| Twelve outrageous guests. Four scandalous requests. And one lone bellhop, in his first day on the job, who's in for the wildest New year's Eve of his life. |
Anno: 1995
Durata:98'
Scritto e diretto da: Allison Anders (episodio "The Missing Ingredient")
Alexandre Rockwell (episodio "The Wrong Man")
Robert Rodriguez (episodio "The Misbehavers")
Quentin Tarantino (episodio "The Man from Hollywood")
Prodotto da: Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino (produttore esecutivo)
Paul Hellerman, Scott Lambert, Alexandre Rockwell, Heidi Vogel.
Tim Roth .... Ted the Bellhop
Sammi Davis .... Jezebel
Amanda De Cadenet .... Diana
Valeria Golino .... Athena
Madonna .... Elspeth
Ione Skye .... Eva
Lili Taylor .... Raven
Alicia Witt .... Kiva
Jennifer Beals .... Angela
David Proval .... Sigfried
Antonio Banderas .... Man
Lana McKissack .... Sarah
Patricia Vonne Rodriguez .... Corpse
Tamlyn Tomita .... Wife
Danny Verduzco .... Juancho
Salma Hayek .... TV Dancing Girl
:Paul Calderon .... Norman
Quentin Tarantino .... Chester Rush
Lawrence Bender .... Long Hair Yuppy Scum
Kathy Griffin .... Betty
Marisa Tomei .... Margaret
Bruce Willis .... Leo (uncredited)
1. Vertigogo - Combustible Edison
2. Junglero
3. Four Rooms Swing
4. Theme From 'Bewitched'
5. Tea and Eva In The Elevator
6. Invocation
7. Breakfast At Denny's
8. Strange Brew
9. Coven Of Witches
10. The Earthly Diana
11. Eva Seduces Ted
12. Hallway Ted
13. Headshake Rhumba
14. Skippen, Pukin, Sigfried
15. Angela
16. Punch Drunk
17. Male Bonding
18. Mariachi
19. Antes De Medianoche
20. Sentimental Journey - Esquivel
21. Kids Watch T.V.
22. Champagne and Needles
23. Bullseye
24. Harlem Nocturne - Esquivel
25. The Millionaire's Holiday
26. Ted-o-vater
27. Vertigogo (Closing Credits)
28. 'D' In The Hallway Credits
29. Torchy
Ted the Bellhop: Problem? I haven't got a problem. I've got fucking problems. Plural.Well, most recently, there's room 309, there's this scary Mexican gangster dude poking his finger in my chest. There's his hooligan kids snapping their fingers at me. There's a putrid, rotting corpse of a dead whore stuck in the springs of the bed. There's rooms blazing afire. There's a big fat needle from God knows where, stuck in my leg, infecting me with God knows what. And finally there's me, walking out the door, right fucking now. Buenas noches.
Angela: I could go on and on about his cock, his bone, his knob, his bishop, wang, thang, rod, hot rod, hump mobile, oscar, dong, dagger, banana, cucumber, salami, sausage, kielbassa, schlong, dink, tool, big ben, Mr. Happy, Peter Pecker, pee-pee, wee-wee, wiener, pisser, pistol, piston joint, hose, horn, middle leg, third leg, meat, stick, joystick, dipstick, one-eyed wonder, junior, little head, little guy, rumple foreskin, tootsie roll, love muscle, skin flute, roto-rooter, snake, hammer, rammer, spammer, bazooka, rubber, chubby, sticky, stubby, schmeck, schmuck, schvantze, ying-yang, yang...
Sarah: Ted!
Ted the Bellhop: What do you want now, for Christ sakes? Who died?
Sarah: I don't know, but she's in my bed.
Ted the Bellhop: What?
Sarah: There's a dead body in my bed.
Ted the Bellhop: Nonsense! That's just your brother sound asleep.
Sarah: No! There's a woman's dead body *inside* the bed in the mattress.
Ted the Bellhop: You saw the body?
Sarah: Yes!
Ted the Bellhop: Impossible! You've got the ointment on your eyes. You can't see shit! Now go to sleep!
Go to sleep!
Sarah: I washed it off.
Ted the Bellhop: The mentholatum?
Sarah: Yeah. Didn't you ever think to do that? Get your ass up here and call the police, because there's a dead body in my bed, and it smells like shit, and it looks even worse. And if you don't help us, my dad is going to lay you down right next to her, I swear to fucking God!
Ted the Bellhop: I am coming up there right this minute! And if there isn't a dead body in that room by the time I get up there, I'm going to make one! You
Little bitch.
Ted the Bellhop: Well, then, if you say five hundred one last time, we have a deal.
Man: You fucking with me, pendejo?
Ted the Bellhop: No, sir, but I'm by myself, and looking after your kids is a pain in the ass I don't need.
Man: Are you calling my kids a pain in the ass?
Ted the Bellhop: Why, no, sir, not the kids. It's the situation that is a pain in the ass.
