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David Levinson's (Jeff Goldblum) ex-wife (Margaret Colin) works for the President (Bill Pullman [...]	D
Jeff Goldblum (David Levinson), Judd Hirsch (Julius Levinson), Bill Pullman (President Thomas J [...]	D
The tails on the destroyed aircraft at MCAS El Toro are 'LF', as in Luke Air Force Base. There [...]	D
(at around 1h 29 mins) After the nuclear bombing of Houston, Texas, silhouettes of street light [...]	D
First of three film in which Bill Pullman and Robert Loggia both appear, and the only one of th [...]	D
(at around 1h 8 mins) When Will Smith is dragging the alien across the desert, after he kicks t [...]	D
When David is getting drunk in Area 51, the security camera briefly shows footage from sections [...]	D
Struggling to write the score, David Arnold secluded himself in a Los Angeles hotel room for al [...]	D
The alien spacecraft in Area 51 was a full-scale model measuring 65 feet wide.	D
Most of the cast and crew, including Will Smith, were unpleasantly surprised to suffer severe s [...]	D
The phrases said by the pilots when firing their missiles is NATO brevity code for the types of [...]	D
(at around 42 mins) Footage of fiery debris was captured on film after a pyrotechnics malfuncti [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 [...]	D
Roland Emmerich wanted Martin Landau for the role of Julius Levinson, but he was busy with Le s [...]	D
Diana Bellamy, Judith Hoag, and Jessica Tuck were all cast in large roles that were ultimately [...]	D
Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin wrote the screenplay when they took a month-long vacation in Me [...]	D
The producers wanted to find real-life material that reflected how a small but elite air force [...]	D
(at around 9 mins) The film Ultimatum alla Terra (1951) is seen playing on television, it was d [...]	D
Bobby Hosea filmed his only scene during re-shoots on October 3, 1995, the same day the verdict [...]	D
Will Smith and Harry Connick Jr. are both actors and singers. Will Smith is a rap singer and Ha [...]	D
Mary McDonnell later played a president in Battlestar Galactica (2004).	D
Filming at the Los Angeles International Airport was delayed several days due to a threat from [...]	D
The second film to cross the 500 million dollar mark at the international box-office.	D
The film takes place from July 2 to July 4, 1996.	D
Along with Anatomia di un omicidio (1959), Glory - Uomini di gloria (1989), Allarme rosso (1995 [...]	D
Holds the record for most miniature model work to appear in one film. Model shop supervisor Mic [...]	D
Will Smith and Ross Bagley were stars of the American sitcom Willy, il principe di Bel Air (199 [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
The podcast Quantum Recast (2020) took Independence Day out of 1996 and recast it in the year 2 [...]	D
The advertising campaign cost 24 million dollars. The airtime for the trailer shown during the [...]	D
A then-record 3,000-plus visual effects shots would ultimately be required for the film.	D
Though Mary McDonnell is higher billed than the fellow female stars, Margaret Colin and Vivica [...]	D
A version with Russell Casse flying his bi-plane in with a missile strapped to its wing at the [...]	D
According to producer/co-writer Dean Devlin, the U.S. military had agreed to support the film b [...]	D
The film was banned in Lebanon under pressure from Hezbollah, because it included scenes where [...]	D
The production's model-making department built more than twice as many miniatures for the produ [...]	D
The scene where the White House is blown up was used in the "Finale Scene" of the great movie r [...]	D
David Arnold's Grammy-winning score was performed by an orchestra of ninety and a forty-person [...]	D
Robert Loggia got to decide which branch of the military his character was in, since it was nev [...]	D
(at around 1h 35 mins) When David comes up with his idea on how to fight the aliens, he stands [...]	D
The lighting color used for the alien ships' death ray is Roscolux #370 (Italian Blue). This ge [...]	D
(at around 43 mins) There is an urban legend that the countdown clock is at 09:11 when Dave is [...]	D
Though he plays his father, Judd Hirsch is only 17 years-older than Jeff Goldblum.	D
The huge hype that the film began generating in early 1996 caused Warner Bros. to postpone the [...]	D
