20 Things You Somehow Missed In Napoleon Dynamite
7. An Obscure Homage
One of the most expensive scenes would have been easily missed by cinemagoers during the movie's first run. Before the MCU popularised staying in your seat when the credits roll, many viewers grabbed their stuff and headed back out into the light. Despite this, Hess spent almost half of the movie's $400,000 budget on its post-credits wedding scene.
However, even those who stuck around likely missed that the scene is a homage to The Man from Snowy River, an Australian western from 1982. While Napoleon enters on, what he claims to be, a wild horse he’d tamed, the cowboys in the classic movie have a much more dramatic time. Either way, both movies end with a stallion riding off into the sunset.
The music that soundtracks Napoleon's horseback entrance during the final scene is also directly inspired by The Man from Snowy River’s score by composer Bruce Rowland.