{"id":13458,"date":"2015-09-30T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13458"},"modified":"2021-03-22T22:18:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:18:36","slug":"34-things-we-learned-from-the-used-car-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13458","title":{"rendered":"34 Things We Learned from the &#8220;Used Car&#8221; Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z093015usedcars_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rob Hunter<\/strong> and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film School Rejects<\/a> present <a href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/34-things-we-learned-from-the-used-cars-commentary-2e4a3de7d608\/\">34 Things We Learned from the <em>Used Car<\/em> Commentary.<\/a> \u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">6. Russell remembers Steven Spielberg visiting the set a few times which prompts Gale to point out that the idea for the film came while he (Gale) and Zemeckis were working on the script for Spielberg\u2019s <em>1941<\/em>. \u201c[John] Milius told us this story that he and Spielberg wanted to do someday about used car salesmen outside of Las Vegas. He wanted to put George Hamilton in it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">7. The Fuchs brothers were originally going to be played by different actors, but after Jack Warden turned down the role of Roy Fuchs someone suggested making them twins and having one actor play both.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">11. Joe Flaherty\u2019s character was originally going to be played by John Candy, but they got a call after rehearsals and costume fittings had already begun. Apparently Candy\u2019s agent had double-booked him onto two films filming at the same time \u2014 possibly <em>Stripes<\/em>? \u2014 so they had to replace him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 34 Things We Learned from the Used Car Commentary. \u00a0Here are three of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458","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=13458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26911,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458\/revisions\/26911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}