Line #12 Trivia/StElmosFire


1	* ActorInspiredElement: The "booga-booga" cheer that the friends do when they are celebrating or just in a good mood was not originally in the script. In a later interview, Creator/RobLowe stated that the cheer came out of observing fans whispering about the stars of the movie and then laughing. The cheer itself makes fun of what these whispered conversations sounded like from a few feet away.
2	* BreakawayPopHit: ''Two'' of them, with "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" by John Parr and the {{instrumental}} "Love Theme from ''St. Elmo's Fire''" by David Foster. Younger fans may have no idea that there was a movie attached to these songs.
3	* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/JoelSchumacher.
4	* CastTheRunnerUp:
5	** Creator/EmilioEstevez originally wanted to play Billy Hicks.
6	** Creator/AllySheedy originally wanted to play Jules. Creator/JoelSchumacher convinced her to take the role of Leslie.
7	** Creator/BronsonPinchot was up for the role of Kevin Dolenz, but lost out to Creator/AndrewMcCarthy because he was, according to a 1996 Movieline interview, too ethnic-looking.
8	* CreatorCouple: Wendy's parents are played by Martin Balsam and Creator/JoyceVanPatten, who had been married, although they were divorced more than two decades before this film was made.
9	* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/MareWinningham played a virgin while she was actually pregnant during filming. She was also a Roman Catholic playing a Jew, though she did convert twenty years later.
10	* MethodActing: Playing roommates in the movie, Creator/EmilioEstevez and Creator/AndrewMcCarthy roomed together to prepare for their roles in the film.
11	* RealitySubtext: Creator/DemiMoore had a drug problem, much like her character when she was cast in the film. One day, Creator/JoelSchumacher actually demanded that she leave the set because she was really high. Moore actually had to go through rehab and promise to stay clean in order to play a character with a drug problem.
12	* RealLifeRelative: Creator/MareWinningham's brother, Patrick, appears as a band member of 'The New Breed' Band.
13	* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/EmilioEstevez and Creator/DemiMoore began dating during the filming of the movie. He said he was "deeply in love with her." For a time they were even engaged, though they never married.
14	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
15	** Creator/RobertDowneyJr was considered for Billy Hicks.
16	** Creator/CThomasHowell auditioned for Kirby but didn't get it because he was too young.
17	** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/BrookeShields and Creator/ElisabethShue were all considered for Leslie.
18	** Creator/JenniferBeals, Creator/JoanCusack, Creator/JodieFoster and Creator/TatumONeal were offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
19	** Creator/LauraDern auditioned for Naomi.
20	* WorkingTitle: Creator/ColumbiaPictures hated the title, going so far as to send a 35-page memo listing all of their issues with the proposed title and suggesting such alternatives as ''The Real World'' and ''Sparks''.
21	* WriteWhatYouKnow:
22	** According to Creator/JoelSchumacher's DVDCommentary, co-screenwriter Carl Kurlander reportedly based Kirby's obsession with Dale on his own true-life university crush on a fellow student he had known on campus whilst studying at uni.
23	** The interchanges between Kevin and the hooker were based on a conversation between a hooker and a limo driver that Creator/JoelSchumacher had once overheard.

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