| MISCELLANEA |
| Movie Credits |
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Ever wonder how many stuntpeople were in Willow? Do you lie awake at
night wondering who the possum handler for the movie was? The answers to these
questions and many more can be found in the credits. The credits raise a
few questions too, such as what the heck is a Foley A.D.R. Recordist, and why
are the Vohnkar Warriors listed ahead of Franjean and Rool in the closing
credits? It's a mystery to me....
All questions aside, here are the full movie credits for Willow, in the order
they roll across the screen. Since the closing credits are very long, they are presented
in several sections to make them a little more manageable. |
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Sometimes they leave things out of the credits! Kenny Baker (aka R2D2) has an uncredited
role in Willow as the villager who says "Well, who'll do that?" after the High Aldwyn says
the baby must be taken to the crossroads. He's also a member of the Nelwyn band.
Uncredited appearances were also made by :
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| Cast and Crew Birthdays |
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Here's a list
of all the birthday information I could find for the Willow cast members,
listed in movie-credit order. Selected crew birthdays are at the end of the list, too.
How old were they when Willow was made? Filming began on April 27, 1987 and the movie was released on May 20, 1988 - figure it out yourself! Please write to Connie if you have any additional birthday information. Val Kilmer (Madmartigan) - December 31, 1959 |
| Pop Culture Tributes and References |
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A quirky little song called Willow Don't Cry was written by
Leslie Hall of
Leslie & the Lys for her second album
Door Man's Daughter. The song has its own website
here where you can listen to the music
and watch a rather hilarious 5-minute video (of which the first two minutes are
not directly related to Willow). The playback is kind of rough with numerous
small glitches, but it's fun. The website includes behind the scenes information
and other small extras. There's a metal band in England named Eborsisk. There's also a Chicago metal band called Bavmorda. A Finnish metal band, Nightwish, which features an opera-trained female vocalist, mentions Willow in the first song on their first album, Angels Fall First. You can read the lyrics here - the Willow reference comes near the end of the song Elvenpath. The band's albums are available in the U.S. Thanks to Britton for the information. But that's not the only Willow reference on the album. Quentin Scouflaire reports that the music at the beginning of Nightwish's Once Upon a Troubadour - one of the last tracks - comes from the movie's tavern scene! But according to Britton, this song is only available on SOME copies of the European version of the album. It's hard to find, and not available at all on the U.S. version. The harcore punk screamo band Kane Hodder has several Willow-related tracks on their album The Pleasure to Remain So Heartless. The titles include The Child Of Prophecy, Crushing Everything In Sight, Attack On Tir Asleen, and Assault At First Light. Most of the Willow content is in the titles rather than the lyrics, but you can read the lyrics to Attack on Tir Asleen here. Not recommended for the squeamish! |
| Webpage History |
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This website was built through the efforts of many people.
In the early days of the internet, the most prominent Willow pages included Joe Frese's Big Big Willow/Shadow Moon Homepage, Dave 'Taalcon' Tayman's 13 Realms webpage, and Andrew Pitino's Willow webpage. Joe's page became inactive and Andrew's went offline. They bequeathed their material to Taalcon; he arranged to make his new blended page a subdomain of Lucasfan.Com, called Willow.Lucasfan.Com, and absorbed the material from Lucasfan's existing Willow section. This was in 1999. The page grew rapidly for several months due to the efforts of Taal and several contributors including Connie Green. But then, alas, other responsibilities caught up with Taal and he was no longer to keep up his work on the Willow page. So Connie volunteered to help out, and became co-webmaster in August 2000. Taal provided advice for several months, but Connie eventually assumed sole control of the page. At least 80% of the current content is the result of her work. Server problems developed in early 2001, and it gradually became obvious that the best solution was to move the page to another server with more space. The new address made the existing name obsolete, so when the page moved to the new server in June 2001 it was rechristened The Crossroads. |