So, the guy asking if she said there were rats was Jerry Goldsmith.
The wacky Gremlin is based on the original Daffy Duck because Joe Dante is the world’s biggest Looney Tunes fan.
Clamp isn’t just Donald Trump, he’s also Ted Turner, thus why there’s It’s a Wonderful Life colorized in his office, the end of the world tape, and why he isn’t depicted as a complete asshole, as Turner was more a detached goofball to the media class, and not a shitbird ripoff artist.
The guy who says “we don’t make the movies, we just show them” is the co-director of a short film called Secret Cinema, in which a woman discovers her friends are stalking her, filming her day to day life, and then watching it in a theater (the joke in this movie is now obvious). He also co-directed Eating Raoul and cameoed in Chopping Mall with his wife and co-director, at the beginning!
Christopher Lee actually adored being in this movie, considered it a favorite role because he so rarely got to just be in something so wildly comedic and silly and play into it.
This movie is fantastic, and the older I get the better it gets; it’s a wacky satire of technological dependency and unchecked capitalism made like it went through Chuck Jones’s head (to put it a certain way: it’s Chuck Jones’s Play Time). Unfortunately, it still works as such if you changed nothing but the technology inside it, because reality is that a lot of the culture hasn’t moved past the mindset of the 80s that this is puncturing with jokes.
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