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Roger Cormier <\/b>and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong> <\/b>present 14 Moving Facts About Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/a>.<\/b> <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 1. JOHN HUGHES ONCE HAD A HELLISH TRIP TRYING TO GET FROM NEW YORK CITY TO CHICAGO.<\/span><\/strong> 13. IN THE ORIGINAL ENDING, DEL FOLLOWED NEAL ALL THE WAY HOME.<\/span><\/strong> 14. IN THE SCENE WHERE NEAL THINKS ABOUT DEL ON THE TRAIN, MARTIN DIDN\u2019T KNOW THE CAMERA WAS ON.<\/span><\/strong> Roger Cormier and Mental_Floss present 14 Moving Facts About Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Here are three of my favorites… 1. JOHN HUGHES ONCE<\/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":[17,63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","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\/13971","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=13971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13973,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions\/13973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nBefore he became a screenwriter, Hughes used to work as a copywriter for the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago. One day he had an 11 a.m. presentation scheduled in New York City on a Wednesday, and planned to return home on a 5 p.m. flight. Winter winds forced all flights to Chicago to be canceled that night, so he stayed in a hotel. A snowstorm in Chicago the next day continued the delays. The plane he eventually got on ended up being diverted to Denver. Then Phoenix. Hughes didn\u2019t make it back until Monday. Experiencing such a hellish trip might explain how Hughes managed to write the first 60 pages of Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/em> in just six hours.<\/p>\n
\nHughes decided during the editing process that instead, John Candy\u2019s character would be \u201ca noble person\u201d and finally take the hint from Martin\u2019s character, and let Neal return home alone, before Neal has a change of heart and finds Del again.<\/p>\n
\nIn order to get the new ending he wanted, Hughes and editor Paul Hirsch went back to look for footage they previously didn\u2019t think would be used. Hughes had kept the cameras rolling in between takes on the Chicago train, without his lead\u2019s knowledge, while Martin was thinking about his next lines. Hughes thought Martin had a \u201cbeautiful expression\u201d on his face in that unguarded moment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"