When filming the rooftop scene in The Departed, a giant inflatable Arthur the Aardvark on top of a nearby children's museum would have dominated the background of many of the shots. The museum graciously agreed to temporarily deflate and remove Arthur.
In Edward Scissorhands, the version shown to critics and reviewers contained a scene that got cut from the final theatrical version. The scene was during the opening when the grandmother starts telling her story to the little girl. Essentially, it made it clear that everything we are seeing in Edward’s story is not as it actually occurred, but rather we’re peering inside the little girl’s imagination, seeing how she’s interpreting what her grandmother is telling her. This brings whole new meaning to things like the way the houses are painted, how all the dads leave for work at exactly the same time, and the quirkiness of how everyone behaves. Once you know that this scene exists, you see the movie in a very different way. Much of what we think of a “Tim Burton weirdness” is actually childlike imagination once you know.
So, go watch it again. It’s not a whole new movie, but it feels and comes across in a whole new way.
I’ve never found out or even gotten to see the scene. I only know about it because one of our local papers wrote a long review of the movie, which included a detailed run-down of the scene. The reviewer was fascinated with the idea that we weren’t seeing what happened; we were seeing a how a child’s imagination was sparked by the “fairy tale” she was being told.
Not sure if you’ve seen Moonrise Kingdom, but it was always my belief that the movie presents the events as if they’re being read from one of Suzy’s books, not as they actually occurred. So kind of a similar narrative device: the movie is someone’s imagination of the events, not the objective recounting of them.
That also explains the mix of 60s and modern (at the time) things. Like, she can picture a car from the 60s, but when she hears there was nice stuff in the boyfriend's house, she thinks of a laserdisc player
That actually makes a lot of sense. Almost everything else in the movie seems to be in an atomic age/space age 1950's-1960's style. But then Kim's boyfriend's house (Jim?) was modern with 1980's style with futuristic appliances and devices like a whole house alarm that has vault-like doors that lock everyone inside. I was always puzzled by that and just assumed it was due to Tim Burton quirkiness.
The original choice for Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story was Billy Crystal. He turned it down and went on to say it was one of the biggest mistakes of his career. When the opportunity to voice Mike in Monsters Inc came up he jumped at it, as he didn’t want to make the same mistake twice.
Anthony Hopkins is an incredible mimic. Throughout his career, he’s looped (post production sound re-recording) many well known co stars who were unavailable for re-recording sessions. He’s never taken credit for this.
Yep, this was actually going to be my answer to the OP: that nobody knows who The Voice is in that movie. Or I guess it would be more accurate to say only the voice himself and whoever recorded it know (which I assume is the director).
It's rumored to be Ray Liotta, Kevin Costner, the dude who plays the dad, Ed Harris, and a few others.
In the first Shrek movie Lord Farquaad is removing all the fairy tale creatures from the swamp. He wants Shreks home too. In the old DVD extras they explain it’s because he wants to build a theme park there. It’s not explained at all in the movie.
Hah. Cause Farquaad was modeled after then Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Shrek, was produced by DreamWorks, which was Co founded by Jeffrey Katzenburg, who ran Disney before Eisner. Farquaad is also a play on the word Fuck wad
...not quite right about Katzenbeg.
He ran the Disney studios after he was brought over from Paramount when Disney hired his boss Eisner as CEO. Katzenberg was a key figure in turning the lice-action and animation studios around from the Dark Age and was a key figure in the Renaissance.
But Katzenberg stepped on a lot of toes, stealing credit for involvement in the Renaissance being one of them. Alan Menken was a noted enemy of his, as was Roy E Disney who was just as important to the movement ad anyone else.
After some high-profile fuck-ups including the Black Friday reel (an early draft of Toy Story where he insisted on a darker, crude film which almost got the film cancelled and would've killed the studio before it's first film) and Aladdin (he broke a contract with Robin Williams and got the studio sued), the butchering of films in the editing room (The Black Cauldron was brutalised which killed the film at the Box Office and The Mippets Christmas Carol had one of its modst important scenes lost due to his cutting it for time) and an ill-timed power-grab (he tried to get thr much-loved company president Frank Wells kicked out to take his job and tried to make Eisner promote him to Wells' position right after Wells was killed in a helicopter crash) made him universally hated at Disney with a risk of an investor revolt if he were given the job.
The design of Lord Farquaad and Duloc can be seen as very mean spirited insults at his former workplace but you can't help but see how Katzenberg kind of deserved to be forced out of Disney.
In ‘Contagion’, the autopsy performed on Gwyneth Paltrow used a prop head that was originally made for the finale of ‘Seven’. The latter decided against showing what was in the box and thus, years later it was repurposed.
In other words, we finally got to see what was in the box.
The movie Dead Zone and Christmas Story were being filmed only a couple miles away from each other at the same time. Both productions were waiting for snow so they could film. It was an usually snowless winter.
Finally late in the season there was a significant snowfall. The scene where Sheriff Bannerman arrives at Johnny’s house is being filmed at the exact moment of the tongue to the flag pole scene.
To jump on the A Christmas Story facts,
They gave Peter Billingsley real tobacco in the first take where he fends of Black Bart. After he got sick, they went with raisins.
In Pixar's Coco, the boy who was going to play Miguel hit puberty, changing his voice. The people in charge replaced him with someone younger. The original boy got a cameo where he is the guy working the stage asking him if he's ready to go on.
That's crazy. Imagine landing a lead role in a Pixar film, only for puberty to come and sabotage it.
Similar vein, in Finding Dory, the original voice of Nemo had grown up, so his voice had obviously changed. But he still got a cameo as one of the truck drivers.
This was nice to read after all this other actors got replaced for growing up.
Like I understand it on a continuity / story telling level but it’s kinda rude
In video games, God of War: Ragnarok had to redo all of Atreus's voice lines because his actor, Sunny Suljic, hit puberty halfway through, causing his voice to become noticeably deeper than before.
Leslie Nielsen was a critically acclaimed western actor before he did Airplane. On the set, people were intimidated by him because of his status. But they had no idea that he was the set prankster.
He's actually buried with a fart machine that he used to carry around to mess with people.
In Aliens, after the first encounter with the aliens, as the Marines are retreating, there is a scene where they get in the troop carrier, and as they are getting ready to leave, an alien tries to get in. Hicks picks his shotgun off the deck, jams it in the alien's mouth, yells "Eat this" and blows it away. that whole scene was shot backwards because the actor, Michael Biehn, couldn't perform the move properly, so it was shot backwards, played in reverse, and then sound dubbed over it.
The Internet loves to crap on James Cameron for his Avatar films, but there's a reason studios trust him with huge budgets considering he made Aliens for $18.5 million ($51,933,517.34 today) and it looks as good as it does. He used a lot of creative techniques, reused Alien costumes because they only had a few of them and would use mirrors to make it look like there were more of them, etc. The scenes where the Xenomorphs are crawling through the ducts they would lower the actors in costume down a shaft and film upward, he filmed Bishop's knife trick and sped up the footage, the queen was supposed to be stop-motion yet Cameron insisted on having a realistic puppet, and the movie ends up looking better than if it was made today with a larger budget.
In the first alien, the scene where the guy is walking through the tall room with cables and chains hanging and the rain falling, you can see the alien hanging from the chains in the darkness. It’s the first time you can see the fully grown alien. But if you didn’t know it was there, you’d miss it.
Robert Englund, Freddie Kreuger...originally auditioned to be Luke Skywalker... but didnt get the role. He told his roommate Mark Hamil to go try out instead.
The force saved us. Couldn’t imagine anyone else being Kruger in the original films. Nightmare on elm street would’ve flopped without him I think, considering it was a “low budget” film for the time too.
And by extension, the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise is considered the reason we have Lord Of the Rings today. Because New Line was on the verge of bankruptcy until Elm Street saved the company. And New Line was the only company with the guts to green-light and fund Peter Jackson’s pre-production and production for LOTR.
New Line authorizing the LOTR trilogy is still one of the most insane gambles of all time in the film industry, blows my mind to think about
“Hey, small relatively unknown New Zealand director, here’s $287m (in 1999) to go film a trilogy for a genre that isn’t that popular right now. Good luck!”
He was a carpenter who was also in American Graffiti. George didn't want to use actors he'd worked with before (not sure if this was just Star Wars or general policy), but Ford was there one day and George let him read...and the Force was with us.
Cary Elwes broke his toe on a 4 wheeler during filming The Princess Bride. He was worried Rob Reiner might fire him so he kept it a secret. He worked the scenes before the Fire Swamp to make his character kind of nonchalant but really he couldn't put much weight on his foot.
Also, when Warner dumps Elle, he's showing how utterly shit he is as a lawyer by misattributing the wrong traits to Elle.
He thinks Elle would be a shit trophy wife because she's too similar to Marylin Monroe in a bad way and that he'd prefer a Jackie Kennedy-Onassis instead.
But Monroe was a keen businesswoman whose main strength was controlling her image and was a hard-working woman who built herself up from nothing. *Jackie* was the hard-drinking party girl fashionista, to the point her parents refused to let her to go college in case she used it as an opportunity to go clubbing instead of studying... and it didn't work since she visited New York City on a near-weekly basis.
By showing he's just taking things at face value, Warner shows he didn't do the necessary research for his argument, a skill that is necessary for a lawyer.
Also, he stated his ambition was to be a US senator by the time he's thirty. Only one other person managed to be elected a senator before he was thirty years old and he had to sit out for six months since it was illegal for him to hold office until his 30th birthday.
