Pineapple Express

“Put this in your pipe and smoke it.“

James Franco as Saul Silver
Directed By: David Gordon Green
Screenplay by: Seth Rogen
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Genre: Action | Comedy
Cast: Seth Rogen, Amber Heard, Danny McBride 		External Links
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Lazy court-process clerk and stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city’s most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him–and it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia: incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

Trivia & Facts

- Seth Rogen originally wrote the part of Saul Silver for himself to play, it wasn’t until the table read that he realized James Franco would be funnier in the role of Saul.

- The red slurpee Saul spills over the windshield of the cop car was darkened in the trailer after it was discovered that audiences were mistaking it for blood.

- Saul’s grandmother was not part of the original script. James Franco came up with the part, suggesting that it would be funny for his drug dealer character to have a Bubbie.

- While filming the scene in which Saul runs into a tree, James Franco became overzealous and actually ran into the tree causing him to get three stitches.

- When James Franco smashes the bong over Danny McBride’s head, it was supposed to be a fake, break-away bong so Danny McBride could take part in the stunt. However, it was filled with some water and when James Franco actually smashed it, Danny McBride was actually mildly hurt.

- James Franco’s line “It smells like God’s Vagina,” was actually originally improvised by Seth Rogen. James Franco told him it wasn’t funny, then used the line in the next take.

- The diner scene near the end of the film was not in the script. It was improvised on the spot by Seth Rogen, James Franco and Danny McBride.

- During filming breaks, James Franco read 17th-century Jacobean dramas.

Quotes: Saul

Saul: Fuck the po-lice!

Dale Denton: In case you haven’t noticed – which you haven’t, ’cause from what I can tell, you don’t notice anything ever – we are not very functional when we’re high.
Saul: Well, I don’t know, man. I think I’m functioning right now. I was, like, stoned when I saved you with those slushies. What do you gotta say to that?
Dale Denton: Well, that would be true if you had saved me. But you didn’t save me. She was gonna help us, but you made things worse. Now we’re wanted for all sorts of crazy shit!
Saul: Don’t fucking get on my case, all right? Look, only reason I started selling pot is so I could put my bubbeh in a nice retirement home.
Dale Denton: Oh, yeah, she must be proud of you for that.
Saul: She is really proud of me, and I’m gonna become something, man! As soon as she dies, I’m gonna become a civil engineer. I’m gonna design septic tanks for playgrounds. Little kids can take shits! You idiot, what the hell do you do?

Saul: This is like if that Blue Oyster shit met that Afghan Kush I had – and they had a baby. And then, meanwhile, that crazy Northern Light stuff I had and the Super Red Espresso Snowflake met and had a baby. And by some miracle, those two babies met and fucked – this would the shit that they birthed.
Dale Denton: Wow. This is the product of baby fucking.

Saul: It’s almost a shame to smoke it. It’s like killing a unicorn… with, like, a bomb.

Saul: Hey, look: it’s like my thumb is my cock.
Dale Denton: That’s not gonna get us a ride, man.

Saul: There’s a fly in the ointment, shits hittin’ the fan, the lion will speak!

Quotes: James

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