Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins--an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed. Ever wondered what happened to Mona Lisa Vito and the rest of the gang in My Cousin Vinny? Well, soon you'll be able to find out. “My Cousin Vinny” is a movie that meanders along going nowhere in particular, and then lightning strikes. I didn't get much involved in it, and yet individual.

Fun Facts About My Cousin Vinny. Familiarize yourself with legal procedure, and these facts about My Cousin Vinny—the classic 1. Warning: There's profanity in the clips below!)1. THE MOVIE WAS INSPIRED BY AN ENCOUNTER WITH A GUY HOPING TO PASS THE BAR. My Cousin Vinny was one of the earliest ideas screenwriter Dale Launer ever had. In the very early '7.

I met a guy who .. ABA Journal in 2. Launer asked what would happen if he didn't pass, and the guy said he could just take it again, and if he didn't pass that time, he'd just take it again. And again. Until he passed.

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So I said, 'What’s the most times somebody has taken and failed and finally passed?'” Launer recalled. He said, 'Thirteen times.' .. Watch Guess Who Online Ibtimes here.

I always thought that guy who took 1. Now, how would you feel if suddenly you learned that guy is your lawyer?

What if you have been accused of a crime and clearly, you have what appears to be the worst lawyer in the country?”2. LAUNER TOOK A ROAD TRIP FOR SCRIPT RESEARCH. According to the bio on his website, Launer set off on a road trip across the South for script research. He rented a car in New Orleans, then drove through Mississippi and Alabama and down the Gulf Coast.

The trip provided plenty of inspiration for scenes that would eventually make it into the script: Launer’s car got stuck in the mud, every restaurant had grits on the menu, and he experienced the unearthly call of the screech owl. He even stopped to talk to the district attorney in Butler, who reminded him of Lane Smith; the actor was eventually cast in the role of Vinny’s DA.

Also a big inspiration: the attitude of the people he met along the way. Everyone “was very friendly and helpful,” according to the bio, “but when he told them he was making a movie that took place in the south—they'd get very concerned—afraid that Hollywood movies always made them look like bumpkins. That too [was] weaved into the story.”3. ROBERT DE NIRO WAS LAUNER’S FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY VINNY GAMBINI.

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After the script was written, a casting meeting was called and Launer met with Fox’s president, vice president, and CEO. When Launer suggested Robert De Niro for the part of Vincent La. Guardia Gambini, “the prez looked uncomfortable, embarrassed that I would suggest such an actor,” Launer told Writer Unboxed. De Niro, uh … well … he’s not funny. And … his movies don’t make money.’ … Now .. De Niro acts in that make money? Comedies! So, I feel vindicated.

But I wish I could’ve been given a big fat check when I [ended up] being proved right.”4. DIRECTOR JONATHAN LYNN HAD NEVER SEEN THE KARATE KID WHEN HE CAST RALPH MACCHIO AS BILL GAMBINI.“I was very eager to have Ralph Macchio in the movie,” Lynn said in the movie’s DVD commentary.

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I must confess, I had never actually seen The Karate Kid. I watched him in a couple of videos that his agent sent and I thought he was just perfect for the part. He’s very good in the movie.”5. JOE PESCI BASED VINNY ON GUYS FROM HIS NEIGHBORHOOD.“There’s a lot of people around like that in smaller neighborhoods, so I put a few of them together and [came] up with Vinny,” Pesci, who grew up in New Jersey, told The Movie Show in 1.

THE STUDIO INITIALLY WANTED TO CUT MONA LISA VITO FROM THE FILM. In 2. 00. 7, Launer told Writer Unboxed that the studio had wanted to get rid of Vinny’s Chinese- food- loving, unemployed hairdresser/car expert girlfriend. Beethoven`S 2Nd Full Movie In English. To keep the character, Launer reluctantly added a scene, requested by the studio president, to the second draft: “He wanted Vinny’s girlfriend to complain that he’s not giving her enough attention,” Launer said. You often see movies where some guy is hell bent on accomplishing something, and you’re on the ride with him—and his wife/girlfriend/mother is feeling neglected. And she complains. And I HATE this! ..

Watching those scenes is simply boring. You want to fast forward it. Awful.”Eventually, he said he “figured out a way where they’d HAVE to keep her and embellished her character .. Watch Elizabeth Putlocker# there. Now, I thought if she brought this up at this point where he is simply going through hell—he should be pissed off. And he is. So he kinda tears into her.” Mona Lisa’s “biological clock” rant (above) became one of his favorite scenes in the script. WILL SMITH WAS UP FOR THE ROLE OF STAN ROTHENSTEIN.

Mitchell Whitfield had just moved to Los Angeles from New York when he got word about the My Cousin Vinny auditions—which were taking place in New York. So he flew back to do the screen test. Believe it or not, Will Smith was also up for the role,” Whitfield told Abnormal Use. So, clearly, they didn’t know exactly which way they were going to go with the part.

I think it could have been funny either way.” Whitfield ended up having to lose 2. Stan. 8. THE STUDIO TOOK A CHANCE ON MARISA TOMEI. Tomei didn’t have a lot of film experience when she landed the part of Mona Lisa Vito. I’d seen her [on the set of Oscar] working with John Landis and [had] gone with [him] to the cutting room to look at her performance,” Lynn said in DVD commentary.” She was playing a 1. I could see how funny and talented she was. And we got her in to read. She read wonderfully and we persuaded the studio to let me go with this unknown actress in the role.

It was the best decision I ever made.” Lynn said he knew they’d gotten the right actress for the part when he saw the dailies from the first scene they shot with her—Mona Lisa and Vinny’s arrival in Alabama, when she tells him, “Oh, yeah, you blend.”9. TOMEI IS FROM BROOKLYN, BUT SHE DOESN’T SOUND LIKE HER CHARACTER. Tomei grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, so “I really knew the neighborhood,” she told The New York Times in 1. But that doesn’t mean she sounded just like Mona Lisa. I don’t think that extreme, but I could be wrong,” she told NPR’s Fresh Air in 2. My mom was an English teacher, and she was on my butt about that kind of thing and correcting my speech from a young age.”1. THE LEGAL SYSTEM IS PORTRAYED VERY ACCURATELY.

Lynn has a law degree from Cambridge University, and, he said in DVD commentary, “I get terribly irritated when I see films in which the legal procedure is obviously wrong.” In addition to Launer’s research, Lynn made adjustments to make sure the legal proceedings were correct. I’m very pleased with the fact that, although this is heightened for comedic purposes, everything you see legally in this film could happen and is approximately correct,” he said. Which, by the way, makes it the more frightening.” Lynn even sat in on a murder trial in the Monticello, Ga. Vinny courtroom set.

Some of the lines in the [Vinny trial] came directly from that trial,” he said, including Lane Smith’s pronunciation of heinous (“high- a- nus”) and his line about “our little old ancestors” in the opening remarks. VINNY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DYSLEXIC.

You. Tube. In the original script, when Vinny is asked why it took him six times to pass the bar, he says, “I’m a little dyslexic.” Viewers would have experienced it themselves while watching Vinny attempt to read the huge book of Alabama Criminal Court procedure; Launer envisioned that the camera would show a close shot of a word jumbled up, gradually becoming less so until Vinny could read it—and the pattern would repeat itself as Vinny moved to the next word. Ultimately, the idea got cut because Lynn “said he did not know how to portray dyslexia,” Launer told Abnormal Use. The screenwriter was very unhappy about the omission because it made Vinny seem “not so bright.