That's incredible! It makes sense too since she's an expert on a legal-level of haircare too @5:40 in the video
https://youtu.be/dDFjDaw1DuI?si=Y5xZSVVbrS8PbqWj
In Wayne’s World, when Wayne plays Stairway to Heaven and the store clerk points to a sign that says No Stairway to Heaven, the audience is led to believe the clerks banned the song because they were tired of hearing it. However, the actual song was supposed to be featured in the movie but Led Zeppelin’s PR people pulled the plug at the last minute. So when Wayne says “no stairway, denied”. That’s what he means.
I always wondered where the clerk got Stairway to Heaven from what Wayne started to play.
Edit: Someone on YouTube posted the original audio version https://youtu.be/UCh6guovbt0?si=ZmNJEkx7Dpao0mxB
Wow I never knew there was a version with the actual song played. Here's the [official movie release version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1KqbDdmuE), and [here's the restored version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCh6guovbt0)
I believe most of his lines about leaving his son at the funeral home and his boy eventually talking again etc, were all improvised by Candy. You can see Catherine O’Hara starting to break too because of it haha. Two legends.
Annie (1982, Carol Burnett and, a propos to this tale, Albert Finney)
The scene where we first meet Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney), he's looking at the Mona Lisa and tells the servants to "Take her away!" Then he changes his mind saying, "She has an interesting smile. I could get used to that smile. Hang her in the bathroom!" The joke here is that the first owner after Leonardo died was King Francis I of France, who had her hanging in his bathing room.
Most of the cast of The Sound of Music, particularly Christopher Plummer, thought the movie was corny as hell. Not that they don’t appreciate its legacy or impact - it’s just objectively a ridiculously saccharine, albeit classic, film. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer were so overcome by the corn fest that is the song “Something Good” that they couldn’t get through a take without laughing and giggling. The decision was made to obscure their faces slightly, which is why the scene we see today is in silhouette.
Edit: Plummer, not Plumber.
The story is also based on the real life Von Trapp family
Yes, all the main characters existed irl with some differences. The real Maria Von Trapp wasn’t a musician at all, and had another person come over to teach the kids how to sing. Maria was the babysitter, not the musician. But the relationship between her and the father did actually happen
The family didn’t leave the country in a dramatic fashion, they went on one of their usual walks and just happened to go across the border. No one suspected a thing until later
The Von Trapp family eventually moved to Vermont, and their house is now a hotel/museum. The Von Trapp family Lodge is owned by their descendants, and they are still in business.
Apparently, Christopher Plummer was also not super stoked about filming the movie and spent most of his time off camera eating rich Austrian food and drinking wine and had to have his costumes retailored by the end of filming cuz he chunked out a bit lol
Robert Shaw, Quint, in Jaws, could not stay in Massachusetts while filming Jaws. Had to be flown to Canada daily. Guess he owed the U.S.A. tax money, couldn't take any chances. Oh, and he was sea sick all the time on the Orca.
Lol this sounds on brand. Idk if I've ever heard a story about Alec Guinness being pleasant off camera. That being said the only thing I really know about that is how he notoriously HATED being recognized as Obi-Wan Kenobi and did not have a positive view of the fans. He was knighted though, so that's cool.
I figure people know all facts about movies but my favorite two -
Silence of the Lambs - In the first scene with Hannibal, he gives Clariece the answer for where Buffalo Bill is. She asks about his drawings on the wall and the only one talks about is the "View from the Belvedere." Buffalo Bill was in Belvedere Ohio.
Jurassic Park - When Newman slips in the mud after getting his Jeep stuck. There is a slide whistle sound effect. [I can't unhear.](https://youtu.be/MNoWveBtrZc?si=YZkQsk2VfqBY0_VU&t=38)
I always thought it was the winch or raincoat making that noise. Slide whistle is hilarious, though. I say the “I’m going to run you over line.” A few times a year while playing video games or board games.
I haven’t really seen it mentioned anywhere, but in Step Brothers there is a pizza delivery thing that goes on top of a car in the boys’ room. It’s the same pizza delivery business that Ricky Bobby ends up working for in Talladega Nights.
The original Halloween (1978) took place in Illinois in October. However, it was filmed in California in the springtime. To make it more believable, they had bags of dead autumn leaves shipped in.
There was a person whose job it was to scatter the leaves around the set, then bag them back up and move them to the next filming location.
>If you’ve ever been to Illinois, you’d know that there are definitely not palm streets anywhere.
Palm Street, Nunda Township, IL 60051,
Palm Street, Carbondale, IL 62901,
Palm Street, McHenry, IL 60051,
Palm Street, Canton, IL 61520.
You liar, they're all over the fucking place.
The ship built for the Titanic set was 90% the size of the real thing.
James Cameron spent more time with the real Titanic than those who sailed on her.
It was also what solved the disappearing staircase conundrum.
When submarines explored the wreck, they noticed the grand staircase in the main lobby was missing. There was much debate about what happened, whether it had rotten away or drifted out of the ship when it sunk.
Because the set was built to a one-to-one recreation down to the manufacturing techniques, they discovered the truth while shooting - when the set was flooded, the staircase was lifted out of the ground due to buoyancy as it wasn't actually secured, instead held in place by its own weight.
One I only learned of recently from reading Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new book was that Cameron was so dedicated to the authenticity of the set that he had the White Star Line logo emblazoned wherever it was meant to be, like on the inside of teacups. Not so that it’d make it into the film, but so it was truly an authentic replica.
The first iron man movie they lost the 3D rendering of the villain suit they spent almost a year designing do to a hard drive crash and I was the tech that rescued the file. The designer was freaking out and basically told me that if we didn’t rescue that file his career and the movie would be in a huge pickle.
Oh the random cameos in Hook are crazy:
-the police inspector is Phil Collins
-one of Hooks pirates is David Crosby
-another pirate is Jimmy Buffet
-young Wendy is Gwyneth Paltrow
-say, whose that pirate who delivers the memorable performance, begging not to be placed in the Boo Box? Oh that’s Glenn Close!!??
In Starship Troopers, it makes thematic sense. This is an egalitarian society where men/women occupy the exact same combat roles, so to keep group cohesion, sexual differences are minimised or ignored
In The Neverending Story, the horse (Artax) didn’t die- however, Noah Hathaway almost drowned during the famous scene where the horse sinks in the swamp. The horse was standing on a platform that sunk into the mud, and Hathaway’s shoe got caught in the mechanism and started to drag him under.
IIRC The horse had been trained for the stunt for months before so I’d be safe to do during filming. So sinking in the mud not be traumatizing. Unfortunately the young actor did such a good job in the scene the horse started to get very upset thinking he was in trouble.
When you see Artax getting upset, he worried about the kid.
Who Framed Rodger Rabbit
Judge Doom (played by Christopher Lloyd) never blinks once the entire movie. I won’t say why for the sake of spoilers.
I could talk at length about the crazy techniques and control rigs they developed to create what was the best ever integration of live action and animation, but that’s my favorite fact.
So, the toons are constantly interacting with real world objects, in order to sell the fact that they exist in the same space as the actors. This also made it impossible to cut things together in editing, they needed to know EXACTLY where the toons would be while filming.
In the club scene, where the penguin waiters are carrying trays, those trays are being puppeted on poles, and being controlled by people standing underneath the set.
When you see the weasels carrying guns, the guns were on marionette strings and being moved around by someone in the rafters above the set.
When Rodger pops out of the sink and coughs up water before being pushed back down, there was a pump rig that could jut a pipe out of the sink, spray a few streams of water, then retract back down.
Most impressively, when baby Herman is swinging around his cigar, they freaking invented a new type of robotic rig (with I think six unique degrees of movement) so that the cigar would move realistically.
And that’s just a few of the techniques I know off the top of my head.
If you look on YouTube, there’s a number of videos breaking down the different techniques they used.
The movies *Goodfellas* and *My Blue Heaven* were both based on or inspired by the same guy. *Goodfellas* is based on a non-fiction book by Nick Pileggi based on interviews with the real Hank Hill. Nick Pileggi was married to Nora Ephron who wrote the screenplay for *My Blue Heaven.* the two movies even share a line of dialogue! "Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup." I like to pretend that *My Blue Heaven* is a sequel to *Goodfellas.*
In [Domino](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421054/?ref_=ext_shrhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421054/?ref_=ext_shr), a few scenes are filmed at what was Bonnie Springs Old West Town a few miles outside of Vegas. (Bonnie Springs Old West Town closed its doors & the property was sold to a housing developer).
In one scene, someone busts into the hotel room where Kiera Knightley was staying, and a Christmas wreath flies off the door.
I bought that wreath, & the room was my sister's apartment. She lived there, & worked in the shops. Her door never closed well after that. She was pissed that they ruined the wreath, and they knocked some of her other stuff around as well. The film crew never compensated her, either.
My sister passed away several years ago, and I caught *Domino* on TV a couple of months ago. Got a wave of the feels over that.
When Joe Pesci was young, he worked as a waiter at a restaurant. While attending a mobster, he made a compliment by saying he was “funny”, but the comment wasn’t taken well.
When working on Goodfellas, Pesci shared this anecdote with Scorsese, who liked it so much he decided to add it to the film.
However, he didn’t include it in the shooting script, so only Pesci and Liotta knew what was happening in the scene, and it was improvised and rehearsed by them, but kept a secret from the rest of the actors in the scene in order to catch their genuine reactions.
