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Charlie's Angels (2000) is an action/comedy film based on (and being something of a sequel to) the 1970s television series Charlie's Angels.
The film
was directed by McG, and starred Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu (as
the three "angels"), Bill Murray (as Bosley), and Sam Rockwell.
John Forsythe, from the original series, returned as Charlie. Charlie's Angels
was followed by a sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), with Bernie
Mac (as Bosley) and Demi Moore.
Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The angels (Diaz as Natalie Cook, Barrymore as Dylan Sanders, and Liu as Alex Munday) have been hired by a Bill Gates-type software genius to hack into a rival's computer system, ostensibly to locate stolen software.
It is revealed, however, that their client is in fact the enemy and is using the angels to gain access to his rival's system. It turns out his father was a Green Beret who served with none other than the angels' boss Charles Townsend, and he blames his father's death on Charlie. He plans to use a combination of his and his rival's technology to trace Charlie's location via satellite and then kill him. The angels thwart this plan.
Quotes
* Charlie: Good morning, angels.
Dylan, Natalie, Alex: Good morning, Charlie!
* [one of Alex's muffins is embedded in the door]
Bosley:
What do you call this?
Dylan: Chinese fighting muffin.
Bosley: That's not funny. A friend of mine took a fighting muffin in the chest;
they sent him home in four Ziploc bags.
* Roger Corwin: You're very good. With your hands. I could use someone like you on my staff.
Alex: Thanks for the offer but my hands aren't going anywhere near your staff.
* Vivian Wood: Never send a man to do a woman's job.
* Charlie: Once upon a time there were three very different little girls who grew up to be three very different women with three things in common: they're brilliant, they're beautiful, and they work for me. My name is Charlie.
* Bosley: It's not surprising because I had a really long talk with a squirrel one time. Longer in fact than I can with most people.
* Eric Knox: Bad news, baby. I gotta go ... torture and kill your boss.
* Natalie: [to UPS guy] I signed that release waiver, so you can just feel free to stick things in my slot.
* Alex: What do you know, a guy who speaks Natalie.
* Eric Knox: I... I don't know how to make chicken. C'mon. I'll shake, you bake?
Dylan: I wanna shake.
Trivia
* Aaliyah was originally considered for the role of Alex in the movies but at the time she was too young.
* Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu all went through a strenuous training regimen to prepare for their roles. They even worked with a kung fu master.
* The film pays homage to the television series keeping a very similar credit sequence where the characters are introduced. With the sequence, scenes from the television series are reenacted with the film's leads.
* Drew Barrymore pursued Bill Murray for months to play Bosley (originally played by David Doyle on the TV series) and he consistently declined. During the Saturday Night Live 25th Anniversary Special, he sang TLC's "Waterfalls" to Drew (with the chorus "Don't go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to..."). Eventually he did the film but rumors of his conflicts with Lucy Liu have been cited as the reason he didn't return for the sequel.
* This is the second film in which John Forsythe and Bill Murray worked together (although they are never both seen on screen together in this film), their first being Scrooged.
* Producer Drew Barrymore dislikes guns which is why the Angels are martial arts experts in the film.
* Drew Barrymore's then boyfriend (and subsequent husband), Tom Green appears in a cameo as The Chad.
* The intercom that Charlie Townsend uses to hold his conferences is the same one from the television series even though that model hasn't been made in decades.
* Charlie Townsend is voiced by John Forsythe and never seen, consistent with the television series.
* Lauryn Hill and Aaliyah were both considered for the role of Alex.
* In a short scene when Drew Barrymore falls from a roof into a house, the two shocked kids are in front of a TV screen that shows gameplay footage from Final Fantasy VIII. This has been viewed as a "goof" as the game is a single player game. However, it is never shown that both children are playing the game - just that they are both holding what appear to be PlayStation controllers.
* During the party scene in the film, Roger Corwin's (Tim Curry) girlfriend was played by 1998 Playmate of the Year, Karen McDougal.
* The film's soundtrack album was a successful release, and its lead single, "Independent Women Part 1" by Destiny's Child, was a number-one hit in the United States for (11 consecutive weeks) and #1 in the UK.
* In one of the shots for the opening credits, one of the Angels (Drew Barrymore) is wearing a black wig and round glasses, reading a book in a library. This is a reference to Harry Potter. Drew Barrymore is a big fan.
* In the
scene where Bosley is locked up in a cell by the villain, there are a lot
of references to movies:
o The Great Escape, where Bosley is bouncing a baseball off of the cell wall;
o Birdman of Alcatraz, where there is a bird sitting on the ledge of the windowsill
of the cell
* The movie grossed more than $125 million at the U.S. box office and grossed over $260 million worldwide.
* In one
scene, Drew Barrymore yells out "Lucy!" to get Lucy Liu's character's
attention.
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