Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Short description
Pee-wee Herman is a grown man who lives in a world of his own, filled with toys and amusements, and his most treasured possession is a brightly coloured bicycle with every accessory imaginable. When the bike is stolen, Pee-wee sets out to get it back. A fortune-teller offers a clue about where it might be, and the trail carries him across the United States, where he crosses paths with criminals, bullies, cowboys, truckers and other unusual figures. A neighbourhood boy named Francis also covets the bicycle, though the theft itself remains a mystery to Pee-wee.
Tim Burton directed the film, the third of the twenty-two features he has made, following Frankenweenie in 1984 and preceding Beetlejuice in 1988. Paul Reubens, who shares screenplay credit with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol, plays Pee-wee, with Elizabeth Daily as Dottie, Mark Holton as Francis, Diane Salinger as Simone, Judd Omen as Mickey and Irving Hellman as Mr. Crowtrey. Robert Shapiro and Richard Gilbert Abramson produced for Warner Bros. Pictures and the Aspen Film Society.
Made for about six million dollars, the film took roughly forty-one million worldwide. Audience scores are moderate, sitting at 7 out of 10 on IMDb from over fifty-eight thousand votes and 6.5 out of 10 on TMDB, while a critics' rating of 7.8 from fifty-one reviews places it higher with reviewers than with the general public. It runs ninety-one minutes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The scene with the breakfast-making machine will be repeated (with variations) in different Burton films. For example, "Edward Scissorhands" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
- Throughout the time that the heroine, Alice Nunn (1927-1988), known as Big Marge, tells her story, the actress does not blink once.
- According to Paul Rubens, neither he nor his co-authors Phil Hartman (1948-1998) and Michael Varol had ever written a screenplay before this incident. They purchased a book by Syd Field (1935-2013), known as the 'guru of all screenwriters,' on how to write film scripts, and followed the instructions outlined in it precisely. As a result, this film is often cited as an example for all aspiring screenwriters because it adheres to the rules accurately and literally in every respect. The film's duration is exactly 90 minutes, and the screenplay fits onto 90 pages. The first part of the film occupies 30 pages of the screenplay and ends at the 30-minute mark of screen time; the second part ends on page 60 and at the 60-minute mark.
- Jen Hooks (1957-2014), who played Tina, came up with almost all of her lines herself.
- In the scene where Paul Rubens' character rescues animals from a pet store and is frightened by snakes, the actor wasn't acting—he demonstrated genuine fear, as Rubens is genuinely terrified of reptiles. Director Tim Burton insisted on using live snakes rather than props, so the actor had to comply.
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