In 2021, Bill Pullman reprised his character in a commercial for Budweiser during the super bow [...]	D
Roland Emmerich: [44] The number 44 is seen on the headrest in Russell's F-18 cockpit, several [...]	D
When David Lenvinson (Jeff Goldblum) arrives to his job, one of his colleagues makes a referenc [...]	D
(at around 34 mins) When Will Smith enters the squadron locker room, the extras (pilots) watchi [...]	D
In the opening, can be seen Apollo XI's moon landing site, as well as a voice reads a plaque le [...]	D
Ross Bagley who plays Dylan, appeared as Will Smith's cousin Nicky in Willy, il principe di Bel [...]	D
When the film was released on the big screen in New Zealand, it was given the M mature rating. [...]	D
The character of Dr. Okun, portrayed by Brent Spiner, is based on Jeffrey A. Okun, digital effe [...]	D
(at around 2h 5 mins) The visual effect of the giant alien ray gun exploding is simply the same [...]	D
Jada Pinkett Smith turned down the role of Jasmine Dubrow because of scheduling conflicts with [...]	D
(at around 13 mins) Just prior to the "atmospheric phenomenon" appearing above northern Iraq, t [...]	D
In the final scene in the desert, it can be seen that Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum are walking [...]	D
To prepare for his role, Bill Pullman read Bob Woodward's The Commanders and watched the docume [...]	D
This movie was mentioned by infamous serial killer Aileen Wuornos just before her execution on [...]	D
The characters 'R' and '2' on this inside of the spaceship hangar at Area 51 are a reference to [...]	D
The main American agressor aircraft seen throughout the film, are the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 [...]	D
20th Century Fox first wanted to open the film on Memorial Day and change the name to 'Doomsday [...]	D
According to the liner notes from the recent La La Land Records limited release of the complete [...]	D
Sets for the latter Area 51 included corridors containing windows that were covered with blue m [...]	D
Jeff Goldblum's son Charlie Ocean was born on Independence Day in 2015. Goldblum wrote on Faceb [...]	D
The character of Julius Levinson is based on one of Dean Devlin's uncles.	D
Dean Devlin: (at around 2h) Producer and co-Writer is the voice of the fighter pilot alongside [...]	D
Actors Vincent Schiavelli and Kurt Fuller filmed scenes as a pair of ufologists, Hartmut Engel [...]	D
The first showings of the film took place on July 2, 1996, the same day that the events in the [...]	D
(at around 1h 27 mins) To achieve the look of Houston as seen from the air at night, the crew s [...]	D
Publicity for Independence Day - Rigenerazione (2016) declares that the original Independence D [...]	D
To achieve the effect of flames traveling along the street, the crew placed a downward-facing h [...]	D
The same year as this film's release, Brent Spiner (Dr. Okun) starred in another sci-fi movie P [...]	D
Bill Pullman flew an F/A-18C Hornet at the climax of the movie. While in the 2022 sequel Top Gu [...]	D
Dylan is shown playing with a toy of King Ghidorah, one of the main foes of Godzilla. Roland Em [...]	D
(at around 46 mins) The man in the Los Angeles office building that is destroyed in the initial [...]	D
(at around 2h 10 mins) Jeff Goldblum uses one of his lines from Jurassic Park (1993) in this fi [...]	D
Released on the same day as Phenomenon (1996), which also featured Brent Spiner.	D
Traditionally, Roland Emmerich's regular film crew gives several cast members nicknames by the [...]	D
The 2nd feature film from 20th Century Fox which Jeff Goldblum played a scientist. A decade ear [...]	D
The initials of several model shop crew members can be seen as graffiti on a wall behind the ta [...]	D
The Library Tower (what is now the U.S. Bank Tower) features the logo of First Interstate Banco [...]	D
One of the American cities the aliens destroys in the movie is New York City. Two years after t [...]	D
The Hebrew prayer Julius recites in the prayer circle at Area 51 is as follows: "Shema koleinu [...]	D
In Spain, the marketing campaign paid tribute to the legendary 1938 Orson Welles' War of the Wo [...]	D
(at around 14 mins) [special edition only] A scene in which Jeff Goldblum explains the nature o [...]	D
The filmmakers said that they included Area 51 in the story because the film was intended to ce [...]	D