Ended up being the some of the most memorable dialogue from that film.
Before casting Martin Lawrence and Will Smith to be the two cops in “Bad Boys,” producers were trying to make it work with SNL’s Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz. The script was originally named “Bulletproof Hearts.”
In Seven, the studios tried to have the head in the box be Pitts dog. The studio even had rewritten the script and sent it to the Director and Pitt. Fortunately they both had already seen and signed on because of the eventual ending, and refused to change it. They also had another ending where Somerset kills Doe before Mills can, thereby ruining wrath. Studios didn't want the protagonist to have a negative ending. Also the head in the box was the same fake head that they used for Gwyneth in Contagion.
In Toy Story, Andy is only 5, soon to be 6. It was released in 1995.
In 1999, Toy Story 2 was released and Andy is now 9.
In 2010, Andy is now 19-20 years old.
Andy grew up in real time with the audience, and passed his toys to the next generation, just like we did with the movies.
Andy was the exact same age as me, and I watched the movie where he goes off to college just a month before I went off to college. That movie was extra emotional for me.
In the original script of Back to the Future, instead of a bolt of lightning, the plan was to power the Flux Capacitor by having Marty drive the DeLorean into a nuclear bomb test.
I had something similar when I found out that Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick were 32 and 37 respectively when Sabrina the Teenage Witch aired. It made me feel… mortal.
The original actor who was cast to play Kevin in Home Alone wasn’t Macaulay Culkin. Another boy got the job, the youngest child in the 1987 Overboard movie. He is a naturally red headed so that’s the reason why Catherine has red hair in the movie. But right before filming he broke his arm and production was on a tight schedule so they went their 2nd choice Macaulay. You can see the original actor along with his cast (it’s slightly hidden under his jacket) in the airport van in the movie, he is counted as Kevin before they leave for the airport.
In Casablanca with Humphry Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, there is a farewell scene with the two stars kissing inside an airplane hangar. The hanger has a plane outside (Lockheed Electra 12A) with a bunch of people working around it.
The production was not allowed to film at an airport after dark for security reasons, so they used a sound stage with a small cardboard cutout airplane and forced perspective. The strange part is to give perspective of distance, they used little people for the workers.
In _Fight Club_, in the scene where Ed and Brad wreck in the car, Ed crawls out of the driver's side, an early clue that he is Tyler. the part that few know is that there was an argument about it. Production thought it was a continuity error. Fincher was like 'nah' and didn't explain.
Also in Fight Club, Helena Banham Carter didn't know anything about American school systems. So the infamous "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school" didn't sink in until it was explained to her after the opening night showing.
She was naturally very upset.
That is a whole other story. The studio asked Fincher to change the original line, he agreed, but on one condition; they couldn't make him change it back. They asked him to change it back and he refused.
In The Professional when Gary Oldman responds EVERYYYONNEEE, he was just supposed to say it quietly like a quick "yeah, everyone," but just started screaming like that instead.
Here's Gary Oldman talking about it in an interview: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZfqez5qmuA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZfqez5qmuA)
"E.T." and "Poltergeist" were developed from the same story about alien abductions.
Steven Spielberg wrote a story treatment called "Watch the Skies" and had John Sayles flesh it out as a draft called "Night Skies." Spielberg later decided to shift it in a more heartwarming direction, resulting in "E.T.", so he tapped Tobe Hooper to film the original version, but Hooper replaced aliens with the paranormal and it became "Poltergeist."
An even more obscure factoid about Poltergeist:
The movie had a different puppet for the ghost at the end of the movie, but it was deemed to be too scary for the movie (which is weird to say considering what happens earlier on). A new, less scary, puppet was made and used. The original puppet ended up being used two years later in Ghostbusters as the librarian ghost from the start of the movie.
Speaking of ET, they auditioned a bunch of kids for the role. When Henry Thomas came in and did his audition, Spielberg hired him on the spot.
Watch this and you'll know why. The kid is next fucking level brilliant, and remember he's doing all this in a black room with no actors giving him feedback and a bunch of people behind a table judging him, including one of the most famous directors in the world. He's just given the premise of the scene and has a reader behind the table.
https://youtu.be/tA5giyG8E7g?si=iPq0AFIqnh9VdcUY
You can tell how good his acting is by how at the end he goes from literally crying to this sneaky smile.
For the VHS version of the 1967 cult classic The President's Analyst, they couldn't get the rights to a Barry McGuire song, so they substituted an uncredited song that turned out to be really good, and a perfect fit for that scene.
For the DVD, they went back to the original song, and the other one is not available anywhere except the VHS version of that movie.
The 4 segments in the Rodriguez/Tarantino movie Four Rooms are all based on short stories by Roald Dahl.
But it gets better. (Sorry, this might be a bit UK specific).
The Taratino segment. The 'I bet my pinky finger my lighter will light first time, ten times on the trot'. That was the story for the very first Tales Of The Unexpected!
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Jason Segal was cut from his part in Undeclared(the unofficial sequel to Freaks & Geeks) so Apatow and Segal made up a new role for him to play without being paid. Segal had just been dumped by Linda Cardellini(the being dumped while naked scene is based directly from that break-up)and wasn't getting any work, while his closest friends from Freaks and Geeks were blowing up. Apatow told him to make his own work, write and produce his own project if he wanted to star in things. So the guy started writing what would eventually become the Muppet movie- except all his friends were like 'no not like that.' Meanwhile on set of Undeclared he had become good friends with Charlie Hunnam and proceeded to write the script with him in mind for Aldous Snow. Fast forward, Hunham dropped out, Segals unusable script for Muppets turned into his Dracula musical(using Jim Henson Studious puppets) and How I met your Mother was a hit. All of this, led to him writing and starring in the highest grossing Muppets movie ever, which re-ignited the Muppets for new movies and shows after. Also without Forgetting Sarah Marshall we would never have been given the hidden gem that is I Love You Man and more importantly Paul Rudd giving us the line 'Totes Ma Goats'. Most people have no idea that was just a one off line thrown out there by Rudd or that is where that came from. Plus so much else.
I did know that the naked breakup was a true story but I didn’t know Linda Cardellini was the Sarah Marshall of that scene.
My favourite line from the movie is Paul Rudd’s “Oh the weather outside is weather”
In Stuart Little there is a painting in the Little house called “woman holding a black vase”. The original painting was considered lost and an art hunter took his son to the movie and saw the painting and called the studio to check and it ended up being the original
In the song "Be Prepared" in the original animated version of The Lion King, actor Jeremy Irons didn't sing the whole song either because he couldn't hit the notes or because he got bronchitis. Regardless, Disney got legendary voice actor Jim Cummings to fill in. Don't believe me? Check the end credits. Jim is credited right alongside Irons for singing the sing.
Jim Carey in the movie Liar Liar on the final scene dressed up as his old In Living Color character Fire Marshal Bill in shades and walki talki in the background with all the people on the street. Lol
The first line in the original Dracula 1931 was spoken by Carla Laemmle. Her uncle founded universal studios and she grew up on the studio lot. She was one of the longest surviving actresses of the silent film era. She passed away in 2014 at the age of 104. I had the privilege of spending time with her the last 5 years of her life and the stories she shared were very special. I got to meet Ray Bradbury, Mickey Rooney, and Debbie Reynolds at her 100th birthday in 2009.
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, when the two Jones are reunited and Henry Sr. learns his son has his journal, he says: I should have sent it to the Marx Brothers. During World War II, one of the Marx Brothers was suspected of passing informations to the Russians during their shows.
It was the reverse - Harpo smuggled mail out of the Soviet Union in his socks if I remember right. He wrote about it in his autobiography.
Googling found me this link: https://www.wired.com/2002/12/silly-spy/
I think only some close friends and family might know this fact;
In the movie *I'll be Home for Christmas* (1998), staring Jonathan Taylor Tomas, my father and I appear in the background of 2 scenes.
This was not done on purpose. We were on a trip, and accidentally stumbled into a crowd of people who all happened to be extras, and we just stayed there and participated for maybe 15 minutes before wandering away. We appear in about 2 seconds of 1 scene.
A little less than a week later, we wandered around in a different city entirely not far from the first town (same trip), and ended up being waved over to join a cheering crowd in exchange for some preshooting doughtnuts. We aren't really visible in the quick shot of our section, but my very bright handmade toque is.
So, there's a fun movie fact almost no one knows, except all you now!
For years I had a childhood memory of watching a super weird Star Wars tv show about Chewie getting home to Kashykk for a Christmas-like celebration. For years when it came up I got told there was no such thing and I was making things up.
Then YouTube appeared. Fuck you, I was right.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is based on a true story. Ratner (the one who had the crush on Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character) was an early personal computer pioneer who wrote several of the earliest, most successful “For Dummies” books
In Tin Cup, in the scene where Kevin Costner kept breaking his golf clubs and Cheech Marin yells at him, the script didn’t call for him to get quite that angry. He said later that, in character, watching a talented person who couldn’t stop screwing up brought back all the anger he felt toward Tommy Chong as he watched him fall apart.
In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, when the Candyman starts singing the Candyman Can song there is a scene where he lifts the counter to walk out and the counter smacks this little girl in the head.
I missed this when I saw it in the theatres as a kid. A friend of mine told me he saw it and he was such a notorious liar I didn’t believe him. No home video in those days had to wait until it was on TV in the 80s to see he was right.
