Repo Man
It’s 4 a.m. Do you know where your car is?
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$1 500 000
Revenue
$129 000
Director
Actors
Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Susan Barnes, Fox Harris, Tom Finnegan, Del Zamora, Eddie Velez
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Jonathan Wacks, Peter McCarthy, Michael Nesmith
Operator
Composer
Artist
Lynda Burbank
Audition
Editing
Dennis Dolan
All team (51)
All team (51)
Short description
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
What's left behind the scenes
- When someone noticed that director Alex Cox didn't have a car, he was offered the use of a Chevrolet Malibu. He once drove this car to a meeting with producers, and during the meeting, the vehicle was stolen. The filming schedule had to be urgently changed, and a frantic search for a similar car began. A similar car was found, but almost immediately afterward, news arrived that the stolen car had been found abandoned. As it turned out, it was found just in time, because the very next day, actor Fox Harris (1936-1988) crashed a Chevrolet into a gas pump. The aftermath of this accident can be seen in the car wash scene, where a damaged gas pump at the filling station is visible in the shot.
- As Alex Cox wrote in his autobiography, Zander Schloss was initially hired as the assistant director. He had asked for the role of Kevin, Otto's friend, but the role was first given to Chris Penn, who had asked Cox several times for any role and had initially hoped for the part of Light. However, Cox already had an actor for the role of Light, and after Penn's first day of filming as Kevin, Cox decided that he wasn't playing the part correctly, and the role of Kevin passed to Schloss.
- The shootout in the store had to be filmed with an eye toward the American Motion Picture Association's new rules regarding the depiction of violent scenes. While a great deal of blood is shown in this scene, Alex Cox specifically showed ketchup bottles exploding in the background from bullet hits, making it unclear whether the red substance everywhere is blood or ketchup.
- The photograph of aliens that Leila shows Otto, and which some believed depicted sausages, actually shows water-filled condoms.
- As Alex Cox wrote in his autobiography, Zander Schloss was initially hired as an assistant director. He asked to be given the role of Kevin, Otto's friend, but the role was first given to Chris Penn, who repeatedly asked Cox for a role and initially hoped for the role of Light. However, Cox already had an actor for the role of Light, and after the first day of filming Penn in the role of Kevin, Cox decided that he wasn't playing it correctly, and the role of Kevin went to Schloss.
- At the beginning of the film, Estévez’s character gets into a five-door Oldsmobile Cutlass with a beige interior, but then there are alternating shots where, instead of the aforementioned car, there is an Oldsmobile coupe with a raspberry-colored interior.
- After the credits, when we are first shown Malibu, it has New Mexico state license plates "KSB-283". Later in the film, the same car always appears with a different plate — "127-CBH".
- When one of the characters is standing in a phone booth and talking to Leila using a 'coding device,' his speech is played backwards. At the same time, a poem from Lewis Carroll's (1832-1898) book *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* (1862-1865) is read aloud.
- The shootout in the store had to be filmed with consideration for the new rules of the American Film Association regarding the depiction of violent scenes. The scene shows a lot of blood, but Alex Cox specifically showed ketchup bottles exploding in the background from the bullets, so it's unclear what the red substance everywhere is – blood or ketchup.
- In the plot, the hand of the character played by Susan Barnes is mechanical. The film's budget was not very large, so it was not feasible to create a convincing prop hand with the available funds. Therefore, the hand in the movie is simply a glove made of metallized fabric. This looked unconvincing, and many viewers did not understand what other characters found so remarkable about the hand or why they looked at it that way.
- When someone pointed out that director Alex Cox didn't have a car of his own, he was offered the use of the Chevrolet Malibu. He once drove it to a meeting with producers, and during that meeting, the car was stolen. The shooting schedule had to be urgently changed, and an immediate search for a similar vehicle began. A comparable car was found, but almost immediately after, word came that the stolen car had been found abandoned. It turned out to be found just in time, because the very next day actor Fox Harris (1936-1988) was involved in an accident in a Chevrolet, crashing into a gas station. The consequences of this accident can be seen in the car wash scene, when the damaged gas pump is visible in the background.
- The character played by Susan Barnes has a mechanical hand in the plot. The film's budget wasn't very large, so making a convincing prop hand with that money was not feasible. Therefore, the hand in the film is simply a glove made of metallic fabric. It looked unconvincing, and many viewers didn't understand what other characters in the film found so fascinating about the hand, why they kept staring at it.
- When one of the characters stands in a telephone booth and speaks to Leila using an 'encoding device,' his speech is played backward. At the same time, a poem from Lewis Carroll's book 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1862-1865) is read aloud.
- To make the Chevrolet Malibu glow in the impound lot, no special effects were needed. It was simply coated with 3M reflective paint, costing approximately $600 a bucket.
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