Line #33 Trivia/TheMask


1	!!General trivia
2	* ApprovalOfGod: ''Mask'' creator Mike Richardson loved the movie and its accompanying animated series.
3	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There was once a musical adaptation that was performed at Butlins vacation resorts in the UK that's been lost to time outside of some promotional material and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=I_VJiENdK_w soundtrack which has been uploaded to YouTube in its entirety]].
4	* RecursiveAdaptation: ''The Mask: Official Movie Adaptation'' (comics -> movie -> comics) and ''Adventures of the Mask'', which was based on the animated series (comics -> movie -> TV series -> comics).
5	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There were plans for a stage play based on the tie-in children's book "The Night Before [=ChristMASK=]" but those plans never happened.
6	!![[ComicBook/TheMask The comic book series]]
7	* BonusMaterial: Vol. 2 of the {{Omnibus}} included the short stories of ''Dark Horse Presents'' and ''A Decade of Dark Horse'' compilations apart of the main series.
8	* EarlyBirdRelease: The first mini-series is considered this; part of the ''Mayhem'' magazine as one of the new comic books Dark Horse made was later compiled as ''The Mask #0''.
9	* FranchiseKiller: The ''Son of the Mask'' movie was why Dark Horse stopped making ''The Mask'' comic books. Or at least until 2014's ''Itty Bitty Mask''.
10	* HeAlsoDid:
11	** One of the creators of ''The Mask'', Doug Mahnke, was a young promise of Dark Horse, but wasn't until he moved to Creator/DCComics that he really became famous, working on big titles such as ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' (including ''ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay''), ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague'' (including ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueElite''), ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' and ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' (most notably the arc ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' was based on), to name a few. He also worked for Creator/WildStorm in ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'', ''Team Zero'' and the CrisisCrossover ''Worldstorm''.
12	** ''Itty Bitty Mask'', as well the ''Itty Bitty'' series for Dark Horse, was made by Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani, the creators of DC's ''ComicBook/TinyTitans''.
13	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A planned interquel would fill in the time between Kathy getting the Mask by killing Ipkiss in ''The Mask #0'' and the first series, but it didn't see the light.
14	!![[Film/TheMask The 1994 film]]
15	* ActorInspiredElement: An outfit Jim Carrey's mother made for him to wear in his early standup days inspired The Mask's banana-yellow zoot suit.
16	* AwesomeDearBoy: One of the reasons Jim Carrey agreed to do the film was because he, like Stanley, loved cartoons.
17	* TheCastShowoff:
18	** Yes, that is Jim Carrey singing "Cuban Pete". (However, that's not Cameron Diaz singing in the nightclub, as anyone who has seen ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'' can attest.) Both Carrey and Diaz did their dancing; Jim even helped choreograph the "Cuban Pete" number.
19	** He also lives up to his nickname "Rubber Face" when Stanley first becomes The Mask. The film used CGI to distort the mask on his face, but the wacky, cartoonish faces? All Jim Carrey.
20	* DarkhorseCasting: Creator/CameronDiaz was a model with no prior acting experience.
21	* DeletedScene:
22	** The prologue, in which Leif Ericson ended up in what would later be America ''just because it was far enough away for him to get rid of the mask''. "Leave [naming the place] to the Italians. This land is now ''cursed''."
23	** [[spoiler:Peggy's death after betraying Stanley, where Dorian (who has the Mask on) hurls Peggy into a printing press before a series of red-stained newspapers get printed with a fake story reporting her death.]] Because of that, Peggy [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse disappears from the plot after getting her money]] and [[KarmaHoudini didn't get what she deserved]]. Russell removed it because of fears it would be too dark for the film. Due to this, she became a regular in the AnimatedAdaptation.
24	** An extended scene concerning The Mask's confrontation with a street gang.
25	** An early workprint of the movie can be found online, with more extended/deleted scenes not available on the DVD. One scene shows Stanley getting dropped off by his apartment after finding The Mask in the Edge City river and gets immediately confronted by the same street gang that he would see again shortly as The Mask. The gang's leader asks Stanley for the time so he can steal his watch, foreshadowing how Stanley would soon get payback on him as The Mask when asked the same question.
