Talk:American Graffiti

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1 budget
2 middle america
3 Wolfman Jack's Radio Station
4 Trivia
5 Strange Occurence at the Beginning

[edit] budget

In the summary box to the right of the article the budget is stated to have been $777,777.77 - a curious amount, is it correct ?

Corrected to $750,000 --MrArt 05:28, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] middle america

How are the teenagers 'middle american'? I find this confusing.

probably should be "middle-class American" --Ed Poor

The article reads like the blurb from the DVD I watched last month: paean, etc. Can we copy stuff like that, unattributed? --Ed Poor

This sentence doesn't seem correct:

a group of small-town middle-American California teenagers who are scheduled to leave their town for college, and spend one last night together.

Only 2 of the teenagers in the group are leaving town for college: the Richard Dreyfuss character, and the Ron Howard character
They don't spend the night together: they all go their separate ways during the night.

--Ed Poor

I wrote the blurb myself from memory, I didn't copy it from anything. Change it as needed. And in my mind, middle America means small-town. It doesn't mean middle class, because middle class can be any city. And it doesn't mean midwestern, that's a specific location. -- Zoe

Zoe: I wasn't sure if you meant middle-class, Midwestern, or W.A.S.P.. Thanks for the clarification. 206.15.46.129 (The poster of the original comment.)

[edit] Wolfman Jack's Radio Station

Tim Horrigan: If I recall correctly, Wolfman Jack's character in the movie works out of a studio in his station's transmitter shack, somewhere on the outskirts of the fictional California town in the film. And the town is several hundred miles north of Mexico.

[edit] Trivia

If anyone cares, the plate #of the Deuce was THX1138. (Very cute...) Trekphiler 02:53, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Actually, it was THX138. Midwinter 01:39, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Strange Occurence at the Beginning

At the very beginning, when you see the Universal log, you hear a short burst of voices before it goes to the opening. I haven't seen this film is ages, but the video, which has the short burst of noise, says 1985 on it.

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