#11. And that soundtrack made bank.
The thumping techno beat helped the album go platinum within ten days of its release, peaking at #10 on the Billboard Charts and really pissing off all those kids at the time who listened to “real techno.”
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#12. The film’s success came as a surprise to the director.
Anderson told the Hollywood Reporter:
“I thought, ‘God, the last place I want to be is in L.A. I just want to go somewhere else.’ I went to Hawaii with my girlfriend at the time, and of course we get to the middle of absolute nowhere in Hawaii and I read the movie is No. 1. And I go ‘Damnit! Why aren’t we in L.A.? I’ve got the number one movie. I should be in L.A. making the most of it.’ I’d already paid to go to Hawaii, so we ended up staying there.”
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That’s not the worst place to be.
George Lucas spent the opening weekend for Star Wars in Hawaii along with Steven Spielberg for similar reasons.
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