Line #6 Trivia/FatalAttraction


1	* BeamMeUpScotty: "I'm not going to be ''ignored'', Dan!" is an interesting case: in most parodies, the words are right, but the ''delivery'' is quite different. Glenn Close says the line with amused disbelief rather than an AxCrazy screech.
2	* {{Blooper}}: At the end of the movie, as Dan is talking to the cops outside, the front door of the house is clearly open. Dan shakes hands with the cop, turns to walk up the walkway... cut to inside of the house where Beth is waiting as Dan ''opens'' the now closed door.
3	* CreatorBacklash:
4	** Creator/GlennClose was so angry over plans to reshoot the ending that for two weeks, she refused to do it. To this day, she prefers the original version, feeling that Alex was more suicidal than psychotic. Adrian Lyne wasn't keen on having to redo it either and presumably wouldn't have had test audiences not hated it.
5	** Close also felt that her portrayal of Alex Forrest perpetuated stigmas against mental illness, particularly the misconception that people with Borderline Personality Disorder are violent towards others. Noting most people with mental illness aren't violent. [[note]]People with BPD are more likely to hurt ''themselves'' than other people.[[/note]] Ironically, she would later create the organization [[http://bringchange2mind.org "Bring Change 2 Mind"]], which is devoted to ''de-stigmatizing'' mental illness.
6	* TheDanza: Ellen Gallagher is played by child actress Ellen Hamilton Latzen.
7	* DawsonCasting: Alex states her age as 36, but Creator/GlennClose was 40 during filming.
8	* DiagnosisOfGod: In a WordOfSaintPaul example, Creator/GlennClose stated that she regards Alex Forrest as having borderline personality disorder.
9	* EnforcedMethodActing: Adrian Lyne got Ellen's tearful reaction upon watching her parents argue by bullying the actress and threatening to take away her stuffed animal (that's why she's clutching it). Once the scene was complete, he assured her he was only kidding, and Douglas comforted her with a hug.
10	* FocusGroupEnding: [[https://youtu.be/GY_NQK7rJrY The original ending]] (which is shown in the Japanese version and included in the supplements of the US and UK letterboxed Laserdiscs) Alex committing suicide and making it look like Dan murdered her. Beth then finds Alex's note on tape that reveals the whole thing was a suicide and goes to the police about it. American test audiences thought this wasn't a good enough punishment for the antagonist, so the ending was changed to Dan killing Alex by drowning her in the tub, but Alex doesn't stay dead — at least until Dan's wife shoots her. The original suicide ending has been shown in Japan.
11	* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: Initial scripts were of something more akin to a horror movie.
12	* PlayingAgainstType: Up to this point in her career, Creator/GlennClose had played warm, fuzzy, earth-mother women--indeed, she was actually dismissed as a candidate for the role because of this--and been nominated for Oscars three times. This was a radical change—so radical, in fact, that she got stuck playing similar characters for a while.
13	* RealLifeRelative: Adrian Lyne's daughter Amy Lyne appears as a party guest. Also their first names start with the same letter.
14	* SimilarlyNamedWorks: This is also the name of a TrueCrime series, featuring people who ended up the victim in some version of ADeadlyAffair.
15	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
16	** Creator/KirstieAlley, Creator/RosannaArquette, Creator/ChristineBaranski, Creator/EllenBarkin, Creator/KimBasinger, Creator/JenniferBeals, Creator/CandiceBergen, Creator/KateCapshaw, Creator/StockardChanning, Music/{{Cher}}, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/BeverlyDAngelo, Creator/GeenaDavis, Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus, Creator/FayeDunaway, Creator/MiaFarrow, Creator/FarrahFawcett, Creator/SallyField, Creator/CarrieFisher, Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/JenniferGrey, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/LindaHamilton, Creator/DarylHannah, Creator/GoldieHawn, Creator/HollyHunter, Creator/AnjelicaHuston, Creator/AmyIrving, Creator/DianeKeaton, Creator/JessicaLange, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Music/{{Madonna}}, Creator/BetteMidler, Creator/DemiMoore, Music/OliviaNewtonJohn, Creator/CatherineOHara, Creator/AnnetteOToole, Creator/MichellePfeiffer, Creator/AnniePotts, Creator/KellyPreston, Creator/GildaRadner, Creator/MirandaRichardson, Creator/MimiRogers, Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/SusanSarandon, Creator/JaneSeymourActress, Creator/CybillShepherd, Creator/HelenSlater, Creator/ElisabethShue, Creator/SissySpacek, Creator/MarySteenburgen, Creator/SharonStone [[Film/BasicInstinct (!)]], Creator/MerylStreep, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/KathleenTurner, Creator/SigourneyWeaver, Creator/RaquelWelch and Creator/DebraWinger were all considered for the role of Alex Forrest.
17	*** Creator/MirandaRichardson specifically turned down the role because she found the script sexist.
18	** Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/ChevyChase, Creator/KevinCostner, Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/MelGibson, Creator/TomHanks, Creator/JohnHeard, Creator/KevinKline, Creator/SteveMartin, Creator/RickMoranis, Creator/BillMurray, Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/NickNolte, Creator/AlPacino, Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Creator/MartinSheen, UsefulNotes/OJSimpson, Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/JonVoight, and Creator/BruceWillis were all considered for the role of Dan Gallagher.
19	** Creator/BonnieBedelia, Creator/AndieMacDowell and Creator/CynthiaRhodes were considered for the role of Beth Gallagher.
20	** Creator/JohnCarpenter and Creator/BrianDePalma were offered the chance to direct but both backed out because they feared that the story was too similar to ''Film/PlayMistyForMe''. De Palma also felt that Creator/MichaelDouglas was not a good leading man, but has since admitted he was wrong about Douglas. Carpenter also turned it down because he felt the audience would not accept the originally scripted, downbeat ending. Creator/JohnBoorman was also offered the director's job but turned it down to do his personal wartime childhood memoir ''Hope and Glory''.
21	* WorkingTitle: ''Affairs of the Heart'', ''Diversion'', ''Lethal Attraction''.

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