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Sometimes so much effort goes into making a movie, it isn't enough to just watch it over and over again. To truly appreciate it, you have to know the details about how it was made.
In order to better understan filmmaking, Reddit user Crying_Hyena submitted a question to the platform, asking "What's the greatest movie 'behind-the-scenes' fact you know?"
And if there's one thing cinephiles love more than gathering trivia on their favorite productions, it's sharing it.
People immediately started responding to the post, sharing interesting lesser-known facts about movies of all genres. From Fight Club to The Room, continue scrolling and check out some of the most upvoted entries!
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#1
While looking for a tattered coat for the character playing The Wizard in the Wizard of Oz, a costume assistant bought one from a second hand store. When the actor put the coat on he turned the pocket inside out - written in the pocket was the name L.Frank Baum who is the author of The Wizard of Oz books. Baum's widow later identified the coat as actually having belonged to her husband
KatHat 4 years ago
Unfortunately, probably not true. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coat-of-baums/
Layla Corman 4 years ago
I thought so. I live about 10 minutes from the house the Baums lived in and it's about 3000 miles from Hollywood, where the coat was supposedly found.
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CLG 4 years ago
Not only is the coincidence surprising, but also the fact that Baum would write his name in his own jacket.
Margot Piasecka 4 years ago
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 nice fairytale The only lie Donald forgot to tell us 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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#2
While filming Total Recall, Schwarzenegger noticed the Michael Ironside was constantly on the phone between takes. When he broached the subject with Ironside, he was told the he was phoning his sister and that she was currently suffering from cancer. Arnold immediately brought Michael to his trailer and they had an hour long 3 way conversation with the sister about what exercises to do and what kinds of foods she should be eating and really lifting her spirits. Ironside has never forgotten Schwarzenegger's kindness and neither has his sister.
Sarah Pryde 4 years ago
I may not agree with his politics, but he has always struck me as a pretty decent human being.....i mean, aside from the cheating on his wife......
FlitterBug 4 years ago
Arnold is so nice. I remember this one Gabriel Iglasias special and he was talking about meeting him and he said Arnold acted like everyone he shook hands with (pre-covid) was so strong and asked "Do you pump iron" to everyone
#3
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.
#4
While filming Guardians of the Galaxy, they had to do several takes of some scenes because Chris Pratt kept making the pew pew sounds when he fired his raygun.
SykesDaMan 4 years ago
In the Last Jedi, Laura Dern did the Pew Pew sounds, but they kept the scenes! :) 49c56bccb2...cec3ba.gif 
#5
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.
Laugh or not 4 years ago
He had a life more interesting than most films ever made.
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James F. Wilson Jr. 4 years ago
One of those of "The Greatest Generation" that we are so grateful to have known.
dave penna 3 years ago
Lee was part of a very Black Ops Covert unit...during WWII. he had a lot of first hand experience in combat.. i dont recall the whole story, but, he was certifiably a serious bad a*s..not just Dracula or Sauroman...
Chris Graham 4 years ago
Christopher Lee was a true Bad Ass in his day. They should make a movie about his life.
#6
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.
I I 4 years ago
me too , used to think he was so off the cuff now i know why , he actually was
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Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Good that he didn't get the role of C*x that he initially auditioned for then. C*x's character would loose some dept I think.
Ashasaurus rex 4 years ago
It's the beeep Van beeep show, starring beeep Van beeep. Vintage Family Guy, when the show was still funny.
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Cat Monaghan 4 years ago
Did y'all know he went on to play the father in the TV show "The Middle" ? He was pretty funny on that also
#7
An actual robber was fleeing a drug store (or some such similar establishment) and turned the corner onto the set of the finale of Leon (The Professional), in which Leon's building is completely surrounded by cops. Upon seeing an army of actors dressed as policemen, the robber immediately surrendered.
WildHoneyPie 4 years ago
Imagine his disappointment when he found out all that wasn't for him.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
This happened during the filming of an episode for "Homicide: Life in the Streets," too. Always gives me joy.
Mark Kelly 4 years ago
No because he probably ran a block or so and they weren't in his sight.
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Jason Marin 3 years ago
In Sacramento California, a robbery suspect fled into a movie theater that was showing the movie Robocop. The one with Peter Weller. The guy was so into the movie, he didn't notice that the police had evacuated the entire theater. When the lights went on in the room, he was shocked to find himself surrounded by police and was quickly taken into custody.
#8
In Apollo 13, they filmed in NASA's "vomit comet", a plane that flew at high altitudes and would create parabola movements to simulate a short period of low gravity. They built the Apollo spacecraft set inside the plane and almost every scene featuring zero gravity was filmed in the plane. They flew over 500 times in the parabola. From the time that low gravity simulation would start, they would only have 23 seconds to unstrap from restraints, set up a shot, roll, and then strap back in. They completed all of these flights in 13 days. THE MOST UNDERRATED MOVIE FACT OF ALL TIME! The only movie ever to film in actual Zero Gravity.
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
Aha, so thats why the no gravity effects are so damn great in that movie
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
About as good or worse than in Gravity, so no.
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Extra bonus... the leads didn't get sick and were very proud of that - especially as the camera crew was not so lucky.
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
i know i'm a huge party pooper, but i can help but think of how much exhaust got pumped into the atmosphere to do make a movie. it's such a waste
Wowie-Zowie 4 years ago
There's an Ok Go music video shot in one of those planes! (It's called Upside Down & Inside Out I believe)
#9
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.
Marcus James Heslop 4 years ago (edited)
Unfortunately that isn't true. Terrence Bayler is the 'extra' referred to who in fact wasn't an extra and plays several, credited parts in the film. The line was scripted. Why does nobody source check this nonsense?
sam 4 years ago
Ah, that makes more sense. I was thinking he probably would've lost his job more likely!
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Colin Matthews 4 years ago
Bullshit. The "extra" is spike milliigan. Its not ad libbed and is an excellent scene
Marcus James Heslop 4 years ago
Bull indeed but as I've already pointed out it's Terrence Bayler not Spike. Spike appears later on.
Load More Replies... Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
That is (in my opinion) the best joke of that movie. I often find myself laughing at it when I'm reminded of it.
ZombieGirl 4 years ago
This can't be true...they would edit it out in post because it would be much cheaper than "giving the extra a raise". They don't treat extras that nicely, lol
Nicole Weymann 4 years ago
As a rule they don't, but I gather finances on this one were special, so it might be true. Apparently ex Beatle George Harrison actually founded HandMadeFilms to back the project because it was a film he wanted to watch.
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#10
In The Shawshank Redemption, there's a scene where a guy feeds a maggot to a crow.
The American Humane Association made them find a maggot that had died of natural causes to feed to the crow. They wouldn't have given the "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" at the end if they hadn't.
Cynthia Humphreys 4 years ago
Yes! Andy playing the opera record gets every time. I know what happens next and I'm just broken.
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Karasi Mills 4 years ago (edited)
I doubt this. First of all, that's a waxworm. Secondly, these are common food items people feed live to reptiles, birds, etc. as pets all the time. Thirdly, I doubt a crow would be willing to eat a non-moving waxworm. Fourthly, only living waxworms are creamy colored. Dying waxworms are greyish, and dead wax worms are almost black. Fifthly, being eaten by a bird is definitely "dying of natural causes".
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
I agree with most of this, but your thirdly: a crow would definitely eat a non-moving waxworm. They eat dead stuff all the time
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Joshua Seaman 4 years ago
So killing animals to feed to animals is a harming animals, but killing animals to feed to humans isn't? 🤔 Some cognitive dissonance there.
Dynein 4 years ago
I think it's supposed to mean "no animals were killed specifically for this movie".