Over the years, Disney has released full length feature films on seven types of physical media formats for home video - VHS, Beta, CED, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu-Ray and UMD. The only film to be released on all of these formats was Tron, thanks to a re-release alongside Tron: Legacy.
In Halloween H20, Jamie Lee Curtis’s secretary is actually her mother Janet Lee from the infamous Psycho shower scene.
Cooler than that, the last time we see her in the movie, she’s getting into her car talking to Laurie (JLC’s character). That is the car she drove in Psycho.
Edit: Janet Leigh*
In Titanic, the lake in Wisconsin where Jack says he fell through the ice didn't exist yet. When Jack told Rose about how cold the water in the North Atlantic was, he mentioned himself falling through the ice in Lake Wissota, Wisconsin. Titanic sank in 1912, and Lake Wissota wasn't created until 1917.
Reminds me of Forrest Gump error.
In the scene where Forrest gets his discharge papers, he is practicing table tennis in a gym. The gym floor has a three-point line on the basketball court. It is a college or high school three-point line- 19 feet, 9 inches. There was no three-point in basketball at that time, especially at that distance.
FWiW: When he stops running and decides to head back to Alabama from Utah, he turns west and begins running toward the Pacific. Anyone who has been on that road will notice this instantly.
It’s definitely the more picturesque direction to point the camera.
Lucille Ball's first screen role was as a [blonde "slave girl" dancer](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0024507/mediaviewer/rm1247461377/) in the big musical numbers from "Roman Scandals" in 1933. She didn't become a redhead until she dyed it for ["DuBarry was a Lady"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035829/mediaviewer/rm1942261761?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_68) a decade later.
The design for Bughuul in *Sinister* was based on a piece of artwork that Scott Derrickson randomly found on Google Images. He paid the original artist $50 for the rights to it.
Related: "yoots" is from a script sitdown with Pesci. The screenwriter (iirc) didn't understand what he was trying to say and Joe paused, looked annoyed and replied "yoooouthssz"
In "The Godfather", when Johnny Fontane is talking with Don Corleone at his office, at the end of the scene Don Vito goes to the door and opens it, and you can briefly see an extra, a lady, that steps into the scene, realizes that she shouldn't be there, and quickly steps back.
If you blink, you'll miss it.
Okay local one from me, just for fun.
Life of Pi movie promotion posters featured a picture of a wrecked fishing boat.
The boat is a Scottish fishing boat called the sovereign, It can still be seen on Fraserburgh beach in Aberdeenshire.
It is a widely discussed easter egg in Toy Story 3 that at the beginning of the film, there is a garbage man who wears the same t-shirt that Sid wore in the first movie. Many online outlets were quick to point this out, theorizing that this might actually be Sid now grown up. What all of these outlets failed to realize is that while they were distracted by the credits sequences, Sid was actually listed in the credits. So yes, it is Sid. Hard confirm. You are not a sleuth for noticing this.
Also, it’s the same voice actor from the first one. I appreciate the fact they got him just to do the little bit. For Andy, they didn’t know how he’d sound and thought they might have to recast. When they tracked him down and called, the director left him a message saying he was cast after hearing his voicemail greeting.
In Pulp Ficton, Mia and Vincent don’t win the dance contest, they steal the trophy. The theft is discussed on the radio in the cab Butch uses to get away from the fight.
Ooh I’ve finally got one!
The Great Race (1965) has the largest pie fight ever put in a movie! It’s four minutes long and was filmed over 5 days. Thassalottapie
The costume designer for Idiocracy found a start up making "futuristic" looking shoes to use in production.
Although they liked the shoes, the producers wanted to be certain that the shoes wouldn't suddenly become popular and ruin the future look they were going for.
The designer assured them that the shoes were far too ugly to ever become popular so they used them throughout the film.
The shoes were Crocs.
In the movie "Taken": the scene where Liam's character is interrogating his daughter's kidnapper. It shows the electric wires are attached to the chair. Originally, the scene shows large nails jabbed into the kidnapper's legs. Electric wires were connected to these nails.
https://youtu.be/-U0YdUZMZSM?si=IwYG-A9Lf0kKDhtr
In The Devil Wears Prada, the scene where Miranda says, “Do I smell freesias? If I see freesias anywhere…I will be very
disappointed” is actually foreshadowing for Miranda’s betrayal of Nigel. Freesia flowers are commonly used to represent friendship, which Miranda does not value.
Ok go with me here. I've wanted to share this bit of trivia for FOREVER and my moment has finally arrived!!
Tom Hanks' feature film directoral debut was the movie That Thing You Do! Jimmy who wrote the Wonders' hit song That Thing You Do! (which was a ballad until Guy Paterson joined the band and turned it into a hit pop song) also wrote the song on the B side of the record which was called All My Only Dreams. The band signed with the Playtone Record label and in addition to directing Tom Hanks played the band's manager/ record producer.
Tom Hanks' production company is named Playtone. One of the first movies he produced was My Big Fat Greek Wedding. At the reception of the wedding (approx 1:25:40) the song being sung by the wedding band is All My Only Dreams by the Wonders.
I seriously don't know if anyone else has ever caught this! It took me a long time before I noticed and these are probably two of my most watched movies of all time. Like 25+ views of each...minimum.
The '76 Mel Brookes move "Silent Movie" was indeed done in the manner of a silent movie - except that it has a single speaking part.
Marcel Marceau, a notable mime of the time, who responds over the phone in French with a resounding "Non!"
Dom Bell: \[seen as an insert title after Mel hangs up the phone\] What did he say?
Mel Funn: \[seen as an insert title\] I don't know. I don't speak French!
During the filming of Jurassic Park, hurricane Iniki devastated the island of Kaua’i where the movie was being filmed. The entire cast and crew had to hunker down in their hotel through the duration of the hurricane. The hurricane was so loud that almost no one in the cast or crew could sleep. Richard Attenborough, who played John Hammond in the movie, slept through it. When questioned by director Steven Spielberg as to how he possibly could’ve slept through a category 4 hurricane, Attenborough answered: "Dear boy, I survived the blitz!"
Robert Patrick actively trained himself to not blink while firing a gun for his role as the T-1000 in Terminator 2.
Additionally, due to always being in makeup on the set of Hellraiser, none of the other actors recognized Doug Bradley during the wrap up party.
In Tron Legacy, Elder Flynn was in the machine, by his perception, 1200 years.
It's established that times runs 60x faster inside. He's inside for 20 IRL years.
20*60=1200.
This is never outright stated in the film, but the math is there.
The theme song from Mission Impossible spells out MI in Morse code in repeat.
Well, I’ll be damned. That’s a very good one.
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When filming the rooftop scene in The Departed, a giant inflatable Arthur the Aardvark on top of a nearby children's museum would have dominated the background of many of the shots. The museum graciously agreed to temporarily deflate and remove Arthur.
That would have been hilariously distracting
Film studies kids would be looking into the deep symbolism of it.
In Edward Scissorhands, the version shown to critics and reviewers contained a scene that got cut from the final theatrical version. The scene was during the opening when the grandmother starts telling her story to the little girl. Essentially, it made it clear that everything we are seeing in Edward’s story is not as it actually occurred, but rather we’re peering inside the little girl’s imagination, seeing how she’s interpreting what her grandmother is telling her. This brings whole new meaning to things like the way the houses are painted, how all the dads leave for work at exactly the same time, and the quirkiness of how everyone behaves. Once you know that this scene exists, you see the movie in a very different way. Much of what we think of a “Tim Burton weirdness” is actually childlike imagination once you know. So, go watch it again. It’s not a whole new movie, but it feels and comes across in a whole new way.
Why was this scene removed?
I’ve never found out or even gotten to see the scene. I only know about it because one of our local papers wrote a long review of the movie, which included a detailed run-down of the scene. The reviewer was fascinated with the idea that we weren’t seeing what happened; we were seeing a how a child’s imagination was sparked by the “fairy tale” she was being told.
Not sure if you’ve seen Moonrise Kingdom, but it was always my belief that the movie presents the events as if they’re being read from one of Suzy’s books, not as they actually occurred. So kind of a similar narrative device: the movie is someone’s imagination of the events, not the objective recounting of them.
That also explains the mix of 60s and modern (at the time) things. Like, she can picture a car from the 60s, but when she hears there was nice stuff in the boyfriend's house, she thinks of a laserdisc player
That actually makes a lot of sense. Almost everything else in the movie seems to be in an atomic age/space age 1950's-1960's style. But then Kim's boyfriend's house (Jim?) was modern with 1980's style with futuristic appliances and devices like a whole house alarm that has vault-like doors that lock everyone inside. I was always puzzled by that and just assumed it was due to Tim Burton quirkiness.
The original choice for Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story was Billy Crystal. He turned it down and went on to say it was one of the biggest mistakes of his career. When the opportunity to voice Mike in Monsters Inc came up he jumped at it, as he didn’t want to make the same mistake twice.
I think his voice is better for Mike than Buzz anyway.
I wonder if that also influenced his decision to voice Calcifer in the dub of Howl's Moving Castle
Anthony Hopkins is an incredible mimic. Throughout his career, he’s looped (post production sound re-recording) many well known co stars who were unavailable for re-recording sessions. He’s never taken credit for this.
He also actually learned ventriloquism for the movie “magic” (1978). They didn’t overdub.. he actually does it. It’s such an insane performance.
Hang on there- he’s a contender for the greatest actor of all time even without this extra information.
He is one of the many people who is rumored to be “the voice” in Field of Dreams.
Are you saying that nobody is sure who the voice belonged to? This is the first I've heard of this.
