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Ghost Rider

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Memorable Movie Quotes

Caretaker: The story goes he made a deal to save someone he loved. He'd be normal during the day, but at night, in the presence of evil, the Rider takes over.

Johnny Blaze: I'm the only one who can walk on both worlds. I'm Ghost Rider.

Caretaker: Morning, bonehead.

Ghost Rider: Your soul is stained with the blood of innocents.

Ghost Rider: A thousand souls to burn. Look into my eyes, your souls are stained by the blood of the innocent. Feel their pain.

Ghost Rider: You, guilty!

Trivia

A large group of on-lookers converged on a bridge in Melbourne to watch scenes being filmed in a nearby location. Over the four days of filming at this location, the crowds grew so large that traffic was often disrupted and public transport operators reported an unusual jump in passenger traffic to the area.

Nicolas Cage's hairpiece required three hours to apply every day.

To create the Ghost Rider's voice, sound designer Don Davis recorded all of Nicolas Cage's lines as the Ghost Rider, and then filtered them through three different kinds of animal growls (played backwards, covering three separate frequencies) and then played them through a mechanical volumizer, before finally giving them a fiery crackle. Director Mark Steven Johnson compared it to "a deep, demonic, mechanical lion's roar" and says that "one thing is for sure, his voice will shake the theatre!"

Johnny Depp' was interested in playing the title role.

Nicolas Cage's computer generated skull was made from a three dimensional x-ray taken of his actual skull.

One of the bridges being used in Melbourne was months away from completion, so the studio paid to have tar, lines, lights etc added to the highway for filming purposes. The work was then ripped up and redone to meet Australian Safety Standards.

The flame tank chopper Johnny Blaze rides is a modern replica of the "Captain America" chopper that Peter Fonda rides in Easy Rider. Fonda (as the Mephestopheles character) makes a humorous reference to this at one point, saying, "Nice bike!"

The shotgun used in the movie is a Model 1887 Winchester lever-action shotgun.

ere is a scene in the movie where the Ghost Rider (played by Nicolas Cage), while riding through the desert, rides past a lizard on a rock. The lizard bursts into flame. This is strongly reminiscent of a similar scene from another Nicolas Cage movie, "Raising Arizona." In that movie Nicolas Cage's character has a dream where his evil side is riding through the desert on a motorcycle, and shoots a lizard off a rock by the side of the road. The camera angles are practically identical.

Blackheart quotes the Bible at Mark 5:9 when he says, "My name is Legion, for we are many" after absorbing the souls of the damned at San Venganza. This quote was spoken by a demon-possessed man who was cured by Jesus Christ.

The Johnny Blaze video game seen in the movie is actually a game called "Crusty Demons" developed by UK games company "Climax". Climax also developed the Ghost Rider video game.

Director Mark Steven Johnson actually put forward his own money so that an action sequence where Ghost Rider battles a helicopter could be made.

When Johnny and Mack are on the tour bus and Mack is watching TV, the motorcycle rider shown is Travis Pastrana.

Was originally planned for a summer 2006 release. However, director Mark Steven Johnson asked for more time to complete more action shots. One of these shots is the scene in which Ghost Rider battles a helicopter.

The motorcycle crash shown in the movie where the rider falls and hits his head against the front wheel of the bike is actually real. The stunt driver lost balance during the stunt and the director decided to use that action part in the movie. The rider was not hurt.

Was sent to theaters under the name "Costly Pact".

Goofs

During one of the stunts a character is knocked out hitting the fence. The crew immediately remove his helmet. You should *never* remove the helmet of an unconscious biker unless there are problems with their airway.

Before the big jump Johnny drinks out of a coffee pot, spilling coffee on the front of his jacket. In the next shot there is no coffee on the jacket.

In the beginning of the movie, the young Johnny Blaze has brown eyes. Later on, the older Johnny Blaze has blue eyes.

When Ghost Rider is walking towards Roxanne after riding down the skyscraper she is clearly in the line of fire from the cops behind her. They are later seen shooting freely without hitting her.

When Johnny's helmet visor smashes during the stunt in the beginning of the movie the sound effects make it sound like the visor is made of glass, helmet visors are made of plastic.

When Ghost Rider takes Blackheart's souls, images of the previous kills he made are seen in the fire. However these kills would be credited to Blackhearts own soul, which is in hell (revealed the first time Ghost Rider tries to punish Blackheart earlier in the film). The soul's Ghost Rider is taking are those of the villagers, and so the images that Blackheart would see in Ghost Rider's eyes would be their kills, not his.

Johnny and Roxanne's tree at the end of the movie looks very much like the one in the beginning, in spite of the fifteen-or-so years passed between the two scenes; it should probably have been noticeably bigger.

Six Blackhawk helicopters cannot fit into a 300 ft span. Each one has a wingspan (rotors) of 54 feet. Allowing for absolutely zero space in between their rotors, that would total 324 ft. An actual goalpost-to-goalpost jump would really be 360 ft anyway so, they would narrowly fit.

Box Office Info USA

Budget: $110,000,000

Opening Weekend: $52,022,908

Gross: $115,802,596

Weekend Gross: $52,022,908

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