When Bob Hoskins was asked about his role in the 1993 movie "
Super Mario Bros.
"
, the actor replied: “It was a fucking nightmare.
The whole experience was a nightmare."
Dennis Hopper, his co-star, agreed.
Today, just hours after the premiere of
Super Mario Bros: The Movie
, we enter the fateful filming of that production.
The official poster of Super Mario Bros. (1993)
The filming of the
Rocky Morton
and
Annabel Jankel
film was a bad dream.
Hoskins -Mario- almost died on set six times:
he was stabbed four times, nearly drowned, and was electrocuted
.
John Leguizamo
-Luigi- also had a bad time.
In his autobiography, the actor confirms that he was run over on set.
The first film in history based on a video game is also scary from the narrative.
Its seemingly simple plot hides all kinds of eccentricities, contradictions, and arbitrary last-minute decisions
.
On the left, Luigi (Leguizamo);
on the right, Mario (Hoskins).
The synopsis for sale on specialized film websites, such as Filmaffinity or IMDb, points out that Super Mario Bros. is the story of two plumbers who "enter a parallel world to save Princess Daisy from the clutches of King Koopa and his reptilian army.
That must be taken with a grain of salt
.
Seeing humans descended from dinosaurs, shrunken heads, disgusting mushrooms, etc., Super Mario Bros. breaks away from the video game to get closer - whether deliberately or not it is not known - to that of a lysergic fantasy.
In his year, critics highlighted the visual section of the film, but defended its narrative side.
Shigeru Miyamoto
, the creator of the Mario Bros video game, was benevolent: he said he "liked" it and the only thing he criticized is that it was too realistic compared to Nintendo's success.
Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton during filming.
But
for the talents there is no doubt that husband Morton and wife Jankel were to blame for Super Mario Bros. being a bad drink
(talking about "bad drink" gives us the perfect footing to mention that Leguizamo and Hoskins used to get drunk together to cope with the experience).
We refer to the examples
: Leguizamo said that on one occasion he saw Morton throw hot coffee on the head of an extra because he did not like his costume.
The tug-of-war between the duo and the studio about how the tone of Super Mario Bros. should be turned the film into one for adults and children at the same time, which ultimately disoriented the cast.
There came a point where the protagonists stopped reading the constant rewrites of the script and followed orders as if they were automatons.
Dennis Hopper as Bowser Koopa.
Jankel and Morton were accused of being abusive, bad leaders, bad communicators, hateful, arrogant, controlling beings.
The crew referred to them with nasty nicknames and many had T-shirts made with rude phrases spoken by the duo to wear with impunity on their faces while walking around the set.
On this, Hoskins believed that Morton and Jankel were "the motherfucker and the cow."
Or, simply, “some bloody idiots”.
After Super Mario Bros.,
the directors never made a movie together again
.
Today, when it is said that Super Mario Bros. is the worst film in history, its character as a cult film is reaffirmed.
This present is from Illumination, the animation studio that wants to make the mushrooms of the Mushroom Kingdom their new Minions.
Super Mario Bros. The movie will follow Mario in his search for his beloved brother Luigi, whom he loses in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Meanwhile, Princess Peach discovers her full power.
Behind the characters are class A voices:
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