30 Surprising Movie Details.
Nathan Johnson
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12/24/2020
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Stuff most people never noticed.
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In Kingpin (1996) Bill Murray Plays The Infamous Pro-Bowler Ernie Mccracken. In Addition To Improvising Nearly All Of His Lines, Murray Actually Bowled Three Strikes In A Row On Camera To A Live Audience In One Take. Their Thunderous Applause Was Real -
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Men In Black (1997) - The Language These Aliens Speak Together Is ‘Huttese’, The Language Jabba The Hutt Speaks In The Star Wars Films -
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In Maleficent (2014), The Young Aurora Was Played By Angelina Jolie’s Daughter Vivienne. The 5-Year-Old Got The Part Because She Was The Only Child Who Wasn’t Terrified Of Jolie In Her Maleficent Makeup. Several Other Younger Children Auditioned And Wouldn’t Go Near Her -
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In Knives Out (2019), K Callan, Who Plays Great Nana Wanetta, Is Actually Six Years Younger Than Christopher Plummer, Who Plays Her Son Harlan -
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In Interstellar (2014) The Black Hole Was So Scientifically Accurate It Took Approx 100 Hours To Render Each Frame In The Physics And Vfx Engine. Meaning Every Second You See Took Approx 100 Days To Render The Final Copy -
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In Rango (2011), Actors Actually Performed Just Like In A Live Movie And This Was Later Referenced By Animators In Animating The Film -
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In The Matrix (1999) The Way Neo And Morpheus Attack Each Other With The Same Move, Their Clothes And Head/Hair Forms The Ying-Yang Symbol -
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In Troy (2004), Brad Pitt And Eric Bana Did Not Use Stunt Doubles For Their Epic Duel. They Made A Gentleman's Agreement To Pay For Every Accidental Hit. $50 For Each Light Hit, $100 For Each Hard Blow. Pitt Ended Up Paying Bana $750. Bana Didn't Owe Pitt Anything -
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For Her Contribution To The Wizard Oz (1939), Terry The Dog (Toto) Earned $125 Per Week, While The Actors Playing The Munchkins Were Given Just $50 A Week -
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Watching Deadpool 2 (2018) And Noticed A Certain Supreme Court Justice’s Headshot In The Squad Interview Scene. None Other Than Ruth Bader Ginsburg In Consideration For A Spot On X-Force -
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In Order To Prevent The Twist Of Vader Being Luke's Father Being Spoiled In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Line Written In The Script And Spoken During Filming Was "Obi-Wan Killed Your Father", With It Later Dubbed Over. Of The Main Cast, Only Mark Hamill Was Informed Before Release -
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In The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Bruce Did Not Wear A Mask During The Masked Ball Scene. This Is Because He Considers Batman As His True Identity And "Bruce Wayne" As His Disguise In Public. When Selina Asked Him "Who Are You Pretending To Be? " He Replied "Bruce Wayne, Eccentric Billionaire" -
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Whilst Filming Scream (1996) Drew Barrymore Accidently Called 911 For Real Several Times. The Prop Master Had Forgotten To Unplug The Phone Before Filming. Barrymore Would Call, Scream And Hang Up. In The Middle Of One Take The Police Rang Back In Confusion To Ask Why They Kept Calling -
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In Rocky (1976), When He Runs Through The Italian Marketplace, The People's Amused Expressions As They Look On Is Genuine, As They Had No Idea Why A Man Was Running Back And Forth Being Followed By A Van. The Man Who Throws Him The Orange Was Completely Improvised -
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In Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (2002), Lucius Malfoy Slaps Draco's Hand Onto His Cane. Jason Isaacs Didn't Know There Were Small Fangs On The Top, So Tom Felton's Pain Was Genuine -
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In Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005), Charlie’s Father Works At The Smilex Toothpaste Factory. Smylex Was The Name Of The Poisonous Gas Created By The Joker In Batman (1989), Also Directed By Tim Burton -
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In Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2007). Dumbledore's Army: All The Girls Are Wearing Skirts Except Ginny (3rd From Left) Who Is Wearing Pants; Probably A Hand-Me-Down From Her Brothers. (Good Going Costume Department) -
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In 12 Years A Slave(2013) Michael Fassbender Had His Makeup Artist Paint His Mustache And Beard With Alcohol So That The Other Actors Would React Naturally To The Smell, Making Them Uncomfortable Around Him Whilst Shooting Scenes -
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The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001). The Script For Sean Bean's Council Of Elrond Speech Was Rewritten The Night Before Filming. Bean Taped His Lines To His Knee So He Could Read Them When Needed. Some Of The Characters Frustrated Expressions In The Scene Are Actually The Actor Glancing At His Lines -
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Michael Palin Came Up With The Idea To Use Coconuts In Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) Because The Film Couldn't Afford To Use Actual Horses -
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Adam Sandler’s Love Interests In Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Waterboy (1998), Little Nicky (2000), Pixels (2015), & Hubie Halloween (2020) All Have A Double-V Character Names -
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In Parasite (2019), The Trash Can In The Park’s House Costs $2,300 In Real Life. Bong Joon Ho Chose It Because It Doesn’t Make Any Noise And Opens Very Smoothly. Still, He Was Baffled By The Cost, Saying: "What The Fuck? What Kind Of Idiot Would Buy A Trash Can That’s Going To Smell Anyway?” -
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In The Incredibles (2004), Director Brad Bird Wanted To Give Dash A Realistic Out-Of-Breath Voice In Certain Scenes So He Made Actor Spencer Fox Run Four Laps Around The Pixar Studio Until He Got Tired -
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In Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011). One Of The Giants Weapon, In The Battle Of Hogwarts, Is A Broken Quidditch Goal Post -
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In The Truman Show (1998) The Old Ladies Watching The Show Are Wearing The Same Robe As Meryl Because Everything In The Truman Show Is For Sale -
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In Mulan (1998), Mulan's Horse Khan, Is A Ferghana Horse, A Classical Chinese Breed. On The Other Hand, Shan Yu's Horse Is A Mongolian Horse, One Of The Original Horse Breeds, Small, But Incredibly Strong -
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In American Psycho (2000) Willem Dafoe (Detective Kimball) Acted Each Meeting With Bateman 3 Ways In 3 Different Takes: 1. He Knew Bateman Was The Killer, 2. He Only Suspected Bateman Was The Killer, 3. He Did Not Suspect Bateman. These Clips Were Later Spliced Together To Keep The Audience Guessing -
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In Event Horizon, Sam Neill Requested That The Union Jack On An Australian Flag Patch Should Be Replaced With An Aboriginal Flag; The Way He Thought It’d Look In 2047 -
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In Moana (2016) During The Song "We Know The Way" None Of The People Have Tattoos. It's Not Until After They Find Their Island Home That We See Characters With Tattoos. This Is Because They Never Had The Resources To Figure Out A Tattoo Technique While They Were Traveling -
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In Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006), Actor Mackenzie Crook Had To Wear Two Contact Lenses On Top Of One Another, To Portray His Characters Wooden Eye. He Said: “It’s Uncomfortable…but Not Painful. And It Helps The Character, Because Without It, I’m Just Any Other Pirate.”
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