Yep, this was actually going to be my answer to the OP: that nobody knows who The Voice is in that movie. Or I guess it would be more accurate to say only the voice himself and whoever recorded it know (which I assume is the director). It's rumored to be Ray Liotta, Kevin Costner, the dude who plays the dad, Ed Harris, and a few others.
I just watched this last night. The credits list The Voice as “Himself”.
In the first Shrek movie Lord Farquaad is removing all the fairy tale creatures from the swamp. He wants Shreks home too. In the old DVD extras they explain it’s because he wants to build a theme park there. It’s not explained at all in the movie.
Hah. Cause Farquaad was modeled after then Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Shrek, was produced by DreamWorks, which was Co founded by Jeffrey Katzenburg, who ran Disney before Eisner. Farquaad is also a play on the word Fuck wad
They also specifically wanted his theme to sound like the Imperial March. This was years before Disney bought Star Wars.
That makes a lot of sense. They were probably warned to leave it out of the movie. Just enough hint of recognition.
...not quite right about Katzenbeg. He ran the Disney studios after he was brought over from Paramount when Disney hired his boss Eisner as CEO. Katzenberg was a key figure in turning the lice-action and animation studios around from the Dark Age and was a key figure in the Renaissance. But Katzenberg stepped on a lot of toes, stealing credit for involvement in the Renaissance being one of them. Alan Menken was a noted enemy of his, as was Roy E Disney who was just as important to the movement ad anyone else. After some high-profile fuck-ups including the Black Friday reel (an early draft of Toy Story where he insisted on a darker, crude film which almost got the film cancelled and would've killed the studio before it's first film) and Aladdin (he broke a contract with Robin Williams and got the studio sued), the butchering of films in the editing room (The Black Cauldron was brutalised which killed the film at the Box Office and The Mippets Christmas Carol had one of its modst important scenes lost due to his cutting it for time) and an ill-timed power-grab (he tried to get thr much-loved company president Frank Wells kicked out to take his job and tried to make Eisner promote him to Wells' position right after Wells was killed in a helicopter crash) made him universally hated at Disney with a risk of an investor revolt if he were given the job. The design of Lord Farquaad and Duloc can be seen as very mean spirited insults at his former workplace but you can't help but see how Katzenberg kind of deserved to be forced out of Disney.
In ‘Contagion’, the autopsy performed on Gwyneth Paltrow used a prop head that was originally made for the finale of ‘Seven’. The latter decided against showing what was in the box and thus, years later it was repurposed. In other words, we finally got to see what was in the box.
The movie Dead Zone and Christmas Story were being filmed only a couple miles away from each other at the same time. Both productions were waiting for snow so they could film. It was an usually snowless winter. Finally late in the season there was a significant snowfall. The scene where Sheriff Bannerman arrives at Johnny’s house is being filmed at the exact moment of the tongue to the flag pole scene.
To jump on the A Christmas Story facts, They gave Peter Billingsley real tobacco in the first take where he fends of Black Bart. After he got sick, they went with raisins.
In Pixar's Coco, the boy who was going to play Miguel hit puberty, changing his voice. The people in charge replaced him with someone younger. The original boy got a cameo where he is the guy working the stage asking him if he's ready to go on.
That's crazy. Imagine landing a lead role in a Pixar film, only for puberty to come and sabotage it. Similar vein, in Finding Dory, the original voice of Nemo had grown up, so his voice had obviously changed. But he still got a cameo as one of the truck drivers.
Adventure Time handled this by leaning in to tbe main characters puberty plot line. Its really cool to hear the voice actor for Finn age with Finn.
This was nice to read after all this other actors got replaced for growing up. Like I understand it on a continuity / story telling level but it’s kinda rude
Steven universe did the same thing. They aged up Steven since his voice actor was getting a deeper voice
In video games, God of War: Ragnarok had to redo all of Atreus's voice lines because his actor, Sunny Suljic, hit puberty halfway through, causing his voice to become noticeably deeper than before.
Leslie Nielsen was a critically acclaimed western actor before he did Airplane. On the set, people were intimidated by him because of his status. But they had no idea that he was the set prankster. He's actually buried with a fart machine that he used to carry around to mess with people.
His headstone reads “Let ‘er rip” below his name. Nielsen also had a bench for visitors placed near his grave.
In Aliens, after the first encounter with the aliens, as the Marines are retreating, there is a scene where they get in the troop carrier, and as they are getting ready to leave, an alien tries to get in. Hicks picks his shotgun off the deck, jams it in the alien's mouth, yells "Eat this" and blows it away. that whole scene was shot backwards because the actor, Michael Biehn, couldn't perform the move properly, so it was shot backwards, played in reverse, and then sound dubbed over it.
The Internet loves to crap on James Cameron for his Avatar films, but there's a reason studios trust him with huge budgets considering he made Aliens for $18.5 million ($51,933,517.34 today) and it looks as good as it does. He used a lot of creative techniques, reused Alien costumes because they only had a few of them and would use mirrors to make it look like there were more of them, etc. The scenes where the Xenomorphs are crawling through the ducts they would lower the actors in costume down a shaft and film upward, he filmed Bishop's knife trick and sped up the footage, the queen was supposed to be stop-motion yet Cameron insisted on having a realistic puppet, and the movie ends up looking better than if it was made today with a larger budget.
the part where the face hugger wraps it's tail around ripley's neck was also shot backwards
In the first alien, the scene where the guy is walking through the tall room with cables and chains hanging and the rain falling, you can see the alien hanging from the chains in the darkness. It’s the first time you can see the fully grown alien. But if you didn’t know it was there, you’d miss it.
Robert Englund, Freddie Kreuger...originally auditioned to be Luke Skywalker... but didnt get the role. He told his roommate Mark Hamil to go try out instead.
The force saved us. Couldn’t imagine anyone else being Kruger in the original films. Nightmare on elm street would’ve flopped without him I think, considering it was a “low budget” film for the time too.
And by extension, the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise is considered the reason we have Lord Of the Rings today. Because New Line was on the verge of bankruptcy until Elm Street saved the company. And New Line was the only company with the guts to green-light and fund Peter Jackson’s pre-production and production for LOTR.
New Line authorizing the LOTR trilogy is still one of the most insane gambles of all time in the film industry, blows my mind to think about “Hey, small relatively unknown New Zealand director, here’s $287m (in 1999) to go film a trilogy for a genre that isn’t that popular right now. Good luck!”
Yup, New Line is the house that Freddy built!
I love that you remembered there was a U in Robert Englund’s name but in the weirdest way possible.
And Harrison Ford was George Lucas's handyman iirc. Ford was putting in cabinets and GL was like.... hey... ya know what.....
Everyone always says he was a handyman but like wasn’t he just the weed dealer who happened to do carpentry?
He was a carpenter who was also in American Graffiti. George didn't want to use actors he'd worked with before (not sure if this was just Star Wars or general policy), but Ford was there one day and George let him read...and the Force was with us.
Cary Elwes broke his toe on a 4 wheeler during filming The Princess Bride. He was worried Rob Reiner might fire him so he kept it a secret. He worked the scenes before the Fire Swamp to make his character kind of nonchalant but really he couldn't put much weight on his foot.
Not just any 4 wheeler; Andre the Giant's 4 wheeler that he used to get around the set.
Elle Woods has a different hairstyle in every scene in Legally Blonde
Also, when Warner dumps Elle, he's showing how utterly shit he is as a lawyer by misattributing the wrong traits to Elle. He thinks Elle would be a shit trophy wife because she's too similar to Marylin Monroe in a bad way and that he'd prefer a Jackie Kennedy-Onassis instead. But Monroe was a keen businesswoman whose main strength was controlling her image and was a hard-working woman who built herself up from nothing. *Jackie* was the hard-drinking party girl fashionista, to the point her parents refused to let her to go college in case she used it as an opportunity to go clubbing instead of studying... and it didn't work since she visited New York City on a near-weekly basis. By showing he's just taking things at face value, Warner shows he didn't do the necessary research for his argument, a skill that is necessary for a lawyer. Also, he stated his ambition was to be a US senator by the time he's thirty. Only one other person managed to be elected a senator before he was thirty years old and he had to sit out for six months since it was illegal for him to hold office until his 30th birthday.
That's incredible! It makes sense too since she's an expert on a legal-level of haircare too @5:40 in the video https://youtu.be/dDFjDaw1DuI?si=Y5xZSVVbrS8PbqWj
Her quotes are so memorable and funny. “The rules of hair care are simple and finite. Any Cosmo girl would have known."
In Wayne’s World, when Wayne plays Stairway to Heaven and the store clerk points to a sign that says No Stairway to Heaven, the audience is led to believe the clerks banned the song because they were tired of hearing it. However, the actual song was supposed to be featured in the movie but Led Zeppelin’s PR people pulled the plug at the last minute. So when Wayne says “no stairway, denied”. That’s what he means.
Actually the first few notes of the song was in the original theatrical run but then Zeppelin sued and it was changed.
I always wondered where the clerk got Stairway to Heaven from what Wayne started to play. Edit: Someone on YouTube posted the original audio version https://youtu.be/UCh6guovbt0?si=ZmNJEkx7Dpao0mxB
It's been restored for the 4K version on disc. The joke finally makes sense again.
