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Rock and Rule Movie Behind The Scenes

Making Rock and Rule

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The Beauty... The Beast.... The Beat.
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Production

Go behind the scenes on the 1983 Sci-Fi movie starring Don Francks, Susan Roman, Samantha Langevin, Paul Le Mat

Dan Hennessey, Chris Wiggins, Greg Duffell, Brent Titcomb, Donny Burns, Martin Lavut, Catherine Gallant, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Robin Zander, Deborah Harry Update Cast


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The bands involved in making the music for this film also provided the singing voices; Omar's singing voice was done by Robin Zander of Cheap Trick, Angel's singing voice is Debbie Harry and Mok's singing voice was done by Lou Reed.
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Iggy Pop, who wrote and performed Mok/the Demon's song "Pain & Suffering", claimed that he felt possessed while making the songs, like someone else was in him.
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Ever since early Walt Disney films, Rock & Rule was one of the first movies to use the multi-plane camera for shooting large, vast gouache paintings of scenery- this multi-plane camera was used to film panning shots of cities and the like.
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There was no formal script written for the movie and each scene was animated separately, with the ending scene animated first, and then the individual scenes and pieces of the story were put together like a jigsaw puzzle, hence the movie's... 'rocky' plot progression, pun intended.
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Paul Le Mat dubbed Omar in the American version of the movie (the MGM redub), but Greg Salata dubbed Omar in the original Canadian cut.



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Deleted Scenes

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Alternate Versions

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Created in Canada there are two variations of the film, a US version and a Canadian version, each has a different voice for Omar, slightly different dialogue (and subsequently footage) to the other. The UK VHS release is of the US version - and very rare. Bonus points to the people who can spot the Canadian flag in the film.
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"Rock & Rule" has a cult following but it's not a well known film because of a limited distribution and a limited VHS release. Now, 20 years after it's creation the new DVD release may finally help it reach the wider audience it deserves.



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