Tom Hanks Movie Quote/Trivia of the Day Susan - Im not so sure we should do this. Josh - Do what? Susan - Well, I like you, and I want to spend the night with you. Josh - Do you mean sleep over? Susan - Well, yeah. Josh - OK... but I get to be on top. -Susan and Josh (Elizabeth Perkins and Tom Hanks in Big) Did you know? Tom Hanks was the first choice to play Josh Baskin but was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts with the films Dragnet and Punchline. Robert De Niro was then offered the lead role, and was rejected because his salary demand ($6 million) was too high. Tom Hanks then became available and accepted the lead role for $2 million. David Moscow was originally cast not as young Josh, but as Billy, since he didnt look like Robert De Niro. When Tom Hanks was given the role, David Moscow was recast as young Josh. To give star Tom Hanks an idea of how a 12 year-old would behave, director Penny Marshall filmed each grown-up scene with David Moscow (Young Josh) playing Tom Hankss part, who then copied David Moscows behavior. Penny Marshall became the first female director to ever direct a movie that grossed more than $100 million at the box office with this movie. The computer game Josh plays in the film, Cavern of the Evil Wizard, was not a real computer game. It was created for the film. Robert Loggias character is based on then F.A.O. Schwarz CEO Peter Harris. The character is a youthful, albeit goofy, retailer, true to Harris own charisma. According to actor Robert Loggia, on the day they filmed the famous keyboard scene at F.A.O. Schwarz, he and Tom Hanks noticed that doubles dressed like them were on hand just in case the two could not do the dance moves correctly. It became their goal to do the entire keyboard number without the aid of the doubles. They succeeded. Director Penny Marshall contacted the creator of the Walking Piano and said she needed one built large enough for two grown men to use since the real toys are understandably much smaller. The Walking Piano used in the films trademark scene was created by an Italian inventor named Remo Saraceni. Mr. Saracenis many musical inventions grace childrens organizations worldwide. As of 2008, his famous Walking Piano is currently being implemented into a piano instructional game called Piano Wizard made by Allegro Multimedia. John Travolta was one of director Marshalls top choices for Josh Baskin, and he wanted to do it, but the studio didnt want him, considering him to be box office poison at the time. According to Monica Rushton, Jared Rushton (Billy), David Moscow and Tom Hanks were put in a room with a bunch of toys to play with. Having silly string, they tried to use it to gross each other out and that is how the silly string scene between Jared Rushton and Tom Hanks appeared in the movie. Big was the most successful of a series of age-changing comedies produced in the late 1980s, the others being: Like Father Like Son, 18 Again! and Vice Versa. In the film, Josh comes up with the brilliant idea of robots that transform into prehistoric, giant insects. His description is nearly identical to the Insecticons, a group of robots from The Transformers toy line. The Insecticon toys were released three years before the film. The offices of an actual advertising agency on 23rd Street in the Chelsea district in New York City was used for the scenes involving the fictitious MacMillan Toys Company, which were very hard on both the film crew and the actual workers of the agency. The location fee of $25,000 was donated to the American Craft Museum by the agency and Twentieth Century-Fox. This movie marks the first time Tom Hanks was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. He would later have back to back Best Actor wins with Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.
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