{"id":35444,"date":"2024-03-18T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35444"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:57:50","slug":"road-house-1989-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35444","title":{"rendered":"“Road House” (1989) Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rob Hunter at Film School Rejects posted 29 Things We Learned from the \u2018Road House<\/em>\u2019 Commentary.\u00a0<\/strong> Sadly the post is no longer available, but here are three of my favorites from it…<\/p>\n

The script called for a blind guitarist who played the instrument in his lap, and it was a direct reference to Jeff Healey who writer David Lee Henry had seen perform in Canada. The film\u2019s music supervisor actually brought in Healey to audition, and he obviously got the job.<\/strong> (It was a plus and added to the film that they were able to get Healey for the film. – Craig)<\/p>\n

Elliott initially declined the role of Wade as he felt it was too similar to the one he played in Mask (1985), but Herrington brought him in for a meeting to talk more about the character, and he changed his mind. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine this picture without Sam Elliott.\u201d<\/strong> (Sam Elliott was definitely a plus.\u00a0 He added gravitas to the film and it wouldn’t have worked as well without him. – Craig)<\/p>\n

Keith David plays the new bartender, Ernie, and his original introductory scene \u2014 he comes to the bar with his girlfriend, gets into a fight with some rednecks, and is helped by Dalton \u2014 was cut from the film as it was already running too long.<\/strong> (Other scenes that were cut include Swayze fighting and Wade explaining his rose tattoo.\u00a0 An extended cut would be interesting. – Craig)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rob Hunter at Film School Rejects posted 29 Things We Learned from the \u2018Road House\u2019 Commentary.\u00a0 Sadly the post is<\/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":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/35444","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=35444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39856,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35444\/revisions\/39856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}