{"id":16922,"date":"2016-12-18T04:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16922"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:06:03","slug":"40-things-we-learned-from-joe-dantes-gremlins-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16922","title":{"rendered":"3 Things We Learned from Joe Dante&#8217;s &#8220;Gremlins&#8221; Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z121816gremlins_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rob Hunter<\/strong>\u00a0and Film School Rejects\u00a0present <em>40 Things We Learned from Joe Dante&#8217;s Gremlins Commentary.<\/em>\u00a0 Although the article is no longer available here are three of my favorites from it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">7.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>Galligan is the first to point out that the \u201cdon\u2019t feed after midnight\u201d rule is silly because it\u2019s always after midnight somewhere. \u201cWell we make fun of all that stuff in <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Gremlins 2<\/em> anyway,\u201d says Dante.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">10.<\/strong> <strong>The titles on the theater marquee are an in-joke for producer Steven Spielberg\u2019s benefit. <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">A Boys Life<\/em> was the working title for <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">E.T.<\/em>, and <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Watch the Skies<\/em> was the one for <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em>. \u201cI think we did this mainly so that when Steven saw the dailies he\u2019d be happy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">15.<\/strong><strong> Cartoonist legend Chuck Jones is the guy at the bar teaching Billy (Galligan) how to draw. There was originally more of a plot involving Billy\u2019s hopeful career as an artist.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Hunter\u00a0and Film School Rejects\u00a0present 40 Things We Learned from Joe Dante&#8217;s Gremlins Commentary.\u00a0 Although the article is no longer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[53,63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922","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=16922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39982,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922\/revisions\/39982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}