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TV Junkie 4 years ago
I can just imagine the little maggot autopsy. "Yep. This one died of natural causes!"
BorPand8 4 years ago
Being eaten by a crow *is* death by natural causes for a maggot. How could they determine that anyway? It's not like they die of old age.
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#11
Monty Python's Life of Brian stirred so much controversy that production company EMC pulled the funding just days before filming was set to begin. George Harrison heard about this and paid for the entire production of the film with his own money.
person (i think) 4 years ago
I had no idea it was so controversial! I will have to give it a re- watch :)
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Isabella K 4 years ago
I'm surprised that this film was banned in some areas... we watched it in 7th or 8th grade in our catholic religion class...didn't understand all jokes and implications but was fun to watch
Chewie Baron 4 years ago
George Harrison had planned on his investment being written off as a tax loss, but he made a load of money back. Unlike his investment funding the production of Shanghai Surprise which he thought would do well but bombed at the box office!
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Indeed all these musicians paying for UK films in the 70s and 80s were just tax trickery, not "put your money where your mouth is" cultural interest. Once getting rich, the Beatles made "I'm the taxman" song to whine about taxes even, FFS!!
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Łukasz Mirosław 4 years ago
He mortgaged his house (Friar Park mansion) to finance the film and to establish HandMade Films company.
dave penna 3 years ago
Harrison read the script prior, and loved it, was a huge fan of Monty Python Troupe, so yea, he undersigned the costs out of pocket..
#12
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".
Iggy 4 years ago (edited)
His father died a few years before he started filming The Princess Bride. The scene did resonate with him but the above fact isn't true. https://www.npr.org/2012/10/05/162383428/mandy-patinkin-25-years-after-the-princess-bride-hes-not-tired-of-that-line?t=1616607940866
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Another kinda-made-up "fact" in this tiktok-level list.
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Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
This breaks my heart . I lost my mom two years ago . Losing a parent really wrecks you.
Paul Budhram 4 years ago
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
TimesNewLogan 4 years ago
He said in an interview, that he imagined the six-fingered man was cancer itself.
#13
In avengers, Robert Downey Jr would hide food around the sets and eat them while filming. The crew would attempt to find his stashes but never(?) did. All those times he was eating on screen were unscripted.
hi myself 4 years ago
HOW DARE YOU NOT CAPITALIZE THE A IN AVENGERS!!!! THIS IS A HUGE DISRESPECT!!!
dave penna 3 years ago
same for his Avengers role as Ironman.. he kept food Everywhere on sets.. man should weigh 300lbs...hilarious.............
#14
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."
N S 4 years ago
Arnold married into the Kennedy clan, he is the Governatorrr
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Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
Whenever someone asks me what celebrity I'd like to meet, I always say I don't really have one. I want to change my answer to Arnold.
person (i think) 4 years ago (edited)
Ditto to the whole sentiment (edit: spelling)
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Simon Clement 4 years ago
I heard Schwarzenegger asked wardrobe to make his spare shirts smaller around the arms and that when Ventura tried them on and they didn’t fit he convinced himself he would triumph in a show down.
RollDdice 4 years ago
I read somewhere that there was a Schwarzenegger/Ventura/Weathers "arms race". Each of the actors would work out in secret, trying to be the most *clap* PUMPED UP! As per usual, Arnold had an entire commercial gym shipped to the location and they would each get up earlier and earlier in the morning to work out without the others knowing.
Jason Marin 3 years ago
Arnold also pulled a trick on Sylvester Stallone once. Arnold was interested in doing the movie "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!" When Sylvester heard about Arnold wanting to do the movie, he immediately called his agent to get the leading role. Sylvester later found out that Arnold only pretended to be interested in doing the movie so he could trick Sylvester into doing it.
Pan Narrans 4 years ago
I knew Ventura only from the WWF scene. There he was one of the guys but certainly hadn't the most impressive body. Some guys where massive compared to Ventura. Arnold I knew from movies like Conan the Barbarian and his bodybuilding. He always looked like the the biggest in the business. So picture my surprise when I saw Predator! Ventura is actually a lot bigger than Arnie. So those wrestlers must be humongous. Jesse Ventura was and is an interesting fella, who I would like to meet. His most impressive public action to me was when he was very vocally against water boarding, explaining that he did undergo water boarding and telling everybody that it is, in fact, torture.
#15
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.
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
You bet they kept the scene, I don't think he would be willing to kick anything again with broken toes.
Pernille Dyre 4 years ago
*Viggo... and he is still half danish. Speaks danish and we love him ❤
#16
In Requiem for a Dream, there is a scene where Ellen Burnstyn gives a monologue about how terrible it is to grow old and useless (a scene credited for her Best Actress nomination). Unlike the rest of the movie where every shot is very carefully planned and framed, the camera here goes all shakey and off center. This was not planned or intended, and director Darren Aronofsky started to throw a fit as soon as the scene was cut, because Ellen Burnstyn had just delivered an amazing performance and the cinematographer had screwed it all up. As it turns out, the filming was screwed up because the cinematographer was so moved by Burnstyn's performance that he was crying uncontrollably - he couldn't hold the camera still, and couldn't see because his crying fogged up the eyepiece. They used that cut in the final film.
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago
Anyone even THINKING of trying hard drugs need to be forced to sit through this movie...doubt they will EVER want to touch the stuff.
despayre 4 years ago
Most f****d up movie ever. In a good way. It'll give you nightmares for years and you can't hear that song without being horrified. Still shudder to think about it. *trembling cry*
𝙸'𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚘𝚋! 4 years ago
I haven't watched it, I want to, but by a bunch of people's comments on it, I'm not sure anymore lol
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Capelli rosa e patate 4 years ago
An amazing movie (and novel), but I simply can’t watch it repeatedly. So brutal
dave penna 3 years ago
amazing.... you are on a set.. know its a script.. and her acting brings the man to uncontrollable sobbing...
Brian Fuggle 3 years ago
Julia Roberts? Bug-eyed, rubber-lipped stick insect.
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When Coppola and Lucas (close friends and filmmaking buddies) were planning Apocalypse Now (which George Lucas was originally supposed to direct) they gave a small role to their carpenter, Harrison Ford, in return for Ford's work on a desk for Coppola's office. Ford also got a role in Lucas' American Graffiti a few years prior this same way.
During the casting for Star Wars, Lucas needed someone to read Han Solo's lines while actor's auditioned for Luke. He quickly asked Ford to do it, and afterwards, one of the producers there came up to Lucas and pointed out that he already had his Han Solo in Ford. (Thus beating out Kurt Russell for the role).
Samtheperson 4 years ago
Imagine Han Solo being like hey I’m here to build your ikea
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Jim Ellington 4 years ago
If there is one actor that would have make a kick-ass Han Solo other than Ford, it's Kurt Russell.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
True. But I think Ford was the better choice because he was less kick-ass and more lackadaisical, which works great for the role
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Joel Gardner 4 years ago
This is mostly false, if you can believe the chronology of Ford's films. A casting director picked out Ford for American Grafitti (1973). Coppola hired Ford for The Conversation in 1974, and Star Wars (1977) was two years before Apocalypse Now (1979). After Star Wars, Ford was a star.
Katinka Min 4 years ago
Ah, that would explain why Ford'S acting is always a bit wooden. (I do like hi but I often wondered about his vaguely camp acting style)
Max Andersson 4 years ago
It kind of explains why he has a wierd small role in Apocalypse Now. If that scene was recorded before Star Wars I mean.
Lance d'Boyle 4 years ago
American Graffiti 1973: Apocalypse Now started filming in '76 (production began in 75): Star Wars shooting began in March '76.
