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This is a smaller one than the plethora of LOTR info already here, but still one of my favorites: In the movie "The Holiday", there is a scene in a video rental store where Miles (Jack Black) is introducing Iris (Kate Winslet) to a variety of famous music from movies - Chariots of Fire, Gone With The Wind, etc. When he gets to "The Graduate", he starts singing "Mrs. Robinson", and the camera cuts over to Dustin Hoffman, shaking his head at their conversation. Dustin Hoffman's cameo was completely unplanned - he knew the director, saw a bunch of equipment at the Blockbuster, stopped in to say hi, and they wrote his cameo in on the spot.Greatest-Movies-Behind-The-Scenes-Facts
During the filming of The Princess Bride, Mandy Patankin's (Inigo Montoya) father died from cancer. When he came back from the funeral, they had to shoot the scene where he kills the six fingered man. It gives him a special fire in his eyes when he says "I want my father back, you son of a b*tch".
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I like the one about Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indy shoots the sword fighter. He was supposed to fight him in a shoot that would've taken 3 days. However Ford was really sick from dysentery and so convinced Spielberg to do it this way.
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In Scrubs the Janitor almost never read his script and just improvised his role. Bill Lawrence actually said that in the scripts, he had "whatever Neil says" on his lines.
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In Life of Brian, the line after "yes, we're all individuals", "I'm not!" was ad-libbed, bumping the extra up in pay for now having a distinct speaking role.
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Apparently the scientists for Interstellar did so much theoretical physics to get the wormhole and black hole effects right that their work is going to be published into a scientific paper. Can't find a source on that right now though.
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One of my favorites is from Predator "Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were 1" bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger's. He suggested to Schwarzenegger that they measure arms, with the winner getting a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost because Schwarzenegger had told the wardrobe department to tell Ventura that his arms were bigger."
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In Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers when Aragon, Gimli, and Legolas are approaching the pile of smoldering and dismembered corpses looking for Pipin and Mary, Vigo Mortensen kicks a helmeted Orc head and screams, thinking the hobbits are dead and gone. It's a really good scream and 100% authentic. When Mortensen kicked the head/helmet he broke two of his toes. He used the pain and stayed in character. They kept the scene for the movie.
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While filming Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Bella, the Neapolitan mastiff that played Fang, got very protective of Daniel Radcliffe, and would jump in front of him whenever the animatronic spider for Aragog would come out to defend him, resulting in then having to refilm the scene multiple times.
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During the filming of the Lord of the Rings, Christopher Lee corrected Peter Jackson on the sound of being stabbed in the back. From the DVD commentary: "When I was shooting the stabbing shot with Christopher, as a director would I was explaining to him what he should do"... "And he says, 'Peter, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back?' And I said, 'Um, no.' And he says 'Well, I have, and I know what to do.' "" He had been involved in some super secret operations for the British during WWII, which is presumably where he knew that from.
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Apparently the scientists for Interstellar did so much theoretical physics to get the wormhole and black hole effects right that their work is going to be published into a scientific paper. Can't find a source on that right now though.Greatest-Movies-Behind-The-Scenes-Facts
This is a smaller one than the plethora of LOTR info already here, but still one of my favorites: In the movie "The Holiday", there is a scene in a video rental store where Miles (Jack Black) is introducing Iris (Kate Winslet) to a variety of famous music from movies - Chariots of Fire, Gone With The Wind, etc. When he gets to "The Graduate", he starts singing "Mrs. Robinson", and the camera cuts over to Dustin Hoffman, shaking his head at their conversation. Dustin Hoffman's cameo was completely unplanned - he knew the director, saw a bunch of equipment at the Blockbuster, stopped in to say hi, and they wrote his cameo in on the spot.Greatest-Movies-Behind-The-Scenes-Facts
I like the one about Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indy shoots the sword fighter. He was supposed to fight him in a shoot that would've taken 3 days. However Ford was really sick from dysentery and so convinced Spielberg to do it this way.Greatest-Movies-Behind-The-Scenes-Facts
One of my favorites is from Predator "Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were 1" bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger's. He suggested to Schwarzenegger that they measure arms, with the winner getting a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost because Schwarzenegger had told the wardrobe department to tell Ventura that his arms were bigger."Greatest-Movies-Behind-The-Scenes-Facts
During the filming of The Princess Bride, Mandy Patankin's (Inigo Montoya) father died from cancer. When he came back from the funeral, they had to shoot the scene where he kills the six fingered man. It gives him a special fire in his eyes when he says "I want my father back, you son of a b*tch".Greatest-Movies-Behind-The-Scenes-Facts
In Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers when Aragon, Gimli, and Legolas are approaching the pile of smoldering and dismembered corpses looking for Pipin and Mary, Vigo Mortensen kicks a helmeted Orc head and screams, thinking the hobbits are dead and gone. It's a really good scream and 100% authentic. When Mortensen kicked the head/helmet he broke two of his toes. He used the pain and stayed in character. They kept the scene for the movie.This Panda hasn't followed anyone yet
