Chris Evans and Seth Rogen only just found out the 'Home Alone' gangster movie is fake
Every day is a school day, it seems.
And thanks to classic Christmas caper Home Alone, Chris Evans and Seth Rogen (and a few others too) have learned something new, albeit horribly, horribly late.
The Avengers and Pineapple Express stars have only just realised that the gangster flick Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister watches in the movie, Angels With Filthy Souls, is a fake.
Famed for its line ‘Keep the change, ya filthy animal’, the ‘film within a film’, a faux 1930s noir, was created especially for the movie by Chris Columbus.
There was even an extensive article about it in Vanity Fair in 2015, in which those involved revealed the lengths they went to in order to make it look authentic, including using old film stock.
But this seemed to have passed Evan, Rogen, comedian Nick Kroll and many on Twitter by completely.
My entire childhood, I thought the old timey movie that Kevin watches in Home Alone (Angels With Filthy Souls) was actually an old movie.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) December 25, 2018
IT’S NOT???? https://t.co/opPZtnaehs
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) December 25, 2018
It isn’t? (Dead serious)
— nick kroll (@nickkroll) December 25, 2018
I didn't know it until you just said this.
— rodneyrothman (@rodneyrothman) December 25, 2018
Come on lads, keep up.
A riff on the James Cagney movie Angels With Dirty Faces, and starring actor Ralph Foody, the clunky VHS – after initially terrifying him – helped Kevin to navigate paying the pizza delivery guy.
It also spawned a legion of arch Christmas jumpers. So we’ve that to thank for it too.
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