Chester: Now Ted, a person's life is filled with a zillion little experiences. Some which are insignificant, have no meaning, and, you know, you forget them. Others which you remember for the rest of your natural life. Now, since what we're proposing here is so unusual, so outside the norm, this is a good bet that is going to be one of those incidents that sticks. So, since you're gonna be stuck remembering this for the rest of your life, you have to decide what that memory will be. So, Ted, are you going to remember for the next 40 years, give or take a decade, that you *refused* a $1000 for one second's worth of work? Or that you *made* $1000 for one second's worth of work?
Ted the Bellhop: Police! It's an emergency! Police get someone over here right fucking now. There is a dead fuckin' whore!
Chester: This is Cristal! Everything else is just piss!
Ted, what do you think of that tasty beverage?
Ted the Bellhop: It's quite good sir.
Chester: No, no, no! It's *Fucking* good. Now let's do that again. Ted, what do you think of that tasty beverage?
Ted the Bellhop: It's *Fucking* good sir!
Chester: Thing is, Ted, first off, there's nothing homosexual about what we want you to do. I mean, I was thinking you might be thinking we want you to do some like, weird sex thing, like suck us off, pee on us, shit like that, you know. Nothing! Nothing could be further from the truth!
Ted the Bellhop: No, he didn't make me fuck his wife, he thought I'd fucked his wife! He held me at gunpoint with a loaded gun!
Margaret: What kinda gun was it?
Ted the Bellhop: I don't know, I'm not a gun guy. It was big.
Margaret: Was it like Dirty Harry's gun?
Ted the Bellhop: Yeah, sorta like that. Yeah.
Margaret: Did it have a real long barrel or a short barrel?
Ted the Bellhop: What difference does it make?
Margaret: Well, for one thing it's the difference between a .44 Magnum and a Magnum .357.
Ted the Bellhop: Who the fuck cares whether it was a .44 or a .392? It was a big fucking gun, it was loaded, and it was pointed right at my fucking head.
Man: Did they misbehave?
Kiva: You're not my mother.
Elspeth: Yes I am.
Kiva: Then why are we sleeping together?
Le ragazze nell'appartamento di Betty stanno giocando col videogame "Rambo 3" del 1989 per la consolle Sega Genesis. In alcuni momenti si vedono, comunque, delle scene tratte da "Rambo" per la Nintendo Entertainment System.
All'inizio dell'episodio, i monelli stanno guardando in tv un corto intitolato "Bedhead" (1991) scritto e diretto dal regista Robert Rodriguez.
La macchina che Norman vuole vincere a Chester è una Chevelle Malibu convertibile del 1964 rossa, la stessa macchina guidata da Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction. Norman possiede, invece, una Honda Civic bianca, macchina utilizzata in Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown e Kill Bill vol. 2.
I monelli guardano alla tv lo stesso cartone animato che guardava Ritchie in "From dusk till dawn" sempre diretto da Rodriguez.
Il film avrebbe dovuto intitolarsi "Five Rooms" perchè inizialmente avrebbe dovuto comprendere anche un apisodio girato da Richard Linklater.
All'inizio del film, il logo della casa di produzione di Tarantino ( "A band Apart") si anima: Mr. Orange si toglie di dosso i vestiti da iena e diventa Ted il fattorino.
La ragazza che balla nel canale "porno" dei monelli è l'attrice Salma Hayek, la Santanico Pandemonium di From Dusk Till Dawn.
La scommessa fra Chester e Norman prende spunto da un episodio dell' "Alfred Hitchcock presents" (1955) che loro chiamano "The man from Rio". In realtà, l'episodio in questione si chiama "Man From The South" (5° stagione, episodio 15), trasmesso il 1/3/1960. In quell'episodio, che si basa su una storia scritta da Roald Dahl, l'ideatore della scommessa è pazzo.
Nell'ultimo episodio, che dura solo 21 minuti, la parola "fuck" viene ripetuta 193 volte.
Il ruolo di Ted fu scritto con in mente Steve Buscemi.
Chester chiede a Ted di starlo a sentire per un minuto esatto.
In realtà la sua spiegazione dura 1 minuto e 28 secondi.
Bruce Willis recitò nel film dietro nessun compenso, violando così le regole della SAG. La SAG accettò di non citarlo a condizione che il suo nome venisse escluso dai titoli.
Patricia Vonne Rodriguez che nel terzo episodio "interpreta" il cadavere nella stanza dei monelli è la sorella del regista Robert Rodriguez.
Kathy Griffin (Betty la capa di Ted) è apparsa anche in Pulp Fiction.
L'attore che interpreta il vecchio fattorino che istruisce Ted all'inizio del film comparirà anche in "From Dusk Till Dawn" (Dal Tramonto All'Alba) nel ruolo dell'isterico proprietario del motel dove alloggiano i fratelli Gecko e la famiglia Fuller.
Il produttore Lawrence Bender compare in un breve cameo nel ruolo di uno dei partecipanti alla festa che chiamano Ted per avere del ghiaccio in camera.
David Proval, l'attore che interpreta Sigfrid ha partecipato alla seconda stagione del noto telefilm "I Soprano" nel ruolo di Richie Aprile.