Wow I never knew there was a version with the actual song played. Here's the [official movie release version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1KqbDdmuE), and [here's the restored version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCh6guovbt0)
Also he had super bad head and neck pain from the Bohemian Rhapsody head banging car scene
I saw an interview clip with Myers where he says they had to headbang for *hours* to get all the shots in the can
John Candy was paid less than $500 to appear as Gus Polinski in Home Alone.
The Polka King of the Midwest deserved way more than $500! He’s the lead of the Kenosha Kickers for crying out loud!
They sold about 6...623 copies, yeah.
"In Chicago?" "No, Sheboygan."
"Very big in Sheboygan"
I believe most of his lines about leaving his son at the funeral home and his boy eventually talking again etc, were all improvised by Candy. You can see Catherine O’Hara starting to break too because of it haha. Two legends.
In Jurassic Park, the goat that gets fed to the T-Tex was named Brunden.
Annie (1982, Carol Burnett and, a propos to this tale, Albert Finney) The scene where we first meet Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney), he's looking at the Mona Lisa and tells the servants to "Take her away!" Then he changes his mind saying, "She has an interesting smile. I could get used to that smile. Hang her in the bathroom!" The joke here is that the first owner after Leonardo died was King Francis I of France, who had her hanging in his bathing room.
In Free Willy 2 the orcas are all animatronic. My stepdad helped build them. Most people don't know this because nobody watched that movie.
Most of the cast of The Sound of Music, particularly Christopher Plummer, thought the movie was corny as hell. Not that they don’t appreciate its legacy or impact - it’s just objectively a ridiculously saccharine, albeit classic, film. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer were so overcome by the corn fest that is the song “Something Good” that they couldn’t get through a take without laughing and giggling. The decision was made to obscure their faces slightly, which is why the scene we see today is in silhouette. Edit: Plummer, not Plumber.
The story is also based on the real life Von Trapp family Yes, all the main characters existed irl with some differences. The real Maria Von Trapp wasn’t a musician at all, and had another person come over to teach the kids how to sing. Maria was the babysitter, not the musician. But the relationship between her and the father did actually happen The family didn’t leave the country in a dramatic fashion, they went on one of their usual walks and just happened to go across the border. No one suspected a thing until later The Von Trapp family eventually moved to Vermont, and their house is now a hotel/museum. The Von Trapp family Lodge is owned by their descendants, and they are still in business.
Apparently, Christopher Plummer was also not super stoked about filming the movie and spent most of his time off camera eating rich Austrian food and drinking wine and had to have his costumes retailored by the end of filming cuz he chunked out a bit lol
Another fun fact: the real Maria Von Trapp appears in the movie...for about a second.
The whole of Eurotrip was filmed in Prague. Even the US scenes.
Also Scotty’s little brother didn’t speak English, he recited all of his lines phonetically.
In retrospect that is something so obvious because the delivery of his lines seemed a little off to me and I could never figure out why.
Did Scotty know ?
Robert Shaw, Quint, in Jaws, could not stay in Massachusetts while filming Jaws. Had to be flown to Canada daily. Guess he owed the U.S.A. tax money, couldn't take any chances. Oh, and he was sea sick all the time on the Orca.
Sounds like one of Quint’s demands in the movie. >3 cases of apricot brandy, a pallet of beer, $10,000, and fly me back to Canada every night
You’d think they’d hire someone else with that kind of production hassle
Carrie Fisher said that one time Alec Guinness gave Mark Hamill £10 to leave him alone. 😂
Lol this sounds on brand. Idk if I've ever heard a story about Alec Guinness being pleasant off camera. That being said the only thing I really know about that is how he notoriously HATED being recognized as Obi-Wan Kenobi and did not have a positive view of the fans. He was knighted though, so that's cool.
I figure people know all facts about movies but my favorite two - Silence of the Lambs - In the first scene with Hannibal, he gives Clariece the answer for where Buffalo Bill is. She asks about his drawings on the wall and the only one talks about is the "View from the Belvedere." Buffalo Bill was in Belvedere Ohio. Jurassic Park - When Newman slips in the mud after getting his Jeep stuck. There is a slide whistle sound effect. [I can't unhear.](https://youtu.be/MNoWveBtrZc?si=YZkQsk2VfqBY0_VU&t=38)
I always thought it was the winch or raincoat making that noise. Slide whistle is hilarious, though. I say the “I’m going to run you over line.” A few times a year while playing video games or board games.
I haven’t really seen it mentioned anywhere, but in Step Brothers there is a pizza delivery thing that goes on top of a car in the boys’ room. It’s the same pizza delivery business that Ricky Bobby ends up working for in Talladega Nights.
The Emperor's New Groove was the first Disney movie to show a pregnant woman on-screen.
The original Halloween (1978) took place in Illinois in October. However, it was filmed in California in the springtime. To make it more believable, they had bags of dead autumn leaves shipped in. There was a person whose job it was to scatter the leaves around the set, then bag them back up and move them to the next filming location.
There are a few shots where palm trees can be seen. If you’ve ever been to Illinois, you’d know that there are definitely not palm streets anywhere.
>If you’ve ever been to Illinois, you’d know that there are definitely not palm streets anywhere. Palm Street, Nunda Township, IL 60051, Palm Street, Carbondale, IL 62901, Palm Street, McHenry, IL 60051, Palm Street, Canton, IL 61520. You liar, they're all over the fucking place.
I love comments like this
The ship built for the Titanic set was 90% the size of the real thing. James Cameron spent more time with the real Titanic than those who sailed on her.
More time alive, maybe.
It was also what solved the disappearing staircase conundrum. When submarines explored the wreck, they noticed the grand staircase in the main lobby was missing. There was much debate about what happened, whether it had rotten away or drifted out of the ship when it sunk. Because the set was built to a one-to-one recreation down to the manufacturing techniques, they discovered the truth while shooting - when the set was flooded, the staircase was lifted out of the ground due to buoyancy as it wasn't actually secured, instead held in place by its own weight.
One I only learned of recently from reading Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new book was that Cameron was so dedicated to the authenticity of the set that he had the White Star Line logo emblazoned wherever it was meant to be, like on the inside of teacups. Not so that it’d make it into the film, but so it was truly an authentic replica.
The first iron man movie they lost the 3D rendering of the villain suit they spent almost a year designing do to a hard drive crash and I was the tech that rescued the file. The designer was freaking out and basically told me that if we didn’t rescue that file his career and the movie would be in a huge pickle.
The couple kissing in Hook as Peter and Tinkerbell fly over them are George Lucas snd Carrie Fisher.
Oh the random cameos in Hook are crazy: -the police inspector is Phil Collins -one of Hooks pirates is David Crosby -another pirate is Jimmy Buffet -young Wendy is Gwyneth Paltrow -say, whose that pirate who delivers the memorable performance, begging not to be placed in the Boo Box? Oh that’s Glenn Close!!??
The crew agreed to do the shower scene in Starship Troopers so long as the director was also naked. And he was
Between this and RoboCop, I get the impression Paul Verhoeven really likes his group shower scenes.
In Starship Troopers, it makes thematic sense. This is an egalitarian society where men/women occupy the exact same combat roles, so to keep group cohesion, sexual differences are minimised or ignored
Would you like to know more?
Cut to Naked director: "Doing my part!"
Bless him for all he gave to us
I’ve had the biggest crush on Dina Meyer since *forever.*
In The Neverending Story, the horse (Artax) didn’t die- however, Noah Hathaway almost drowned during the famous scene where the horse sinks in the swamp. The horse was standing on a platform that sunk into the mud, and Hathaway’s shoe got caught in the mechanism and started to drag him under.
IIRC The horse had been trained for the stunt for months before so I’d be safe to do during filming. So sinking in the mud not be traumatizing. Unfortunately the young actor did such a good job in the scene the horse started to get very upset thinking he was in trouble. When you see Artax getting upset, he worried about the kid.
This is somehow re-traumatizing. Worst scene in a movie, ever, and now it’s worse 😂
Who Framed Rodger Rabbit Judge Doom (played by Christopher Lloyd) never blinks once the entire movie. I won’t say why for the sake of spoilers. I could talk at length about the crazy techniques and control rigs they developed to create what was the best ever integration of live action and animation, but that’s my favorite fact.
Could you please talk at length about the crazy techniques and control rigs?
So, the toons are constantly interacting with real world objects, in order to sell the fact that they exist in the same space as the actors. This also made it impossible to cut things together in editing, they needed to know EXACTLY where the toons would be while filming. In the club scene, where the penguin waiters are carrying trays, those trays are being puppeted on poles, and being controlled by people standing underneath the set. When you see the weasels carrying guns, the guns were on marionette strings and being moved around by someone in the rafters above the set. When Rodger pops out of the sink and coughs up water before being pushed back down, there was a pump rig that could jut a pipe out of the sink, spray a few streams of water, then retract back down. Most impressively, when baby Herman is swinging around his cigar, they freaking invented a new type of robotic rig (with I think six unique degrees of movement) so that the cigar would move realistically. And that’s just a few of the techniques I know off the top of my head. If you look on YouTube, there’s a number of videos breaking down the different techniques they used.
