Production Details

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script:
‘Satellite of Love’/Lou Reed begins:

EXT. CARNIVAL – SET – DUSK – 1973
 
Curt and Brian ride in neighboring rockets on the Space Spinner ride, reeling over the candy-colored lights of a traveling carnival. TRACK-IN as Curt lip-syncs to the song and Brian sings the backing arpeggios, his rocket passing Curt’s.
Behind them, the lights of the carnival recede. They are flying away.

In Shooting to Kill, Christine Vachon tells how she enjoyed seeing this 'very buoyant and freeform' scene come together. The problem was that they shot the scene before the song was cleared and the rights to use it might have been as much as $50,000. It's similar to the film Poison when Todd used ideas and quotes from the work of Jean Genet before getting clearance from Genet's estate. Luckily for us they were granted the rights in both cases.

Esoteric trivia: the cars of Curt and Brian's fairground ride are named SupaJet and High Flyer.

Comments

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Oh thanks for mentioning that! Despite the hundreds of Bowie references it's a bit of of the real thing.