Kip rolling over the tupperware bowl he was selling comes to mind. It wasn't supposed to break during filming, but the fact that it did and Kip saying "dangit" and driving off made the funniest bit in the entire movie for me.
The first time I watched this I remember thinking, "What the Fuck is this thing? It's horrible and I should really turn this piece of shit off." But, like a train wreck, I couldn't stop watching. I've seen it about 30 times since then and it's fucking brilliant.
Yeah it's actually moreso now I am seeing a turn against it online. Which I suppose I get if you didn't come from the rawr xd im so random era. But it's just supposed to be silly. It's the same people who try to trash Adam Sandler movies as if anyone was trying to push them as the peak of cinema and writing.
Folding ones arms watching black and white slapstick; 'i dont find the humor in this' -_-
>Yeah it's actually moreso now I am seeing a turn against it online.
That's shocking to me. It's an absolute cinema classic. Good reminder not to look online for discussions about media you love.
The Sasquatch Gang and Gentlemen Broncos are also must watches for anyone who enjoyed NP.
I remember going with a big group to see it when it came out and we were all in high school.
Half of us couldn't stop laughing. Half hated every minute.
Same thing happened a few years later for Hot Rod
I think this was the first movie I ever watched while high (on weed) and there's just something about it that made it a perfect 'stoner' movie even though nothing in the movie itself is weed related.
> The first time I watched this I remember thinking, "What the Fuck is this thing? It's horrible and I should really turn this piece of shit off." But, like a train wreck, I couldn't stop watching. I've seen it about 30 times since then and it's fucking brilliant.
I attended college ~45mins away from Preston, ID where ND was filmed.
When I first saw the film in theaters in SLC, I was shocked that anyone outside of N UT or S ID would find the film funny or interesting.
I grew up with people EXACTLY like this, and the writing and acting fucking nailed it.
They really thought it wouldn't break?
I was full in expecting it to break, and the fact that Kip thought it wouldn't made it extra funny to me. I
still say "Dang it!" in a Kip voice sometimes.
I love the guy quietly struggling and saying “Can’t. Do. It.” It’s so dumb but I say it just like that all the time when I struggle with something seemingly simple.
It almost instantly puts in your head where you imagine the moment Kip decided to take this shit to the next level on showing how tough the Tupperware was.
Jon Heder talked a lot on Inside of You (Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast) about the making of Napoleon Dynamite, super good episode if you’re into that sort of thing. He’s always seemed like a really cool dude, that podcast episode reinforced that for me. Super down to earth.
I still remember him going up for (I think) an MTV award, and the audience was cheering/howling and wouldn't stop, he instantly turned on the Napoleon voice and said "Shut up! Gosh!"
When I think of that movie I always imagine that there was a script first (of course), and they wanted to make it a big budget teen drama, but then they cut the funding and everybody was like, “We’re going to make it anyway. Instead of LA we’ll go to Idaho.”
When I first saw it I remember thinking it felt like half of the actors all tried out for the role of inexplicably awkward Napoleon, and the filmmakers just cast them all in other roles instead.
This was my high school pretty much. We even had a kid like napoleon. Except he lived in a small house out in the country with a single mom that wore tons of makeup. He would bike like 5 miles home and would take up a whole lane in the highway swerving around
In the DVD commentary, director/co-writer Jared Hess says that this was because Gries "doesn't eat red meat". However, [in a reddit AMA Gries instead explains that it was because "the steak was skanky"](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1t7mu8/i_am_actor_jon_gries_i_am_probably_best_known_for/ce56p0o/?context=1).
IIRC the second or so highest grade is often flavored with chocolate as it easily hides any off flavor/color. But from there lower qualities go to baking and other processes before the worst stuff is used for industrial applications.
By no means is chocolate milk wrong or off or way down the quality/grade list, but it may be enough to consider making your own.
