Independence Day/Trivia: Difference between revisions

* [[Dueling Movies]]: Against ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)]]''.

* [[Meaningful Release Date]]: It was originally scheduled for release on July 3; public anticipation did lead to some showings on the 2nd, however.

* [[Throw It In]]

** As usual, most of [[Jeff Goldblum]]'s dialogue was improv.

** President Whitman's statement of "Today we celebrate our Independence Day!" was ad-libbed by the actor.

** Will Smith's "AND WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SMELL?!" line while ranting about having to drag an unconscious alien through the desert in his parachute when he could have had a day off for the Fourth of July was not in the original script: the desert setting that they were filming in was actually the salt flats near Great Salt Lake in Utah. Great Salt Lake is home to brine shrimp. When they die, the bodies sink to the bottom of the lake (which isn't very deep) and decompose. When the wind kicks up just right, the bottom mud is disturbed and the smell of millions of decaying brine shrimp can be very very bad. Apparently, nobody warned Will Smith. (Roland Emmerich also said that he would have loved to let Smith improvise how much as he could, given how hilarious the scene turned out)

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The original ending involved Casse being disallowed to fly alongside the others, and so {{spoiler|he straps an explosive to his biplane and performs the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by flying it into the superlaser}} as per the ending that found its way into the film. It was determined to be a little bit too comical seeing a biplane match the speed of the fighter jets, and the reshot version allows us to see Russ make his decision {{spoiler|as opposed to a suicide mission}} that just happened to be plot significant.

** Homaged/Parodied in one of the later ''[[Metal Slug]]'' games as a cutscene once the [[Big Bad]] ship starts to fire its big beam. An antique plane flies into the beam and...