|
MUMBAI:
Many of the sets resemble the real ones used in the original films.
The Saw producers were so impressed, they asked if they could use
the bathroom set from Scary Movie 4 for Saw III.
Anna
Faris (Cindy) and Regina Hall (Brenda) are the only two cast members
to appear in all four Scary Movie films.
 TV
fans will recognize Regina Hall from her one-season stint in Ally
McBeal. In Scary Movie 2, she made fun of Ally star Calista Flockhart.
In
the original Scary Movie, Regina Hall played a high school student,
even though she was 30 at the time.
Someone
is crushed by a car at the end of Scary Movie 4, just like in the
previous ones. This time it's James Earl Jones, the film's narrator.
Most
of the special effects in the film were in the parody of War of
the Worlds.
This
is the first film in the Scary Movie franchise, to be shot in HD.
The
movies spoofed in Scary Movie 4 include War of the Worlds, The Grudge,
The Village, and Brokeback Mountain.
Scary
Movie 4 co-stars Regina Hill, Leslie Nielsen and Craig Bierko are
currently starring in another film spoof. The trio reunited for
Superhero Movie, a comedy parodying the blockbusters Spider-Man
and Superman.
Although
she is best known for her role in the Scary Movie franchise, Anna
Faris has also starred in Oscar-winning fare like Lost in Translation
and Brokeback Mountain.
While
Anna Faris is grateful to the Scary Movie films for giving her a
start in show business, she also feels that they've limited her
options. "[The Scary Movie films] have given me a career, but
they've also sort of boxed me in. What really surprised me when
I first moved here is that the industry thought of actors as either
comedic or dramatic. And I'm still confused. I understand that maybe
some people are better at one or the other, but I can't understand
why it's so divided. I've been able to chip away at that a bit;
I think it gets easier as my body of work expands."
A natural
blonde, Anna Faris died her hair dark for the first two Scary Movie
films so she could resemble Neve Campbell from the Scream franchise.
Scary
Movie 4 director David Zucker is a veteran of film spoofs. His earliest
film is the 1980 hit Flying High. He also helmed the Naked Gun series
as well as the 1986 comedy Ruthless People. Scary Movie 4 reunites
the director with his Naked Gun star, Leslie Nielsen.
Film
critic Roger Ebert once described Leslie Nielsen as "the Laurence
Olivier of spoofs." Some of his other parodies include 2001:
A Space Travesty, Spy Hard, Repossessed and Wrongfully Accused.
In
Scary Movie 4, Leslie Nielsen plays President Baxter Harris. In
reality, his brother was the deputy Prime Minister of Canada.
|