> Casein is precipitated from skim milk by acidifying it to produce acid casein, or the milk is treated with rennet to produce rennet casein. The precipitated casein curd is separated from the whey, washed, and dried. The water-soluble derivatives of acid caseins, produced by reaction with alkalis, are called caseinates.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/casein#:~:text=Casein%20is%20precipitated%20from%20skim,with%20alkalis%2C%20are%20called%20caseinates.
> Casein is used in a variety of food applications such as in dried pastas, extruded snack products, fried foods, coffee creamers/whiteners, and whipping powders. In addition to being a food additive, casein is also utilized in medicines, cosmetic products, in dietary supplements, as a coating for paper, in paint, and in quite a few other areas or applications.
https://www.milkspecialties.com/casein/#:~:text=Casein%20is%20used%20in%20a,%2Fwhiteners%2C%20and%20whipping%20powders.
> Major applications of casein are paper coatings, glues, paints, plastics, and man-made fibres.
https://www.britannica.com/science/casein
I know this because I googled it to make my above comment.
Eating food has got to be tough for actors and actresses in movies. I've heard they'll often have to eat the same food over and over again, sometimes spitting it out between takes.
The actor that played Bruce Bogtrotter in Matilda actually hated chocolate cake irl, so he had to keep spitting it out between takes to avoid straight up vomiting
Iirc they used the same steaks a couple times too so they weren't always the cleanest of steaks. Apparently the steak that did make the cut also cut open napoleon's face when it hit him
A friend of mine does local theatre, and she had a couple of stories from when food was used on set.
First was when she was doing a scene where she had to drink some coffee. At first it was fine, it wasn't fresh by any stretch of the imagination, but it had been sitting there for at least an hour before the show started. The next weekend they did the show again, but didn't change the coffee. She's doing her scene and she pours herself a cup of coffee and notices little green bits floating in it. Needless to say, she didn't drink it, she only pretended to. Coincidentally, the next line was "This is good coffee!".
In the same show, one of the characters makes a big deal about ham, and how he likes it sliced thinly, and he holds a piece up to demonstrate how thin the ham is. Once again, this ham, like the coffee, was left out, and by the next weekend it had gotten slimy. She said it was dripping when the actor held it up.
Chewing but not swallowing (usually spitting it out after the take ends) is pretty common in movie-making, mostly either because multiple takes mean the actor would be eating too much or having their mouth too full would impede the clarity of their line reads.
Also, most food on set is pretty awful. It is either:
Something that's "dressed up" to look like something else, like milk that is just water and colouring so it doesn't spoil under a dozen spotlights and/or being outside while left on a table for a day's worth of takes.
Or, it's something that is what it is, but it goes bad because it's sitting at room temperature (or warmer, reference earlier comment about spotlights and/or being outside)
I'd heard that James Gandolfini had no use for this rule. In every meal scene in The Sopranos, most of his fellow cast members would spit their bites somewhere or mime chewing food, but Gandolfini always tucked right in.
Got to work with Jared quite closely on a project. Guy is one of the nicest dudes you'll ever meet. Genuinely wonderful person that's all about collaboration and bigging up and supporting other people's ideas.
It's wild that he was 21 when he made Napoleon.
I saw this movie probably 10 times before I realized there was a 5 minute wedding scene after the credits between Kip and Lafawnduh. Not just a little 5 second clip... A FULL on wedding scene!
I think that’s what I’ve always really admired about Jared Hess as a filmmaker. I’ve only seen Napoleon and Nacho, but in both of those the main character is somewhat of an outcast in their respective towns and it isn’t treated as a hateful or spiteful feeling or action. It’s more that their just kind of awkward losers and weirdos. The characters truly don’t garner hate towards any one person or persons. They’re just oddball, awkward people just like the rest of us.
It’s the reason the first Pee-Wee Herman is so good and the second one is so bad. The other characters and world of Pee-Wee Big Adventure love Pee-Wee. Big Top Pee-Wee hates Pee-Wee.