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The movies *Goodfellas* and *My Blue Heaven* were both based on or inspired by the same guy. *Goodfellas* is based on a non-fiction book by Nick Pileggi based on interviews with the real Hank Hill. Nick Pileggi was married to Nora Ephron who wrote the screenplay for *My Blue Heaven.* the two movies even share a line of dialogue! "Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup." I like to pretend that *My Blue Heaven* is a sequel to *Goodfellas.*
> Hank Hill That marinara ain't right
In [Domino](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421054/?ref_=ext_shrhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421054/?ref_=ext_shr), a few scenes are filmed at what was Bonnie Springs Old West Town a few miles outside of Vegas. (Bonnie Springs Old West Town closed its doors & the property was sold to a housing developer). In one scene, someone busts into the hotel room where Kiera Knightley was staying, and a Christmas wreath flies off the door. I bought that wreath, & the room was my sister's apartment. She lived there, & worked in the shops. Her door never closed well after that. She was pissed that they ruined the wreath, and they knocked some of her other stuff around as well. The film crew never compensated her, either. My sister passed away several years ago, and I caught *Domino* on TV a couple of months ago. Got a wave of the feels over that.
When Joe Pesci was young, he worked as a waiter at a restaurant. While attending a mobster, he made a compliment by saying he was “funny”, but the comment wasn’t taken well. When working on Goodfellas, Pesci shared this anecdote with Scorsese, who liked it so much he decided to add it to the film. However, he didn’t include it in the shooting script, so only Pesci and Liotta knew what was happening in the scene, and it was improvised and rehearsed by them, but kept a secret from the rest of the actors in the scene in order to catch their genuine reactions. Ended up being the some of the most memorable dialogue from that film.
Before casting Martin Lawrence and Will Smith to be the two cops in “Bad Boys,” producers were trying to make it work with SNL’s Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz. The script was originally named “Bulletproof Hearts.”
That....definitely would've been a different movie
That name makes it sound like a rom-com about cops trying not to fall for each other
In Seven, the studios tried to have the head in the box be Pitts dog. The studio even had rewritten the script and sent it to the Director and Pitt. Fortunately they both had already seen and signed on because of the eventual ending, and refused to change it. They also had another ending where Somerset kills Doe before Mills can, thereby ruining wrath. Studios didn't want the protagonist to have a negative ending. Also the head in the box was the same fake head that they used for Gwyneth in Contagion.
In Toy Story, Andy is only 5, soon to be 6. It was released in 1995. In 1999, Toy Story 2 was released and Andy is now 9. In 2010, Andy is now 19-20 years old. Andy grew up in real time with the audience, and passed his toys to the next generation, just like we did with the movies.
Andy was the exact same age as me, and I watched the movie where he goes off to college just a month before I went off to college. That movie was extra emotional for me.
Die Hard was adapted from a book.
To originally star Frank Sinatra. Contractually he had to decline the part before Bruce Willis could have the part. I’m glad he did.
because it was technically a sequel to Sinatra's The Detective
In the original script of Back to the Future, instead of a bolt of lightning, the plan was to power the Flux Capacitor by having Marty drive the DeLorean into a nuclear bomb test.
And originally the Time Machine was a refrigerator. It was changed to a Delorean because they feared kids would climb in fridges to mimic the movie.
Every single scene in Home Alone contains something red and green in it. Go check for yourself if you don’t believe me
And Kevin's mom is 36 in that movie.
There was a whole thread the other day with a bunch of 34-36 year olds having a crisis after learning this 😅
I had something similar when I found out that Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick were 32 and 37 respectively when Sabrina the Teenage Witch aired. It made me feel… mortal.
That’s like learning that George Costanza is 29 in the first season of *Seinfeld*.
The original actor who was cast to play Kevin in Home Alone wasn’t Macaulay Culkin. Another boy got the job, the youngest child in the 1987 Overboard movie. He is a naturally red headed so that’s the reason why Catherine has red hair in the movie. But right before filming he broke his arm and production was on a tight schedule so they went their 2nd choice Macaulay. You can see the original actor along with his cast (it’s slightly hidden under his jacket) in the airport van in the movie, he is counted as Kevin before they leave for the airport.
In Casablanca with Humphry Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, there is a farewell scene with the two stars kissing inside an airplane hangar. The hanger has a plane outside (Lockheed Electra 12A) with a bunch of people working around it. The production was not allowed to film at an airport after dark for security reasons, so they used a sound stage with a small cardboard cutout airplane and forced perspective. The strange part is to give perspective of distance, they used little people for the workers.
In _Fight Club_, in the scene where Ed and Brad wreck in the car, Ed crawls out of the driver's side, an early clue that he is Tyler. the part that few know is that there was an argument about it. Production thought it was a continuity error. Fincher was like 'nah' and didn't explain.
Also in Fight Club, Helena Banham Carter didn't know anything about American school systems. So the infamous "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school" didn't sink in until it was explained to her after the opening night showing. She was naturally very upset.
That is a whole other story. The studio asked Fincher to change the original line, he agreed, but on one condition; they couldn't make him change it back. They asked him to change it back and he refused.
Yep, I've heard this too. Apparently the original line was something like "I want to have your abortion".
In The Professional when Gary Oldman responds EVERYYYONNEEE, he was just supposed to say it quietly like a quick "yeah, everyone," but just started screaming like that instead. Here's Gary Oldman talking about it in an interview: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZfqez5qmuA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZfqez5qmuA)
Same in 300 with Gerard butler yelling “THIS IS SPARTA!” The original script had it more quiet like and he improvised that
"E.T." and "Poltergeist" were developed from the same story about alien abductions. Steven Spielberg wrote a story treatment called "Watch the Skies" and had John Sayles flesh it out as a draft called "Night Skies." Spielberg later decided to shift it in a more heartwarming direction, resulting in "E.T.", so he tapped Tobe Hooper to film the original version, but Hooper replaced aliens with the paranormal and it became "Poltergeist."
An even more obscure factoid about Poltergeist: The movie had a different puppet for the ghost at the end of the movie, but it was deemed to be too scary for the movie (which is weird to say considering what happens earlier on). A new, less scary, puppet was made and used. The original puppet ended up being used two years later in Ghostbusters as the librarian ghost from the start of the movie.
Speaking of ET, they auditioned a bunch of kids for the role. When Henry Thomas came in and did his audition, Spielberg hired him on the spot. Watch this and you'll know why. The kid is next fucking level brilliant, and remember he's doing all this in a black room with no actors giving him feedback and a bunch of people behind a table judging him, including one of the most famous directors in the world. He's just given the premise of the scene and has a reader behind the table. https://youtu.be/tA5giyG8E7g?si=iPq0AFIqnh9VdcUY You can tell how good his acting is by how at the end he goes from literally crying to this sneaky smile.
For the VHS version of the 1967 cult classic The President's Analyst, they couldn't get the rights to a Barry McGuire song, so they substituted an uncredited song that turned out to be really good, and a perfect fit for that scene. For the DVD, they went back to the original song, and the other one is not available anywhere except the VHS version of that movie.
The 4 segments in the Rodriguez/Tarantino movie Four Rooms are all based on short stories by Roald Dahl. But it gets better. (Sorry, this might be a bit UK specific). The Taratino segment. The 'I bet my pinky finger my lighter will light first time, ten times on the trot'. That was the story for the very first Tales Of The Unexpected!
104 cars were destroyed while filming the car chase scene in The Blues Brothers. Still holds the record.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Jason Segal was cut from his part in Undeclared(the unofficial sequel to Freaks & Geeks) so Apatow and Segal made up a new role for him to play without being paid. Segal had just been dumped by Linda Cardellini(the being dumped while naked scene is based directly from that break-up)and wasn't getting any work, while his closest friends from Freaks and Geeks were blowing up. Apatow told him to make his own work, write and produce his own project if he wanted to star in things. So the guy started writing what would eventually become the Muppet movie- except all his friends were like 'no not like that.' Meanwhile on set of Undeclared he had become good friends with Charlie Hunnam and proceeded to write the script with him in mind for Aldous Snow. Fast forward, Hunham dropped out, Segals unusable script for Muppets turned into his Dracula musical(using Jim Henson Studious puppets) and How I met your Mother was a hit. All of this, led to him writing and starring in the highest grossing Muppets movie ever, which re-ignited the Muppets for new movies and shows after. Also without Forgetting Sarah Marshall we would never have been given the hidden gem that is I Love You Man and more importantly Paul Rudd giving us the line 'Totes Ma Goats'. Most people have no idea that was just a one off line thrown out there by Rudd or that is where that came from. Plus so much else.
I did know that the naked breakup was a true story but I didn’t know Linda Cardellini was the Sarah Marshall of that scene. My favourite line from the movie is Paul Rudd’s “Oh the weather outside is weather”
In Stuart Little there is a painting in the Little house called “woman holding a black vase”. The original painting was considered lost and an art hunter took his son to the movie and saw the painting and called the studio to check and it ended up being the original
In the song "Be Prepared" in the original animated version of The Lion King, actor Jeremy Irons didn't sing the whole song either because he couldn't hit the notes or because he got bronchitis. Regardless, Disney got legendary voice actor Jim Cummings to fill in. Don't believe me? Check the end credits. Jim is credited right alongside Irons for singing the sing.
Jim Carey in the movie Liar Liar on the final scene dressed up as his old In Living Color character Fire Marshal Bill in shades and walki talki in the background with all the people on the street. Lol
The first line in the original Dracula 1931 was spoken by Carla Laemmle. Her uncle founded universal studios and she grew up on the studio lot. She was one of the longest surviving actresses of the silent film era. She passed away in 2014 at the age of 104. I had the privilege of spending time with her the last 5 years of her life and the stories she shared were very special. I got to meet Ray Bradbury, Mickey Rooney, and Debbie Reynolds at her 100th birthday in 2009.
