Independence Day

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2016

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Before the resurgence, we're going back to where it all began with the original Independence Day. Before Will Smith was a bona fide movie star... before we realied Roland Emmerich was essentially just going to keep remaking this same movie again and again... and before Randy Quaid became this character in real life. Kristen from The Sunnydale Stacks joins the HDYR gang for a conversation about how films like this influenced subsequent summer tentpoles, how much these types of blockbusters have changed in the last twenty years, and how much remains exactly the same.

Other topics include: the aggressive marketing campaign and some slight confusion over the ID4 abbreviation, our initial impressions of the movie, the supporting characters we'd put on the chopping block and which ones feel like they're in a different film entirely, some mixed opinions on Bill Pullman's performance as President Whitmore, what the rest of the world was doing while America was figuring out how to stop the invasion, the staggering number of blink-and-you'll-miss-them familiar faces, the fact that Dr. Okun was absolutely 100% dead, how many problems could have been solved by changing one thing about that alien spacecraft in Area 51, a debate about one of cinema's most notorious plot holes, that Goldblum swagger, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Independence Day?
0:07.0	Hello and welcome, Hey, do you remember, Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.7	I'm Chris.
0:32.4	I'm Donna.
0:33.3	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.4	And today we're revisiting Independence Day.
0:52.6	Thank you. I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Independence Day. While promoting his film Stargate, director Roland Emmerich was asked about his own beliefs when it came to the existence of extraterrestrial life.
1:00.3	Emric responded that although he didn't believe in aliens, he was still fascinated by the idea of them, specifically with how their arrival on Earth might play out.
1:08.7	He asked the press to imagine what it would be like to wake up one
1:11.6	morning and discover 15 mile wide spaceships hovering over the world's largest cities. He then turned
1:17.1	to his producing partner Dean Devlin and said, I think I have an idea for our next film.
1:22.2	That idea continued to percolate and then a few months later, while the duo were on vacation
1:26.3	in Mexico, they finally
1:27.7	put pen to paper and cobbled together a script in just three and a half weeks. It went out to all
1:33.9	of the major studios on a Thursday. By Friday night, 20th Century Fox had won the rights after an
1:39.0	intense bidding war, and on Monday morning, the film was officially in pre-production. Although the budget wasn't exactly modest, it also wasn't as inflated as you might expect,
1:49.3	and a huge part of that had to do with the shift in blockbuster culture that was taking place.
1:54.3	Emmerick and Devlin knew that they didn't need outrageously expensive movie stars for their film.
1:59.0	The concept would be taking center stage. And boy did it.
2:03.3	Regardless of how you feel about the film itself, I think anyone who remembers this summer
2:07.2	can agree that the marketing campaign was as unparalleled as it was influential. The hype machine
2:12.5	went into overdrive, and before the film's July 2nd release, it was not uncommon to hear phrases like
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