#18
I think it was in the Shining, the kid didn't know they were making a horror movie.
troufaki13 4 years ago
As he should. I've always wondered about the mental well-being of children in horror movies :/
Lyn Arnold 4 years ago
It's standard practice to be very protective of minors in horror films. They have on-set tutors so they are usually studying when not shooting, and they rarely if ever know the full story or see a complete script. They just get the pages they need to know. It's quite structured.
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Lyn Arnold 4 years ago
He didn't. Everyone was quite protective of him. And the long tracking scene, when Duvall is running through the hotel clutching him to her chest - that was a doll. They didn't want the kid to have to do the scene.
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TimesNewLogan 4 years ago
It was the Shining. Kubrick, of all people, wanted to make sure the kid wasn't scared, and told him Jack was shouting because he was worried about Danny being lost.
#19
The actors of Saving Private Ryan were put through basic training before filming, EXCEPT Matt Damon so that the other actors would build some sort of unconscious resentment towards his character
Stille20 4 years ago
I get method acting, but creating resentment between your actors seems like a poor idea. There is less trust.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
It definitely seems like an overkill and I wonder if this made any difference that could be seen on screen or was Spielberg (whose movies I adore) just on a power trip or something.
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Tom Sizemore, second from the right, was drug tested every day and it was understood is he used Spielberg would fire him on the spot. He stayed clean for the entire 58 days of filming his scenes.
The_tattered_hippie 4 years ago
I’ve also heard that Tom Hanks wasn’t required to do the training but chose to anyway AND he rallied the others guys when they wanted to call it quits.
Russian Otaku 4 years ago
That's pretty f*****g funny and would easily work. Probably didn't go through real bootcamp though
MH3 4 years ago
That would do it, exclude Damon from the camaraderie of the others who suffered together through basic training. 1953 my dad went through basic training in the Marines at Parris Island, SC (he gained a rank during training). Dad said the 2nd day he sat on his bunk and literally pinched himself hard as a reality test and said to himself, "This cannot be the United States of America, they don't treat people like this!" He learned that, yes they do. He made it from Private to Major in 22 years. A guy I was dating in high school saw all the medals and ribbons my dad had and asked him what it was like to be a Marine, my dad replied "I've been everywhere but hell, seen everything but the wind!" My boyfriend joined the Navy.
#20
Fight Club was filmed in chronological order, and throughout the filming Edward Norton put himself on a near-starvation diet and avoided the sun, while Brad Pitt spent a lot of time at the gym and in tanning salons. The end result is we see Tyler Durden getting stronger and healthier while the narrator withers away.
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
Also! *SPOILER* *SPOILER* *SPOILER* Edward Norton actually plays both parts, he sat in the makeup chair for hours to look like Brad Pitt.
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
I've probably seen this movie 200 times and have been entertained to see that there is a Starbuck's cup in every scene, somewhere
H Edwards 4 years ago
How is Fight Club underrated? I'd say it's up there with The Matrix for most iconic movie of 1999. It was massive when it came out, and we are still talking about it 22 years later.
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#21
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.
Joshua Seaman 4 years ago
Dysentery: not just something you get when playing The Oregon Trail 😂
Dinorange 4 years ago
Aww I'm thinking of the poor sword fighting actor now, who was supposed to have an impressive scene in the movie and probably even ended up getting paid much much less
Chrissie M. 4 years ago
I heard that he had trained so much, prepared for his big role, and then that. However, this sort of made him immortal instead of a fight scene like all the others.
Load More Replies... WildHoneyPie 4 years ago
I've always loved the look on his face before he pulls out the gun. It's so "I don't got time for this s*#t". Now we know why.
Yort 4 years ago
Fun fact, every time someone tells this anecdote, the details are slightly different. Sometimes just Ford was sick and convinced the director, sometimes everyone was sick, sometimes it was Spielberg’s idea, sometimes they’d already done some takes of the regular fight. The details are different every time anyone tells it.
Michał Jastrzębski 4 years ago
THE best action movie scene ever. Indy's face as he goes to draw is just priceless level of "oh f**k that BS yet AGAIN? Im sick of it...*boom*"
#22
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.
Coby Preimesberger 4 years ago
again when i first saw this and saw jack black in it, i went really the comedian jack black doing drama, but then again the first film he ever did was enemy of the state
#23
Don't know if it's that great, but it's my favourite:
In the Dark Knight, whenever The Joker is leaving the hospital as it explodes and then pauses to fiddle with the detonator when the explosions stop, that wasn't supposed to happen and Heath Ledger fiddling with the detonator was ad libbed and Nolan decided to keep rolling and include it in the film
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Yeah, this has been debuncted. As Nolan said later, they only had one explosion to set of, there were no room for retakes. Everyone kept strictly to the script.
J Rob 4 years ago
https://www.comicbookmovie.com/amp/batman/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-heath-ledgers-joker-the-dark-knight-a152301
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Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
"...Although the idea that Ledger managed to save a broken scene does make for a great story or piece of trivia about The Dark Knight, it is definitively not true. Not only was the scene executed exactly as Nolan and his team wanted, but it also came after extensive practice. A sequence of this size and precision could not be done well or safely without rehearsals. This way, everyone on the set was on the same page. While it's possible - if not likely - that Ledger added some of his own flair to the scene, the notion that the pause and delayed explosion in The Dark Knight was not planned could not be farther from the truth. But, this takes nothing away from Ledger's all-time great performance as Joker. This is just another great example of how misinformation can spread quickly online and a friendly reminder to not believe every bit of trivia you read." https://screenrant.com/dark-knight-heath-ledger-joker-hospital-explosion-explained/
#24
In Goodfellas, the spaghetti they're eating was cooked by Scorsese's mother.
Tiari 4 years ago (edited)
We have no way of knowing that. Not everything Italian-Americans cook is authentic Italian, and Scorsese’s mom was born in New York.
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TTorrest Author 4 years ago
I never understood why there was a bottle of ketchup in that scene.
Gabuun Papaschikova 4 years ago
in bulgaria we put ketchup in spaghetti lmao yea hate us , we're not exactly italian xd
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Piet Puk 4 years ago
The lady in the photo playing Joe Pechi's mom is actually Sorsese's mother.
TimesNewLogan 4 years ago
Scorsese's mother appeared in every film he made from his student days until Casino, as she passed not long after.
ZenitaBonita 4 years ago
When opening his restaurant, De Niro even contemplated asking Scorsese’s mom for her pizza recipe because it was so good (source: Graham Norton show)
#25
In Alien Resurrection, Sigourney Weaver really did make that no look, over the shoulder basketball shot. Ron Perlman almost blew the take because he was so surprised!
Lion's Stare 4 years ago
Yeah. I heard this one before. They were just going to use CGI to finish the scene post edit, but she landed it on the first take. Totally insane
Max L. 4 years ago (edited)
There’s the whole making of uncut shoot in youtube, she really made it and Perlman almost broke the character
Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. Sounds like me playing basketball! I try, I fail. When I give up, i succeed.
#26
In Die Hard, when filming the shot of Alan Rickman falling from the window, they gave him a countdown, and then dropped him as they said one. The shock on his face as he's released is all real.
#27
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the snakes, being cold-blooded, went towards the thrown torch, causing the director to complain at the snakes, "you're ruining my movie!"
Grant Barke 4 years ago
Should have stuck with sharks and called it Raiders of the Lost Shark.
ravina nimje 4 years ago
Have a fake snake then, don't yell at the snake. They are good animals.
#28
In the flower shop scene in "The Room", when Johnny says "oh hi, doggy", that was a genuine reaction. He didn't realize that the dog was - in his own words - "a real thing".