26	** The workprint also makes Tina sound more cynical than the final cut; added lines clarify that she hates that Dorian forced her to record the bank's security in the opening scene but did so because IDidWhatIHadToDo (and tells Stanley this in Landfill Park). This dialogue would have made her later speech to Stanley at the jail have a more dramatic weight behind it, and it would have been more evident that she had a more romantic view of life by the ending.
27	** The workprint also had an extended version of Dorian confronting Tina when she tries to leave town, where he heavily implies that [[IfICantHaveYou he]] ''[[IfICantHaveYou killed]]'' [[IfICantHaveYou one of his previous girlfriends when she tried to leave him]].
28	--->'''Dorian:''' You know what happened to the last bitch that ran out on me? ''Do you?!''\
29	'''Tina:''' No...\
30	'''Dorian:''' Nobody else does, either. And ''nobody ever will''.
31	* DuelingDubs:
32	** In Spain, the film received two dubs: one for theatrical releases with Luis Posada as Jim Carrey's voice and another for airplane screenings (yes, that is a practice, although not very well-known) with Antonio García Moral as Carrey. The thing is that when the film had its first Spanish DVD release, for unknown reasons, they used the airplane screening dub for the Spanish audio track, which was met with negative feedback. By the time the film got a Blu-ray release, and the distributor used the theatrical dub [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes keeping the airplane dub for the DVD release.]] Curiously enough, both dubs feature Dionisio Macías in very different roles: [[InspectorJavert Kellaway]] in the theatrical dub and [[BigBad Dorian]] in the airplane screening dub.
33	** Brazil has two dubs: the original from Usefulnotes/SaoPaulo found in most home video releases. The Usefulnotes/RioDeJaneiro dub was first available on the over-the-air broadcast, and one can find it on Netflix. Many fans prefer the latter, mainly because most of its voice actors returned for the cartoon.
34	* ExecutiveMeddling: Very surprisingly inverted if one listens to the DVD commentaries/behind-the-scenes material. Chuck Russell -- director of ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors''-- stated that New Line was interested in developing ''The Mask'' along the lines of the comic books; this would have become, according to Russell, "the next Freddy Krueger". But, he noted, that draft after draft of the more comics-faithful adaptation did not work. So, he fought valiantly to make the film a comedy; the Cuban Pete sequence is one of the few elements that survived until the final cut.
35	* FakeAmerican: Canadian-born Jim Carrey plays Stanley Ipkiss.
36	* FocusGroupEnding: A rather minor one in this instance, but still ultimately an improvement. In the original ending, it was only Charlie who dove into the water after the Mask, but test audiences had grown to love [[CanineCompanion Milo]] so much that they wanted ''him'' to get it.
37	* HeyItsThatPlace: The auto repair shop is the Los Angeles firehouse whose interiors were used most notably in ''Film/Ghostbusters1984''.
38	* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: The film was originally going to be like the comic and the start of a horror franchise to replace the ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' films, with ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' planned to be the franchise's last film. It became more of a comedy after Creator/JimCarrey was cast.
39	* MissingTrailerScene: The trailer has Stanley being mugged by the gang and saying, "I have no money."
40	* NonSingingVoice:
41	** Creator/CameronDiaz's singing is dubbed over by voice actress Susan Boyd.
42	** The Lady Cop featured in the "Cuban Pete" number is played by Krista Buonauro, but Angie Jaree did her singing.
43	* OrphanedReference:
44	** An original script idea was for Stanley Ipkiss to meet the street gang that he later encounters as The Mask earlier in the film, getting mugged and having his watch stolen, explaining why when his landlady asks him if he knows what time it is, he says, "Actually, no."
45	** In a [[https://youtu.be/eG1DobNvrCw deleted scene]] from the extended workprint, Dorian says to Tina, "Nobody ever kissed you like Dorian Tyrell." Had this scene stayed in the final cut, that line would’ve become a MeaningfulEcho when [[spoiler:Tina tricks him into taking off the Mask.]]
46	* PromotedFanboy: Of this film, that is. Music/TheWeeknd has said that this movie was the first he ever saw and inspired him to pursue a career in audio-visual art. As fate would have it, upon attaining stardom he ended up moving to a residence not far from Creator/JimCarrey's own and they became good neighbors! He would cast Carrey as the DJ who narrates the 2022 ConceptAlbum ''Dawn FM'', and in the ending of the video for "Out of Time", Carrey places a blank full-face mask on Abel's own as an ActorAllusion.
