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82 mind-blowing movies facts you probably didn t know

MAY 14, 2014/32 COMMENTS/in Culture /by Joel Willans


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1. Sean Connery wore a wig in every single one of his Bond performances.
2. Some Wookie suits were made from human hair.
3. Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid approximately $21,429 for every one of the 700
words he said in, Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
4. Star Wars was originally prefixed by the definite article The .

5. The original raw footage of Apocalypse Now consisted of 1,250,000 feet of fil
m which is over 230 hours worth.
6. Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the ea
rly 1960s because he had made that disgusting movie Psycho.
7. Alfred Hitchcock s, Psycho (1960) was the first American film ever to show a fl
ushing toilet.
8. For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the fil
m s budget.
9. There is a sound effect called the Wilhelm Scream that has been used in over
200 movies and TV shows since 1951.

10. Django Unchained is the first time in 16 years that Leonardo DiCaprio didn t g
et the top billing.
11. Samuel L. Jackson used the word mother-fucker to overcome his stammer/stutte
r.
12. Jim Caviezel was struck by lightening while he was on the cross in, Passion
of the Christ.
13. Michael Myers mask in Halloween is just a Captain Kirk mask altered slightly
and painted white.
14. The director of Cannibal Holocaust had to prove in court that the actors wer
e still alive and didn t get killed during the movie
15. Courtney Love insists that the role of the drug dealer, Lance, in Pulp Ficti
on was offered to Kurt Cobain.
16. The carpet in The Shining and the second floor of Sid s house in Toy Story are
almost identical.
17. Ryan Gosling was cast as Noah in The Notebook because the director wanted so
meone not handsome.
18. Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn failed his driving test eight times.
19. Barbie in Toy Story is voiced by Jodi Benson, best known for her role as Ari

el in The Little Mermaid.


20. Pornstar Asia Carrera plays the flatmate of Tara Reid in Logjammin , the film
within the film in The Big Lebowski.
21. Sigourney Weaver actually made that impossible basketball shot in, Aliens: Res
urrection.

22. Fox passed on The Watchmen because they thought the script was
t unintelligible pieces of shit they had read in years.

one of the mos

23. The original cut of The Wolf of Wallstreet had over four hours worth of cont
ent so had to be cut further.
24. Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon agree that if they re ever confused for one anoth
er, they will just go along with it.
25. Sam Raimi has a lucky car that is in all of his films, including his pre-aut
omobile western, The Quick and the Dead.
26. Morgan Freeman s line, in Shawshank Redemption Maybe it s cause I m an Irish
joke. In the novel Red really is Irish.
27. Viggo Mortensen had no intention of working on The Lord of the Rings until h
is son begged him to do it.
28. Pierce Brosnan was contractually forbidden from wearing a full tuxedo in any
non-James Bond movie from 1995-2002.
29. The ornaments that Marv steps on in Home Alone are actually candy
30. In Ferris Bueller s Day Off, Charlie Sheen stayed awake for 48 hours to achiev
e a suitably wasted look for his cameo.

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31. Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but
Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film ra
ther than waste money.
32. Sean Connery turned down roles in The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, Jurassi
c Park, Indiana Jones 4 and Blade Runner.
33. Dan Aykroyd s first script for Ghostbusters was set in the future and Ghostbus
ters were completely normal, like paramedics and firemen.
34. Within three days, The Hunger Games became the highest grossing film for Lion
sgate Movies.
35. In an alternate ending for Alien: Resurrection, Ripley finally makes it back
to earth.
36. To thank Robin Williams for his work on Aladdin, Disney sent him a late Pabl
o Picasso painting.

is not

37. Darth Vader only has 12 minutes of screen time in the original Star Wars.
38. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Indy shoots the Arab swordsman, he was orig
inally meant to fight him, but Harrison Ford was too ill to fight properly.
39. Saw was filmed in 18 days
40. Carrie Fisher never wore a bra with this costume.