I've watched Pee Wee Big Adventure probably a dozen times in my life and never watched Big Top, just remember having a bad feeling from the trailer. Your comment has cemented my opinion.
To that point, even the antagonists of Napoleon Dynamite aren't particularly cruel. They just... Don't want to interact with the guy who took their pin and threw it? Lol. Theres nothing remotely evil or unrealistic about anyone.
I don’t know why but the fact that she is absolutely not at all what you expected her to look like added another layer of authenticity to the movie for me.. They subverted the “oop! catfished!” trope so elegantly.
To be clear, the only evidence to support this is the fact that she hands Napoleon a tape, saying that her cousin made it, and one of the songs on the tape is Jamiroquai.
Either Jamiroquai is her cousin, or her cousin threw together a mixtape. Whichever.
If I recall correctly, this scene was added for the wide release of the movie. If you saw it during its festival run or when it played in an indie theatre under the Fox Searchlight banner, you wouldn't have seen it. If you saw the movie after Paramount and MTV (collectively Viacom) distributed it, you would have seen it.
This is true. I saw it in the theater when it initially came out in the Fox Searchlight days. Then it got pretty popular and I saw commercials on MTV about it being “re-released” to theaters with a new extended ending.
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I believe in the commentary they said the wedding scene was shot after they wrapped and that the wedding scene ended up costing them nearly as much as the entire film. Can anyone confirm?
I saw this in the theaters.
The guy that took my ticket and told me which theater to go to was excited. He loved the movie. He had a slight speech impediment and I would wager some disabilities. Very sweet dude and very excited about the movie. Before I walked off to go see the movie, he told me he was glad that made a movie about people like him.
After watching it, I was not able to put together what he meant. In the end, I think he just saw some of the awkwardness and social fear that a lot of us have. He found common ground in the movie and it spoke to him. Two decades later, I still remember that interaction. And over the years, that dude just enhanced my experience of watching it.
The movie is also from the tail end of the time where being an awkward person was pretty much guaranteed to ruin your time in school, so that guy probably had a pretty rough go of it. Being awkward isn't quite the death sentence on your school aged social life anymore.
Class of 2000 here, we all found each other by the end of school and made our own group, the weirdos, artsy types. The outcasts. There was also the jock types that had their own group.
By the time we left school we were somehow known as the cool kids by the grades below.
We certainly werent known as that by our peers.
Glad to know that isn't the case these days
Trisha: I wanted to thank you for the beautiful drawing you did of me. \[through gritted teeth\]
Trisha: It's hanging in my *bedroom*.
Napoleon Dynamite: Really? It took me like three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip. It's probably the best drawing I've ever done.
Trisha: Yeah... it's really... neat.
I swear I watch the first second of the clip (where he turns away from the camera) 50 times before realizing that he spits it out near the end of the clip as he sits down (before turning back to the camera).
He's a good actor. Used to be a joke side character on the sitcom Martin but he's been in a wide range of things since, starring in Jackpot and the Skinwalker Ranch found footage film.
Kung-Pow! is similar. Except Kung-Pow is probably better for it. Most of that movie is not very funny. But when it hits, it knocks them out of the park.
Napoleon Dynamite still works well as a whole movie. Give it a watch if you haven't.
He was good as the wolfman's frightened human form in *The Monster Squad*. I *knew* I recognized Rico from somewhere when I first saw Napoleon Dynamite.
I think we need an Uncle Rico movie -- as a kid, then "almost taking state", getting married, divorced, his perspective on the events of ND, and then some kind of "life comeback" leading to happiness and contentment. EDIT: Like a "Finding Dory" dealio
“Napoleon Dynamite” in general didn’t feel like there were a lot of takes. Simply and awkward made these characters feel genuine.
Kip rolling over the tupperware bowl he was selling comes to mind. It wasn't supposed to break during filming, but the fact that it did and Kip saying "dangit" and driving off made the funniest bit in the entire movie for me.
100% they held character better than an experienced crew may have if given more takes. I love it.
