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Street Fighter (1994)

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• The controls to M. Bison's floating "desk" are identical to the controls of the Street Fighter video game.
  
  
• Vega only has three lines during the entire movie: - He says "I knew we couldn't trust them..." off-camera, the audience does not realize it is him until Bison directly refers to him. - As he is putting on his mask prior to his fight with Ryu he says "Where were we?" to which Ryu returns a punch to him and replies "You were loosing." - His final line is "Die!" which he says during his fight with Ryu.
  
  
• The film includes characters from the video games up to and including Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (1993) (VG). Most notably absent is Fei Long, the video-game version of Bruce Lee. Rumor has it that the character of Captain Sawada was supposed to be Fei Long, but was changed and renamed because the producers felt that the video game character was "too generic."
  
  

• The final scene of all the characters is a real-life recreation of an animation from the video game, where all the characters are on screen at the same time, and do their "win" animation.
  
  
• The final amphibious attack on M. Bison's compound, filmed on location in Thailand, was originally supposed to be an air assault. The Thai government wouldn't allow the use of its airspace for the large number of aircraft the scene would require, so the producers changed the final battle to a boat assault instead.
  
  
• Fabio was considered for the role of Vega.
  
  
• This film was dedicated to Raul Julia, who died after the film was completed.
  
  
• Despite negative reviews the movie did make a profit. It grossed 33 million domestically and 66 million worldwide, earning almost triple its production budget of 35 million.
  
  
• In the "Magic trick" scene where Chun Li is put in a barrel and then made to disappear, you can see the word 'Capcom' is printed in yellow on top of the orange barrel lid. Capcom is the team behind the Street Fighter video games
  
  
• During the fight between Ryu and Honda, a text on the wall is written in Esperanto : "Atenti incinerato - Esti zorga", which means : "Caution incinerator - Be careful".
  
  
• The fresco found in the training room of Bison's base (a tsunami) is a reproduction of the stamp found in Honda's stage, on the wall of a bathroom, in the original video game.
  
  
• Jean-Claude Van Damme turned down the role of Johnny Cage in the film Mortal Kombat (1995) to do Street Fighter (1994).
  
  
• When Dalsim is showing Bison his progress on Blanka, the footage that is seen on a monitor of a man being shot in the head was real, it was historic footage from World War II.
  
  
• This was Raul Julia's last theatrical movie. The closing title card reads: "FOR RAUL Vaya Con Dios". The translation from Spanish is "go with God".
  
  
• GOOFY HOLLER: Toward the end of the movie when the A.N. forces first arrive at Bison's fortress, one of Bison's troopers is sent flying from an explosion. This makes it one of the few non-animated and non-Disney films to use the sound effect.
  
  
• Several characters do their "signature moves" from the video game in fight scenes: - Ryu appears to use a "hodoken" on Vega in their second fight (he holds his hands in the familiar position and a bright flash is seen on screen). - Vega does his rolling stab move twice in the same fight. - Ken uses a spinning uppercut (shoryuken in the game) against Sagat. - E. Honda appears to do his "hundred hand slap" against Zangief. - Guile does two "flash kicks" when fighting Bison (he performs a kick while in a back flip. - Although the move does not resemble the one from the game, Cammy says "Thrust kick!" while fighting a trooper in the assault. - While Bison is flying, he uses a move that resembles his "psycho crusher" on Guile several times (flying towards the enemy with an outstretched fist).
  
  
• Guile is a U.S. Army colonel in the film. Most Anime'and video game versions name him as "Captain Guile, United States Air Force"
  
  

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