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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 21, 2007 14:47:38 GMT -1
Pick a film, any film, and go look it up on IMDB.com (the Internet Movie DataBase), and post the title plus one or two bits of interesting trivia here.
To get us started:
The Land Before Time
Judith Barsi, who did the voice for Ducky, was murdered by her father before the movie was released
Candyman
Real bees were actually put into Tony Todd's mouth while they where shooting the climax. His only protection was a mouth guard that kept him from having the bees go down his throat.
The architecture flaw of the medicine chests and people being able to sneak in is something that Bernard Rose discovered in his research for the film. There was actually a series of murders that were committed this way.
Terminator 2
A female passer-by actually wandered onto the biker bar set thinking it was real, despite walking past all the location trucks, cameras and lights. Seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger standing in the bar dressed only in boxer shorts, she wondered aloud what was going on, only for Schwarzenegger to reply that it was male stripper night.
For Sarah's nightmare of the nuclear holocaust, some of the materials used in the miniature Los Angeles model that mimicked all the destroyed masonry were Matzos crackers and Shredded Wheat. After each take of this nightmare sequence, it would take on average two days to set the model up to shoot again.
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 21, 2007 15:37:53 GMT -1
Reservoir Dogs
The film contains 272 uses of the word "fuck".
The film's budget was so low that many of the actors simply used their own clothing as wardrobe; most notably Chris Penn's track jacket. The signature black suits were provided for free by the designer, based on her love for the American crime film genre. Steve Buscemi wore his own black jeans instead of suit pants.
During filming, a paramedic was kept on the set to make sure that Mr. Orange's (Tim Roth) amount of blood loss was kept consistent and realistic to that of a real gunshot victim.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 21, 2007 15:44:40 GMT -1
Reservoir DogsThe film contains 272 uses of the word "fuck". On that same note, there's 77 uses in Shaun of the Dead
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 21, 2007 15:56:04 GMT -1
The Great Escape
During the climatic motorcycle chase, John Sturges allowed Steve McQueen to ride (in disguise) as one of the pursuing German soldiers, so that in the final sequence, through the magic of editing, he's actually chasing himself.
The real-life escape was on the night of 24 March 1944, and the ground was snow-covered. The German town near the prison camp, called Neustadt in the film, was really Sagan (now Zagan, Poland). Steve McQueen was born on March 24th.
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Post by Lollipop on Jun 21, 2007 16:06:22 GMT -1
Ghost World Thora Birch gained 20 pounds for the role of Enid.
The Coon Chicken Inn was a real restaurant chain, founded in 1925 in Salt Lake City. However it folded in the late '50s and never changed its name to Cook Chicken, as in the film.
Stand By Me
In an interview by Stephen King in the special features of the DVD he reveals that the scene with the leaches actually did happen to him, when he has a child.
While practicing his lines, Jerry O'Connell was incredibly impressed that, as an 11-year old, he was being allowed to swear.
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Post by Dr LuKas on Jun 21, 2007 16:09:41 GMT -1
Reservoir DogsThe film contains 272 uses of the word "fuck". On that same note, there's 77 uses in Shaun of the Dead In the extras where they make cleaner scenes they replace the word 'fuck' with 'funk'. "Funk yeah!"
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Post by weallloveleeds on Jun 21, 2007 16:13:11 GMT -1
Saving Private Ryan
All the principal actors underwent several days of grueling army training - except for Matt Damon, who was spared so that the other actors would resent him, and would convey that resentment in their performances.
Real amputees were used for the shots of people with limbs missing.
Battle Royale
The film's main villain, Kiriyama, does not utter one word throughout the entire film. (He does however make a noise down the megaphone at one point).
Many people in Japanese Parliament tried to get the novel banned to no avail. When the film came out, they attempted to ban the film. Both times, this action only led to more success for the novel and film.
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 21, 2007 16:33:32 GMT -1
The Blues Brothers
Every time we see the window in Elwood's apartment a train goes past.
