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Here are some interesting notes about The Faculty,
which have appeared in various trivia questions on Internet boards or
could well appear.
- There are many logical and continuity issues with the
Faculty, such as Josh Harnett running out of scat and having
to go out to his car for some more. How in the blue-mangoes did they
get to the gym in the first place if not in his car and why didn’t the
boy genius take some since they knew they were out of it?
- Salma Hayak so far holds the crown of being in 3 films
with Elijah Wood—The Faculty, Chain of Fools and Spy Kids
3-D. She also had not one scene with the actor. A similar anomaly
is that Josh Harnett also appears in Sin City and also does not
have a scene with Elijah in that film.
- The Faculty marks the first time Elijah gets
to say the F word on the screen, and he does so 4 times, one in the
boy’s bathroom, once to Delilah when emphasizing the word comet, once
telling Josh Harnett bluntly to "Fuck you" and once when Josh
scares him in the formula- delayed scary bit at the end. The word is
used as an adverb throughout and never as a noun as it is frequently
used in Ash Wednesday and All I Want.
- This is the first film of three that Elijah appeared
in directed by Robert Rodriguez, the others being Spy Kids 3-D
and Sin City. These latter are usually regarded as cameos as
Rodriguez tends to work with the same core of actors and Elijah Wood
added some name-power to his small, but edible role, in Sin City.
- The creature in The Faculty looked very much
like The Watcher in the Water from The Fellowship of the Ring.
This reviewer wonders if Peter Jackson drew any inspiration from Robert
Rodriguez’s vision as Tolkien never describes the Watch adequately in
the trilogy.
- Although Elijah appeared on the cover of LOOK Magazine
in 2005, it was in The Faculty that he appeared on both the covers
of TIME and NEWSWEEK as part of the last scene.
- During the shoot of The Faculty, Elijah Wood
heard about auditions for Peter Jackson’s film The Lord of the Rings.
He went into the Hollywood hills with a director friend and shot a video
of Frodo Baggins material and sent it off to New Zealand. Although Pete
Jackson had stated that he would only use English actors to play the
four Hobbits, Elijah’s audition tape won him over and can we ever imagine
anyone else in that part? Never was actor and role so well met.
- Elijah Wood is famous for his blue eyes, but also for
his famous sideways prat fall, a sort of slip he can do so klutzily
as to be believable. He does this slip in Flipper, Huck Finn,
Chain of Fools and even in The Lord of the Rings. In The
Faculty he does it wice, once in the hallway escaping the Faculty
and once poolside (maybe even twice poolside) escaping the creature.
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