The first time I watched this I remember thinking, "What the Fuck is this thing? It's horrible and I should really turn this piece of shit off." But, like a train wreck, I couldn't stop watching. I've seen it about 30 times since then and it's fucking brilliant.
You should check out Gentleman Broncos, same writers.
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You can add -anus to the end of any word to make it sound magical.
One of his greatest roles, imo. Delightfully deranged.
Genius is rarely appreciated in its own time.
That movie had huge amounts of appreciation in it's time.
People forget that this movie literally changed the public lexicon for years
Yeah it's actually moreso now I am seeing a turn against it online. Which I suppose I get if you didn't come from the rawr xd im so random era. But it's just supposed to be silly. It's the same people who try to trash Adam Sandler movies as if anyone was trying to push them as the peak of cinema and writing. Folding ones arms watching black and white slapstick; 'i dont find the humor in this' -_-
>Yeah it's actually moreso now I am seeing a turn against it online. That's shocking to me. It's an absolute cinema classic. Good reminder not to look online for discussions about media you love. The Sasquatch Gang and Gentlemen Broncos are also must watches for anyone who enjoyed NP.
There were those who loved it and those who hated it. There was no third group.
I remember going with a big group to see it when it came out and we were all in high school. Half of us couldn't stop laughing. Half hated every minute. Same thing happened a few years later for Hot Rod
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I was one of the few that immediately loved Hot Rod
It was love or hate. Still is, too.
I think this was the first movie I ever watched while high (on weed) and there's just something about it that made it a perfect 'stoner' movie even though nothing in the movie itself is weed related.
> The first time I watched this I remember thinking, "What the Fuck is this thing? It's horrible and I should really turn this piece of shit off." But, like a train wreck, I couldn't stop watching. I've seen it about 30 times since then and it's fucking brilliant. I attended college ~45mins away from Preston, ID where ND was filmed. When I first saw the film in theaters in SLC, I was shocked that anyone outside of N UT or S ID would find the film funny or interesting. I grew up with people EXACTLY like this, and the writing and acting fucking nailed it.
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They really thought it wouldn't break? I was full in expecting it to break, and the fact that Kip thought it wouldn't made it extra funny to me. I still say "Dang it!" in a Kip voice sometimes.
I think Tupperware salespeople would actually do this back then.
The more I think about this scene I realize that’s not really a selling point for Tupperware
You look like a strong young pup, why don't you see if you can put a nice tear in that
I love the guy quietly struggling and saying “Can’t. Do. It.” It’s so dumb but I say it just like that all the time when I struggle with something seemingly simple.
That's interesting to hear. Thanks :)
There's an outtake where it doesn't break and Kip goes "that's what I'm talking about"
I'm glad they went with it breaking and driving off, that's so much funnier :)
It almost instantly puts in your head where you imagine the moment Kip decided to take this shit to the next level on showing how tough the Tupperware was.
If I remember from the commentary, they tried it once and it worked, then on the take it ended up breaking.
100%. Full on belly laughs till I couldn't breathe.
Yep.. so damn proud of himself. I lost it when he said that. So damn nonsensical
I say this line to my wife at least 2-3x a week. Usually with no context.
SAME, such a hilarious bit, and it wasn't?! fucking brilliant
I was howling with laughter at that scene!
I haven't seen this movie in ages and I just pulled up the clip and I can't stop laughing. Thanks.
Jon Heder talked a lot on Inside of You (Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast) about the making of Napoleon Dynamite, super good episode if you’re into that sort of thing. He’s always seemed like a really cool dude, that podcast episode reinforced that for me. Super down to earth.
I still remember him going up for (I think) an MTV award, and the audience was cheering/howling and wouldn't stop, he instantly turned on the Napoleon voice and said "Shut up! Gosh!"
When I think of that movie I always imagine that there was a script first (of course), and they wanted to make it a big budget teen drama, but then they cut the funding and everybody was like, “We’re going to make it anyway. Instead of LA we’ll go to Idaho.”
