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50 Surprising Movie Facts You Probably Didn’t Know, As Shared On This Twitter Account (New Pics)
While it doesn’t feel this way, we only see a teeny tiny part on the big screen. Much of the big work from cast and crew, from lighters to sound engineers, costume and prop designers remains invisible. And that’s the beauty of cinema – to see the carefully staged fiction as if it was reality.
The notoriously entertaining Twitter page “Film Facts” is shedding a light on the lesser known side of the film industry. According to their description, the account is dedicated to sharing “facts about all things cinema” to its growing audience of now 279.9K followers.
Below we wrapped up some of the most intriguing film facts for you to enjoy. After you’re done, be sure to check out our previous feature with more fascinating posts about the film industry.
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We live in the era of changes. What we thought of as the film industry a few decades ago is no longer relevant today. The explosion of technology and digital platforms has changed the film business beyond recognition, further fueled by the worldwide pandemic and economic uncertainty that followed.
According to Deborah LaVine, the Dean of the School of Filmmaking, one of the quintessential shifts we see in the film industry at the moment is “a hunger right now for home entertainment that is so intense." No wonder Netflix's original programming has more than doubled since the beginning of 2020, while cinema theaters seem to have partially lost their initial appeal.
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Stary_cat 3 years ago
Also I think it was in the first movie the scene where all the kids are sleeping in the bags in the great hall, Daniel make a request to be near a girl he had a crush on then alan rickman and the actor of dumbledore put a fart machine in his sleeping bag. so bad luck Harry no girl that time
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
Back in the days when Hollywood respected the souce material (to a certain degree at least)
LaVine believes that consumers don’t have to rely on major movie studios or television networks (or even streaming services) to deliver content. And content creators have been freed from many of the formalities of the film business, with the ability to create and distribute their own work becoming ever more accessible. Social media has further accelerated this trend and it’s likely not going anywhere soon.
The aspiring filmmakers today have to be “entrepreneurial,” LaVine argues. "There are all sorts of paths available to them, and the space is ripe for audacity."
To find out more about how the film industry is doing right now, Bored Panda reached out to Romina Espinosa, also known as REDROMINA, a filmmaker, published author, and content creator who said that the industry is at a crossroads now.
“The ability to create films has become more accessible so we are seeing many more talented people emerging from all over the world. Because of the growth of the internet and streaming platforms, filming is not location-dependent—you can be filmmaking from anywhere and reach an audience everywhere,” Romina explained.
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Alan Fallguy 3 years ago
Cutting the scary parts from "The Shining" is extremely easy. Just substitute the complete movie with another one.
According to Romina, we'll be seeing more independent films being released alongside the "hundreds of millions" of budget blockbuster films. “Filmmakers will get more creative with the way they tell stories and incorporate new technologies like VR/AR. Films will be more about the experience than exclusively watching on a screen. The next 5-10 years are going to be exciting for filmmakers and movie-goers!”
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
All the actors went through a military training course in preperation for the movie, Matt Damon excluded. Spielberg wanted him to be the outsider to get more genuine reactions towards him in the movie
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Corvus 3 years ago
War is often depicted as heroic and glorious in movies, but in reality it's just ugly and horrifying...
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
One of my older brothers did 2 tours in the Marines, running reconnaissance during the Vietnam War. He left right before I turned 9, and came home when I was 11. Decades later, when I was nearly 40, I asked him about it. He told me the truth about a lot of things. War isn’t all heroism and glory, it’s fear, the most intense, right down to your bone marrow FEAR. It’s also mud, filth, malaria and jungle rot (mostly on your feet and up your ankles, from not being able to take your boots, and your wet socks, off for days on end), seeing people getting blown to bits, blood, guts, rotting corpses, dead babies, seeing atrocities committed right in front of you, seeing people starving, desperate, uprooted from everything and everybody they know—-like the soldiers themselves. Seeing fellow soldiers have a mental breakdown and going crazy from the crushing stress. It’s also going against everything we’re taught about not killing people. He told me that f***s your head up so bad it changes your personality. It changed his for many years afterward. He was a nice young man when he left for Parris Island boot, but came back just plain mean down to his core. Took him a lot of years to come back to the nice guy, the really sweet brother I spent most of my childhood with. That’s what war is. Books, movies, and that old drunk geezer down the street or in your family, have always lied to us about how great and noble it is. Noble, my a*s.
