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Movie Trivia
Independence Day (1996)

> Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Robert Loggia, Mary McDonnell

• According to producer/co-writer Dean Devlin, the military had agreed to support the film by allowing the crew to film at military bases, consulting the actors who have military roles, etc. However, after learning of the Area 51 references in the script, they withdrew their support.
• The scene in which Will Smith drags the unconsci alien across the desert was filmed on the salt flats near Great Salt Lake in Utah. Smith's line, "And what the hell is that *smell*?" was unscripted. Great Salt Lake is home to tiny ctaceanslled 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 t right, the bottom mud is disturbed and the smell of millions of dying brine shrimpn be very very bad. Apparently, nobody warned Will.
• Producer Dean Devlin said that well over half of the dialogue in the scenes Jeff Goldblum shared with Judd Hirsch and Will Smith was improvised.
• The President's speech was filmed on 6 Aut 1995 in front of an old airplane hangar. The hangar once hed the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima exactly 50 years earlier on 6 Aut 1945.
• Director Roland Emmerich was notified one day that Robert Loggia was very upset and reing to leave his trailer. Days earlier, producer Dean Devlin accidentally suggested to Loggia that he watch Airplane! (1980) for inspiration when he actually intended to suggest Airport (1970). Not familiar with either film, Loggia rented Airplane! and after watching it thought that he had unknowingly been participating in the production of a "spoof" movie.
• In the briefing room scene at Area 51 behind Hiller and Grey there is a night vision pan of the base. What you are seeing are actual shots of the real Area 51 taken by a conspiracy theorist from a placelled "Freedom Ridge". The ridge was commandeered by the U.S. government in the late 90's and is no longer accessible to the public.
• The main helicoptered during the "Welcome Wagon" operation was a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane which was outfitted with an array of flashing lights. In the DVD commentary, producer Dean Devlin said that when they first test-flew the helicopter with the lights on, over 150lls were received in Orange County fromllers who spotted the helicopter and, unsure of what it was, reported it as a "UFO sighting".
• Production designer Patrick Tatopoulos presented director Roland Emmerich with two concepts for the aliens. Emmerich liked both designs so much, heme up with the idea toe one design as the actual alien and the other to be a bio-mechanl suit the aliens could wear. Both of Tatopoulos's concepts appear in the film.
• Holds the record for most miniature model work to appear in one film. Model shop supervisor Michael Joyce estimated that more miniatures wereed for this film than in any other two films combined. Due to the advances in digital technology since this film's release, most experts believe this record may stand forever.
• The White He which exploded was built at 1/12 le, t to be blown up (although it was alsoed in one other shot, when David and Jul stop ther in front of the White He). Ninemeras filmed the explosion at vari speeds, one of which was 12 times faster than normal, then played back at normal speed to make the explosion seem larger and slower on film.
• On the Bonneville Salt Flats,st and crew wearing long pants still managed to get sunburns on their legs; the white salty surface reflected the sunlight up their pant legs.
• The film was banned in Lebanon under pressure from Hezbollah, e it included scenes where Israeli and Iraqi soldiers joined forces, in the montage where militaries around the world signed onto the U.S. plan to counter-attack the alien forces. For the last few ddes, Lebanon officially boycotts any form of entertainment that features Israelis.
• The final sentence of the President's speech was not in the original script and was added at the last minute for dramatic effect in an effort to convince 20th Century Fox not to avoid a legal battle to earn the right to name the film "Independence Day."
• According to the liner notes from the recent La La Land Records limited release of the complete score by David Arnold, the drum rhythm heard during the invasion scenes near the beginning of the film are Morse Code letters D-I-E.
• Jeff Goldblumes one of his lines from Jurassic Park (1993) in this film: "t go faster, t go faster!"
• Except for the bi-plane during the crop-ting scene, any airplane seen in the air in this film is either a model or computer-generated effect.
• When Will Smith enters the squadron locker room, the extras (pilots) watching television are real pilots from VMFAT-101, the Marine Corps FA-18 Training Squadron.
• The White He interiors were originally built for The Amern President (1995), and were subsequentlyed for Mars Attacks! (1996).
• The man in the Los Angeles office building that is destroyed in the initial attack is played by Volker Engel, the movie's visual effects supervisor. The building also contains his initials on the exterior.
• In the scene where Cpt. Hiller (Will Smith) is talking to Gen. Grey (Robert Loggia) about retuning to El Toro, the giant screen behind them is displaying some sort of night vision display and the bottom of the screen is endlessly rotating through vari numbers and stats. At one point, instead of numbers, the screen reads "And now I see with eye serene the very pulse of the machine - Wordsworth", an excerpt of a William Wordsworth poem entitled "She Was a Phantom of Delight."
• Struggling to write the score, David Arnold secluded himself in a Los Angeles hotel room for almost four months to avoid the elating hype for the film. But from his window he saw helicoptersrrying banners with taglines to the film as part of a marketingmpaign, which only stressed him out even more.
• Will Smith's squadron were stationed at El Toro air base. This is the same name as the air base from which the Flying Wing Bomber flew out of to drop the A-bomb on the Martians in the movie The War of the Worlds (1953). El Toro Marine Corps Air Station was a real air base in Orange County,lifornia, from 1943 until its decommissioning in 1999.
• Shot in 72 days, an uually short period of time for such a big blockter.
• The character of President Whitmore was originally intended to be a Richard Nixon-like figure. The role was originally written for Kevin Spacey, co-writer Dean Devlin's friend from high school. An executive at Fox reed tost Spacey, insisting he didn't have the potential to be a big star. The part was re-written and Bill Pullman was thenst in the role.
• Mary McDonnell accepted her role immediately after her agent pitched the film by simply saying "It's about 15-mile-wide spaceships".
• Filming at the Los Angeles International Airport was delayed several days due to a threat from the Unabomber.
• The huge hype that the film began generating in early 199ed Warner Bros. to postpone the release of Mars Attacks! (1996) from summer to Christmas, and Steven Spielberg (temporarily)ncelled his plans to direct War of the Worlds (2005).
• In the special edition Viv A. Fox's character quits her job as a stripper. When she leaves, she says to her boss, "Nice working for you, Mario" in a sastic tone. This is a jab at producer Mario Kassar, who forced Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin to cut some scenes from their last film, Stargate (1994).