47	* SparedByTheCut: Peggy Brandt sells out Stanley to Dorian, foolishly believing he wouldn't hurt Stanley despite knowing he's a ''mobster''. In the theatrical cut, she disappears from the movie entirely after Dorian captures Stanley. In the original version, however, Dorian throws her into the printing press and kills her, commenting beforehand that she'll be front page news -- and so she is: The papers that emerge from the press have suspiciously red ink, a photo of her screaming, and a headline announcing she died in a bizarre accident.
48	* StarMakingRole:
49	** For Creator/CameronDiaz.
50	** After ''Series/InLivingColor'', Creator/JimCarrey had this film, ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' and ''Film/DumbAndDumber'' all hits in 1994. But it was this film that proved he had a bit more depth to his acting, while Ace Ventura is persistently cartoonish for no reason Stanley Ipkiss is a meek ExtremeDoormat who gets to unleash a cartoonish side with RealityWarper powers.
51	* ThrowItIn:
52	** The Mask pulling out a condom in the balloon-making scene was added by Jim Carrey.
53	** He also improvised the heart-shaped cigarette puff (and arrow shot from his nose) during the Frenchman scene, making it a rare instance of an ad-libbed ''special effect''!
54	* VanityPlate: [[https://youtu.be/dDcfH_yL3oU?t=10 New Line's now-iconic logo]] debuted with "The Mask", though [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the animation differed slightly compared to the standard version, with the blue light shifting around the screen before settling behind the logo, and the NLC name being in a different font]]; furthermore, theatrical prints had the late 1980s New Line logo at the beginning, with home video and TV versions adding the prototype but retaining the old logo at the end.
55	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
56	** Creator/SteveMartin, Creator/MatthewBroderick, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MartinShort, and Creator/RickMoranis were considered for the role of Stanley Ipkiss before the casting of Creator/JimCarrey.
57	** [[Film/ToTheLimit Anna Nicole Smith]], Creator/JenniferConnelly, Music/VanessaWilliams, Creator/KristySwanson, and Creator/JeriRyan were considered for the part of Tina Carlyle before Creator/CameronDiaz was cast. Upon being cast, [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2019/07/29/a-smoooooookin-oral-history-of-the-mask-on-the-films-25th-birthday/?sh=658b43371cad Diaz proved too charismatic]] for the BitchInSheepsClothing angle that the Tina character was originally written in mind with, so the character was then rewritten to be a SheepInSheepsClothing.
58	** The movie was originally going to be exactly like the comic. ExecutiveMeddling prevented that from happening because Creator/JimCarrey was [[TypeCasting playing the title role]] and the scriptwriter found that a faithful adaptation wouldn't work.
59	** In one of the earlier drafts of the script, the Coco Bongo was originally called the Monkey's Paw. The club was called the Valhalla Club in another draft.
60	** There were plans for an actual sequel (''not'' ''Film/SonOfTheMask'', mind you). One idea was that Lt. Kellaway finds the mask, dons it, and becomes the next villain. Furthermore, ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' actually had a contest that whoever won could appear in the film as an extra. They [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] this in their [[GrandFinale final issue]].
61	--->'''NP:''' To whoever won that contest: Sorry.
62	** At one point, the studio worked with the idea of making the sequel about a woman (possibly either Peggy or Tina) wearing the Mask.
63	** The original script ended with Charlie Schumaker wearing the mask.
64	** One of the earlier drafts ended with Mrs. Peenman putting on the mask and chasing after Charlie.
65	** Another early script draft included Stanley as The Mask going through a CostumeTestMontage, performing an InstantCostumeChange to try out each one. His costumes include a tacky Creator/DonJohnson -style outfit, a TotallyRadical '90s rapper-style outfit (which he dismisses as for "buttonheads"), and Calvin Klein underwear ("Marky Mark, eat your heart out.") before settling with the signature banana-yellow zoot suit. The animated series used the idea of The Mask going through a costume change as a way for The Mask to wear something appropriate for any situations he finds himself in.
66	** Black Pearl was set to work on a Sega Genesis version of the SNES game, but this never came about. They later specified that the SNES version took longer to develop than planned, resulting in it coming out a year after the film. Creating a Genesis version would have taken an additional year, and everyone realized that releasing a video game tie-in to a movie over two years after the movie came out would be pointless. The lead programmer added that a level set in a carnival ended up cut.
