") Donkey and Puss took the stage to sing "Livin"" La Vida Loca" (with Puss"" homage to the chair water-dousing fromFlashdance (1983)) as the party resumed.]The film, with a production cost of more than $2 million (about four times more than an average live-action picture), initially failed at the box-office (partially due to the expensive installation of "Fantasound" sound reproduction equipment in theatres), but then its popularity increased and its cult status was assured when the members of the 60""s drug culture adopted it as a favorite hallucinatory experience when it was re-released (alongside other counter-cultural, head-tripping favorites, including2001: A Space Odyssey (1968),Easy Rider (1969), and the re-releasedAlice in Wonderland (1951)in 1974).Bingham, I assure you," he informs another master.As a strict disciplinarian with no regard for the school""s cricket matches, he keeps his class in for an afternoon to punish hem, thereby preventing one of the best athletes in the class from participating in the all-important, crucial competition: "I had entirely forgotten about the cricket match.The most impressive change was that the legendary opening shot (described below) was seen without obscuring, super-imposed credits, and the blaring, distracting Henry Mancini background music during the elaborate scene was stripped away and replaced by natural source music (from doorways of dives the couple passes, or from car radios).(Johnny refuses a light.)When she calls the police chief "Dad" and Johnny learns that Kathie is his daughter, she asks why he tried to act so rudely toward her father ("Why are you trying o be so rude?").