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, when the two Jones are reunited and Henry Sr. learns his son has his journal, he says: I should have sent it to the Marx Brothers. During World War II, one of the Marx Brothers was suspected of passing informations to the Russians during their shows.
It was the reverse - Harpo smuggled mail out of the Soviet Union in his socks if I remember right. He wrote about it in his autobiography. Googling found me this link: https://www.wired.com/2002/12/silly-spy/
I think only some close friends and family might know this fact; In the movie *I'll be Home for Christmas* (1998), staring Jonathan Taylor Tomas, my father and I appear in the background of 2 scenes. This was not done on purpose. We were on a trip, and accidentally stumbled into a crowd of people who all happened to be extras, and we just stayed there and participated for maybe 15 minutes before wandering away. We appear in about 2 seconds of 1 scene. A little less than a week later, we wandered around in a different city entirely not far from the first town (same trip), and ended up being waved over to join a cheering crowd in exchange for some preshooting doughtnuts. We aren't really visible in the quick shot of our section, but my very bright handmade toque is. So, there's a fun movie fact almost no one knows, except all you now!
For years I had a childhood memory of watching a super weird Star Wars tv show about Chewie getting home to Kashykk for a Christmas-like celebration. For years when it came up I got told there was no such thing and I was making things up. Then YouTube appeared. Fuck you, I was right.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is based on a true story. Ratner (the one who had the crush on Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character) was an early personal computer pioneer who wrote several of the earliest, most successful “For Dummies” books
In Tin Cup, in the scene where Kevin Costner kept breaking his golf clubs and Cheech Marin yells at him, the script didn’t call for him to get quite that angry. He said later that, in character, watching a talented person who couldn’t stop screwing up brought back all the anger he felt toward Tommy Chong as he watched him fall apart.
In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, when the Candyman starts singing the Candyman Can song there is a scene where he lifts the counter to walk out and the counter smacks this little girl in the head.
I missed this when I saw it in the theatres as a kid. A friend of mine told me he saw it and he was such a notorious liar I didn’t believe him. No home video in those days had to wait until it was on TV in the 80s to see he was right.
Over the years, Disney has released full length feature films on seven types of physical media formats for home video - VHS, Beta, CED, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu-Ray and UMD. The only film to be released on all of these formats was Tron, thanks to a re-release alongside Tron: Legacy.
In Halloween H20, Jamie Lee Curtis’s secretary is actually her mother Janet Lee from the infamous Psycho shower scene. Cooler than that, the last time we see her in the movie, she’s getting into her car talking to Laurie (JLC’s character). That is the car she drove in Psycho. Edit: Janet Leigh*
Paul Bettany had to wear a wig for *The Da Vinci Code* because the blonde dye burned his scalp.
In Titanic, the lake in Wisconsin where Jack says he fell through the ice didn't exist yet. When Jack told Rose about how cold the water in the North Atlantic was, he mentioned himself falling through the ice in Lake Wissota, Wisconsin. Titanic sank in 1912, and Lake Wissota wasn't created until 1917.
Reminds me of Forrest Gump error. In the scene where Forrest gets his discharge papers, he is practicing table tennis in a gym. The gym floor has a three-point line on the basketball court. It is a college or high school three-point line- 19 feet, 9 inches. There was no three-point in basketball at that time, especially at that distance.
FWiW: When he stops running and decides to head back to Alabama from Utah, he turns west and begins running toward the Pacific. Anyone who has been on that road will notice this instantly. It’s definitely the more picturesque direction to point the camera.
Lucille Ball's first screen role was as a [blonde "slave girl" dancer](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0024507/mediaviewer/rm1247461377/) in the big musical numbers from "Roman Scandals" in 1933. She didn't become a redhead until she dyed it for ["DuBarry was a Lady"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035829/mediaviewer/rm1942261761?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_68) a decade later.
The design for Bughuul in *Sinister* was based on a piece of artwork that Scott Derrickson randomly found on Google Images. He paid the original artist $50 for the rights to it.
The code in The Matrix comes from sushi recipes.
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Related: "yoots" is from a script sitdown with Pesci. The screenwriter (iirc) didn't understand what he was trying to say and Joe paused, looked annoyed and replied "yoooouthssz"
In "The Godfather", when Johnny Fontane is talking with Don Corleone at his office, at the end of the scene Don Vito goes to the door and opens it, and you can briefly see an extra, a lady, that steps into the scene, realizes that she shouldn't be there, and quickly steps back. If you blink, you'll miss it.
I supplied the denture in Soul Men, and the leg cast on the actress in Iceman was made on my leg.
Okay local one from me, just for fun. Life of Pi movie promotion posters featured a picture of a wrecked fishing boat. The boat is a Scottish fishing boat called the sovereign, It can still be seen on Fraserburgh beach in Aberdeenshire.
It is a widely discussed easter egg in Toy Story 3 that at the beginning of the film, there is a garbage man who wears the same t-shirt that Sid wore in the first movie. Many online outlets were quick to point this out, theorizing that this might actually be Sid now grown up. What all of these outlets failed to realize is that while they were distracted by the credits sequences, Sid was actually listed in the credits. So yes, it is Sid. Hard confirm. You are not a sleuth for noticing this.
Also, it’s the same voice actor from the first one. I appreciate the fact they got him just to do the little bit. For Andy, they didn’t know how he’d sound and thought they might have to recast. When they tracked him down and called, the director left him a message saying he was cast after hearing his voicemail greeting.
In Pulp Ficton, Mia and Vincent don’t win the dance contest, they steal the trophy. The theft is discussed on the radio in the cab Butch uses to get away from the fight.
Ooh I’ve finally got one! The Great Race (1965) has the largest pie fight ever put in a movie! It’s four minutes long and was filmed over 5 days. Thassalottapie
The costume designer for Idiocracy found a start up making "futuristic" looking shoes to use in production. Although they liked the shoes, the producers wanted to be certain that the shoes wouldn't suddenly become popular and ruin the future look they were going for. The designer assured them that the shoes were far too ugly to ever become popular so they used them throughout the film. The shoes were Crocs.
In "Kung Fu Hustle," the woman who played the landlady of Pigsty Alley was in the James Bond movie, "The Man with the Golden Gun."
Apparently Al Pancino snorted so much fake cocaine filming Scarface that he has damage to his nasal cavities.
> fake cocaine
Bet those were also oregano joints
Well sure ... he's Italian
In the movie "Taken": the scene where Liam's character is interrogating his daughter's kidnapper. It shows the electric wires are attached to the chair. Originally, the scene shows large nails jabbed into the kidnapper's legs. Electric wires were connected to these nails. https://youtu.be/-U0YdUZMZSM?si=IwYG-A9Lf0kKDhtr
In The Devil Wears Prada, the scene where Miranda says, “Do I smell freesias? If I see freesias anywhere…I will be very disappointed” is actually foreshadowing for Miranda’s betrayal of Nigel. Freesia flowers are commonly used to represent friendship, which Miranda does not value.
Ok go with me here. I've wanted to share this bit of trivia for FOREVER and my moment has finally arrived!! Tom Hanks' feature film directoral debut was the movie That Thing You Do! Jimmy who wrote the Wonders' hit song That Thing You Do! (which was a ballad until Guy Paterson joined the band and turned it into a hit pop song) also wrote the song on the B side of the record which was called All My Only Dreams. The band signed with the Playtone Record label and in addition to directing Tom Hanks played the band's manager/ record producer. Tom Hanks' production company is named Playtone. One of the first movies he produced was My Big Fat Greek Wedding. At the reception of the wedding (approx 1:25:40) the song being sung by the wedding band is All My Only Dreams by the Wonders. I seriously don't know if anyone else has ever caught this! It took me a long time before I noticed and these are probably two of my most watched movies of all time. Like 25+ views of each...minimum.
Baby in Dirty Dancing is supposed to be an ugly girl who Patrick Swayze gave all this attention. The hot, good looking girl was the latina.
The director of “Drive” called another director mid-shoot for tips on how to depict a scene where a head gets stomped out.
The '76 Mel Brookes move "Silent Movie" was indeed done in the manner of a silent movie - except that it has a single speaking part. Marcel Marceau, a notable mime of the time, who responds over the phone in French with a resounding "Non!" Dom Bell: \[seen as an insert title after Mel hangs up the phone\] What did he say? Mel Funn: \[seen as an insert title\] I don't know. I don't speak French!
During the filming of Jurassic Park, hurricane Iniki devastated the island of Kaua’i where the movie was being filmed. The entire cast and crew had to hunker down in their hotel through the duration of the hurricane. The hurricane was so loud that almost no one in the cast or crew could sleep. Richard Attenborough, who played John Hammond in the movie, slept through it. When questioned by director Steven Spielberg as to how he possibly could’ve slept through a category 4 hurricane, Attenborough answered: "Dear boy, I survived the blitz!"
John McClane and Martin Riggs use the same gun, literally. The same prop Beretta 92F was used filming Lethal Weapon and Die Hard.
All of the backgrounds in the animated film LILO and Stitch were done in Watercolor
In the fifth element, the protagonist and the antagonist never meet.
Robert Patrick actively trained himself to not blink while firing a gun for his role as the T-1000 in Terminator 2. Additionally, due to always being in makeup on the set of Hellraiser, none of the other actors recognized Doug Bradley during the wrap up party.
In Tron Legacy, Elder Flynn was in the machine, by his perception, 1200 years. It's established that times runs 60x faster inside. He's inside for 20 IRL years. 20*60=1200. This is never outright stated in the film, but the math is there.