В третьей главе "
You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried", посвящённой "
The Breakfast Club ":
The detention would also occasionally be interrupted by visits from the school's omniscient janitor, Carl. Originally, Rick Moranis, then a major comedy star, was cast in the role, and he wanted to play Carl for laughs, as a Ukrainian with gold teeth, an odd hat, and a heavy accent. Actor John Kapelos, who'd worked with Hughes in Sixteen Candles, says, "Rick sort of played the character with a huge wad of keys between his legs, sort of an SCTV type of Russian character. John say to him, 'Well, but did you read the script?'" The portrayal would have seemed airlifted in from another movie.
Hughes had written Carl the Janitor as a semi-tragic character who, years before, had been a big-man-on-campus student leader at the very high school where he now cleans toilets. Of course, this back-story didn't exactly mesh with the whole Ukrainian thing Morranis had devised, but Moranis told Hughes that was how he wanted to play it, and Hughes, to his great artistic credit, fired Moranis, who would have been a big name in a cast of relative unknowns, just to keep the integrity of the storyline.
Разумеется, в 84-м никто на Среднем Западе украинцев посреди остальных "красных" не выделял -- всё-таки волна малоросской иммиграции в США была несоизмеримо меньшей по сравнению со, скажем, польской.
Разгадка простая:
Моранис -- уроженец Торонто. А там попробуй не
насмотрись.
