Ben Stiller first came up with the idea for this film while working on L'impero del sole (1987). He had said in interviews that at the time, he had friends who had acted in Platoon (1986) (a movie he had auditioned and been rejected for) and Hamburger Hill - Collina 937 (1987), and they would go on about the intense "boot camp" preparation and simulation of war these projects involved, as well as how it made them feel like real soldiers. Stiller found this funny because he thought being an actor in a war film was nothing like being a real soldier in a real war.

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