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Old 17-04-2007, 09:18 PM
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Hello there- new member on the forum.

A question I have had for years-
Why does the phrase See You Next wednesday appear in many John Landis films?

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Cool, I never new that either

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I'm glad that there is an innocent meaning for the use of "See You Next Wednesday". In the part of West Scotland that I grew up in, the same phrase was used quite often, but with Tuesday instead, and it was very rude.
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I'm a huge fan of Dream On and missed that reference completely. I've managed to see it in most of Landis' work although a lot of it is just rubbish.
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Into The Night...a lesser known Landis film with Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer. Daft but enjoyable and not a bad soundtrack either
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AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON…Director John Landis…
Central Casting must have sent 200-300 people down to Piccadilly for a night shoot on this production.
None of us knew anything about the scenes we were going to be involved in so we just hung around coffee bars (Or other bars) chatting and having a night out in The West End.
About 1 o'clock in the morning the production team gathered us all together and told us the scenes they were about to do. (You ain’t gonna believe this).
A WEREWOLF is going to be running out of a cinema in Piccadilly Circus straight across Eros causing cars to crash and have people falling out of bus windows.
(I’m thinking this will do the tourist trade the world of good)
On a cue from the 1st A.D. the real police clear the roads of all late night Joe Public.
The Central Casting crowd are all given places to stand and out of the woodwork comes our buses and cars and stunt people. We’ve got permission to hold up traffic for half an hour and John Landis had multi camera crews covering every angle.
It was over as quickly as it began and as soon as the camera’s stopped rolling the wrecking crews were in there clearing the wrecked cars and sweeping the streets clean again. An hour later it was like we’d never been.
(See the film just to see this sequence)
Well done, John Landis…
Aitch,
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I've always thrown INTO THE NIGHT and Scorcese's AFTER HOURS together, probably because I saw them in such close proximity. They each have supporting casts that run the gamut from dramatic murderers to slapstick Keystone-Kop humor, and I think that's why I tend to lump them together. Both are also rather odd entries into their directors' filmographies.

And I can watch them at the drop of a hat - they always seem to bring out the same kind of mirthful "Let's watch this for a little while" mood in me.
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I've always thrown INTO THE NIGHT and Scorcese's AFTER HOURS together, probably because I saw them in such close proximity. They each have supporting casts that run the gamut from dramatic murderers to slapstick Keystone-Kop humor, and I think that's why I tend to lump them together. Both are also rather odd entries into their directors' filmographies.

And I can watch them at the drop of a hat - they always seem to bring out the same kind of mirthful "Let's watch this for a little while" mood in me.
I only saw After Hours the once..Griffin Dunne? didn't do it for me I'm afraid...at least it doesn't stick in my memory as being as good as Into The Night. There again ITN has Michelle in it
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