MURRAY WAS UNEASY ABOUT MAKING A MOVIE WHERE HE CARRIED A MACHINE GUN. So they gave the crew a ton of access, including allowing Ivan Reitman and company to shoot in Fort Knox and letting real troops play extras. SOLES DID BOOT CAMP FOR THREE DAYS.īoth John Winger and Stella initially planned to wake up at 0500 and jog with real soldiers for two weeks. Bill Murray stepped in and insisted that he only wanted to work with Ramis. Soles’s husband at the time) read for his part. With the knowledge that the studio didn’t want him, and more comfortable with writing at that point than with acting, Ramis was reluctant to play Russell. HAROLD RAMIS AND COLUMBIA PICTURES DID NOT WANT HAROLD RAMIS IN THE MOVIE. Here are 17 things you might not have known about the 1981 hit. It was also the first shot in the spotlight for Sean Young, John Larroquette, Judge Reinhold, Timothy Busfield, and “Hey! It’s that guy!” actor John Diehl. But it turned into a modern comedy classic featuring an embarrassment of acting riches with a cast that included Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, John Candy, and P.J. And, finally, in an adventure of farcical proportions, they drag their whole platoon, their sergeant, their captain, and their girlfriends into an armed battle with a Russian battalion in Czechoslovakia.Stripes was originally pitched by director Ivan Reitman as a Cheech and Chong Army movie. They meet beautiful MPs and fall in love. Their sergeant is demanding but fair - and is fair game for John Winger's comic wrath. Instead they've joined a platoon of oddballs and misfits, including "Ox" ( John Candy), an obese blowhard. Alas, basic training is not at all what they expected. They sign, hoping for discipline, duty, honor, courage, and, of course, exotic travel. The army is exactly what he needs and what Russell, an amiable if unambitious English teacher, needs, too. Its message is "You're going nowhere!" That resonates with John. At that perfect moment, a recruiting ad for the U.S. Seeking solace from his lifelong buddy, Russell ( Harold Ramis), it's a time of self-pity and self-blame. He's quit his job his car has been repossessed his girlfriend has left him - all of which he's brought upon himself. STRIPES opens on a particularly bad day in the life of John Winger ( Bill Murray).
To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly The film's often-funny, juvenile humor would appeal to even young teens, but the language and nudity make it problematic for those audiences. The "ditzy," voluptuous mud-wrestling "girls" are almost balanced by some coolheaded, female army MPS, but woman-as-sex-object scenes tip the scales in 1981's direction. Slapstick and exaggerated violence include a mini-war with armed Russian troops (explosions, gunfire, flamethrowers, armored tanks) and the usual falls, bonks, and mishaps. It's typical fish-out-of-water fare, with some rapid-fire cartoon action sexy, big-breasted women (some of those big breasts are bare) and enough bawdy language ("f-k," "s-t," "p-y," "ass") to earn MPAA's R rating. military, dragging BFF and frequent playmate Harold Ramis into the fray along with him. This time, Murray takes his deft comic arrogance into the U.S. Parents need to know that 1981's Stripes is comic mayhem with a young Bill Murray reprising the cheeky hapless character he created for television's Saturday Night Live and in Meatballs and Caddyshack on the big screen.
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