Chopper (2000) (Movie)

format_quote Chopper: (after viciously stabbing Keithy George multiple times in the face and neck) I think I put me shoulder out.

stars  Eric Bana spent two days living with Mark Brandon Read so he could get a better understanding of how to play his character in the film.

stars  Referring to the police as 'Amanda Duncan' is unusual. The term may have arisen from an amalgamation of names from an Australian television series, _Cop Shop (1977)_. Paula Duncan played a character called Danni Francis, while Lynda Stoner played a character called Amanda King.

stars  An important shot of Chopper walking down the street towards the camera, in slow-motion, and with everyone else in the shot out of focus is filmed in exactly the same manner as a similarly important shot of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976).

stars  As everyone probably knows, "Somewhere over the Rainbow", the original song to accompany the opening credits of "Chopper", was written especially for the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz (1939). Curiously, in L. Frank Baum's original stage version in 1903, the Tin Man was referred to as (Mick) Chopper.

stars  Until Wolf of Wall Street, Chopper was the highest grossing R+ film in Australian history.