Connection with the previous post (MEN IN BLACK 3): Michael Stuhlbarg co-starred in both films.
RATINGS: IMDB ― 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes ― 82%, ME ― 78%
Tommy: Was it Dillinger got shot through the eyeball, or am I thinking of someone else?
Larry: Moe Green got shoot through the eyeball in "the Godfather".
Tommy: Yeah, I'm talking about it real life.
Larry: Oh.
Tommy: Somebody in real life, got shot through the eyeball...
Larry: Who was that?
Tommy: Well... No Larry. Many people in real life have got shot through the eyeball. I'm just saying, I think Dillinger was one of 'em.
Larry: That's really good aim.
Tommy: No it ain't really good aim.
Larry: How is that not really good aim?
Tommy: That's a hundred fucking cops shooting a thousand bullets a minute, one of 'em's bound to go through somebody's fucking eyeball.
Michael Stuhlbarg as Tommy and Michael Pitt as Larry
Trivia (From IMDB):
In the graveyard scene, the grave that the Jack of Diamonds killer is hiding behind is named "Rourke". Mickey Rourke was initially cast in the movie, but dropped out after disagreements with the director. He was replaced by Woody Harrelson.
The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2006 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.
(at around 7 mins) During the cancer ward visit, the announcement in the background calling for "Dr. Blair, Dr. Jane Hamilton, Dr. Jane Hamilton" is a reference to the album "Operation: Mindcrime" by Queensrÿche. The voice is taken directly from the track "Eyes of a Stranger". The album's subject matter of a hitman is in keeping with the film.
About five minutes in Billy & Marty are seen sitting in a theater watching the movie Violent Cop 1989.
In an interview with Peter Travers (the film critic for Rolling Stone magazine), Christopher Walken talked about his character, Hans: "Everybody in this movie does want something... Hans wants to have a nice life. You know. He has a troubled past: difficult, you know, obviously. And I think he's at a point in his life where everything's okay, and then, you know, his wife dies, and things go... go south."
Kevin Corrigan (Dennis) plays a henchman for Charlie (Woody Harrelson) in this film. There is a scene where Dennis forces Hans into a car at gunpoint, where he takes them to the warehouse full of dogs. Corrigan coincidentally played as a henchman for Walken earlier in his career during the film True Romance (1993).
Singer / songwriter Craig Braginsky (Craig Wilde) and rock legend Axl Rose wrote their song in an hour by phone. They laid down the vocals on tracks Craig had programmed and Axl added on to. Craig knew Christopher Walken from when they met in 1999 in regards to a Patrick McGoohan screenplay Craig and Patrick were doing. Axl Rose is a big fan of Walken. Colin Farrell gave his items from the film to Craig's now deceased son.
The two actors (Michael Pitt and Michael Stuhlbarg) that play the gangster-like characters from the beginning, Larry and Tommy, also have parts on the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire (2010), which is also gangster-related.
When Marty is left alone with Zachariah for his first encounter with a psychopath setup by Billy, Zachariah speaks of having an idea that he and Maggie would travel the country killing people. This idea is all too familiar as Woody Harrelson (Charlie) starred as Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, a film with the plot of a couple traveling the country killing people.
The film was set for a limited release on November 2, 2012, before being expanded to an earlier, wider release on October 12, 2012.
Both Colin Farrell and Woody Harrelsen starred in True Detective (2014), although they were in different seasons and didn't share any screentime together. Coincidently, the character that Woody Harrelsen played was named Marty, which is the name of the character that Colin Farrell plays in Seven Psychopaths (2012).
Harry Dean Stanton and Sam Rockwell both co-starred in The Green Mile (1999).
Billy's dog hat was not originally part of the wardrobe. Colin Farrell bought it during a road trip with Sam Rockwell and put it on his head.
During the cancer ward visit, the announcement in the background calling for "Dr. Blair, Dr Jay Hamilton, Dr. Jay Hamilton" is a sound byte that's been used in a number of films and TV shows going at least as far back as 1986 when it was used in the Cosby Show.
In Billy's fantasy sequence, Marty wears glasses. They are actually the sunglasses he wore earlier in the film, except with colorless lenses.
Spoilers ―
Michael Stuhlbarg as Tommy and Michael Pitt as Larry
Trivia (From IMDB):
In the graveyard scene, the grave that the Jack of Diamonds killer is hiding behind is named "Rourke". Mickey Rourke was initially cast in the movie, but dropped out after disagreements with the director. He was replaced by Woody Harrelson.
The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2006 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.
(at around 7 mins) During the cancer ward visit, the announcement in the background calling for "Dr. Blair, Dr. Jane Hamilton, Dr. Jane Hamilton" is a reference to the album "Operation: Mindcrime" by Queensrÿche. The voice is taken directly from the track "Eyes of a Stranger". The album's subject matter of a hitman is in keeping with the film.
About five minutes in Billy & Marty are seen sitting in a theater watching the movie Violent Cop 1989.
In an interview with Peter Travers (the film critic for Rolling Stone magazine), Christopher Walken talked about his character, Hans: "Everybody in this movie does want something... Hans wants to have a nice life. You know. He has a troubled past: difficult, you know, obviously. And I think he's at a point in his life where everything's okay, and then, you know, his wife dies, and things go... go south."
