramona in bondage and enslaved by a super-Gideon.
In the movie, when Scott Pilgrim throws the package from Ramona into the bin, that wasn't done by special effects - Michael Cera really did throw the package over his shoulder and into the bin. It took 33 tries.
Also, when Lucas crushes his cup of coffee in anger after Scott defeats his stunt doubles, that was also real - Chris Evans really did crush a very hot cup of coffee in his hand.
Originally the movie was going to be filmed in New York, which is often the case for movies set in Toronto. The director insisted on having it actually filmed in Toronto, which meant they could show actual locations in Toronto in the movie. Also, many of the main actors (including Michael Cera) are actually Canadian.
Johnny Simmons, who plays Young Neil, would often improvise or mess around in the background of scenes. In the DVD commentary, one of the commentators says to keep your eye on Young Neil whenever he's in the background, because he's usually doing something funny or weird.
In the opening scene, when Young Neil is playing a Nintendo DS Lite, Johnny Simmons is actually playing the GBA version of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for real. If you listen carefully, you can hear sound effects and music from the game during the scene. In fact, the production team went out of their way to avert the Pac-Man Fever trope during the movie - even the made-up arcade game, Ninja Ninja Revolution, looks and behaves believably like a real video game.
Originally in the movie, whenever Scott was behaving like a jerk, he would look into a mirror and see Nega-Scott staring back at him, both making him reconsider his behaviour and foreshadowing Nega-Scott's appearance at the end of the movie. These scenes were cut, so in the final product Nega-Scott appears to just come out of nowhere.
Apart from Sex Bob-omb, all the bands in the movie are named after video games. The Clash at Demonhead are named after Clash at Demonhead (Dengeki Big Bang! in Japan), a Metroidvania-style platform game on the NES. Crash and the Boys are named after Crash 'n' the Boys: Street Challenge (Bikkuri Nekketsu Shin Kiroku! Harukanaru Kin Medal in Japan), an NES sports game.
In the movie, the bands' music was written by real musicians. Sex Bob-omb's music was written by Beck, The Clash at Demonhead's music was done by Metric and the music for Crash and the Boys was written and performed by Broken Social Scene. Envy Adams's stage clothes were also inspired by Metric. Envy does her own singing in the movie, since Brie Larson is an accomplished singer. The song The Clash at Demonhead perform is actually a cover of a Metric song called "Black Sheep".
When Scott Pilgrim says he learned the bass line from Final Fantasy II, Michael Cera is actually playing "Battle Theme 1" from Final Fantasy II live on the bass (i.e. actually playing it, not just miming along to a recording). When he tries playing it in the bass battle against Todd, Todd counters with the bass line from "Around the World" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The harmonisation of the Fairy Fountain theme from The Legend of Zelda series was done by Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey of the band Supergrass. The cover required personal clearance from The Legend of Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto himself.
When Gideon says that Scott made him swallow his gum, Jason Schwartzman actually swallowed a piece of chewing gum in every take of that scene. The production staff bought him a colonic irrigation as an end-of-shooting present.
When Scott is fighting Lucas, at one point he gets knocked through a backdrop painting of the Empire State Building, causing the CN Tower (an iconic Toronto landmark) to be visible through the hole. The joke is that in movies where New York doubles for Toronto, the Empire State Building often doubles for the CN Tower.
When Scott trying to pick a response to the question of how old Knives is is represented as a spinner in his head, the options go by too fast to read. Pausing and going frame-by-frame reveals options including "She's nobody", "She's forty!", "Idiot", "Tell Pac-Man story", "Pass out" and "No speaka English".
Originally, Roxy and Envy were combined into a single character for the movie, but after Volume 4 came out, the screenwriters split the characters again. However, Roxy's weakness in the movie (the back of her knee) was originally Envy's in the comic. The entire Ramona vs. Roxy fight is basically the fight with Envy in the comics, right down to the dialogue. Ramona's role in the final battle is also mirrored from Envy's in the comics, even pretending to hug him and using Envy's "Let's both be girls" line.
During the first phone call between Scott and his sister Stacey, the two actors' halves of the call were actually filmed a month apart.
There is a black squirrel which runs through a wide shot early in the movie. The director has confirmed the squirrel is real, and says it's the most interesting thing about the movie.
Crash and the Boys survive in the comics (and later change their name to The Boys!! And Crash!!), but are killed by an errant fireball during the Scott vs. Matthew Patel fight in the movie.
In the comic, it was Lynette Guycott, Envy's drummer, who punched the highlights out of Knives's hair. In the movie, it was Todd.
The Katayanagi Twins were originally supposed to have dialogue and a much more prominent role, until it was discovered their actors, who are Japanese, didn't speak any English.
