American History X – movie info
Memorable Movie Quotes
Doris Vinyard: You think you’re the only one doin’ time, Derek? You think you’re here all alone? You think I’m not in here with you?
Lamont: I’m the most dangerous man in this prison. You know why? ‘Cause I control the underwear.
Trivia
Seth wears a shirt during the basketball game featuring the number 88. This is a naziskin code for HH, or “Heil Hitler,” H being the 8th letter of the alphabet. It also refers to a set of 88 precepts written by the neo-nazi leader David Lane. The 88 precepts are rules and concepts that all White Supremacists lived by.
The punk band Anti-Heroes sued New Line Cinema over a character’s tattoo featuring the band. The band did not want to be associated with Nazis, even fictional ones, in any way. The band went on to record a song called “NLC” that debases the film studio.
Edward Norton gained 30 pounds of muscle for his role.
The diner that Danny and Derek get breakfast before Danny goes to school in the morning is the same diner that is used in The Big Lebowski, during the infamous “toe” scene.
The quotation that concludes Danny’s paper is from the closing words of Abraham Lincoln’s first Inaugural Address in 1861.
The character of Cameron Alexander is based on Tom Metzger, leader of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR), an extremist white supremacy group based in southern California.
Goofs
In the opening scene Derek fires more than 20 shots without reloading from a gun that could hold no more than 15 rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber.
When Danny is printing his essay, the ink-jet printer makes a dot-matrix sound.
When Danny is pulling his Nazi memorabilia out from his wooden box a knife appears on the bed that was never pulled out of the box.
In the news interview following Daniel Vinyard’s father’s death, it is stated that he was an LA County Firefighter. In the flashback scene with his father at the breakfast table, you can clearly see that Dennis Vinyard has an eagle on the badge. The Los Angeles County Fire Department has a bear on the badge. The Los Angeles Fire Department has an eagle.
In the first flashback where Derek has fired at the car and is returning to the guy he shot, he leans down with the pistol in his hand, as if to pistol-whip the guy. In the second flashback, it shows the same scene with Derek approaching but this time, when he gets to the guy, he just drags him into the street.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget $10,000,000
Opening Weekend $1,340,166 (USA) (22 November 1998)
Gross $6,712,241
Filming March 1997 – May 1997
Filming Locations
Johnie’s Coffee Shop – 6101 Wilshire Boulevard, Fairfax, Los Angeles, California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Venice High School – 13000 Venice Boulevard, Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA