20 Things You Didn't Know About Raising Arizona

When local journalists heard of filming taking place about their native Arizona, they were quick to get their hands on a copy of the script. And they were not happy.

Due to the screwball nature of the comedy, Arizonans feared the crooked characters would give them a bad name. With an enigmatic Nicolas Cage running around with a Southern drawl stealing babies in a sympathetic light, the locals were not pleased with the comedic take on residents, and worried it would make them look like "hicks with bad taste in clothes".

Even politicians got involved, as the Mayor of Scottsdale Herb Dinkwater damned the film, stating that it "certainly isn't the image Arizona wants to project". He clearly wasn't a fan of the screwball genre, then.