Demolition Man Trivias

In one scene, the "Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Library" is mentioned, as well as the changes to society beginning with his election as President. This was presumably intended as an incongruous joke in 1993, particularly in a film starring Stallone, who was seen as a rival of sorts to Schwarzenegger. However, given Schwarzenegger's subsequent political career as the Governor of California and the possibility that the U.S. Constitution could be amended to permit those other than natural-born citizens to serve as President (later in the scene, a reference is made to "the 61st Amendment", which apparently permitted just this), the reference could be considered unintentionally prophetic. (In the same year Demolition Man was released, the movie Last Action Hero was also released - wherein Arnold Schwarzenegger's role in The Terminator, in a parallel universe, is referred to as having been played by Stallone instead.)

When Simon Phoenix is going over the list of cryocons, he comes across Jeffrey Dahmer's name and decides to release him ("Jeffrey Dahmer? I LOVE that guy!"). This scene is frequently deleted in modern broadcasts of the film due to Dahmer's subsequent murder in prison in 1994, thus making the scene anachronistic.

When Phoenix pops his head out of the manhole, the shot has been flipped - the wrong eye is blue.The monitoring devices on Spartan's chest and head swap sides. The name of the restaurant that Spartan is invited to (see trivia).

The hole in Spartan's T-shirt.During the car chase, Phoenix fires his MP5 out of the rear window of the police car. But when Spartan jumps onto the roof, the rear window is evidently unbroken.

When Simon is shooting at John Spartan during the car chase scene, he shoots out of the back of the car. There is no sound of the rear window glass breaking, and it never shows him breaking the rear window previously.In the underground sewers, Edgar Friendly shoots his small version of a sawn-off shotgun three times without reloading: once to warn John and the others, and twice at Simon Phoenix.

Lenina Huxley complains about going to work on a Monday. A little while later the cyrogenic capsule shows the date August 3, 2032. August 3, 2032 will be a Tuesday.Just after the building collapses due to the massive explosion at the beginning of the film, several crew members can be heard clapping and yelling.

The number of hostages said to have been killed varies between 20 and 40.When Spartan's car crashes through the police station sign towards the you can see the rig that is lifting the car up and pulling it over.

When Spartan's car crashes through the police station sign, the glass explodes before the car hits the glass.After John Spartan crashes through the police station sign he says, "All I need is a needle and a thread." But when the camera is behind him and he says the line, "I really didn't say that, did I?" his mouth doesn't move when his face is in frame.

When the film first progresses to the future, the date is 3 August 2032. However when the police computer reports Warden William Smithers' murder-death-kill, it states the date of death as 4 August 2032.In the beginning of the movie, a stockpile of C4 catches fire, and thus blows the whole building up. C4 only can be detonated by a detonation charge or blasting cap which is just a smaller explosive. If it catches fire, it burns slowly.

When John Spartan confronts Dr. Cochtou about his involvement with Simon, a black gun appears. The next shot reveals that Spartan is holding the gun to Dr. Cochtou's head and the gun is now silver.When Spartan and Phoenix are in the museum, Spartan fires his double-barreled shotgun three times in a row.

When Pheonix falls through the glass at the museum into the LA exhibit, you can see him sliding down a visible safety rope. His feet are even in the position to be sliding down the rope. This is during the firefight in the makeshift restaurant down in the sewer. When John Spartan grabs the table to use as a shield, the cable controlling the squibs is visible.

When Spartan and Huxley arrive at the cryogenics place to battle Phoenix, Phoenix sees them on the monitor walking into the building and Spartan is on the left and Huxley on the right. In the next shot, Spartan is on the right.When Phoenix first gets out he makes his way to a computer and the police come to arrest him. Phoenix takes one of the policeman and pushes his head through the side glass pane and walks away to fight the other officers, but when Phoenix goes back over to the computer the glass is not broken

Several times during the movie, Simon Phoenix's shoulder pads (one side resembles an ATV tire) switch sides.When Phoenix climbs out of the manhole, his tire armor changes sides from shot to shot.

During the final shoot out in the cryogenics lab, Spartan is firing a single handgun at Pheonix from behind a computer. He then dives to another terminal, now firing two handguns at once. When we cut back to the new terminal, he's now holding and reloading a single gun.During the final battle in the CryoPrison, the L-shaped remote that Simon Phoenix is using reverses position (wider top section to the right, then to the left).

In the beginning when Simon finishes using the dagger to puncture the gasoline barrels, he lays it back on the table and it is dry. You can see the gasoline spraying all over as he jabs each plastic barrel. He would also have the gasoline on his hands when lighting the cigarette.When Simon Phoenix is in the museum gathering up the weaponry, he is seen wearing an ammo shell vest. In the first shot, two of the shell slots are empty but in the following shots they are both full.