The writers have said that the Vegan Police are shooting their own summer blockbuster behind the scenes, the climax of which comes with them arresting Todd. They can be seen doing a slow-motion high-five in the background as they walk away. The director has also said that there's another movie running behind the scenes, which he refers to as "Stephen Stills's Almost Famous", which the main plot occasionally intersects with.
The "Big fan." "Why wouldn't you be?" exchange between Wallace and Lucas was taken from a real-life backstage encounter between Edgar Wright and The Hives singer Pelle Almqvist.
The Sharpie T-shirt Scott wears in the arcade was made specially for the film.
Ramona's different hair colours in the movie are references to Edgar Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy - red (strawberry, Shaun of the Dead), blue (original, Hot Fuzz) and green (mint chocolate chip, The World's End).
There are posters for Lucas Lee movies throughout the film with the titles Let's Hope There's a Heaven, You Just Don't Exist, The Game Is Over 2, Thrilled to Be Here and Action Doctor. All but the last one are named after Plumtree songs.
When Scott and Ramona are making out in Ramona's house, their embrace matches the famous picture Kiss by Tanya Chalkin, which can be seen on the wall in the background.
Edgar Wright has said that the film is structured like a musical, except with fights instead of musical numbers. The characters fight when their emotions become too extreme for words.
Amp feedback is used to cover up the use of "cock" in one scene (when Stephen Stills mentions girls "cock-blocking the rock"), because the movie's rating would have gone up if they'd used that word one more time. They managed to get away with "shit" because the movie is set in Canada, where "shit" is considered an incredibly mild swear word.
Scott Pilgrim is named after the song of the same name by the band Plumtree. In one scene in the movie, Scott wears a T-shirt with the logo of Plumtree's album Mass Teen Fainting, which the song "Scott Pilgrim" appears on.
In the comic, Ramona is said to change her hair colour every month. In the movie, she changes it every week and a half.
When the movie was screened for the first time, two alternate endings were shown - one where Scott gets back with Knives and another where Scott gets together with Ramona. Audiences vastly preferred the Ramona ending, so that became the "true" ending to the movie.
Originally, the final battle in the movie would have had Gideon transforming into a giant mecha, which Scott, Ramona and Knives would have teamed up to destroy. It was cut for time.
Another ending idea, which was never filmed due to time constraints, had the movie turning out to be all in Scott's head, and Scott actually being a serial killer who murdered seven people. Though the actual movie makes it ambiguous about whether all this stuff is actually happening, Bryan Lee O'Malley, the director, says that it is all in Scott's head.
A few characters have different hair colours in the comic compared to the movie. Envy is a redhead in the comic, but a blonde in the film. Knives dyes her hair blue in the film, instead of red like in the comic. Todd has brown hair in the comics, but grey in the film. Young Neil was blond in the comic, but has brown hair in the film.
In the movie, Gideon controls Ramona through a chip on the back of her head. In the comic, Scott finds a subspace portal in Ramona's bag that leads into Ramona's mind, and enters it to discover a mental Ramona in bondage and enslaved by a super-Gideon.
In the movie, when Scott Pilgrim throws the package from Ramona into the bin, that wasn't done by special effects - Michael Cera really did throw the package over his shoulder and into the bin. It took 33 tries.
Also, when Lucas crushes his cup of coffee in anger after Scott defeats his stunt doubles, that was also real - Chris Evans really did crush a very hot cup of coffee in his hand.
Originally the movie was going to be filmed in New York, which is often the case for movies set in Toronto. The director insisted on having it actually filmed in Toronto, which meant they could show actual locations in Toronto in the movie. Also, many of the main actors (including Michael Cera) are actually Canadian.
Johnny Simmons, who plays Young Neil, would often improvise or mess around in the background of scenes. In the DVD commentary, one of the commentators says to keep your eye on Young Neil whenever he's in the background, because he's usually doing something funny or weird.
In the opening scene, when Young Neil is playing a Nintendo DS Lite, Johnny Simmons is actually playing the GBA version of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for real. If you listen carefully, you can hear sound effects and music from the game during the scene. In fact, the production team went out of their way to avert the Pac-Man Fever trope during the movie - even the made-up arcade game, Ninja Ninja Revolution, looks and behaves believably like a real video game.
Originally in the movie, whenever Scott was behaving like a jerk, he would look into a mirror and see Nega-Scott staring back at him, both making him reconsider his behaviour and foreshadowing Nega-Scott's appearance at the end of the movie. These scenes were cut, so in the final product Nega-Scott appears to just come out of nowhere.