The infamous "Bluesmobile" is a 1974 Dodge Monaco. The vehicles used in the film were used police cars purchased from the California Highway Patrol (mocked up to look like Mt. Prospect, Illinois patrol cars), and featured the "cop tires, cop suspension and cop motor - a 440 cubic-inch plant" mentioned by Elwood in the film. A total of 12 Bluesmobiles were used in the movie, including one that was built just so it could fall apart. Several replicas have been built by collectors, but one original is known to exist, and is owned by the brother-in-law of Dan Aykroyd
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Post by Teesside White on Jun 21, 2007 19:05:04 GMT -1
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The police were called on Sacha Baron Cohen 91 times during the production of this film.
the only interesting/funny thing i could find
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 22, 2007 6:53:47 GMT -1
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of KazakhstanThe police were called on Sacha Baron Cohen 91 times during the production of this film. the only interesting/funny thing i could find Amuses me! ;D
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 22, 2007 7:00:24 GMT -1
Labyrinth
The owl in the title sequence is computer generated - the first attempt at a photo-realistic CGI animal character in a feature film.
Monty Python member Terry Jones wrote one early version of the script. Little of his material was retained beyond the point where Sarah eats the poisoned peach.
David Bowie was one of the three choices for Jareth. The other two were Michael Jackson and Sting.
The various things that Jareth does with the crystal balls (rolling them around his arms and in his hands and so forth) are not camera tricks or any other kind of special effect. They are actually done by choreographer Michael Moschen, who is an accomplished juggler. For the shots where Jareth is seen face-on manipulating the crystal balls, Moschen was actually crouched behind David Bowie with his arm(s) replacing Bowie's. Unlike a typical Muppet performance, however, he had no video screen to view his performance. In other words, his manipulations were performed completely blind.
David Bowie did the voice (gurgling) for the baby in the song "Magic Dance".
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 22, 2007 9:40:13 GMT -1
And some more...
The Blob (The 1958 original)
Steve McQueen was offered as payment either $2,500 or 10% of the profits. He took the $2,500 because it wasn't expected to make much. It ended up grossing over 4 million dollars.
The Fly
Mel Brooks didn't want people to know he was a producer for the film, because he thought people wouldn't take it seriously if they knew he was involved. When people did find out he decided to make the most of it by handing out deely boppers at the premiere.
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick demanded 127 takes from Shelley Duvall in one scene.
Stanley Kubrick, known for his compulsiveness and numerous retakes, got the difficult shot of blood pouring from the elevators in only three takes. This would be remarkable if it weren't for the fact that the shot took nine days to set up; every time the doors opened and the blood poured out, Kubrick would say, "It doesn't look like blood." They had tried shooting that scene for an entire year.
Stanley Kubrick ordered more than 120 takes in the scene where the camera simply slowly zooms in on Scatman Crothers as he "shines" in his bedroom. Kubrick originally wanted approximately 70 takes of the scene where Halloran gets killed by Jack Torrance, but Jack Nicholson talked Kubrick into going easy on the 70-year-old Crothers and stopping after 40. At one point during the filming, Crothers became so exasperated with Kubrick's notorious, compulsive style of excessive retakes that he broke down and cried, asking "What do you want, Mr. Kubrick?"
Because Danny Lloyd was so young and since it was his first acting job, Stanley Kubrick was highly protective of the child. Through clever and creative directing, Danny didn't know he was working on a horror movie until after it was released. In the scene where Danny Lloyd rides his bike through the hall and encounters the Grady daughters, he never actually sees them. The scene was accomplished by Stanley Kubrick directing Lloyd to turn the corner into an empty hall. Kubrick then directed Danny to stop, look scared, cover his eyes, and so on. At a different time Kubrick filmed the girls by themselves in the hall standing together. In post-production, he took the film from the two scenes and spliced them together to make it look like it was all happening at the same time - hence giving the illusion that Lloyd was actually seeing the two girls.
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Post by Travis on Jun 22, 2007 9:58:09 GMT -1
Kill Bill : Vol. 1
The Pussy Wagon, Buck's truck, was digitally edited to read "Party Wagon", for the US Network Premiere.
