Clueless - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Clueless or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Clueless

[sandra]

This film spun off a television show and a series of books.

[eli]

When Cher is waiting for Christian's call, the camera angle and shot make the phone look like the stone monument from 2001: A Space Odyssey; the music playing at that point is from the same movie

[kim]

In the scene where Cher is packing for her father and is surprised by Christian's call, he is at a museum. The painting behind him is of two men affectionately in an embrace, another foreshadow of his sexuality.

[oscar]

Brekin Meyer (Travis) and the film's writer/director Amy Heckerling share the same birthday, May 7th.

[lynn]

At one point Tai (Brittany Murphy) insults Cher by calling her a virgin who can't drive. Murphy confessed later that at the time of filming, she actually was a virgin who couldn't drive.

[christina]

Often referred to as the film debut of Paul Rudd, which was really Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995). Clueless was his second movie but it was released before Halloween 6, causing the confusion.

[ken]

A promo filmed for MTV showed Dionne and Cher ordering food at a diner. Their waitress was their moonlighting lesbian P.E. teacher Miss Stoger (Julie Brown). In it, they get freaked out by the idea of brine in their Caesar salad, and instead just order lemon wedges to suck on.

[sara]

Edward Kitsis is an assistant on this movie. He'd eventually co-create (with Adam Horowitz) the TV show, Once Upon a Time (2011). One of the actors who's appeared on the show is Sebastian Stan, where he plays Jefferson/The Mad Hatter. Paul and Sebastian end up working together in two Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), playing Scott Lang/Ant-Man and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier respectively.

[edgar]

The high school where the students attend is "Bronson Alcott High School." Bronson Alcott was a nineteenth-century Transcendentalist writer, best known for starting an ultimately unsuccessful Utopian community called "Fruitlands," and for being the father of "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott. At one time, Amy Heckerling dated Bronson Pinchot, whose middle name is "Alcott," after the author. "Bronson Alcott" is also the name of the prep school in Nat Hentoff's 1976 novel "This School is Driving Me Crazy," where the protagonist's father is headmaster.

[tamara]

Cher's last name is given as Horowitz, but shown on her report card as Hamilton. This may be an in-joke, as director Amy Heckerling's previously directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) featured a character named Stacey Hamilton.

[kylie]

According to the script for Clueless (1995), the restaurant scenes were supposed to take place at California Pizza Kitchen, but when the CEOs of that franchise read the breadstick/penis jokes in the script, they would not allow filming to take place in their restaurants.

[riley]

During the film, there are fifty-three different kinds of tartan/plaid used, seven of which are worn by Cher, and twelve by other major characters.

[marc]

The films that Christian watches on video with Cher, Some Like It Hot (1959) and Spartacus (1960), provide clues to his sexual orientation. The first movie deals with cross-dressing men (who are escaping from a mob hit). The second includes the famous scene where a Roman master (Laurence Olivier) tries to seduce his male servant (Tony Curtis). Both these movies also include Tony Curtis.

[bessie]

Director Amy Heckerling met with Alicia Witt, Reese Witherspoon, Keri Russell, and Tiffani Thiessen for the role of Cher. Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow were both considered for the role, but neither auditioned. Ben Affleck and Zach Braff both auditioned for Josh. Seth Green auditioned for Travis. Alanna Ubach auditioned for Tai. Terrence Howard auditioned for Murray, while Dave Chappelle also met with Heckerling to discuss the role. Jamie Walters auditioned for Christian. Sarah Michelle Gellar was offered the role of Amber, but had to turn it down when her soap opera All My Children (1970) refused to allow her time away. Jerry Orbach was offered the role of Mel Horowitz, but similarly could not get time away from his show, Law & Order (1990), while Harvey Keitel was deemed too expensive to be cast in the part.

[jeffrey]

According to "As If!" a book by Jen Chaney celebrating the twentieth anniversary of this film, though many people think the costuming budget must have been high for the film, it was actually quite modest for a big blockbuster film. Costume designer Mona May wanted the girls to look like mall rats, not models, so her 63 outfit changes only cost $200,000. The biggest costume expense was the plaid Jean Paul Gaultier outfit Alicia Silverstone wears in the opening scenes, an outfit that she got to keep, along with all her outfits from the film which, as she told Entertainment Weekly magazine, she gave away to charity.

[sophie]

Alicia Silverstone (Cher) actually did not know how to correctly pronounce "Haitians" in the classroom scene. Director Amy Heckerling told the crew not to correct her because she liked it so much and wanted it to be in the film.

[elmer]

DIRECTOR CAMEO (Amy Heckerling makes a cameo as Miss Geist's maid of honor at the wedding scene. She is also in the bouquet-catching scene and is the source of most of the struggling.

[cacao]

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[afycumi]

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