Ani Archeron 4 years ago
This move is a goldmine of fun facts- like how all the picture frames are full of stock images of spoons
Kiss Army 4 years ago
My son made me watch it. That was 1 hour and 39 minutes of my life that I will never get back. It is one of his favorite films for some unknown reason, he even has a copy sign by Tommy Wisaeu.
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#29
In Anchorman, during the Sex Panther scene, Paul Rudd was determined to make Will Ferrell laugh and break character since it was always the other way around. He thought that this would be accomplished with the "60% of the time it works, every time" line. Will fired back with "that doesn't even make sense" line without skipping a beat once again making Paul/Others break character yet again.
Quinten_Atwell 4 years ago
For me, Will Ferrell was at his peak in Anchorman. I still refuse to believe he did Holmes.
#30
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.
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
Haha, I'm glad this part made it through: "Can't find a source on that right now though."
Daenarys 4 years ago
The paper was published in February 2015 in Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 36 Number 6. The name of the paper was "Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics, and in the movie Interstellar". Here's a link to the paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/32/6/065001/data
Abdul Majeed 4 years ago
Yes, and the scientific advisor and producer of the movie won the noble prize in 2017
Joseph OReilly 4 years ago
I remember a story on how they made an entire CGI engine for this one scene, and ended up making such an incredibly accurate representation of a black hole that they actually discovered a previously unknown part(accretion disc), which warranted a s**t ton of scientific papers.
#31
The famous scene of Vito Corleone holding a cat was not scripted. He just found a cat.
marianne eliza 4 years ago
And... that cat purred so loudly that the spoken lines had to be dubbed in post.
Andrea Heverly 4 years ago
Scorese found the cat and handed it off to Corelone before filming the scene
Susan Widomski 4 years ago
Correct troufaki13. Hey, Writer person, be careful when you say stuff.
#32
The movie Field of Dreams was based on the book Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella. Throughout the entirety of the production, they had planned to call it Shoeless Joe. After the movie was shot and edited, the producers showed it to a focus group who loved everything about it except the name. They thought it sounded like a movie about a homeless guy. So the producers changed it to Field of Dreams and told the director, Phil Robinson. Robinson was horrified and considered it the worst type of corporate business meddling. He vowed to fight them on this, and his first step was to get W. P. Kinsella to argue on his side. He made a phone call and mentioned the name change. Before he could give more details, Kinsella interrupted and said, "Oh, Shoeless Joe was my publisher's title. I wanted to call it Dream Field."
Lion's Stare 4 years ago
Such a great film. Credit to W.P. Kinsella for dreaming up the original story
Rodney Briscoe 3 years ago
Shoeless Joe Jackson was an actual baseball player with the Chicago White Sox during the Black Sox scandal
Jane Alexander 4 years ago
Shoeless Joe was a character/song in the 1958 movie 'Damn Yankees'.
Jane Alexander 4 years ago
'Shoeless Joe' was a character/song in the movie 'Damn Yankees' 1958
#33
The big reveal that Darth Vader is Luke's father was a crazily guarded secret--even the actor who played Vader didn't know. As most people know, Vader's body was played by David Prowse, and his voice was James Earl Jones. During filming though, Prowse did say his lines. During that scene, what he actually says is "Obi-Wan killed your father." Hamill was only told moments before what the actual line was going to wind up being and none of the other actors knew--no one knew except Lucas, the director, and some producers.
wyatt hollingsworth 4 years ago
I bet there was a bunch of people who saw this coming, I mean, "Vader" means, "Father" in German for crying out loud!
Red Ruffensor 4 years ago
This is a staple of pop culture now, but I saw ESB when it first came out. When Vader said that line, it was like being punched in the chest.
General kenobi 4 years ago
It would have been funny if they hadn’t told mark Hamilton, and in his surprise let him improvise, because he’s an amazing actor!
Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago
But it's pretty well-known now that he's Luke's father. Just like how Rosebud was the name of the sled.
Rick Seiden 4 years ago
And everyone who speaks Dutch where Vader can be translated to Father.
Random Person 4 years ago (edited)
why are there cigarettes in the image? ( I mean they may not be cigarettes but they are definitely photoshopped there.)
Corey Smith 4 years ago
Didn't David Prowse guess that Vader was his father in an interview/show a couple of years prior? I remember this being a "leak" when it happened.
#34
In Hitchcock's Rope, which is composed of just a few very long takes, the dollycam (which is extremely heavy and on rails) ran over a crewmember's foot, breaking it. This was pretty deep into a good take from what I recall, so another stagehand just covered his mouth and dragged him off set rather than let his screams of pain ruin a lot of work.
sam 4 years ago
Surprisingly not that hard to hold in screams of pain. I had my foot broken at a friend's wedding from a mishap right at the end of the ceremony. Managed to stifle the scream until I made it to a bathroom and just made excuses for why I wasn't dancing the rest of the night until they forced me to finally fess up. They were in shock and asked me why I didn't say anything and I told them "I wasn't about to ruin your wedding!"
#35
During the dream sequence in The Big Leboswki, Jeff Bridges is 'bowled' along the floor and comes to rest with his head between a standing cheerleader's legs, staring up at her personal area. He breaks out in a huge grin - which is genuine and totally unscripted. This is because the girl in question was supplied with an elaborate pubic hair wig (or merkin, if you want to be technical) by the Coen brothers without Bridges being informed.
Robert Baldwin 4 years ago
Fun fact: "A merkin" is also how some people in the United States pronounce "American"
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Brian Storm 4 years ago
Jeff Bridges tells this story in detail here: https://infinityawards.mediastorm.com/2013/special-presentation-jeff-bridges
#36
When Andy Dwyer shows up at Ann's house naked in Parks and Rec, Chris Pratt is actually nude.
That is Amy Pohler's actual reaction.
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
Pratt was sent a very serious letter condemning and warning him.
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#37
Three people were struck by lightning during the filming of The Passion of The Christ.
troufaki13 4 years ago
Apparently all movies about Christ are cursed, especially for the actors playing Jesus
McPanda 4 years ago
Jim Caviezel also was accidentally whipped during the Scourging scene. He said it helped him imagine the true pain of Jesus
dave penna 3 years ago (edited)
Jim Caveziel ( Spelling ) took the role, no matter he was warned it could really hurt his career. He is a Devout Christian, and took it anyway, without looking back. He also suffered either a severe illness or injury shooting the movie.. possibly one of the people struck by Lightning.. and yes, his roles in Hollywood did drop significantly... he didnt care.. he wanted this role...
Susan Widomski 4 years ago
Hey troufacki 13 person...I want to know more about this. Suggest sources to read?
#38
William Friedkin had a shotgun with blank shells that he'd shoot off on the sound stage during breaks, while filming The Exorcist. It scared the daylights out of everybody, and after a few times he was asked to stop. The actors didn't find it funny. What they didn't know was that their reactions were being filmed - and later inserted into the movie as their reaction when Regan made a sound upstairs.
Jonathan 4 years ago (edited)
I don't get all the fear surrounding that film, the only bit I ever got a bit of a fright at was the quick flash of the black and white demon, purely because it was so unexpected. I've heard stories of people refusing to own the movie or the book, like calm down it's just a story.
Gëë Bëë 4 years ago
You have to consider the time it was made. Nothing like it had been created or seen before. No graphics and special effects were like magic and nobody but those in the film industry knew how they worked. Yup! It was kinda a big deal!!
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Irina Rachow 4 years ago
I remember hearing of people who choked nearly to death in fear while watching it.
dave penna 3 years ago
my older brother saw this when it came out.. it was groundbreaking at the time, and the theaters virtually all supplied vomit bags.. many got used... Today ?? this is "tame", and barely a PG-13 in comparison.. back then ?? HOLY SH**.. was my brothers words.. he gf at the time, didnt watch probably a 1/3rd of the movie... eyes covered...turned away,, trying not to get sick..
