Things You Probably Didnt Know About Uncle Buck. If theres one lesson to be gleaned from Bad Santa, its that the holiday season isnt the most wonderful time of the year for everyone. The non stop ratchet party of a film stars Billy Bob Thornton as the titular character, a functioning alcoholic and misanthrope who works as a mall Santa in order to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. Of course, plans go haywire when the con man befriends a troubled kid Brett Kelly and falls for a bartender with a Santa fetish Lauren Graham. Its the ultimate film for pessimists who shirk at Christmas sentiment but love to throw down, making it the perfect pick me up to pull you through December. Get to know more about the cult classic with these 1. Bad Santa. 1. BILL MURRAY WAS THE FIRST CHOICE FOR THE LEAD. Comprehensively covers racing in the south. News, information, schedules and message board. 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Suffice it to say, it was a win win for both Murray and Billy Bob Thornton. THE COEN BROTHERS HELPED DEVELOP THE MOVIE. Raising Arizona,Fargo, and, er,Bad SantaBelieve it. According to director Terry Zwigoff, the Coens were actually the first choice to helm the movie. The story I had heard was that the original writers, who wrote about 9. John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, met the Coen brothers and said, We want to write a script that you guys direct. And they said, We only direct our own writing but weve always had this crazy idea about this drunken Santa Claus and this little person elf that has to keep him in line, Zwigoff told Indie. Wire. So John and Glenn wrote this script, Zwigoff continued. And the Coen brothers read it and they told them, We dont want to direct it. We think its great but we dont want to do it. So they asked them if they could give them some notes. And when the Coens sat down to try and give them notes over a weekend, eventually they just thought it would be easier if they take a pass on it and rewrite it. IT WAS A SINGLE LINE IN THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT THAT MADE TERRY ZWIGOFF WANT TO DIRECT THE FILM. Im more interested in dialogue, Zwigoff told The A. V. Club. Most of the scripts Ive gone after to direct, theres generally just something about the dialogue. For Bad Santa, it was one line of dialogue that hooked him. Continued Zwigoff, It was something like, Sweet Jews for Jesus One of the most inspired lines Id ever read. ZWIGOFF ISNT A FAN OF THE THEATRICAL CUT OF THE MOVIE. Following an interview with Indie. Wire, Zwigoff hosted a public screening in which he presented the directors cut of the film, which is his preferred version. Thats the filming of the script, basically, Zwigoff explained. The studio wanted to mess with it and make it more mainstream and pour some fake sentiment on it for the people that stumble around the mall. Go to Target some day and look at who your target audience is. Look at the people who are out there going to films and you realize you are totally fcked, you dont want to do anything these people like. But that directors cut is exactly the script I got. I wanted to protect the script. I like writers a lot. It was a lot darker. BILLY BOB THORNTON WENT METHOD FOR THE MOVIE. Sectionhikers and thruhikers who complete the entire A. T. can report their journeys to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy by filling out the. StricklinKing Funeral Home serving your family for four generations. Trust, Family, Tradition. When every detail counts. Dear DNAinfo and Gothamist Readers Today, Ive made the difficult decision to discontinue publishing DNAinfo and Gothamist. Reaching this decision wasnt easy. Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss. Craig Ferguson Firecracker' title='Craig Ferguson Firecracker' />In an interview with Film. Billy Bob Thornton detailed exactly how he got into his alcoholic character. Ive traditionally played really extreme characters and even in a comedy, if youre going to play a guy like this, you cant be sort of drunk, you know And I wasnt sort of drunk, said Thornton. You have to go completely into it. I love children, Im crazy about them, but I had to ignore that fact and play the part. IT WAS JOHN RITTERS FINAL FILM ROLE. America wept when news broke that John Ritter, the beloved star of Threes Company, passed away suddenly on September 1. His hilarious turn as mall manager Bob Chipeska in Bad Santa was his final feature film appearance. The movie was dedicated to his memory. LAUREN GRAHAM HUMPED A CHAIR DURING HER AUDITION TO PLAY SUE THE BARTENDER. If youre going up for a character whos got a fetish for Santa, youve really got to sell it. I had to audition doing the scene where I first straddle Santa, Graham recalled to Uncut. So Im basically in front of a room full of executives humping a chair. I really did love Billy Bob though, even more than the chair. With a character like this you have to make a big decision. I just thought she loves anything to do with Christmas, she totally doesnt see whats disgusting about this particular Santa. He fulfills a strange kinda fantasy for her. ANGUS T. JONES OF TWO AND A HALF MEN WENT OUT FOR THE ROLE OF THURMAN MERMAN. In an interview with The Province, Brett Kelly, then a student at the University of British Columbia, recalled his audition to play Thurman Merman. Among those he beat out to play Bad Santas sidekick was fellow chubby cheeked actor Angus T. Jones, whod go on to star in Two and a Half Men before infamously trashing the show. Kelly recalled how filming the movie affected his life It wasnt like I was in Bad Santa and I came back and everything had changed. It was more like I got to drop in and see like, Oh, thats what making movies is like. THORNTON HAD TO DEFEND THE FILM AGAINST THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT. Lets be real Bad Santa isnt for the easily offended. Taking a cultural icon and turning him into a sex crazed alcoholic isnt exactly going to win over more conservative moviegoers. Which is exactly why Thornton found himself defending the movie. We did get a few comments, Thornton told Film. As far as I know, Santa Claus is not in the Bible. I think you guys are talking about Jesus. IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, THE MOVIE IS CALLED SANTA IS A PERVERT. Films are known to change names to fit foreign markets. Thats nothing new. However, sometimes its nuance gets a little lost in translation. Case in point the Czech Republics extremely literal, albeit accurate, title. IN A DELETED SCENE, SARAH SILVERMAN CAMEOS AS A SANTA TEACHER. Among the multiple scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor much to Zwigoffs chagrin was a hilarious moment with Sarah Silverman. In the two minute scene, Silverman acts as a Santa School teacher instructing a classroom of mall Santas on how to coax a smile out of a child and please their parents.