>the
movie took 4 years to make (6 months to edit)
>Chris
Cunningham (creator) IS rubber johnny in the wheelchair (wearing a prosthetic head)
>Here us how Chris Cunningham
got the idea for 'Rubber Johnny': "The bass line in the track sounded like an elastic band to me and so I got the idea of
someone shapeshifting like a piece of chewing gum, whilst raving."
>'Rubber Johnny' is slang
for condom in the UK. Chris Cunningham believed that "The title Rubber Johnny just seemed to fit the character and shapeshifting
idea really well. It has nothing whatsoever to do with condoms..."
>in
the beginning, the english guy is supposed to be a psychiatrist
>from
the first website in our RJ Info Links section: "Rubber Johnny documents a 16-year-old, inbred mutant's solitary existence, locked in a pitch-black basement by
his ashamed parents. They are TV-addict rednecks who occasionally feed Johnny and yell at him for making noise. Johnny's only
company in the basement is his little horrified Chihuahua dog. His dog's I.Q. far outstrips Johnny's, who is a completely
insane, bi-polar imbecile."
>the
film was originally twice as long, with a part that showed him and a "female character" playing outside. the director
cut it out, though.
>it
made it's world premiere on march 4, 2005
>it
started off as an ad, then a music video, then a short film, and now it is going to be sold as a 42 page booklet with a DVD.