Towards the beginning, when gasoline is everywhere and Simon holds the torch close to the ground, it should ignite. It's the fumes that ignite, not the gasoline itself.Spartan's body position and mouth change several times while he is supposedly frozen. Before he freezes, his mouth is closed and his body turned. When he freezes, his mouth is open and his hands placed facing up (showing surprise, etc.). The levels of surprise shown in the mouth and body position change throughout.

Sandra Bullock replaced Lori Petty after a few days filming.Sylvester Stallone wanted the Simon Phoenix character to be played by Jackie Chan. Chan refused, since Asian audiences don't like the idea of actors who have always played heroes suddenly playing evil characters.

At one point Bullock surprises Stallone by showing her karate moves. He asks her where she learned that and she said from old Jackie Chan movies."Lenina Huxley" is a reference to the character "Lenina Crowne", a character in "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. At one point she says to John Spartan, "You are a savage creature, John Spartan" thus alluding to the Brave New World character John the Savage. Also, when Phoenix picks up the ray gun after it has finally charged, he says "It's a brave new world."

In the museum armory, Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) referred to one of the mannequins as Rambo, a character played by Sylvester Stallone in three earlier movies.A poster for Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) can be seen in Lenina Huxley's office. Both films had Mark Poll as a set designer.

Many of the cars in the movie were prototypes of future models, supplied by General Motors.For some non-American releases, references to Taco Bell were changed to Pizza Hut. This includes dubbing, plus changing the logos during post-production. Taco Bell remains in the closing credits. In the Swedish release the subtitles still use Taco Bell while the sound and picture has been altered as above.

The "ray gun" used by Wesley Snipes in the Museum Armory sequence is based on the Heckler and Koch G11, a prototype weapon for the German army that would have been the most advanced rifle in the world, firing caseless ammunition (bullets, not death rays).Benjamin Bratt's character, "Alfredo Garcia", is named after the Sam Peckinpah film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974).

At one point, Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) says to John Spartan "While you were sleeping... ", referring to the time he was frozen. Bullock later starred in the movie While You Were Sleeping (1995).During TV replays, the computer announcing the reanimation of Jeffrey Dahmer and Simon Phoenix's line "I love that guy!" is deleted. Dahmer was killed in "normal" prison after release of the movie so the line became anachronistic.

After breaking out of the cryogenic prison and using the information booth, Wesley Snipes refers to the booth as HAL from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).Warden William Smithers is named after the actor William Smithers who played the sadistic Warden Barrot in Papillon (1973).

The building used for exterior shots of the SAPD building was the California Headquarters of GTE in Thousand Oaks.In the strange attempt to entirely replace the Taco Bell name with Pizza Hut (the name was dubbed over and computer generated images of the logo were pasted over), the editors missed a spot. At the start of the battle outside the restaurant, when everyone is flocking to the window, one pane still holds the logo for Taco Bell and the Taco Bell sign is visible in the first shot of the van (in the background when people are running) on the door.

Wesley Snipes's kicks and punches sometimes look lurchy and awkward. Snipes is a black belt in real life, and his kicks and punches were so fast that they blurred on camera. Hence the producers asked him to slow them down.Lenina Huxley tells John Spartan about the Arnold Schwarzenegger Library, explaining that, based on the sheer popularity of his movies, a Constitutional amendment was passed in order for Schwarzenegger to run for president, which, according to Huxley, he did. In 2003, ten years after this film's release, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California and shortly after his election, three senators separately proposed amendments to the US Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to become president.

The title was taken from The Police's song of the same name. Hence, the use of Sting to remake the song for the film.The two original choices for the roles were Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Van Damme was offered the role of the bad guy, but didn't want that role. He agreed to star in it if both the lead roles could be switched, the producers tried to get Seagal to play the bad guy, he declined.

Sandra Bullock's costume during the Taco Bell sequence was made of stones and gems weighing approximately 40 pounds. After the fight scene outside the restaurant when her character gleefully jumps and replays the action, her dress actually started to rip, which is why she is holding her arms to her sides after Stallone walks away.In an early scene, set after the first MDK (Murder Death Kill), the name Scott Peterson is listed as one of the cryo-prisoners. The name appears listed before Simon Phoenix on a computer display, which the character Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) has called to the screen. This is merely a coincidence, however, as Scott Peterson was not a public figure until he was tried for the murder of his wife during 2004-2005

When Simon Phoenix is fighting John Spartan in Lenina Huxley's car, he says "Say hello to my little friend!" A reference to the Al Pacino film Scarface (1983).According to the commentary found on the RC1 DVD, there were some scenes deleted from the movie including a subplot involving Spartan's daughter and the murder of Zachary Lamb by Phoenix.