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Inga Paškevičiūtė 3 years ago
I tried watching "saving private Ryan" but the beach scene was so horrific to me, I couldn't watch it past that scene. And the realization of the fact that people experienced it was even more harrowing.
2WheelTravlr 3 years ago
I felt the same way. I've never watched the entire movie. It's just too gut-wrenching.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago (edited)
The scene was created with the help of veterans that were on that beach at D-Day
RagDollLali 3 years ago
That must have been so hard for them, having to relive what they saw in order to describe it
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Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
Filmed on a location in Ireland, Ballinesker Beach, cause Omaha Beach in Normandy was (and still is) too built up. Normandy, France is well worth visiting to realise the gravity of the sacrifices that Allied Forces made, much like WWI trenches and the associated war graves it has areas that you can feel history bearing down on you. They shall not grow old.
Falcon on Dizzy 3 years ago
I forget who said it, but they said that for a movie to be truly anti-war, it must give the watcher the feeling of actually being there, watching your buddies get gunned down and having bullets wiz over your head. saving private ryan comes close enough
Rostit . 3 years ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/ this one is hard to watch. Its incredibly well done.
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Bisexual Axolotls 3 years ago
My old history teacher wanted to show it to our class to show exactly what it was like, but the school system said he couldn't because of the violence. I watched it with my dad a few months later, and while it's horrifying, I think it's important for people to understand the true nature of what happened there, especially those of us with little to no connection to the past due to our youth.
Shadow Puppet 3 years ago
This scene, at least 20 years ago, was shown to West Point cadets to help them understand the true nature of what they'd see on a battlefield.
Load More Replies... Strings 3 years ago
There was a local WWII vet in the audience when I saw it in the theater. As we walked out, he was just sitting there, crying silently
Nat of Clan P 3 years ago
I remember going to see Saving Private Ryan when it first came out and being utterly traumatised by the Omaha Beach scene. I'll never forget this as long as I live but there were people laughing at certain points and I just couldn't understand it. If something like that doesn't make you feel upset then nothing will. Just can't imagine the horrors those men endured.
Anne Jones 3 years ago
Some humans react to shock by laughing. It’s a coping mechanism.
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Guido Pisano 3 years ago
curiosity: rommel was sure that the best way to stop invasion was on the coast. He wasnt listened. Then listening survivors you realize that he was right.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
He tried to tell Hitler that the invasion was going to be in Normandy, not in Calais as the rest of the German command believed. He desperately tried to reach Hitler on the phone, but was denied because Hitler had a headache.
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Bobby Howie 3 years ago
I read they actually shot bullets into dead cows to get the right sound-effect and the cows had uniforms on!
kaci c 2 years ago
I was about 10 and learning ww2 when this film came out, my gramps served in ww2 and he was in one of the early waves on d day, think he was like 5th and anti tank. He didn't talk about the war but he admired this film and told my parents I had to watch it, it was his way of me knowing. They wouldn't let me at 10 but he reminded them every yr until I was about 13 when they finally let me watch it, I actually watched it and it just blew me away.. when I saw my gramps I told him I had watched it, and he allowed me one or two questions but the main things he said were now it was depicted in the beginning was exactly how it was, and nothing can prepare you for it, and that one thing was that men always asked for there mum's not there wife's or girlfriends. He wouldn't answer more than that really he never spoke much about the horrors again to me .
Laura Mortensen 3 years ago
When I saw it in the theater, a gentleman who looked old enough to have been there walked out during the Omaha Beach scene.
Nikki Hilton 3 years ago
I remember walking out after watching and there were older men in the theater w/ tears running down their faces.
Most of the action when creating a movie happens behind the scenes and people never get to see it. “I feel most audience members don't realize the amount of work, time, and energy that can go into creating one short 10-second scene. It can go by really fast and enhances the movie-going experience, but it might have been something that took an entire day to create,” Romina explained.