41. The charcoal drawing of Kate Winslet in James Cameron s, Titanic was actually
drawn by James Cameron.
42. In Harry Potter, Alan Rickman was the only person other than J.K. Rowling to
know Snape was defending harry because he was in love with Lily Potter to make
his performance genuine.
43. When Edward Norton first fights Brad Pitt in Fight Club, he was asked to act
ually hit Pitt. Pitts reaction is genuine and Norton was trying to stop himself
from laughing during the scene.
44. Heath Ledger almost broke Jake Gyllenhaal s nose by grabbing his head and kiss
ing him too hard in Brokeback Mountain.
45. The scene with Jenny on the ground outside her house in Forrest Gump is simi
lar to painting, Christina s World.
46. Ridley Scott used The Who s blue laser lighting to light the Alien egg chamber
because they were in the next studio. Ingenuity +1
47. Pixar s, UP was the first ever animated film and 3D film to open the Cannes Fi
lm Festival.
48. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Academy Awards it w
as nominated for.
49. Fritz Lang s, Metropolis (1927) was reportedly one of Adolf Hitler s favourite f
ilms.

50. William Goldman s original script title for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
was The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy. The names were reversed when Paul Newma
n took on the role of Butch
51. When Harry Met Sally: Meg Ryan laughed at the Pecan Pie improv and looked at
the director who told her to keep going.
52. Peter O Toole was nominated for eight performance Oscars and didn t win a single
one.
53. When filming My Left Foot, Daniel Day-Lewis had to be lifted around the set
and spoon fed as he would never leave his wheelchair.
54. David Patrick Kelly s infamous
1979) was completely improvised.

Warriors, come out to play

line in The Warriors (

55. Sharlto Copley had not acted professionally before District 9 and had no int
ention of pursuing acting.

56. Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron s, Avatar (1/24 of a second) too
k an average of 47 hours to render.
57. Spirited Away is the only non-western animated film to win an Academy Award
for best animated feature.
58. 28 Days Later was filmed on a Canon XL-1 DV camera using mini-DV tapes inste
ad of 35mm film.
59. The word Nigger
ed.

is said exactly 113 times in Quentin Tarantino s, Django Unchain

60. Paranormal Activity cost $15000 to make and has grossed $210 million so far.
61. Danny Dyer has only ever starred in British made films.
62. The Bong sound/musical cue in Inception is actually the song Non, Je Ne Regret
te Rien by Edith Piaf slowed down.
63. The Shawshank Redemption, #1 on imdb was the 51st highest grossing film in 9
4', way behind Street Fighter (1994).
64. Michael Fassbender is to produce and star in an Assassin s Creed movie.
65. After a slew of drug related offences, Robert Downey Jr. was a semi-blacklis
ted celebrity until Kiss Kiss Bang Bang reignited his career
66. Quentin Tarentino was originally going to use the song Wise Man by Frank Oce
an in Django Unchained but chose not to
67. The childish snickering during The Usual Suspects iconic line-up was genuine
, caused by Benicio Del Toro s persistent flatulence.
68. Hasbro denied Pixar the use of GI Joe in Toy Story when found that the GI Jo
e doll was going to be blown up by Sid.
69. C.S. Lewis reviewed The Hobbit in 1937 saying, The Hobbit may well prove a c
lassic.
70. The floating pen in Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey wasn t done with CGI, but c
amera trickery using glass and tape.

71. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) voiced Unicron in The Transformers Movie (1986),
his penultimate film role.
72. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) played a minor role in Spielbergs 1998, Saving
Private Ryan.
73. Bender from Futurama was named after John Bender from The Breakfast Club.
74. Ron Jeremy, the pornstar was an extra in Ghostbusters.
75. In 2002, Steven Spielberg finally finished college after a 33-year hiatus. H
e turned in Schindler s List for his student film requirement.
76. On the set of one of the Pirates of the Carribbean films, Johnny Depp spent 4

0,000 on 500 coats for the cast and crew.


77. On the set of 1982 s The Thing, the whole cast and crew was male.
78. On the first day of filming the exorcism sequence in The Exorcist , Linda Bl
air s delivery of her foul-mouthed dialogue so disturbed the gentlemanly Max von S
ydow forgot his lines.
79. In Iron Man/Avengers, J.A.R.V.I.S is an acronym for
igent System.

Just A Rather Very Intell

80. Peter Ostrum, Charlie from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never acte
d in another movie after that and is now a veterinarian.

81. In Saving Private Ryan, all of the main cast were given basic military train
ing except Matt Damon, in the hope that the cast would build a resentment toward
s him necessary for the role.
82. The Russians made a movie version of The Hobbit in 1985 and it s available on
YouTube.

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