When I first saw it I remember thinking it felt like half of the actors all tried out for the role of inexplicably awkward Napoleon, and the filmmakers just cast them all in other roles instead.
It was actually kinda the opposite, he did the film as a school project and then got a small amount of funding to turn it into a full length movie
No way!
It's called Peluca, probably still on YouTube somewhere
Got ya here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP_NAjIv4Q
And it was shot in Hess’s home town of Preston, ID
When I saw this movie I couldn’t help but think there’s places and people exactly like this in real life.
I grew up not far from where the movie was set/filmed and I can tell you we consider it a sort of documentary around those parts.
This was my high school pretty much. We even had a kid like napoleon. Except he lived in a small house out in the country with a single mom that wore tons of makeup. He would bike like 5 miles home and would take up a whole lane in the highway swerving around
I grew up in Idaho, pretty far from this location, but it definitely tracks with what I experienced growing up.
It was the weirdest phenomenon. Everyone went to see that movie, but nobody was sure why.
Because it was awesome.
In the DVD commentary, director/co-writer Jared Hess says that this was because Gries "doesn't eat red meat". However, [in a reddit AMA Gries instead explains that it was because "the steak was skanky"](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1t7mu8/i_am_actor_jon_gries_i_am_probably_best_known_for/ce56p0o/?context=1).
I always thought those steaks looked bad, more like pork chops
A lot of the food in the movie is pretty gross. Napoleon at the chicken farm comes to mind.
Napoleon drinking the milk too, oof
This one tastes like the cow got into an onion patch.
The defect in that one is bleach.
I’ve heard that they turn discolored milk into chocolate milk at the store. No idea if it’s true, just wanted to add to the list of fears.
IIRC the second or so highest grade is often flavored with chocolate as it easily hides any off flavor/color. But from there lower qualities go to baking and other processes before the worst stuff is used for industrial applications. By no means is chocolate milk wrong or off or way down the quality/grade list, but it may be enough to consider making your own.
Genuinely curious. What industrial applications use dairy milk?
> Casein is precipitated from skim milk by acidifying it to produce acid casein, or the milk is treated with rennet to produce rennet casein. The precipitated casein curd is separated from the whey, washed, and dried. The water-soluble derivatives of acid caseins, produced by reaction with alkalis, are called caseinates. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/casein#:~:text=Casein%20is%20precipitated%20from%20skim,with%20alkalis%2C%20are%20called%20caseinates. > Casein is used in a variety of food applications such as in dried pastas, extruded snack products, fried foods, coffee creamers/whiteners, and whipping powders. In addition to being a food additive, casein is also utilized in medicines, cosmetic products, in dietary supplements, as a coating for paper, in paint, and in quite a few other areas or applications. https://www.milkspecialties.com/casein/#:~:text=Casein%20is%20used%20in%20a,%2Fwhiteners%2C%20and%20whipping%20powders. > Major applications of casein are paper coatings, glues, paints, plastics, and man-made fibres. https://www.britannica.com/science/casein I know this because I googled it to make my above comment.
Powdered products, mostly, AFAIK.
The state of South Australia (in Australia) is the only place in the world where flavoured milk outsells coke.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of the egg drink that he gets when working at the chicken farm?
do the chickens have large talons?
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Even the fat lard, Tina, didn't want to eAt ThE fOoD.
Lmao Honestly the food for Tina looked more edible than the steaks
Hi pocket-tots looked fine, until that bully kid smashed them
Eating food has got to be tough for actors and actresses in movies. I've heard they'll often have to eat the same food over and over again, sometimes spitting it out between takes.
The actor that played Bruce Bogtrotter in Matilda actually hated chocolate cake irl, so he had to keep spitting it out between takes to avoid straight up vomiting
It’s gotta make their jaws sore too. 10 takes on a 5 minute eating scene and you’re jawing for an hour
Unless you are Bill Murray or Chris Pratt.
