“What do Tigers dream of when they take a little tiger snooze?”
Man, this song makes us weep, heh. You have to love this “video” of Ed Helms singing, “Stu’s Song” from Todd Phillips’ “The Hangover” which did pretty frickin’ well at the box-office for an R-Rated comedy this weekend, just shy of the #1 spot. Whoa, revised figures say that “The Hangover” was the box-office winner this weekend. According to Variety, final figures will show that ‘Hangover’ beat “Up” by $300,000 to $400,000.
Congrats to them. Does that mean the sequel is now green lit? Back to the song: apparently, the scene, song and moment was improvised onset, but not like right there and then.
“It was improvised as in it was never in any script,” Phillips told Coming Soon. “But it wasn’t improvised like ‘Action,’ and then he made it up on the spot. He wrote it that morning though. I said, ‘Do you know what would be funny?’ ’cause he kept playing the piano on set in between takes. He’s a really good piano player and he has a good voice oddly. I said, ‘You know what would be funny? We should just do a song.’ He’s like, ‘Where would that go in the movie?’ I said, ‘Why don’t we put it in the scene while we’re killing time after we drug the tiger?’ He’s like, ‘Great,’ and we just threw out ideas of what that song would be about and settled on ‘What Do Tigers Dream Of,’ and then he just went off and wrote it. It was great.