Susan Widomski 4 years ago
At the time of the actual release, I went to see the movie by myself. I think it was Thanksgiving evening. The only part that frightened me was in the attic when the mother has the scare of her life. The next morning, when I woke up, the door to our crawlspace attic was slightly open. Scared the you know what out of me. I didn't even know we had that space. No one would admit to opening it. This is absolutely true and I will never forget it.
Jeri Woodrow 4 years ago
Plus the movie was based on a true story, the filmmakers changed the gender of the child. BTW, when I saw this movie with a group of friends, I slept with my lights on for 6 months. I was 16.
#39
Apparently Ronald Reagan was amused by Doc Brown's disbelief that an actor like him could become president, so much so that he had the projectionist stop and replay the scene. He also seemed to enjoy it so much that he even made a direct reference of the film in his 1986 State of the Union address: "As they said in the film "Back to the Future", 'Where we're going, we don't need roads.'"
Paul Davis 4 years ago
What, just because he was complicit in the CIA selling drugs and using that to move illegal arms to foreign countries, while at the same time declaring a never-ending "War against drugs", and was responsible for the destruction of our mental health system?
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#40
In "Soylent Green", when Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) reads the Soylent Corporation Oceanographic Report from 2015-2019, he realizes that the oceans are dead and that Soylent Green HAD to be made from corpses. So he goes to a Euthanasia Parlor. When Thorne (Charlton Heston) catches up to him, and is talking to him about "things", Thorne has tears in his eyes. This is because he was the only one on the set that knew that Robinson was, in fact, dying of cancer, and died 12 days after the filming ended.
Badulesia 4 years ago
Robinson gave an outstanding performance in this role, his latest.
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On a similar note, in Gettysburg, the actor who played Armistead died shortly after filming ended. The editing staff learned about his death right when they were editing his final scene, where he begs God not to let his best friend, Hancock, die too.
dave penna 3 years ago
Heston was enormously fond of Robinson ( didnt know he was dying ) and constantly had top wines and fresh cheeses flown in for him on set...he was heartbroken when he died so soon after filming, and wish he knew he was dying..Robinsons death scene, his final scene ever shot, takes on all the more import. this was his 101st movie...
mike smithwick 3 years ago
Bogart's last film, The Harder they Fall, about boxing, One day, one of the extras who was a boxer in the film goes out to lunch and was charmed by his waitress. He said "will you marry me if i could get Bogart as my best man?" She said yes, and so did Bogie. And they really did live happily ever after.
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#41
The infamous line said by Barkhad Abdi, "I'm the captain now" in the movie Captain Phillips was actually improvised and this is why Tom Hanks looks so surprised in his reaction
#42
During the shooting for "Armour of God", Jackie Chan cracked his skull during a stunt, while attempting to fall on a tree branch but missing it completely. He still has a hole in his skull to this day. Actually, his whole life story is a treasure troves of injuries/near-deaths.
#43
The only thing in the Chocolate Room that wasn't edible was the teacup Wonka eats. That was wax. Gene Wilder still ate it for the shot. The chocolate river was made of water, cocoa and shampoo, so it would foam right, but it's also only a foot deep. They had to dig a hole where Augustus falls in and hope he doesn't break his neck. And it took fifteen takes to get the Oompa Loompas to roll Violet out the door. Only two of them spoke English, and Violet was wider than they are tall. They kept rolling her head into the metal doorframe. The one you've heard is that Gene Wilder planned the little stumblesault when he arrives, but he also didn't tell anyone about the hallucination scene. The kids actually thought he went mad, since their scripts didn't include the scene.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
Gene wilder seemed like a good egg. Haunted honeymoon (I think it was called that) was good, too.
Laura Carney 4 years ago (edited)
The first fact makes me a little sad. The teacup was always the one thing I wanted to try above all else. Guess I'll have to settle for that big jelly filled ball thing. :)
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
I always wanted to eat what the lost boys had in Hook
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#44
Anyone who fell asleep on the set of Inglorious Basterds was photographed with a giant dildo next to them.
Cip IESAN 4 years ago
“This kind of really worried me because I have a tendency to nap. If I have 10 or 15 minutes you’d find me in a corner underneath something but I never got caught. “Brad (Pitt) was up there once on the Board of Shame, Gedeon Burkhard got caught twice, Diane (Kruger) was on the board… There was a lot of people on that board.”
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
LOL! Sounds like some of the craziness I have seen on film sets I have worked on...keeps everyone sane LOL!
Cip IESAN 4 years ago
Cast members caught napping on the set of Quentin Tarantino’s new movie Inglourious Basterds were humiliated by a large purple dildo. The moviemaker introduced sex toy ‘Big Jerry’ on the first day of shooting and then posted pictures of sleeping stars like Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger, with the dildo, on a daily Board of Shame. Actor Michael Fassbender admits he was one of the only castmates not to make the board - because he found ways of sleeping in secret. He tells WENN, “Big Jerry was a giant purple dildo, very large in girth and length. Basically, anybody that was caught going to sleep would get photographed with Big Jerry the dildo somewhere near their face and put up on the Board of Shame. The idea was three strikes and you’re out.
#45
On the set of The Blues Brothers, they had to get John Belushi to go and tell Carrie Fisher she was doing too much coke.
Paul Davis 4 years ago
When John Belushi's the one telling you you're doing too much coke, you are really doing too much coke.
Little Wonder 4 years ago
This movie had a budget specifically for coke, IIRC, so probably Carrie was just taking more than her share.
#46
District 9 was almost completely unscripted. They had the story plotted out, but when it came to shooting scenes, they would just sort of wing it. Sharlto Copley, the star, had never really acted before. He was a TV producer who Neill Blomkamp worked for as a teenager.
Marina Bailey 4 years ago
I still have my "Welcome to South Africa. Don't feed the prawns" T-shirt. Bought it at Big Blue (a chain which sells clothing and kitschy items) and I still wear it often.
Lion's Stare 4 years ago
What are you talking about? The story is excellent. Sure it shifted from documentary style to action, but the lead character had a redemptive arc, and the movie made you genuinely care for the prawn who was trying to save his people. Not to mention all the badass fight sequences on such a low budget. Its easily one of the best sci films of the last 20 years in my opinion
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#47
In Django Unchained, when DiCaprio finally snaps and starts slamming on the table, his hand starts to bleed profusely. The blood was real because he shattered a glass when he slammed his hand down, but he kept going with it. I like to think it's still his blood when he rubs it all over Broomhilda's face, but I really doubt it.
Gëë Bëë 4 years ago
It was his real blood on her face too. She said she would be happy to keep going to make the scene an extra level of brutal.
Scott Kelly 4 years ago
Yes, it is his real blood on Broomhilda's face. The actress did not know Leo was going to smear it on her face so her reaction in genuine.
#48
You know in Breaking Bad when Walt throws a pizza on the roof? Bryan Cranston nailed that toss on the first take.
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
You bet he is! I worked on BREAKING BAD and he was TOTALLY one of the nicest peeps ever!
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Fun Fact: The poor owners of the real house now have to deal with fans of BB also throwing pizza on their roof. Like a LOT of pizzas have now been thrown on their roof.
Jojo Dancer 4 years ago
and to this day, fans of the show still throw pizzas on the roof of the real house in New Mexico!