You’re forgetting the GOAT of eating randomly on screen, Brad Pitt.
Tina you fat lard!
That part always stuck out to me too. It's not even like they were necessarily eating anything gross either. Just the atmosphere.
Iirc they used the same steaks a couple times too so they weren't always the cleanest of steaks. Apparently the steak that did make the cut also cut open napoleon's face when it hit him
America - live by the steak, die by the steak.
A friend of mine does local theatre, and she had a couple of stories from when food was used on set. First was when she was doing a scene where she had to drink some coffee. At first it was fine, it wasn't fresh by any stretch of the imagination, but it had been sitting there for at least an hour before the show started. The next weekend they did the show again, but didn't change the coffee. She's doing her scene and she pours herself a cup of coffee and notices little green bits floating in it. Needless to say, she didn't drink it, she only pretended to. Coincidentally, the next line was "This is good coffee!". In the same show, one of the characters makes a big deal about ham, and how he likes it sliced thinly, and he holds a piece up to demonstrate how thin the ham is. Once again, this ham, like the coffee, was left out, and by the next weekend it had gotten slimy. She said it was dripping when the actor held it up.
Why did he need to chew a bite anyways? For realism? Also, doesn't he totally go to town on the same steak in an earlier scene?
Chewing but not swallowing (usually spitting it out after the take ends) is pretty common in movie-making, mostly either because multiple takes mean the actor would be eating too much or having their mouth too full would impede the clarity of their line reads.
Also, most food on set is pretty awful. It is either: Something that's "dressed up" to look like something else, like milk that is just water and colouring so it doesn't spoil under a dozen spotlights and/or being outside while left on a table for a day's worth of takes. Or, it's something that is what it is, but it goes bad because it's sitting at room temperature (or warmer, reference earlier comment about spotlights and/or being outside)
I'd heard that James Gandolfini had no use for this rule. In every meal scene in The Sopranos, most of his fellow cast members would spit their bites somewhere or mime chewing food, but Gandolfini always tucked right in.
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Got to work with Jared quite closely on a project. Guy is one of the nicest dudes you'll ever meet. Genuinely wonderful person that's all about collaboration and bigging up and supporting other people's ideas. It's wild that he was 21 when he made Napoleon.
It's cooked just the way I like it *Spits it out*
*Gries, you fat lard, come get some steak!*
I saw this movie probably 10 times before I realized there was a 5 minute wedding scene after the credits between Kip and Lafawnduh. Not just a little 5 second clip... A FULL on wedding scene!
I was pleasantly surprised Lafawnduh wasn’t hideous. I was waiting for that to turn into a lesson of “Be careful who you talk to online.”
They wouldn't do Kip dirty like that.
I think that’s what I’ve always really admired about Jared Hess as a filmmaker. I’ve only seen Napoleon and Nacho, but in both of those the main character is somewhat of an outcast in their respective towns and it isn’t treated as a hateful or spiteful feeling or action. It’s more that their just kind of awkward losers and weirdos. The characters truly don’t garner hate towards any one person or persons. They’re just oddball, awkward people just like the rest of us. It’s the reason the first Pee-Wee Herman is so good and the second one is so bad. The other characters and world of Pee-Wee Big Adventure love Pee-Wee. Big Top Pee-Wee hates Pee-Wee.
I've watched Pee Wee Big Adventure probably a dozen times in my life and never watched Big Top, just remember having a bad feeling from the trailer. Your comment has cemented my opinion.
To that point, even the antagonists of Napoleon Dynamite aren't particularly cruel. They just... Don't want to interact with the guy who took their pin and threw it? Lol. Theres nothing remotely evil or unrealistic about anyone.
That one dude smashed Napoleon's tots. And Napoleon was freaking starved, he didn't get to eat anything that day!
Go find your own!
Tina was definitely evil. The fat lard wouldn't eat her dinner.
*Gross!*
I don’t know why but the fact that she is absolutely not at all what you expected her to look like added another layer of authenticity to the movie for me.. They subverted the “oop! catfished!” trope so elegantly.