Apart from Sex Bob-omb, all the bands in the movie are named after video games. The Clash at Demonhead are named after Clash at Demonhead (Dengeki Big Bang! in Japan), a Metroidvania-style platform game on the NES. Crash and the Boys are named after Crash 'n' the Boys: Street Challenge (Bikkuri Nekketsu Shin Kiroku! Harukanaru Kin Medal in Japan), an NES sports game.
In the movie, the bands' music was written by real musicians. Sex Bob-omb's music was written by Beck, The Clash at Demonhead's music was done by Metric and the music for Crash and the Boys was written and performed by Broken Social Scene. Envy Adams's stage clothes were also inspired by Metric. Envy does her own singing in the movie, since Brie Larson is an accomplished singer. The song The Clash at Demonhead perform is actually a cover of a Metric song called "Black Sheep".
When Scott Pilgrim says he learned the bass line from Final Fantasy II, Michael Cera is actually playing "Battle Theme 1" from Final Fantasy II live on the bass (i.e. actually playing it, not just miming along to a recording). When he tries playing it in the bass battle against Todd, Todd counters with the bass line from "Around the World" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The harmonisation of the Fairy Fountain theme from The Legend of Zelda series was done by Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey of the band Supergrass. The cover required personal clearance from The Legend of Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto himself.
When Gideon says that Scott made him swallow his gum, Jason Schwartzman actually swallowed a piece of chewing gum in every take of that scene. The production staff bought him a colonic irrigation as an end-of-shooting present.
When Scott is fighting Lucas, at one point he gets knocked through a backdrop painting of the Empire State Building, causing the CN Tower (an iconic Toronto landmark) to be visible through the hole. The joke is that in movies where New York doubles for Toronto, the Empire State Building often doubles for the CN Tower.
When Scott trying to pick a response to the question of how old Knives is is represented as a spinner in his head, the options go by too fast to read. Pausing and going frame-by-frame reveals options including "She's nobody", "She's forty!", "Idiot", "Tell Pac-Man story", "Pass out" and "No speaka English".
Originally, Roxy and Envy were combined into a single character for the movie, but after Volume 4 came out, the screenwriters split the characters again. However, Roxy's weakness in the movie (the back of her knee) was originally Envy's in the comic. The entire Ramona vs. Roxy fight is basically the fight with Envy in the comics, right down to the dialogue. Ramona's role in the final battle is also mirrored from Envy's in the comics, even pretending to hug him and using Envy's "Let's both be girls" line.
During the first phone call between Scott and his sister Stacey, the two actors' halves of the call were actually filmed a month apart.
There is a black squirrel which runs through a wide shot early in the movie. The director has confirmed the squirrel is real, and says it's the most interesting thing about the movie.
Crash and the Boys survive in the comics (and later change their name to The Boys!! And Crash!!), but are killed by an errant fireball during the Scott vs. Matthew Patel fight in the movie.
In the comic, it was Lynette Guycott, Envy's drummer, who punched the highlights out of Knives's hair. In the movie, it was Todd.
The Katayanagi Twins were originally supposed to have dialogue and a much more prominent role, until it was discovered their actors, who are Japanese, didn't speak any English.
The writers have said that the Vegan Police are shooting their own summer blockbuster behind the scenes, the climax of which comes with them arresting Todd. They can be seen doing a slow-motion high-five in the background as they walk away. The director has also said that there's another movie running behind the scenes, which he refers to as "Stephen Stills's Almost Famous", which the main plot occasionally intersects with.
The "Big fan." "Why wouldn't you be?" exchange between Wallace and Lucas was taken from a real-life backstage encounter between Edgar Wright and The Hives singer Pelle Almqvist.
The Sharpie T-shirt Scott wears in the arcade was made specially for the film.
Ramona's different hair colours in the movie are references to Edgar Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy - red (strawberry, Shaun of the Dead), blue (original, Hot Fuzz) and green (mint chocolate chip, The World's End).
There are posters for Lucas Lee movies throughout the film with the titles Let's Hope There's a Heaven, You Just Don't Exist, The Game Is Over 2, Thrilled to Be Here and Action Doctor. All but the last one are named after Plumtree songs.
When Scott and Ramona are making out in Ramona's house, their embrace matches the famous picture Kiss by Tanya Chalkin, which can be seen on the wall in the background.
Edgar Wright has said that the film is structured like a musical, except with fights instead of musical numbers. The characters fight when their emotions become too extreme for words.
Amp feedback is used to cover up the use of "cock" in one scene (when Stephen Stills mentions girls "cock-blocking the rock"), because the movie's rating would have gone up if they'd used that word one more time. They managed to get away with "shit" because the movie is set in Canada, where "shit" is considered an incredibly mild swear word.
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