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Eric D. Snider <\/strong>and Mental_Floss <\/strong>present 15 Peachy Facts About<\/a> Face Off<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em> <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 2. IT WAS WRITTEN WITH STALLONE AND SCHWARZENEGGER IN MIND.<\/strong> 12. THE JOKE ABOUT TRAVOLTA\u2019S \u201cRIDICULOUS CHIN\u201d WAS TRAVOLTA\u2019S OWN IDEA.<\/strong> 6. THE EPILOGUE, WHERE THE ARCHERS ADOPT CASTOR TROY\u2019S ORPHANED SON, ALMOST DIDN\u2019T HAPPEN. Eric D. Snider and Mental_Floss present 15 Peachy Facts About Face Off.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites… 2. IT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12953,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951\/revisions\/12953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nSeparately, they were among the top action stars of the day (the day being the early ’90s), so teaming them up was an irresistible idea. Moreover, they were both really famous, and as Colleary once said, \u201cThe movie doesn\u2019t work unless the actors have a well-established persona\u201d so audiences can appreciate them impersonating each other. (Editorial note: there\u2019s no way Schwarzenegger and Stallone could have imitated one another\u2019s mannerisms as well as Cage and Travolta do.) The two didn\u2019t make Face\/Off<\/em>, but they did eventually make Escape Plan<\/em>, in which they escape from a futuristic, off-the-grid, middle-of-the-ocean prison very much like the one in Face\/Off<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nHe said, \u201cNic [Cage]\u2019s character is such an egomaniac. He loves<\/em> himself\u2014the way he talks, acts, walks, everything about himself. So, we just figured that it follows that he would hate<\/em> being in my body, having my<\/em> face. So I added a lot of lines where he makes fun of the way I look\u2014like \u2018this ridiculous chin,\u2019 things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>It was part of the writers\u2019 original story and survived all of their many rewrites, but Paramount didn\u2019t think audiences would like an ending where the hero adopts his enemy\u2019s son. Woo\u2019s alternate idea was for the film to end with some ambiguity about whether or not Eve Archer had her real husband back. When a test audience found that unsatisfying\u2014and, moreover, wanted to know what happened to Castor Troy\u2019s kid\u2014the studio ponied up the money to get the necessary cast members back to film the original ending. According to Werb, \u201cThe next time we tested, the numbers went through the roof. There was spontaneous and thunderous applause at the end.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"