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(#3) Eric Stoltz Bows Out Of The Movie By Swallowing A Wasp
At no point does it feel like Eric Stoltz wants to be in Anaconda. Not even when he’s making out with J. Lo.
The veteran character actor from films like Pulp Fiction and Mask feels out of place co-starring next to Ice Cube and J. Lo, so it’s not surprising he gets out of the movie as quickly as possible. Rather than get chomped up by a giant river anaconda, Stoltz swallows a venomous wasp while diving underwater. His character's reaction to the wasp serves as the catalyst for the documentary crew turning around and heading towards the anaconda’s lair.
After he goes down, Stoltz is never heard from until the end of the movie, when he wakes up to save the day. Not a bad way to spend a movie.
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(#7) You Kinda Root For The Snake As It Eats Everybody Up
After watching Anaconda way too many times, it becomes clear the filmmakers want the audience to root for the snake. The only two characters you don’t want to see gobbled up - J. Lo and Ice Cube - are the only members of the crew who survive (aside from the comatose Eric Stoltz). Everyone else is just snake food.
As the film progresses, the anaconda’s scenes get more and more ridiculous: it chokes out Owen Wilson, whose face is later seen protruding from the snake's belly; it eats the already slain production manager; it then ups its game by swallowing Jon Voight whole. If ever the world needed a snake-based drinking game, this is it.
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(#9) It's Surprisingly Diverse For A Big Budget '90s Hollywood Creature Feature
Most big budget Hollywood films from the ‘90s are packed with white people. In some cases, you get a white guy with a tan or someone with an English accent, but for the most part, the heroes are just flavors of vanilla. On the other hand, Anaconda has two people of color as its protagonists, and they manage to survive the entire film. This is an unfortunate rarity in films from the ‘90s, where people of color are either absent or out by the end of the first reel.
The film is almost the inverse of a standard horror film of the time. The blonde hottie, played by Owen Wilson, is snatched out of the film faster than you can say, “Wow!” while J. Lo and Ice Cube not only save the day but outsmart a group of poachers and finish their documentary along the way.
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(#12) What Is Up With Jon Voight's Accent?
Jon Voight is the son of a professional golfer from Yonkers, New York, and in his real life, he speaks with the flat affect of someone who eliminated their accent to make it in the movie business. He doesn’t sound remotely like someone from South America, and especially not a former priest from Paraguay who’s also an expert fisherman with a snake obsession.
Throughout the film, Voight speaks with a thick accent that sounds like a mix of French patois and someone doing an impression of Cheech Marin. This Academy Award-winning actor chews every scene he's in and sneers his way through such lines as, “Presume? How you like I presume to throw you in the river? You like that presume? Huh?” It would be offensive if it weren’t so bonkers.
Where did this accent come from? Did he hear a guy talk like this once and think, “That’s my character?” Or was this something he crafted during pre-production?
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(#8) A Regurgitated Jon Voight Uses His Last Moment To Wink At J. Lo
From the moment Jon Voight steps on screen, soaked in rain water and a thin layer of oil, you know there’s something up with him. Aside from leading J. Lo’s crew into certain doom, he creeps out both of the women on the ship. He constantly refers to the production manager as “little bird,” which is gross, and he’s just straight-up slimy to J. Lo.
The finale of the film sees Voight swallowed whole by the anaconda and then regurgitated, probably because creeps taste so gross. After his half-digested body falls to the floor, he uses his final moments to wink at her. It's genuinely the scariest thing in the whole movie.
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(#4) The Anaconda Frequently Screams Even Though In Real Life It Absolutely Cannot
With the notable exception of the bull snake, serpents lack vocal cords. They don’t roar and they definitely don’t screech. A snake can hiss - and some rattle - but they never scream at people when they strike. That is to say, if a snake actually tried to eat a human (instead of actively avoiding them in real life), it certainly wouldn't scream when it did it.
But the titular anaconda isn’t like other girls. It can roar like a ferocious beast (or maybe a Tyrannosaurus rex) when it’s chasing down unlucky documentarians.
Maybe the makers of Anaconda thought it would be scarier to have the snake scream as it went after its targets, or maybe they just had Frank Welker (the prolific voice actor who voices the snake) on the payroll and needed to use him. In hindsight, it's this kind of ridiculous thinking that elevates Anaconda from being a normal bad movie to a camp masterpiece of ‘90s cinema.
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