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
And long after BB was gone, the poor lady who lives in the house they used had to keep an eye out for tourists who were trying to recreate the scene...she said that it got ridiculous that they had to pull down the pizzas because they would start to rot here in Albuquerque. Eventually they put in some heavy fences. It wasn't just them, the entire neighborhood was disturbed. They sold the home last year I believe. https://ew.com/tv/2017/10/13/breaking-bad-house-pizza-throwing/
#49
Peter Cushing, the man who played Grand Moff Tarkin in the original Star Wars is hardly ever filmed where you can see him from head to toe. This is because the boots they gave him to wear were terribly uncomfortable. So Cushing brought his own pink fuzzy slippers to the set and they filmed him from the waist up. If you check out the scene where he orders the destruction of Alderaan he's actually wearing pink fuzzy slippers.
Deena Salzman 4 years ago
Yes he wore slippers. No they weren't pink. (I just looked it up. They are now in a museum.)
Chewie Baron 4 years ago
The only person in the Empire who was able to verbally bitch-slap Darth Vader.
Max L. 4 years ago
Checked, the only view is from behind, and seems a bit stretched, they don’t look slippers at all, less than ever pink and fuzzy BE43A3C9-D...1-jpeg.jpg 
Tony James 4 years ago
That would actually be more terrifying - a man who can order the destruction of a planet while wearing pink fuzzy bedroom slippers is clearly a psychopath.
leia's emotional cupcake 4 years ago
that is so funny. but how can you be a serious imperial general with fuzzy slippers??
#50
In A Knight's Tale, the scene where Mark Addy says "Yayyyy" because the audience gives no reaction to Chaucer was improvised by Addy because the extras didn't speak English (they were Eastern Europeans) and had no idea when to cheer.
#51
In the original Alien, none of the actors knew what was going to happen in the chest burst scene. Their reactions are all genuine.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
And a LOT of the fake blood was accidentally spurted on Veronica Cartwright; her screams of "Oh God, Oh God" are not only real, but she went into mild shock.
BryanR 4 years ago
This is the same as when Henry Blake was killed in a helicopter crash on M*A*S*H, ONLY Gary Burghoff knew what the script said and he was given it just before he walked into OR, so his reaction was just as pained as everyone else
Kim Bush 4 years ago
And the noise offscreen was a screwdriver being dropped by a crew member who was just as shocked as the cast. It sounded like it could have been a medical instrument being dropped so they left it in.
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"Alien enters the room" was written in the script (or something like it).
#52
Director John Hughes sent the cast of The Breakfast Club to a real high school for a couple weeks prior to filming. All of the cast members stayed in character, and Judd Nelson, who played John Bender, was thrown out of several classes.
JessG 4 years ago
No, because they were all older than high school (except AMH) And they had to get used to being in character and learn how to be teens again
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Yo Momma 4 years ago
oh wow...you have to watch it. Then you will understand why he got thrown out of real classes lol
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During filming of The Godfather, Marlon Brando stayed in character a lot but was still a prankster on set. in one scene characters are supposed to pick up bags from a car, so Brando put a bunch of weights in them and didnt tell anyone until they were struggling to pick them up on camera. Brad Pitt apparently is too, during the filming of Moneyball Jonah Hill liked to ride a special golf cart around set so Pitt stole it one day and had it painted pink, "Jonah loves WHAM!" written on the windshield with a little picture of them photoshopped onto a pic of Wham and rigged the radio to blast "Wake me up before you go-go"
Kyle D 4 years ago
I hope that was a statement in fact & not derogatory because Wham is AWESOME.
marianne eliza 4 years ago
Actually, it was the scene when Vito is coming home from the hospital and being carried upstairs on a stretcher. The weights were hidden under the blanket. James Caan made a remark about the future viability of his gonads.
#54
The movie "Wayne's World" was filmed in less than a month, because the equipment was all borrowed from someone else. Also, Dana Carvey actually didn't know the lyrics to the Bohemian Rhapsody. He just mouthed along as the scene was shot.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
TIL that Dana Carvey is really handsome. I only knew him from Wayne's World, so I was very surprised when I saw him on The Late Show
#55
The infamous boot camp scene in Full Metal Jacket was completely ad-libbed by R. Lee Ermey. At one point Kubrick had to cut the take so Ermey could explain to him what a "goddamn reacharound" was.
Ian Koch 4 years ago
what does "ad-libbed" mean? (sorry if I just offending someone somehow or if I made myself look like an idiot)
Johnny Rodriguez 4 years ago
You don't look like an idiot because there is something you don't know!! You are smart because you want to understand something and ask for explanation. If someone is offended when you ask a question, THIS person is the idiot and will stay the idiot..
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Carlee Roe 4 years ago
Never an idiot for asking a question. I am curious as to what made you ask it as a comment rather than google it. No judgment, I just like understanding how peoples minds work
marianne eliza 4 years ago
abbreviation of ad libitum; Latin, literally ‘according to pleasure’.
#56
When Back to the Future was released, Calvin Klein was a relatively obscure brand outside of the U.S. If you switch your DVD to French, Lorainne calls Marty "Pierre" for most of the movie, after seeing Pierre Cardin printed on his shorts.
Enrico Righetti 4 years ago
Well, this happened in Italy too: Lorainne calls Marty "Levi's Strauss", because Calvin Klein was not so famous here
#57
In The Emperor's New Groove (I think I have this right): Remember the bit where Patrick (Kronk) Warburton is trying to hide Kuzco's body and doing this off-key "singing"? According to the director, Warburton, while a funny man, can't sing at all and his tone deaf noise-making is not an act. Even better, it was improvised and thus, technically, he was the composer of the "music". And, as the composer, Disney's lawyers insisted that he sell them the rights to the music. The irony of this was not lost on anyone.
#58
Darth vader sounded dorky without the effects. The sound of his breathing was created by Ben Burt, the sound designer of Darth Vader, by breathing into a scuba regulator. The sound of a lightsaber was that of an idle projector and the blaster effect was created by hitting a guy wire on a radio tower with a hammer.
Tim Douglass 4 years ago
Foley artists are the most under-appreciated people in the film industry.
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Correction to this: That was how they got the sound of "blasters" (laser pistols), not light sabres
#59
In 40 Year-Old Virgin, the scene where Steve Carell is getting his chest waxed is completely unscripted. Even better, the lady doing the waxing was a real spa owner who had no idea what was going to be said. If you go back and watch the scene, everyone's reactions are so much more amazing because everything was off the top of their heads.
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
I heard that the lady was an actress that lied about being experienced in waxing just to get the role
Paul Davis 4 years ago
That she was an actress who lied about knowing how to do waxing is the story I've read repeatedly -- I don't believe whoever this is saying she was a "spa owner"
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(Spoiler alert) In Back to the Future, Marty's family is very wealthy (or at least much wealthier) at the end in the new time. Crispin Glover, who played George McFly, disagreed with the morality of the ending and contested it. Because he was contractually obligated to finish the film, however, he did. He did not, though, appear in either of the sequels. To remedy this, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (co-creators) put in a look-alike wearing huge sunglasses, and used footage from the firsts movie to make it appear as though Glover was in the sequels.
Upon seeing this, Glover sued the two, and now there are stricter regulations about this sort of thing.
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
He's kind of a weirdo and they are kind of douchebags, it's all a sad situation really. These movies are great and would be even greater if he kept the part.
Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
Fun fact! In Back to the Future 2, the casino millionaire Biff in the alternate 1985 was based on Donald Trump!
PixieVonBehr 4 years ago
I never saw this film as a child and watched for the first time in my 30's. My real issue was the dad employing his wife's would-be rapist!