Dean Devlin wanted the alien invasion to be on a grand scale, because he disliked how in the mo [...]	D
Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin got the idea for the film while fielding a question about the e [...]	D
The opening of the movie, with the Mothership filmed from below passing over the Moon, pays tri [...]	D
Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich penned the script in four weeks. It was sent out on a Thursday, [...]	D
Some of the movie was made in the hangar where Howard Hughes once built his "Spruce Goose," the [...]	D
Director Roland Emmerich was notified one day that Robert Loggia was very upset and refusing to [...]	D
(at around 40 mins) [special edition only] Vivica A. Fox's character quits her job as a strippe [...]	D
The White House interiors were originally built for Il presidente - Una storia d'amore (1995), [...]	D
Production designer Patrick Tatopoulos presented Roland Emmerich with two concepts for the alie [...]	D
President Whitmore attacking the aliens would have been the first U.S. Commander-in-Chief to le [...]	D
The mothership's diameter is 550 kilometers (342 miles), and the 'City Destroyers' are approxim [...]	D
Adam Baldwin and Judd Hirsch previously appeared in Gente comune (1980).	D
(at around 2h 5 mins) James Brown's distinctive scream was used as a sound effect for the alien [...]	D
The view of the crashed alien ship in Africa is from the Kenyan side, NNW of Kilimanjaro and lo [...]	D
Mary McDonnell accepted her role immediately after her agent pitched the film by simply saying [...]	D
Except for the bi-plane during the crop-dusting scene, any airplane seen in the air in this fil [...]	D
On the Bonneville Salt Flats, cast and crew wearing long pants still managed to get sunburns on [...]	D
In the Australian Ratings Advice video; this movie was shown after the girl in the PG t-shirt w [...]	D
When Ally Walker suddenly became unavailable at the last minute, there was a rush to find a new [...]	D
The Macintosh laptop that David uses is shown as a Powerbook XXXX, a prototype model with no de [...]	D
Jeff Goldblum's character predicts disaster, just as he did in Jurassic Park (1993). He also su [...]	D
Vivica A. Fox had previously appeared in Nato il quattro luglio (1989). She also appeared oppos [...]	D
To give the aliens a slimy appearance, K-Y Jelly was used. It had to be applied to the alien pr [...]	D
(at around 41 mins) [special edition only] When David is searching the telephone directory, som [...]	D
(at around 1h 24 mins) The scene where Major Mitchell approaches a wounded alien and shoots him [...]	D
Several people in this movie also appear in either Stargate (1994) or Stargate SG-1 (1997). Mos [...]	D
President Whitmore is described as a former jet fighter pilot from the Iraq War, and he flies h [...]	D
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World" by Tears for Fears was originally picked to play during the [...]	D
When the movie was released in New Zealand it was given the M mature rating. However when it wa [...]	D
The attacker hangar set contained an attacker mock-up 65 feet wide that took four months to bui [...]	D
ID4 is, basically, a remake of the 1953 War Of The Worlds.	D
(at around 2h 10 mins) After the climatic battle, one of the F/A-18s that returns to the base c [...]	D
Near the end of the film, Randy Quaid (as Russell Casse), who is drunk during most of the film, [...]	D
(at around 1h 27 mins) During the nuking scene, the B-2 pilots' uniforms have the patch of the [...]	D
Jeff Goldblum's character is a passionate environmentalist, as seen by his insistence to recycl [...]	D
Between principal photography and the re-shoot of Russell's scenes in his F18, the cockpit mock [...]	D
This was Roland Emmerich's first film to be shot in the Super 35 format.	D
Sharon Tay's debut.	D
Roland Emmerich: [Sky News] In any Roland Emmerich movie in which news broadcasts are depicted, [...]	D
A year after the movie's release, Will Smith starred in another science fiction movie Men in Bl [...]	D
(at around 47 mins) During the aliens' initial attack, the shots of cars landing on other cars [...]	D
Over seventy mock news broadcasts were created for the film. All used real-life newscasters, si [...]	D
Despite having top billing, Will Smith doesn't appear on screen until 20 minutes into the movie [...]	D
