Planes Trains & Automobiles 10 Fun Behind The Scenes Facts
Planes, Trains & Automobiles: 10 Fun Behind The Scenes Facts
Planes, Trains & Automobiles is a must-watch movie during Thanksgiving in many family homes. Here are some behind the scenes facts about this classic.
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Unlike Halloween or Christmas, Thanksgiving doesn’t really have an abundance of classic movies or specials to watch around the holiday. There is, however, a definitive Thanksgiving movie in the form of Planes, Trains, & Automobiles – directed by John Hughes and starring Steve Martin alongside the late great, John Candy.
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles has become an all-time classic that people put on every Thanksgiving. This is due to the always hilarious jokes, a ton of heart, and unforgettable characters. With a movie as famous as this, there are a lot of fun facts that make the movie even better when rewatching it.
10 Musical Snorts
Del is quite the nuisance for Neal, at first. The straw that breaks the camel’s back in the first act of the movie is when Del clears his sinuses. The sounds alone are enough to drive anyone crazy, so nobody can blame Neal for snapping.
Something one might not notice: Del snorts in a familiar tune of “Shave And A Haircut.” This makes Neal’s frustration comedy gold.
9 Kevin Bacon Appears Twice
Despite having no dialogue, Kevin Bacon’s role in Planes, Trains, & Automobiles is a memorable one. Steve Martin and Kevin Bacon racing for a taxi cab could have been the plot of its own movie. It made for a hilarious scene but Kevin Bacon actually appears again later … sort of.
While Neal and Del share a bed together, the movie cuts back to Neal’s wife in bed. On the TV, the audio of another John Hughes movie is heard: She’s Having A Baby. This movie was actually still being made and this was the first time footage of the movie was shown. There’s even a rumor that Kevin Bacon’s role in the movie is the same character from She’s Having A Baby.
8 Del’s Black Eye
When Del manages to arrange a ride in a refrigerator truck, Del is sporting quite the black eye. It’s never brought up or explained in the actual movie. The only hint is that Del states that the driver doesn’t let people ride up front with him.
Apparently, there was a deleted scene in which the driver decks Del in the face. This is likely due to John Hughes’ 145 page script. Typically, comedies feature up to 90 pages, so clearly, a lot of scenes were cut.
7 The Home Alone House?
Neal’s house can be found in a Chicago suburb. Many fans are quick to assume that Neal’s house is the same one from John Hughes’ Home Alone movies. While they are very similar houses, there are noticeable differences between Neal’s and the McAllister house.
The house where Home Alone is filmed is only one town over. So there is a chance that Neal’s family and the McAllisters could have met at some point. Was John Hughes the secret mastermind of shared cinematic universes before Kevin Feige? Probably not, but it is a fun idea.
6 Worse Alternate Ending
Originally, it was written that Del was going to follow Neal all the way to his house. But this would have made their goodbyes and the growth they went through seem like it was all for nothing. It also would have made Del seem even more like a creepy stalker than anything else.
So in the final script, Hughes changed it so that Neal returns to Del and invites him to his house. This is a much more meaningful end to the journey the two men have been on, especially when Del confesses the truth about his wife. The shots of Neal on the train remembering his journey with Del was unscripted footage of Steve Martin, who had no idea he was being filmed at the time.
5 The Lost Longer Cut
For a comedy, John Hughes filmed way more than the average. Apparently, this led to a version of Planes, Trains, & Automobiles that is over three hours long. According to Hughes himself, it would years before it could be officially made and released.
All the extra footage is locked away at Paramount. Hughes also stated that most of the film has likely deteriorated. As understandable as it was for Hughes to lock it away, some fans of the film would probably love to see it.
4 Hughes Originally Wanted A Different Duo
It’s hard to imagine anyone else in the role of Neal and Del: Steve Martin and John Candy are now iconic. However, they were not the first choices for the roles. John Hughes’ original choices were Tom Hanks as Neal and John Travolta as Del.
Unfortunately, Tom Hanks was busy filming Big and, at the time, John Travolta was considered box office poison. After that, Rick Moranis was eyed for Neal and John Goodman was considered for Del. On the bright side, Neal and Del were perfectly portrayed by the actors that were chosen.
3 An Added Scene
Typically, when a movie is put on TV, scenes are reduced or even removed to fit the time slot. Well, in a very odd case: the TV version of Planes, Trains, & Automobiles added an extra scene. It’s nothing that drastically changes the movie – it just shows more frustrating things happen to Neal on the flight to Wichita.
The extra scene is funny and does showcase more of why Neal is so close to snapping. It can be found on the special edition Blu-ray release of Planes, Trains, & Automobiles and also on YouTube.
2 It’s Rated R Because Of One Scene
For the time, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles likely would have gotten a PG rating. Sure, it’s a more mature movie, but a lot of kids watched it growing up. That’s why it’s such a family classic for Thanksgiving.
Because of one of the most memorable scenes in the movie, it earned its R-rating. How? By dropping not one, not two, but 18 F-bombs within the span of 60 seconds. Anyone who has dealt with long lines and frustrating customer service can feel for Neal during this scene in which he snaps at the rental car service.
1 A Post-Credit Scene
In this post-credit scene, Neal’s boss is still analyzing the ads from the opening scene of the movie and eating his Thanksgiving dinner at the table.
It adds a good chuckle for those who decided to stay afterward. This isn’t John Hughes’ first post-credit scene either: in Ferris Bueler’s Day Off, Ferris appears to tell everyone to go home. This one was parodied in Deadpool to set up Deadpool 2 and mock the MCU.
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