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
I always wondered... if Marty's parents were wealthy in his new future, seems like they should've been living in a different, bigger house in an upscale neighborhood
Linda Roy 4 years ago
Ikr? Just thought of something: maybe they lived here before George made it big as a writer and decided not to move
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#61
This scene in Good Will Hunting The fart joke was improvised by Robin Williams, the camera and crew had no idea it was coming. You can see the camera shaking slightly during the scene because the camera crew was laughing so hard. They decided to keep the take for the final production.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
See it here and enjoy 😊https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqtfffE6g90
#62
During the filming of Eastern Promises, Viggo Mortensen terrified a Russian couple out of their wits when he went into a restaurant with his (fake) tattoos still showing. He actually had to go over to them and explain who he was and about the movie because they literally thought a member of the Russian Mafia had just walked in.
Lion's Stare 4 years ago
The movie was filmed in the US, and they definitely didnt expect a Russian mafioso to walk into their neighborhood restaurant
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The monologues that Matt Damon and Tom Hanks preform about their lives at home in "Saving Private Ryan" was all improvised. Spielberg saw Hanks sitting on his chair so strangely, called over the cameras and captured that moment between the two actors.
#64
During the filming of Tron, Jeff Bridges produced too much of a bulge in the crotch area in his computer outfit, so he was forced to wear a dance belt to conceal it.
MCathenaE 4 years ago
His crotch was too pronounced in the outfit, so he had to wear something to conceal it(the dance belt).
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#65
In "Amadeus," during the filming of the Don Giovanni scene, the actor playing Giovanni wears a long feather in his cap. At one point Giovanni puts his elbow on the table and leans on his hand, with the cap feather near the candles on the table. The scene was being filmed in the historic Count Nostitz Theater in Prague, where Don Giovanni had actually debuted two centuries earlier. During one take, the actor's feather caught fire and he did not realize. Director Milos Forman, famous for not cutting during scenes, said nothing and allowed the scene to continue. The curator of the theater had to approach Forman and beg him to cut the scene for fear that he would burn down the historic landmark. tl;dr - The director of "Amadeus" put his actors at risk and nearly burned down an historical theater because he did not want to stop shooting while an actor's hat was on fire.
JessG 4 years ago
This movie in one hundred percent worth a watch! Watch it people, great film!
Iggy 4 years ago
Definitely. It's a brilliant film. Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham are fantastic.
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Eliška Hůlková 4 years ago
Another fact from Amadeus: Forman emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the Communist government never allowed emigrants to return. He could only return for shooting in Prague, because production money was apparently more important than the principle.
Nuage de Celda 4 years ago (edited)
I always think of this movie when I hear Mozart's requiem.
Oleander 4 years ago
That would not have been funny. People could have been hurt and an irreplaceable piece of history would have been destroyed.
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Production of Cast Away was shut down for a year so Tom Hanks could lose the required weight. Instead of just sitting around waiting, director Robert Zemeckis and his crew used the hiatus to make What Lies Beneath.
FlitterBug 4 years ago
See, this is why guys have negative body images thinking they have to look like Tom Hanks or like Chris Hemsworth. They don't always look like you see on screen, they sometimes have to starve themselves or dehydrate themselves almost to death because they're told they don't look right for whatever they're shooting. Hey guys: it doesn't matter if you don't look like Thor to any decent person. We don't need you to look like some guy on screen, we want you to look like you
#67
In "Psycho" Hitchcock got the idea for the blood swirling in the bottom of the shower drain from watching someone stir chocolate syrup in milk and how smooth the swirling looked. In the actual shower scene they ended up using chocolate syrup to recreate that look.
#68
Havn't seen these yet. In Titanic: The scene where the water crashes into the dinner hall (?), they only had that one chance to film it because that whole set was actually being destroyed by the water. When Jack draws Rose, it is actually James Cameron's hands they show drawing. Kate Winslet was the only one not to wear a wetsuit and got sick because of it. They didn't want the suit to interfer with the sheer dresses. Her dresses were also a size or two too large to make her look small and vulnerable. When she's saving Jack from the handcuffs, she steps into the water and gasps at how cold it was. That was a real reaction, so was Jack's "oh shit". Kate had a really hard time during filming and almost/wanted to drop the movie. During the end of filming she had to wear a wig due to her hair being damaged from the dye. When Jack says "get on the bed, uhhh the couch", that was a real mistake they decided to keep in. The most visited Titanic victim grave belongs to "J. Dawson". No relation to Jack and James had no idea until after the movie. I really like Titanic.
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
Not only was Cameron the real artist, but in the scenes with him drawing the images are flipped because Cameron is a lefty and "Dawson" is right handed.
Chewie Baron 4 years ago
The scene of the water crashing through into the staircase also gave Titanic historians an idea on what happened in reality back in 1912. As none of the survivors had witnessed that happening.
#69
In Alien, you know the egg-room? You know the cool laser-mist stuff covering the eggs? To make that, the producers borrowed stage equipment from The Who.
#70
The Mustache Tom Hardy wears in the movie Bronson is actually Charles Bronson's mustache that he shaved off and was made into a loose-mustache for Hardy to wear. Talking about getting the right materials.
Ursula Moran-Stearns 4 years ago
While that sounds great, Charles Bronson died in 2003 and the movie was made in 2008.
Kim Bush 4 years ago
Different person, this one isn't fit to shine Bronson's shoes
Load More Replies... Mark Bridges 4 years ago
Wait, this isn't about the actor "Charles Bronson" but about a criminal "Charles Bronson". How confusing
Ray Martin 4 years ago (edited)
Bronson is a 2008 film, and Charles Bronson died in 2003. I suspect this bit of trivia is apocryphal.
#71
In Wayne's World, Dana Carvey's line, "Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?" was improvised. Mike Myers' laughter that follows is genuine and thankfully was used in the movie. Also, Mike threatened to leave the production when producers wanted to use Guns N'Roses instead of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. GNR was left out of Wayne's World, but was put into Terminator 2. Robert Patrick (T-1000) went to James Cameron to use NIN as the band of choice for the movie as his brother, Richard Patrick, was the guitarist. GNR was used instead because Arnold liked them.
#72
In the Boondock Saints: While filming the scene where Rocco shoots the cat. He asked Duffy if the "gun" was going to be loud so he can prepare for it. Duffy said no and they started filming. Rocco banged on the table and the gun was loud. Rocco's reaction in the film is genuine.
TheRandomBorger 4 years ago
Oh, I'll sharpen my knives. Don't mess with a cat.
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The person who did the voice of HAL in 2001 said his lines while sitting in an easy chair and wearing loafers, to make him sound relaxeed
#74
ET's voice is the actual voice of a female chain smoker.
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
Oh my f****g GOD! How long after the movie did she die? It sounds horrible!!! 😱😭
Miss Alice 4 years ago
She died in 1995, 13 years after the movie was released. She was 79. Her name was Pat Welsh.
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Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
Huh? I had previously read elsewhere that actress Debra Winger voiced ET.
#75
A couple of Disney ones: • In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kevin Kline (who plays Phoebus) waved a plastic prop sword around while doing his lines. They had to hang the microphone higher because he kept hitting it. • Also in HoND, the animators gave Frollo's horse a name: Snowball. • In Hercules, Hades was originally intended to be a lot more like Frollo or Jafar (calm, slow-talking, elegant/refined, etc), but James Woods read the dialogue as if he was a used car salesman in his audition and wound up getting the role. • In an alternate ending of The Nightmare Before Christmas, it was revealed that Oogie Boogie was a giant puppet being manipulated by Dr. Finkelstein. • In The Princess and the Frog, the voice actress playing Tiana is left-handed and insisted that Tiana also be left-handed.