(at around 1h 40 mins) Albert Nimziki's firing lampoons Joe Nimziki, MGM's head of advertising [...]	D
(at around 2h 10 mins) The line "Elvis has left the building!", which Will Smith yells toward t [...]	D
Bill Pullman's performance as President Thomas J. Whitmore is clearly based on Bill Clinton, Pr [...]	D
When Dean Devlin first pitched the script to 20th Century Fox, it was described as "War Of The [...]	D
According to a back-story established by the cast and crew, Dr. Okun was recruited by the milit [...]	D
The "futuristic" looking computer in the control center at Area 51 are components of an IBM AN/ [...]	D
William Fay: (at around 39 mins) The co-Executive Producer can briefly be seen on the televisio [...]	D
Roland Emmerich admitted that during the movie's premiere at the White House, he gave his seat [...]	D
(at around 1h 16 mins) When Captain Hiller is talking to General Grey about returning to El Tor [...]	D
(at around 1h 18 mins) Dylan is playing with a King Ghidorah toy at MCAS El Toro.	D
(at around 3 mins) Shown on a computer monitor in the S.E.T.I. office is a diagram of "Deep Spa [...]	D
Harvey Fierstein and Lisa Jakub both had previously appeared in Mrs. Doubtfire - Mammo per semp [...]	D
The destruction of The White House had to happen in one take. The crew built a giant miniature [...]	D
In the the Area 51 lab scene, Dr. Okun, the head of the project (with glasses and freakishly lo [...]	D
The novelization of the film establishes President Whitmore as a young Senator from Chicago pri [...]	D
Dean Devlin said that most of the dialogue in the scenes Jeff Goldblum shared with Judd Hirsch [...]	D
(at around 1h 45 mins) The President's speech was filmed on August 6, 1995 in front of an old a [...]	D
In the original script and early into filming, the space ships over New York and Washington D.C [...]	D
Now Playing Podcast reviewed Independence Day. This film received one "recommend" and two "not [...]	D
Filming began on July 28, 1995 and concluded on October 8, 1995 after 72 days of filming an unu [...]	D
Russell's crop duster plane is a, Boeing-Stearman Model A75N1 (PT17).	D
In preparation for their roles in the film, Will Smith and Bill Pullman had to go through Air F [...]	D
The actor who plays the pilot that salutes President Whitmore after his speech at Area 51 hanga [...]	D
(at around 47 mins) The White House which exploded was built at 1/12 scale, just to be blown up [...]	D
(at around 37 mins) The street names seen on David's laptop screen (Ashford, Volker, etc.) are [...]	D
Dean Devlin, who served as the second unit director, and directed the close-up shots of actors [...]	D
Will Smith's squadron was stationed at MCAS El Toro. This is the same name as the air base from [...]	D
(at around 41 mins) [special edition only] During the scenes where David is searching for his e [...]	D
VMFA-314 "The Black Knights," the squadron Will Smith belongs to, had been stationed at MCAS El [...]	D
The film cast includes six Oscar nominees: Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith, Robert Loggia, Mary McDon [...]	D
Matthew Perry was originally offered the role of Captain Jimmy "Raven" Wilder but pulled out at [...]	D
In 1997, actor Ewan McGregor labeled the film "an abomination", a typical Hollywood example of [...]	D
(at around 48 mins) On the DVD commentary, visual effects supervisor Volker Engel reveals that [...]	D
The shoot utilized on-set, in-camera special effects more often than computer-generated effects [...]	D
The film initially was green-lit with a budget of 69 million dollars from the studio.	D
Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich had always envisioned an African-American for the role of Steve [...]	D
David's character suffers from air sickness; in previous film roles, Jeff Goldblum has played c [...]	D
A year after the film's release, Will Smith starred in another science fiction film about extra [...]	D
The actual aliens of the film are diminutive and based on a design Patrick Tatopoulos drew when [...]	D
The movie features, thanks to visual effects, 3,978 F-18 Hornets, 52,278 pieces of debris, 3,93 [...]	D
Bill Pullman confirmed in an interview that the studio originally wanted to call the film "Doom [...]	D
Mad Magazine did a parody in which the virus transmitted to the aliens was Windows '95. This co [...]	D