Kevin Corrigan (Dennis) plays a henchman for Charlie (Woody Harrelson) in this film. There is a scene where Dennis forces Hans into a car at gunpoint, where he takes them to the warehouse full of dogs. Corrigan coincidentally played as a henchman for Walken earlier in his career during the film True Romance (1993).
Singer / songwriter Craig Braginsky (Craig Wilde) and rock legend Axl Rose wrote their song in an hour by phone. They laid down the vocals on tracks Craig had programmed and Axl added on to. Craig knew Christopher Walken from when they met in 1999 in regards to a Patrick McGoohan screenplay Craig and Patrick were doing. Axl Rose is a big fan of Walken. Colin Farrell gave his items from the film to Craig's now deceased son.
The two actors (Michael Pitt and Michael Stuhlbarg) that play the gangster-like characters from the beginning, Larry and Tommy, also have parts on the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire (2010), which is also gangster-related.
When Marty is left alone with Zachariah for his first encounter with a psychopath setup by Billy, Zachariah speaks of having an idea that he and Maggie would travel the country killing people. This idea is all too familiar as Woody Harrelson (Charlie) starred as Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, a film with the plot of a couple traveling the country killing people.
The film was set for a limited release on November 2, 2012, before being expanded to an earlier, wider release on October 12, 2012.
Both Colin Farrell and Woody Harrelsen starred in True Detective (2014), although they were in different seasons and didn't share any screentime together. Coincidently, the character that Woody Harrelsen played was named Marty, which is the name of the character that Colin Farrell plays in Seven Psychopaths (2012).
Harry Dean Stanton and Sam Rockwell both co-starred in The Green Mile (1999).
Billy's dog hat was not originally part of the wardrobe. Colin Farrell bought it during a road trip with Sam Rockwell and put it on his head.
During the cancer ward visit, the announcement in the background calling for "Dr. Blair, Dr Jay Hamilton, Dr. Jay Hamilton" is a sound byte that's been used in a number of films and TV shows going at least as far back as 1986 when it was used in the Cosby Show.
In Billy's fantasy sequence, Marty wears glasses. They are actually the sunglasses he wore earlier in the film, except with colorless lenses.
Spoilers ―
The original script revolved heavily on the shih-tzu getting shot in the final stand-off of the film. The film boards insisted that they shouldn't show animal cruelty and the script was changed. Billy also refers to this in the grave yard scene when he says "His rabbit gets away, because you can't let the animals die in a movie. Just the women."
Towards the end of the film, Christopher Walken's character, Hans, revealed to be the vengeful Quaker whose story Billy tells to Marty, wanders through the desert in a very similar manner to Harry Dean Stanton's character at the beginning of Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984). When Billy first tells Marty the story, the role of the Quaker is played by Harry Dean Stanton.
Warning: contains spoiler for Taxi Driver (1976)) Sam Rockwell's character Billy Bickle shares many similarities to Robert De Niro's character Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). As well as their last name, they share an unstable mental illness and a desire for violence. There is also a scene where Billy is talking to himself in the mirror, this is very much like a scene from Taxi Driver where Travis is pretending to threaten somebody in the reflection. Another reference between these two films is that there is a photograph of Billy and Marty (Colin Farrell) with Billy making a gun shape with his hand and pointing to his head, much like the ending to Taxi Driver where Travis does the same.
In Hans's dream sequence the Vietnamese psychopath's suicide is witnessed by the hooker in the red dress and a soldier named Petraeus, as in General David Petraeus.
After Marty and Hans discovers that Billy is the Jack O'Diamonds, you can see Billy playing with the shih tzu, Bonny, right as Marty and Hans drive back to the desert. As they stop and park, you can hear Billy whilsting "Carol of the Bells".
Towards the end of the film, Christopher Walken's character, Hans, revealed to be the vengeful Quaker whose story Billy tells to Marty, wanders through the desert in a very similar manner to Harry Dean Stanton's character at the beginning of Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984). When Billy first tells Marty the story, the role of the Quaker is played by Harry Dean Stanton.
Warning: contains spoiler for Taxi Driver (1976)) Sam Rockwell's character Billy Bickle shares many similarities to Robert De Niro's character Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). As well as their last name, they share an unstable mental illness and a desire for violence. There is also a scene where Billy is talking to himself in the mirror, this is very much like a scene from Taxi Driver where Travis is pretending to threaten somebody in the reflection. Another reference between these two films is that there is a photograph of Billy and Marty (Colin Farrell) with Billy making a gun shape with his hand and pointing to his head, much like the ending to Taxi Driver where Travis does the same.
In Hans's dream sequence the Vietnamese psychopath's suicide is witnessed by the hooker in the red dress and a soldier named Petraeus, as in General David Petraeus.
After Marty and Hans discovers that Billy is the Jack O'Diamonds, you can see Billy playing with the shih tzu, Bonny, right as Marty and Hans drive back to the desert. As they stop and park, you can hear Billy whilsting "Carol of the Bells".
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