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Jamie Lee Curtis played Buckaroo's mother, Sandra Banzai, in a flashback scene that was cut from the film.  Many terms and names were taken from Thomas Pynchon's book "The Crying of Lot 49". It has been said that the director W.D. Richter wrote a sequel to this film called "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League". This film was sadly never produced and some people have said was eventually re-tooled into "Big Trouble in Little China", this is incorrect. A common confusion due to W.D. Richter's involvement in both and the somewhat offbeat style, but Richter didn't write either "Buckaroo Banzai" or any sort of sequel. He's happy to leave the Buckaroo writing to Earl Mac Rauch. -Thanks to ArcLightThe latitude and longitude recited by the technicians during the alignment of the oscillation overthruster, are actually the co-ordinates of Cape Canaveral in Florida. During the opening scenes, when Buckaroo first installs the Overthruster in his jet-car, Professor Ikeda's monitor in the bunker flashes "Signed". This could be easily dismissed as pseudo-scientific jargon used on a technical-looking prop for effect, but half-way through the jet-car run, when Buckaroo veers off course, the status on the monitor changes to "Sealed". Finally, a few moments later, as the Overthruster activates, the monitor changes to "Delivered"! -Thanks to BrettThe Oscillation Overthruster device reappeared as a "spectral analyzer" in an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation "pen Pals". If you look closely at the "Overthruster" used in Buckaroo's rocket car, you will see it is actually the same blinking & flashing prop used as the 'Flux Capacitor' in the Delorean from "Back to the Future". "Back to the Future" was made after this film, so you have to wonder if anyone consciously thought that recycling the piece wouldn't matter much, since not many people saw "Buckaroo Banzai". -Thanks to Mark HillPeter Weller (of "Robocop" fame) is really playing the guitar in the night club scene. Actor Clancy Brown is best known as the evil 'Kurgan' in the movie "Highlander". He also provides voices for numerous cartoon characters, one of which is 'Lex Luthor' in the hit animated series "Justice League". -Thanks to Phantom Planet« Click here to add some Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai trivia  Find much more great trivia in the filmmaker's commentary on the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai DVD.Rediscover your favorites! If you like Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai or 80's Sci-Fi / Fantasy classics, then be sure to check out this list: ..... Empire Strikes Back ..... Night of the Comet ..... Aliens ..... Back To The Future ..... Last Starfighter ..... Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ..... Circuitry Man ..... Brazil ..... Blade Runner ..... Thing ..... Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan ..... Return to Oz ..... Starman ..... Somewhere In Time ..... Strange Invaders ..... Short Circuit .....[More] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Featured Movie Location: Banzai InstituteWanna see the real life filming location used for Banzai Institute in the movie? These scenes were actually shot at a private residence, located in Los Angeles, S. California. [New! Show Google Map] Buckaroo's House can be found at 757 Kingsman Ave., Rustic Canyon, California, USA. Great campy flick! No matter how many times I view it, I get a kick out of seeing the mountains surrounding Yoyodyne Industries which in the movie is supposed to be in Grovers Mills, NJ (BTW, where the Martians landed in Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds"!!). The problem is, Grovers Mills NJ (outside Princeton) is very flat. Very pretty, lots of trees, but flat. [Thanks to Jim McGrath] See the link below for a complete breakdown of the locations.
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Michael Boddicker's catchy and campy synth score was recently released in a bootleg format [Thanks to Paula Hughes for the heads-up] When it was time to film the end title sequence where Buckaroo and his bandmates are walking in the dry L.A. aqueduct in step to the music, they were actually walking to Billy Joel's "Up Town Girl". The crew tied a boom box to a camera truck and blared it during filming. The music that shows up on film wasn't ready yet but had the exact same tempo as "Up Town Girl"! « Click here to add new music trivia for Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Soundtrack Available: Bootleg Only | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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