Bill Pullman used the memory of a decayed tooth which was pulled from his mouth in order to com [...]	D
(at around 57 mins) The names of the pilots on the status screen aboard Air Force One during th [...]	D
The newly named alien invasion battle from the first Independence Day movie is now referred to [...]	D
When David Levinson decodes the signal hidden in the satellites system he tells Marty that the [...]	D
As is the case with many 20th Century Fox movies, the film cans for the advance screening print [...]	D
20th Century Fox set up a 1-900 number for people to call and record their very own audio revie [...]	D
Spanish television advertisements for this movie, showing the large ships hovering over New Yor [...]	D
Robert Loggia modeled the character General Grey after Generals of World War II, particularly G [...]	D
(at around 1h 45 mins) The final sentence of the President's speech was not in the original scr [...]	D
Within the first few minutes of the very first day of principal photography, a pigeon pooped on [...]	D
The White House model covered ten feet by five feet, and was used in forced-perspective shots b [...]	D
"Area 51" is a real life U.S. Air Force facility. The Wikipedia website states that it "is a re [...]	D
The abbreviation "ID4" was invented due to legal problems with the title "Independence Day". Be [...]	D
(at around 37 mins) When they are approaching the White House, David tells Julius that Connie " [...]	D
(at around 24 mins) The smoky effect of the alien spacecraft as it moves into position above Ne [...]	D
James Rebhorn described his character as being much like Oliver North.	D
Became the second highest grossing film of all time worldwide, second only to Jurassic Park (19 [...]	D
According to the What Culture website, "Independence Day modernized the disaster movie premise, [...]	D
Matthew Broderick was offered the role of David Levinson, but had to turn it down due to schedu [...]	D
Unique Premiere schedule: UK Odeon Leicester Square held first premiere as advanced marketed as [...]	D
President Whitmore was originally intended to be a Richard Nixon-like figure. The role was orig [...]	D
(at around 1h 7 mins) The scene in which Will Smith drags the unconscious alien across the dese [...]	D
In the film's climax, the alien mothership is destroyed by a pair of Pennsylvania natives: Jeff [...]	D
(at around 41 mins) The main helicopter used during the "Welcome Wagon" operation was a Sikorsk [...]	D
In the film, the NYPD are wearing light blue uniforms. They switched to dark blue a few months [...]	D
The plot device by which the aliens were defeated is lifted from the original storyline of H.G. [...]	D
Steven shows his buddy a dolphin engagement ring he purchased for his fiancÃ©, telling him sh [...]	D
In the Special Edition version of the film, deleted scenes are restored that explain apparent i [...]	D
Dr. Okun is a reference to Jeffrey A. Okun, one of the visual effects supervisors from Roland E [...]	D
(at around 27 mins) The line, "Eh, f**k my lawyer," was said by Harvey Fierstein and the explet [...]	D
After this movie, Will Smith Star in Men In Black which had a very similar background a year la [...]	D
A month after the film's release, jewelry designers and marketing consultants reported an incre [...]	D
Broke the records for Fastest to 100 million dollars (seven days), and Fastest to 200 million d [...]	D
First of three "Independence Day" movies, with the second being Independence Day - Rigenerazion [...]	D
As the crew and audiences liked the character of Dr. Okun so much, Dean Devlin and Brent Spiner [...]	D
Actor Rance Howard and Voice Actor Frank Welker would both work that same year in another Alien [...]	D
Julius Levinson mentions the government holding alien bodies at Area 51 recovered from Roswell, [...]	D
(at around 2h 10 mins) The climactic 30 second countdown to the bomb's detonation took one minu [...]	D
Using a model previously used for the film Speed (1994), the crew filmed a scene where a bus cr [...]	D
(at around 1h 17 mins) In the briefing room scene at Area 51 behind Hiller and Grey there is a [...]	D
When Dave is seated in the small space craft and turns on his own computer it utters the words, [...]	D
Though Smith was always the first choice to play Steven Hiller, Eddie Murphy was the immediate [...]	D

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