This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
- Filmed in just five days, using the same set and much of the same cast as
"Smoke (1995)" (qv). The premise of the film came to directors
'Wayne Wang' (qv) and 'Paul Auster' (qv) while watching an improvisation
session between 'Harvey Keitel' (qv) et. al. to help them get into character
for filming "Smoke (1995)" (qv). They decided that the improvisations were
so funny that they would spend a few days after shooting Smoke just filming
film is almost entirely improvised. Auster and Wang claim to have
``borrowed'' the idea of shooting another movie on the back of an existing
one from 'Roger Corman' (qv) who often used to shoot movies very quickly on
leftover sets from other productions.
 
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