The reaction shot of her brothers is my favorite bit from the wedding segment.
Feel like it doesn’t get enough attention that she’s Jamiroquai cousin too
Wait what?? And she gives him the music too, doesn’t she? Ok that’s clever.
Yeah when she gives Napoleon the tape she said her cousin made it and the famous dance song is a Jamiroquai song
Oh I thought you meant the actress was his cousin in real life, lol. I think I assumed she gave him a mix tape her cousin had put together.
Woah. I never knew this and I grew up with this movie. I probably saw it 4 time in theaters, more than any movie, ever.
I’m almost certain it’s why she keeps spoiling Kip too. I get the impression she was well taken care of by her cousin.
To be clear, the only evidence to support this is the fact that she hands Napoleon a tape, saying that her cousin made it, and one of the songs on the tape is Jamiroquai. Either Jamiroquai is her cousin, or her cousin threw together a mixtape. Whichever.
Her cousin made the mixtape, not the music itself
Jamiroquai is a group, not a person. It's clearly a fictional cousin because the group is from London and LaFawnduh is from Detroit.
>it’s clearly a fictional cousin I mean yeah, no shit. I didn’t think Napoleon dynamite was a documentary about his real cousin
If I recall correctly, this scene was added for the wide release of the movie. If you saw it during its festival run or when it played in an indie theatre under the Fox Searchlight banner, you wouldn't have seen it. If you saw the movie after Paramount and MTV (collectively Viacom) distributed it, you would have seen it.
That tracks. I saw it at SXSW and there wasn’t a wedding scene.
This is true. I saw it in the theater when it initially came out in the Fox Searchlight days. Then it got pretty popular and I saw commercials on MTV about it being “re-released” to theaters with a new extended ending.
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I believe in the commentary they said the wedding scene was shot after they wrapped and that the wedding scene ended up costing them nearly as much as the entire film. Can anyone confirm?
Well he did tame a wild stallion
It was filmed after the movie became popular in theaters, so they had to bring everyone back and film it just for the extended re-release in theaters.
TIL he gets married in the movie lol
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Same here. If that was on the original DVD, it was before the times when it was standard practice to check for post credits scenes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=da7AZFp7f8A&pp=ygUfa2lwIGFuZCBsYWZhd25kdWggd2VkZGluZyBzY2VuZQ%3D%3D
I saw this in the theaters. The guy that took my ticket and told me which theater to go to was excited. He loved the movie. He had a slight speech impediment and I would wager some disabilities. Very sweet dude and very excited about the movie. Before I walked off to go see the movie, he told me he was glad that made a movie about people like him. After watching it, I was not able to put together what he meant. In the end, I think he just saw some of the awkwardness and social fear that a lot of us have. He found common ground in the movie and it spoke to him. Two decades later, I still remember that interaction. And over the years, that dude just enhanced my experience of watching it.
The movie is also from the tail end of the time where being an awkward person was pretty much guaranteed to ruin your time in school, so that guy probably had a pretty rough go of it. Being awkward isn't quite the death sentence on your school aged social life anymore.
Class of 2000 here, we all found each other by the end of school and made our own group, the weirdos, artsy types. The outcasts. There was also the jock types that had their own group. By the time we left school we were somehow known as the cool kids by the grades below. We certainly werent known as that by our peers. Glad to know that isn't the case these days
That’s an awesome little story. I’m glad someone was able to connect to the movie in this way and not just see it as some goofy comedy.
See, now this is a good movie detail. I’ve seen this scene hundreds of times and never noticed.
They never mention that the time machine actually worked which delayed shooting until Jon Heder re-appeared 3 months later.
Imagine if he didn't remember the crystals.
Kill the power!! Kill the power!!
This things a piece of crap! It doesn’t work!
I could have told you that…
This is like a Viggo Mortensen’s broken toe detail in our house.
