History Trivia / JackieBrown

* CreatorsOddball: This is Creator/QuentinTarantino's only direct adaptation, so it has a lot more of another storyteller's DNA in it than usual. As such, it's usually either at the top or bottom of people's Tarantino lists.
* DawsonCasting: Louis Gara is described in the screenplay as being in his mid-forties. Creator/RobertDeNiro was 55 at the time.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/QuentinTarantino specifically cast Creator/PamGrier and Creator/SamuelLJackson despite the fact that they look nothing like the characters in the book. Creator/RobertForster was also one of his main choices for Max Cherry.

** Jackie Brown was white in the original novel. Creator/QuentinTarantino wanted Creator/PamGrier for the lead role, so he changed the character.

** The scene when Max and Jackie talk (and Max discusses that he had work done on his hair to make him look more youthful) was suggested by Creator/RobertForster, who had such surgery when his hairline began to disappear and thought it fit the character. Creator/QuentinTarantino was delighted that Forster was willing to openly discuss the procedure and immediately wrote it into the screenplay.
* ApprovalOfGod: Creator/QuentinTarantino was afraid that Creator/ElmoreLeonard would hate the film. He and Roger Avary hesitated to discuss the changes with Leonard, finally speaking with Leonard as the film was about to start shooting. Leonard loved the screenplay, considering it not only the best of the twenty-six screen adaptations of his novels and short stories, but also stating that it was possibly the best screenplay he had ever read.

* CreatorsOddball: This is Creator/QuentinTarantino's only direct adaptation, so it has a lot more of another storyteller's DNA in it. As such, it's usually either at the top or bottom of people's Tarantino lists.
* DawsonCasting: Louis Gara is described in screenplay as being in his mid-forties. Creator/RobertDeNiro was 55 at the time.

** Extended scene with Jackie/Sheronda in the mall's food court.
** Extended scene with Jackie and Ray in the diner.

** Alternate opening credits sequence.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/QuentinTarantino reportedly did not get along on-set. This probably had something to do with De Niro not being given much to do by Tarantino, regarding playing Louis Gara, who said very little and tended to mumble in his early scenes, but gradually came out of himself as the film progressed.

** Max leaves a message on an answering machine, a dwindling piece of technology.

** Creator/QuentinTarantino's list for Max Cherry was Creator/PaulNewman, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/JohnSaxon and Creator/RobertForster.

** Creator/BridgetFonda is a lot thinner and less busty than how Melanie's described in the book.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/QuentinTarantino specifically cast Creator/PamGrier and Creator/SamuelLJackson despite the fact that they look nothing like the characters in the book.

** Creator/SylvesterStallone originally wanted to play Louis, while Creator/JohnTravolta was the first choice to play Ray Nicollete.
** Creator/QuentinTarantino's list for Max Cherry was Creator/PaulNewman, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/JohnSaxon and Robert Forster.

** Creator/BridgetFonda is a lot thinner and less bustier than how Melanie's described in the book.

* CastTheRunnerUp: When Creator/RobertDeNiro first got ahold of the script, he wanted to play the role of Max Cherry. Creator/QuentinTarantino wanted to work with De Niro, but had his heart set on Robert Forster as Cherry, so he gave the role of Louis to De Niro.

* CreatorsOddball: This is Tarantino's only direct adaptation, so it has a lot more of another storyteller's DNA in it. As such, it's usually either at the top or bottom of people's Tarantino lists.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Jackie shown to be old-school and little cash-strapped because she hasn't updated her musical collection from records to compact disks. Max asks why she hasn't jumped into the CD revolution. Nowadays, even [=CDs=] are old-fashioned. Max himself buys a cassette tape of the Delfonics and listens to it in his car. You can't even buy cars with cassette players anymore.
** There's a RunningGag that Ordell insists that Melanie answer the house phone even though every call is for him. Nowadays, this argument wouldn't occur because everyone would call Ordell's cell phone directly.
** Max gives his phone numbers without including the area code. In a few years, dialing an area code would become necessary even when making local calls, so it's become customary to always include them.
** One scene in which Jackie wears overalls pegs the film as being mid-90s, when overalls became a brief fashion fad.

* ActorInspiredElement: It was Creator/SamuelLJackson's idea to give Ordell the long hair and the braided goatee.
* ApprovalOfGod: Creator/ElmoreLeonard named this as one of his favorite adaptations of his novels.

* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/RobertDeNiro originally wanted to play Max Cherry.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/QuentinTarantino reportedly didn't get along onset, which is obviously why [=DeNiro=] didn't join Tarantino's ProductionPosse.

* ThrowItIn: Though he largely refrained out of respect for Tarantino, Beaumont's line about being caught off-guard was improvised by Chris Tucker.