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• Chuck Russell has said that The Mask (1994) started off as a very dark horror film based on the old comic books before being transformed as a vehicle for Jim Carrey's unique comedy.
  
  
• This is Cameron Diaz's first movie role.
  
  
• Years before Son of the Mask (2005), there was, at some point, plans for "The Mask II", but that sequel was canceled. There was even a contest from Nintendo Power magazine where first prize was a walk-on role in that movie.
  
  
• Prior to Cameron Diaz landing the role of Tina Carlyle, the producers had originally suggested a relative unknown but up and coming blonde Anna Nicole Smith for the role. Ultimately the decision was reversed when they found Cameron Diaz while leaving a modeling agency.
  
  
• The Ripley Auto Finishing building is also used in Ghost Busters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) as their headquarters.
  
  
• The nightclub Jim Carrey frequents in hopes of attracting Cameron Diaz bears the name of the "Coco Bongo". Coco Bongo was also the name of the bar Peter Appleton (Carrey) went to after losing his job in The Majestic (2001). Coco Bongo is also the name of Jim Carrey's nightclub in Cancun, Mexico.
  
  
• When The Mask goes to get revenge on the mechanics, the sign over the door reads "Ripley's Auto Finishing". The next day, when the mechanics are being taken out on stretchers, the sign had been vandalized, broken and painted, now reading 'Rip Off' on the two separated halves.
  
  
• The part when Jim Carrey is being chased by the gangsters and pulls the wet condom out of his pocket and says, "Sorry wrong pocket," was improvised by Carrey.
  
  
• Based on a Dark Horse comic book series of the same name.
  
  
• The banana-yellow suit that Jim Carrey wears is based on a suit which his mother made for him for his first attempt at stand-up comedy.
  
  
• Jim Carrey based his character on his father.
  
  
• The oversized teeth on the Mask character were originally to be used only during silent scenes. However, Jim Carrey learned to talk with them on to make his character that much more wacky.
  
  
• An original script idea was for Stanley to meet the street gang that he later encounters as the Mask earlier in the film, getting mugged and having them steal his watch. This is why when his landlady asks him if he knows what time it is, he says, "Actually, no."
  
  
• As befits Stanley's obsession with cartoons, The Mask acts like various cartoon characters, most notably the Tazmanian Devil (traveling as a tornado), Pepe Le Pew (romancing Tina in the park), Bugs Bunny (dying in the gangster's arms), and Tex Avery's Wolf (seeing Tina in the nightclub).
  
  
• Many of the moves in Tina's nightclub act are directly taken from Red's nightclub act in the Tex Avery cartoon Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), a portion of which Stanley watches at the beginning of the movie.
  
  
• Cameron Diaz's singing voice in the film was dubbed by Susan Boyd.
  
  
• The line "You love me, you really love me!" after the Mask's "award acceptance speech" in the Coco Bongo is a parody of Sally Field's infamous 1985 Oscar acceptance speech, when she won Best Actress for Places in the Heart (1984). Her actual words were "You like me... right now, you like me!" but it is often misquoted as "...you really like me!" or "...you really love me!" (as in this example).
  
  
• In the scene where Ipkiss puts the mask on in his apartment, and becomes a whirlwind, lightning strikes in the background reveal a back lit image of his skeleton. The viewer will need to play the movie in slow motions as the scene is only 1/10th of a second long.
  
  
• The one thing that attracted Jim Carrey to the project more than anything else was that Stanley Ipkiss, much like him, is a huge fan of cartoons.
  
  
• Cameron Diaz had to audition 12 times for the part of Tina, only landing the role 7 days before shooting began.
  
  
• Jim Carrey was paid $450,000 for his work in the film.
  
  
• According to his memoirs Gary Kemp turned down the role of Tyrell in order to film Büvös vadász (1994).
  
  

• SPOILER: The DVD contains two deleted scenes. One was an introduction with the Vikings coming to bury the Mask on the shore, while another was in the warehouse after Peggy turns Stanley over to Dorian; he picks her up and throws her into the printing press, with a newspaper printing out that shows her smashed face and says she died that night.
  
  

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