67	** An early screenplay from 1991 had different characters like Stanley's girlfriend, Kathleen Berman (inspired by his girlfriend Kathy in the comics), Detective Mitchell "Mitch" Gallagher, and Scully and Vito Vitelli, who later became Dorian and Niko, respectively. The 1991 script by Mark Verheiden had these in abundance. Such moments include Scully massacring a wedding reception at Vitelli's estate, emerging drenched in blood, and groping Kathleen while wearing the mask.
68	** Kenner's tie-in action figure line was going to include [[http://www.kennercollector.com/2011/03/unproduced-sculpt-from-the-mask/ Walter]] based on his comic book appearance. The line was cancelled before it could be produced.
69	!![[WesternAnimation/TheMask The animated series]]:
70	* ActingForTwo: In the episode "Split Personality", the Mask and Stanley share the same body when the mask splits in half, so Rob Paulsen spends most of the episode conversing between the two.
71	* BannedEpisode:
72	** "Flight as a Feather" never aired on [[Creator/{{Freeform}} Fox Family]], the American versions of Creator/CartoonNetwork or Boomerang (the overseas versions have aired it), and CBS for its infamous sequence with Cookie [=BaBoom=].
73	** All of season two's episodes never aired on CBS, though this was due to [[ExecutiveMeddling CBS changing the Saturday morning line-up to make room for new shows]].
74	* DuelingWorks: This show and ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''. They both ran from 1995-1997, and they both feature mild-mannered everyguys taking on an insane yet heroic persona. ''Freakazoid'' was a little DenserAndWackier than ''The Mask'' because there weren't really any straight characters (except maybe Cosgrove, and even he's TheComicallySerious). It also didn't see nearly as much success, unfortunately.
75	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There are only three VHS releases (back when [=VCR=]s were prevalent) and the two-part episode "The Mask is Always Greener on the Other Side" was released on DVD along with ''The Mask'' around the time that ''Son of the Mask'' was released in theaters. Besides that, the entire series hasn't been released officially on DVD (it was announced that the show would see a DVD release in 2013 thanks to Creator/ShoutFactory, but as of 2016, the set never materialized with no word on why). All is not lost, though -- most of the episodes are available via torrent downloading and on video websites like Website/YouTube and Dailymotion. The show also reran on Creator/CartoonNetwork and Boomerang channels in the UK and Australia. On April 10, 2018, Warner Archive released the first season on DVD, and the series has since been available on [=iTunes=] and Amazon Video.
76	* TheOtherDarrin:
77	** Stanley/The Mask is played here by Creator/RobPaulsen, who described it as "playing Jim Carrey for less money".
78	** Skilit was voiced by Creator/JasonMarsden in his first appearance in "Shadow of a Skilit" and by Benny Grant in all his subsequent ones.
79	* RecycledTheSeries: A cartoon adaptation of a PG-13 Jim Carrey movie (two similar series that fit this description include the ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' animated series -- with which this show had a {{Crossover}} -- and the short-lived cartoon adaptation of ''Dumb and Dumber'')
80	* RoleReprise:
81	** Ben Stein reprised his role as Dr. Neuman, the only actor from the movie to do so.
82	** In the French dub, Creator/EmmanuelCurtil (Jim Carrey's official French dub voice actor) voices Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask, reprising his role from the movie.
83	** The European Spanish dub had almost all the voice actors reprising their roles from the film, including Luis Posada as Stanley Ipkiss / The Mask. The sole exception was Doyle, who Joaquín Muñoz voiced instead of Miguel Rey.
84	** The Brazilian dub brought everyone from the Rio dub back, except Peggy. And Dr. Neuman when he appeared.
85	* UnfinishedEpisode: The writers had plans for an episode involving the deceased spirits of Dorian Tyrell and crime boss Niko to return to Edge City and engage in a mob war from beyond the grave, with further plans to have actor Peter Greene return to reprise his role as Dorian. The show's cancellation ultimately canned this idea.
86	* WagTheDirector: According to Creator/RobPaulsen, executives initially pressed him to try and perfectly mimic Jim Carrey's performance. After a pep talk from Creator/TimCurry, Paulsen told the executives something along the lines of ''"If you want Jim Carrey, you can hire Jim Carrey. But you can't afford Jim Carrey, so let me do this role my way."'' Following this, the executives relented.

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