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Kate Jones 3 years ago
How can anyone boo this movie? It was great. Even if it's not your cup of tea it was still entertaining. I get not liking it but booing it...while the actors are there in the audience? That seems harsh
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Alex Martin 3 years ago
"I got paid." When asked why Harrison played Han in SW7. He's a guy doing a job, he's great, and he's been doing it in iconic roles for going on 50 years. The characters belong to the Fandom, the actor does not. He is an intensely private man who keeps a very low profile outside of required press commitments for his movie projects. If he wants to go home at the end of his shift and not talk about work I appreciate that 100%.
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
Quite sad that we never can expect such levels of writing from Disney anymore
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LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago
He and Brendan Fraser are both so underrated and underutilized. And both seem so genuine and kind. We own them to go see anything they’re in to keep their film careers alive!
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Dan Padgett 3 years ago
Charlie C*x is a perfect daredevil imho, along with John Bernthal as Punisher.
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Raelene Christie 3 years ago
One of the best biographical films I have ever seen was Daniel Day Lewis as Christy Brown in my left foot. I worked with people with high level disability for years and now have a fairly high level of disability myself, I recognise the frustration and depression when you can't communicate. My voice is affected so I can't use a telephone to make or receive calls and you would not believe how often people.just don't get it.
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Anyone-for-tea? 3 years ago
That’s not something I’d boast about. I thought the point of these things is that both actors agree beforehand?
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Marcellus II 3 years ago
Never got through the first movie; please show me that 2h cut. I loved the book from when I was small, often reread it... but what a slog.
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Angela B 3 years ago
Now although I certainly do not wish Mr Cruise any harm nor ill will, this is one of the only 2 things about him that I actually like. Apparently, he does most (if not all) his own stuntwork. Happy to be corrected on this if I am wrong. The other thing is Top Gun Maverick.
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Upstaged75 3 years ago
We did that once to my mom. On Christmas she gave my brother a fart machine as a gag gift. That night when we went out to dinner I slipped the machine in to her purse - my brother had the remote. We waited to set it off until we got in to the restaurant. My mom's face when she realized what we had done was priceless. We spent all of dinner laughing hysterically. Thankfully the restaurant was quite loud and we were the only ones who could hear the farting purse. :)
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KombatBunni 3 years ago
There is no way I’d be sitting on that..tetanus just waiting to happen!
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censorshipsucks 3 years ago
that would have made things super confusing, as it is, people who havent seen these two movies get dumbledore and gandalf confused. My g/f for example.
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Hotdogking 3 years ago
I guess you can say this is Schrodinger’s ending! (Get it? Because it’s up in the air as to whether that’s real or not.... and Bruce is with Selina Kyle and.... oh Nevermind)
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Kate Jones 3 years ago
Loved this movie. I'm a big fan of these food shows and loved that this movie just took the pis$ out of those shows and those fans who take it way too seriously. It was a fun movie. Crazy but fun.
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JoJo Anisko 3 years ago (edited)
I like Hugh Jackman, but to me, no one else but Johnny Depp could ever be Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Ronstantin 3 years ago
I always thought he would be the perfect link between Jake Lloyd (Episode I) and Sebastian Shaw (Episode VI).
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censorshipsucks 3 years ago
Jim Carrey played the riddler in batman previously so... nope. Bad idea. However, Malkovich or Cage are suitably insane and could have pulled it off.
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Marcellus II 3 years ago
Eh? Let you in on a secret: Almost every movie where stuff crashes (trains, planes, fuel trucks, spaceships) they're NOT REAL SIZE BUT MODELS. Whowouldhavethoughtthateh?
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ShaZam Beaubien 3 years ago
That's how accidents can make a movie wonderful. That scene ties in so many emotions that it fits perfectly.
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Billie Templeton 3 years ago
I don't believe this. No way a performer of his caliber and finesse messes with his looks
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Hotdogking 3 years ago
Probably wouldn’t be wise to accept that. I don’t think Nazi is a good look for rappers
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censorshipsucks 3 years ago
I always skim these parts of movies, they are tedious and get in the way of character development. Ditto sex scenes.
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April Stephens 3 years ago
My favorite movie trivia is about the trained cockroaches in Goodnight Mommy. I'll leave it to you to look it up due to potential creepiness.
April Stephens 3 years ago
My favorite movie trivia is about the trained cockroaches in Goodnight Mommy. I'll leave it to you to look it up due to potential creepiness.
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