"American Extreme" takes place in the fictional town of Liman in West Virginia. Liman is the surname of the director of the spy movie. Because the hero of "Beauty" is set as two young people who smoke marijuana all day, they have another name: "Addict Agent"!
"Beauty" villain "Laughing Man" actor Walton Goggins once played one in Bournemouth 1 CIA technicians.
The surname of the heroine played by Twilight Girl K is Selburg, which may be a tribute to the actor David Selburg.
2. Friends
"Mike" and "Phoebe" are the same as the married couple in Friends. And "Mike" in Friends became the movie version of Ant-Man, a superhero in 2015.
3.
The name of the CIA brainwashing project American Ultra comes from the CIA's secret brainwashing project "MK Ultra", which was started in 1953 and ended in name in 1973. In fact, it continued under another name "Monarch mind control". This project researches brainwashing methods and conducts human trials, mainly combining the achievements of the US government and Germany in this area:
M: the English "Mind" for "spirit"
K: the German "Kontrolle" for "control" The initials of
Ultra: The
content above the highest security level is widely circulated, but they are all denied by the CIA.
4. There
is a paragraph in Rio's Adventure "Beauty": the male and female protagonist is watching a parrot on TV. It may be because the protagonist Curly Jesse once dubbed the protagonist Blu in Rio.
5. U.S. fear
The female agent (Connie Britton) who helped the hero in "American Extreme" once said in the film: The CIA is going to kill her unborn child, which coincides with the fate (abortion) of the role played by Connie in the first season of American Horror Story.
6. Adventureland, Adventureland, 2009, starring Jesse and Little K, the
male and female starring roles have joined forces again in "American Extreme" after playing a couple in "Adventure Land".
In both films, the role of the male lead Jesse is related to marijuana.
The female protagonist Xiao K thinks that she is very similar to Jesse, and her acting style is similar. You can try anything with Jesse. She finds the cooperation very pleasant and wants to cooperate once every five years!
(In fact, it has already started the third collaboration in Woody Allen's new film, and still plays a pair of lovers)
7. The Double, Dual Personality, 2013, starring Jesse
following "Double Personality", the role played by Jesse in "American Extreme" Once again questioned whether I was real.
8. The cousin
male lead Jesse ran to live with his cousin Andrew for a while in order to be a good addict. He believes that without the cousin's precepts and deeds, he cannot be qualified for the role in the film.
9.
Jesse, the male protagonist of the action drama, received physical training before shooting, mainly in Southeast Asian style fighting.
10. Wal-Mart Research
For the final supermarket battle, the screenwriter Landis was very excited when he visited Wal-Mart, because in his eyes all commodities can be used as weapons: this can be used to hack people! That can hack people! Anything can hack people! Special effects artists, makeup artists, and prop designers were affected by the excitement of Landis, and they went to Wal-Mart to investigate and think about how to use these humble daily necessities to create more disgusting killing scenes and thrilling action scenes like Jackie Chan's movies. .
11. Supermarket name
The important battlefield in the film-Max Goods Supermarket was originally a Wal-Mart in the script. The screenwriter Max Landis said that he had to change his name, so he changed his name to Max.
12. The hairstylist
Jesse actively asked to wear long hair or wear a wig (Lex Luthor may be considered), because after reading the script, he thinks that "Mike" this "addict" should be too lazy to have a haircut, and it is easier to change afterwards A sharp contrast. The female protagonist Xiao K also agreed with the contrast, so she dyed it bright red and had to make it look like she hadn't taken care of it after dyeing it a year ago.
13. Astronaut at the
end uses the protagonist "Mike" to describe the follow-up plot of the film in the form of animation of Apollo Ape. Apollo represents the American Apollo moon landing program in the 1960s.
14.
Stephen King, the master of contemporary fantasy thriller novels, expressed his love for the film on Twitter: "It's fresh and exciting, and cool!"
15. Free weed
To promote the film, Lionsgate is in San Diego. (SDCC) Free weeds are given to those who hold medical marijuana certificates.
16. Idea machine Landis
screenwriter Landis's vision for the second part: Mike is kidnapped, and then reset as a badass. Phoebe became a real hero after being forced to leave Mike, and also the protagonist of the second part. However, since the first box office is mediocre, the second one will probably not be shot. But he said that if a fan wants to watch it very much, he will post the second script online. Landis considers himself a "idea machine", he has been posting all the ideas related to movies on the Internet-from Ghostbusters to Fantastic Four.
Source
IMDB: American Ultra
Slashfilms: American Ultra Set Interview
The Daily Beast: Interview with Max Landis
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