FlitterBug 4 years ago
I've heard the last one. It was also a way to bring more diversity to the princesses, as most of them are right-handed. Just like Belle's hair falls onto her face, to give her an "imperfection"
#76
Blade Runner... OK a few bits not just one. • At the end of the movie the dove was shot in the morning sky. This happened because the studio time was down to the wire and they were running out of time to complete the shots. It was either that scene or none at all. • The model of the Tyrell Corporation(opening scene) burned down because the techs left the model lights on. By the time they noticed it was too late to save it. • Philip K. Dick only saw the first 20 minutes of the movie. He died March 2, 1982. • The first cut ran around four hours...maybe someday we may get to see it. :)
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
The first cut is available on Apple and on DVD. Has been for a few years now.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Man, and I was sitting here appalled that they shot a bird in the morning, and why I don't remember a scene with a dead bird. (Yes, I get it now.)
Marina Bailey 4 years ago
They fixed the dove shot with CG for the final director's cut or whatever they're calling the latest one.
#77
There Will be Blood: While on location in Marfa, Texas, No Country for Old Men (2007) was the neighboring film production. One day, Paul Thomas Anderson and his crew tested the pyrotechnical effects of the oil derrick fire, causing an enormous billowing of smoke, intruding the shot that Joel Coen and Ethan Coen were shooting. This caused them to delay filming until the next day when the smoke dissipated.
#78
Pink Floyd funded Monty Python and the Holy Grail for tax purposes. But they were also huge fans of monty python in general and would interupt recording sessions whenever flying circus came on.
Roger Haywood 4 years ago
I was going to say yeah, that was Life of Brian.
Load More Replies... Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is absolutely ridiculous and I love it :).
Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
Eric Idle can be heard in the background "dialog" before one of the songs on The Wall. He's saying "Time to go", over and over. I read he had dropped by the recording studio when they were making it and was a friend of Waters. Guess he wanted to contribute.
#79
In fight club when Tyler tells all the members of project mayhem to pick a fight with a stranger, you can see the camera shaking when one of the members sprays a guy with a hosepipe because the cameraman was laughing so much
#80
During the shoot of The Shining, Stanley Kubrick actually scared Wendy to the point that, in the scene where she gets slowly chased up the stairs by Jack while trying to defend herself with a baseball bat, she was actually terrified. BTW it was Stanley Kubrick who chased her up the stairs.
#81
In M *A * S * H (the movie, not the show), the shot when Houlihan is in the shower and the tent is pulled down had to he redone several times. Sally Kellerman was embarrassed by her big hips and dove out of site too quickly. To counter this, for one take some of the actors stood right by the camera with their dicks out to shock her into slowing down. It worked. Also, while not really a behind the scenes sort of thing, Radar is the only character played by the same actor in both the movie and the TV show.
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
she was embarrassed by her big hips? excuse me? HOW is big hips something to be embarrassed of!? Thats hot!
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
Nowadays, yes... But back then, NO! I don't like Kim Kardashian but with her big butt she destroyed some barriers! No shaming for butt and hips anymore! 😂😂😂
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Oleander 4 years ago
Are we going to ignore the fact that they had a man flash her for the sake of one stupid scene?
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
As far as I know, this isn't even the worst moment like that in film-history...And yes, that makes it worse, and no, I don't like that they did that.
Load More Replies... IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
My favorite from MASH was Robert Altman's desire to have a song about suicide sung in the movie. He bought the rights to the melody, but it had no lyrics. Before hiring a lyricist, he asked his teenage son if he wanted to try. He came up with "Suicide is Painless," as we know it today. The twist is that Altman earned $100K for directing the movie. His son has earned millions for his writing credit to that song, and it's still rolling in.
marianne eliza 4 years ago
And.. in the movie the character's name is O'Houlihan. The O' was dropped for the TV series.
#82
In the final scene of "The Graduate," when they come and sit on the bus, the director behind the camera was yelling and swearing at them. That was not in the script. They really have that look of horror.
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
The story i've heard is that the director forgot to yell cut, so the actors didn't know what to do as they sat there. their faces go from excited to kind of blank and it fits the narrative, so they kept it
#83
Monty Python's Life of Brian was filmed in Tunisia, and reusing sets from 1977 movie Jesus of Nazareth. About 4-5 Biblical movies were filmed in Tunisia in that 2 year period.
#84
In the dark knight Heath ledger actually asked Christian Bale to actually beat him up during the interrogation scene
Billybobjoe 4 years ago
No I fine this one ok. With the shining they were straight up assholes to Wendy. Heath Ledger ASKED for it and basically gave consent.
#85
During the filming of The Hangover the Mercedes that Doug drives in the movie was actually stolen off the set. During filming in Las Vegas, one of the Mercedes (a very beat up and distinctive one) was stolen from the lot where the vehicles were being kept. The next day the production was filming driving sequences and traffic was being held up by the local police. A production person noticed that a very distinctive Mercedes was part of the cars being held, the police were told, the driver was arrested and the car was recovered.
#86
In pulp fiction, the adrenaline shot scene was filmed with him taking the needle out and then played backwards to give the stabbing effect
Paul Davis 4 years ago
Every TV show and movie now has people stabbing medicine directly through the manubrium bone into peoples' hearts. It's completely ludicrous.
Jojo Dancer 4 years ago
I have to stab her three times?? No, just once, but you have to get it through the chest plate...
#87
Seth Rogen rolled the cross joint in Pineapple Express
#88
Something went wrong during the production of Toy Story 2 and the whole movie was almost deleted.
Alex K 4 years ago
and it was saved because an animator had copies at home (which you shouldn't do, kids)
Little Wonder 4 years ago
The person who had the copy at home - Galyn Susman - was supposed to have them. She was working from home after having a baby and the studio knew she had them. it's not like she stole them.
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Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
If I was the person responsible for accidentally deleting it, I would have fled the country and started a new life.
Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
I wouldn't have even worked there in the first place.
Load More Replies... Tim Douglass 4 years ago
If you are doing any really important and time-consuming work and don't have a half-dozen off-site backups scattered around you really need to re-think your priorities.
Zei Kiljoy 4 years ago
The movie was saved because one of the animators had just given birth to her son and she was working from home.
#89
The Michael Keaton batman wore custom Nike Air Jordans.
No Username 4 years ago
I saw this somewhere, his shoes were Nike Air Jordans painted black with some foam glued to it. It's quite funny, actually.
#90
Wet Hot American Summer was filmed at Camp Towanda in northeast Pennsylvania. The owners only allowed it because the producers told them it would be a family comedy, and were mortified when they saw the film.
Paul Davis 4 years ago
Always get it in writing -- especially when dealing with famously-unethical Hollywood producers.
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Daniel Erickson 4 years ago
In the Hitchcock film The Rear Window, Hitchcock's cameo scene had him in an apartment with a man who was playing a piano. That man was Ross Bagdasarian, better known by his stage name David Seville. Yes, That David Seville and the Chipmunks! Simon, Theodore, Alvin!
Marcia Cash 4 years ago
Ross Bagdasarian wrote "Flying Purple People Eater" before he met the Chipmunks!
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Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner 4 years ago
Wow! I didn't know half of these! This post was very interesting!
L Johnson 2 years ago
How do YOU know??? Unless you were there, do not make statements you can't prove
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Ayaan Pareek 4 years ago
this might have been a community post so thats why
Load More Replies... Daniel Erickson 4 years ago
In the Hitchcock film The Rear Window, Hitchcock's cameo scene had him in an apartment with a man who was playing a piano. That man was Ross Bagdasarian, better known by his stage name David Seville. Yes, That David Seville and the Chipmunks! Simon, Theodore, Alvin!
Marcia Cash 4 years ago
Ross Bagdasarian wrote "Flying Purple People Eater" before he met the Chipmunks!
Load More Replies... Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner 4 years ago
Wow! I didn't know half of these! This post was very interesting!
L Johnson 2 years ago
How do YOU know??? Unless you were there, do not make statements you can't prove
Load More Replies... Ayaan Pareek 4 years ago
this might have been a community post so thats why
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