The original trailer for this film, although featuring no actual bloodshed, raised the ire of the MPAA with the sight of The Bride's blood-stained clothes. As such it became the first to be subjected to the MPAA's new "no blood" policy for trailers, in which all sight of the bodily fluid must be alternately colored or removed entirely. This is why the trailers for this film (and similarly for every film released in the US thereafter) feature The Bride's clothes covered in blackish-brown stains where the blood would be.
As Quentin Tarantino was leaving Japan after initial location scouting and securing the studios, he heard the all girl band "The 5,6,7,8's" playing over the store's speakers. He was so intrigued by the music that he asked a clerk who the band was. When he was told, Tarantino, who didn't have enough time to go to a music shop to get their CD, begged the clerk to sell him their copy. Quentin took the disc home, listened to it, and immediately signed the band to play during th "Showdown at the House of Blue Leaves" segment. All of the band's songs, including the stand-out "Woo Hoo" are covers of early 60's surfer songs.
Quentin Tarantino and producer Harvey Weinstein have been quoted as saying that Kill Bill was separated into two parts well into production. By splitting the movie into two parts, the film's advertising tagline, "In 2003, Uma Thurman Will Kill Bill!" was made false.
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Post by Mrs H on Jun 22, 2007 10:03:58 GMT -1
Far & Away
In this film Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman weren't actually Irish.
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Post by Travis on Jun 22, 2007 10:05:30 GMT -1
Far & AwayIn this film Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman weren't actually Irish. WHAT?!?!?!??!?! You'll be telling me that Dick Van Dyke isn't actually a cock-er-ney!?!?!
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 22, 2007 11:59:34 GMT -1
Mary Poppins
The film makers didn't inform Karen Dotrice or Matthew Garber about some "surprises" that were going to show up in the movie. Karen's dumbfounded look when Mary Poppins takes out item after item from the carpet bag and her little scream when Mary Poppins gave them medicines of different colours were genuine. They also didn't tell the children who was acting as Mr. Dawes Sr., and they were worried that the horrible old man was going to fall down and die at any moment (Mr Dawes Sr, the head of the bank Mr Banks works at, was played by Dick Van Dyke)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
The song "The Beautiful Briny" was originally written for a sequence in Mary Poppins but ultimately dropped.
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Post by Mrs H on Jun 22, 2007 12:13:12 GMT -1
Far & AwayIn this film Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman weren't actually Irish. WHAT?!?!?!??!?! You'll be telling me that Dick Van Dyke isn't actually a cock-er-ney!?!?! Pretty WomanJulia Roberts is a real life whore. This was a documentary.
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Post by Travis on Jun 22, 2007 12:31:14 GMT -1
WHAT?!?!?!??!?! You'll be telling me that Dick Van Dyke isn't actually a cock-er-ney!?!?! Pretty WomanJulia Roberts is a real life whore. This was a documentary. Knew that! ;D Escape To VictoryFollowing his performance in the film, Sylvester Stallone was offered a two week trial by Stockport County.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 22, 2007 12:49:45 GMT -1
Escape To VictoryFollowing his performance in the film, Sylvester Stallone was offered a two week trial by Stockport County. This thread's starting to get a little spurious, methinks Looked up some of the real trivia for that film, though, and found this: Sylvester Stallone initially received training from England's World Cup winning goalkeeper, Gordon Banks. After only a few days of training Stallone dismissed Banks, saying that anybody could play in goal without trouble and he didn't see what all the fuss was about. During filming however, Stallone constantly kept flinging himself about in an exaggerated acrobat-like manner and dislocated a shoulder, broke two ribs and received extensive bruises. Afterwards he admitted that he should have listened to Banks more carefully and commented that it was harder than fighting in the Rocky movies.
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 22, 2007 13:11:01 GMT -1
Pulp Fiction
The shot of Vincent plunging the syringe into Mia's chest was filmed by having John Travolta pull the needle out, then running the film backwards.
The Big Kahuna burger was also eaten in the movie From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and first appeared in Reservoir Dogs (1992).
When Vincent and Lance are attempting to give Mia the adrenaline injection, the board games "Operation" and "Life" are visible in the background.
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