When Bill and Bob are doing movement exercises on one of the buildings at PSIC, Bill trances out and falls off the building. Bob gets off the building and runs up to Bill, asking, "Are you OK?" Bill says, "I just saw Timothy Leary." Bob replies, "Timothy Leary's dead." This is a sly reference to the song "Legend of a Mind" from The Moody Blues' July 1968 LP release "In Search of the Lost Chord". The opening lines go: "Timothy Leary's dead./No, no no no/He's outside/Looking in."
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood:
Boone.
Lieutenant Boone:
Yes sir?
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood:
I'm going into the next office.
Lieutenant Boone:
Yes sir.
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood:
Damn it.
In the 1980s Ft. Bragg was an open post, with no guarded access points.
Although this film is inspired by John Ronson's Book The Men Who Stare At Goats, it is a fiction, and while the characters Lynn Cassady and Bill Django are based on actual persons, Sergeant Glenn Wheaton and Colonel Jim Channon, all other characters are invented or are composites and are not portrayals of actual persons. The filmmakers ask that no one attempt walking through walls, cloudbursting while driving, or staring for hours at goats with the intent of harming them... invisibility is fine.
English, Arabic
$25,000,000 (estimated)
$12,706,654 8 November 2009
$32,428,195
$69,095,771