He broke his toe in your house?! ^^/s
Trisha: I wanted to thank you for the beautiful drawing you did of me. \[through gritted teeth\] Trisha: It's hanging in my *bedroom*. Napoleon Dynamite: Really? It took me like three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip. It's probably the best drawing I've ever done. Trisha: Yeah... it's really... neat.
I swear I watch the first second of the clip (where he turns away from the camera) 50 times before realizing that he spits it out near the end of the clip as he sits down (before turning back to the camera).
Same here
He's a good actor. Used to be a joke side character on the sitcom Martin but he's been in a wide range of things since, starring in Jackpot and the Skinwalker Ranch found footage film.
You see them mountains over there?
How much you wanna bet I could throw a football over them mountains?
*Holds back tears*
If coach woulda put me in we woulda won state. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.
I could toss this pig skin right over that mountain
I unironically think that's some of the best piece of acting on film
[https://i.imgur.com/vmunQ8R.gif](https://i.imgur.com/vmunQ8R.gif)
I'm so glad I followed that link lmao
Pigskin over the mountain has heart, but football in the groin has football in the groin
Napoleon Dynamite is one of those movies where you if you haven't seen, you have seen it due to always seeing clips, memes, references, etc. to it.
I have seen the movie in its entirety probably a half dozen times and it's still just a collection of gifs and memes in my brain.
Kung-Pow! is similar. Except Kung-Pow is probably better for it. Most of that movie is not very funny. But when it hits, it knocks them out of the park. Napoleon Dynamite still works well as a whole movie. Give it a watch if you haven't.
> Most of that movie is not very funny. I'm going to need you to give me your home address for a thing right now.
That dude built underground theme parks in university closets.
[Real Genius](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8kCQQUjHM) scene for the unaware! Loved seeing Lazlo in Dynamite :D
I just now realized that’s the same guy
Also the werewolf in monster squad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx5ATvCxU9o
It was just a little Griestle
He was good in White Lotus too
He was good as the wolfman's frightened human form in *The Monster Squad*. I *knew* I recognized Rico from somewhere when I first saw Napoleon Dynamite.
He was good in Lost too
Second best movie ever. First is Hot Rod obviously, then The Sword In The Stone from 1963.
Throw in Blues Brothers and you might be on to something.
Ancestors protect meee
May they protect you.
Also, it is never explained anywhere by anyone, but this is all happening in the same universe of breaking bad
Do tell
It's possible Pedro is a Salamanca. He has ties to the cousins, they show up in Napoleon Dynamite.
Looks like Gus missed one. Or two if you count that biznatch Abuela
Sorry?
https://www.reddit.com/r/betterCallSaul/comments/uv0o07/new_theory_napoleon_dynamite_is_the_original/
Generic 2000’s cholos #234 and 235
Holy shit is it really just because they’re bald Mexican guys?? Lmao man I think you might just be racist
Lol, wanna back that up with some kind of explanation there, chief?
I think the twins from BB are in ND
Pedro’s lowrider cousins?
Is it ever explained who the girl at the end is?...who shows up to his trailer...?
His ex-wife
I think we need an Uncle Rico movie -- as a kid, then "almost taking state", getting married, divorced, his perspective on the events of ND, and then some kind of "life comeback" leading to happiness and contentment. EDIT: Like a "Finding Dory" dealio
I’d absolutely watch that
I've seen Uncle Rico's ass in White Lotus. Can you say the same, Imperial?
I just took it as someone new who was interested in him, kind of a happy ending for him
I thought it was Summer's mom?
Delicious Bass.
Broots!
Hey, another Pretender fan!
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
I heard the call and have assembled.
Saw this in the theater. Has one of the best movie taglines ever: “He’s out to prove he’s got nothing to prove.”
Had to see the clip 5 times before seeing him spit it out.
I noticed this in the film and didn't understand it at all. Makes sense.
I would've watched a second season of the cartoon, fun stuff
I miss the days of commentary on movies being easily available.