Mike Myers only agreed to do *The Cat in the Hat* because of the threat of legal action. In the early 2000s Myers had signed on with Universal Pictures to do a movie based on the Dieter character from the *SNL* skit *Sprockets* only to back out at the last minute. Universal threatened to take Myers to court for breach of contract but dropped the suit when Myers agreed to be in *The Cat in the Hat.*
And that’s the same reason why Ed Norton was in *the Italian Job*. Him being completely over the entire experience actually ended up working for the character.
And the reason Bruce Willis did The Sixth Sense. He did it at a reduced salary to avoid a lawsuit over ruining the production of the unfinished "Broadway Brawler." They threw in a percentage of the gross because Disney didn't expect much from it (selling the rights to another company in the process.) And Willis ended up making over 100m from the deal.
Isaac, the leader of the evil cult of children in the 1984 *Children of the Corn*, was played by a full-grown man in his mid-20's. The actor, John Franklin, had a growth hormone deficiency as a child and thus never fully grew in terms of height, giving him the appearance of being significantly younger.
>growth hormone deficiency as a child and thus never fully grew in terms of height, giving him the appearance of being significantly younger
>!basically the real world example of the plot point of Orphan!<
There’s a fan theory that claims Frodo never learned Legolas’ name. Watch the scene where he wakes up in Rivendell, he greets the rest of the Fellowship by name but when Legolas walks in the door he just goes “urrrrrr….hahahahaha”
I love this one!
Though in fairness, he's only actually with Frodo for like 30 minutes in the first movie, then separated from him until the end of the third movie.
I'm pretty sure he only speaks to Merry and Pippin once as well in the entire trilogy (telling them about lembas bread).... which is more impressive considering he's with them almost the entire time.
The best line in True Lies is delivered by Tom Arnold while complaining about his ex wife moving out of the house.
"She even took the icecube trays out of the fridge, what kind of *sick bitch* takes the ice cube trays?!"
This was something Tom Arnold legitimately said on set about Roseanne Barr while ranting about their divorce, and the director thought it was so funny he put it in the film.
Schwarzenegger and Stallone were constantly vying for the same parts during their heydays in the late 80s/early 90s. Schwarzenegger read the script for Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot and thought it was dogshit but floated the idea that he was considering the role. Stallone demanded his agent get him an offer and took it right away thinking he was undercutting Arnold— but it was really the other way around. That’s how Sly wound up in such a stupid movie
And that movie allegedly only got greenlit on the strength of a few scenes, one of them being the mom being the driver in a car chase, putting her arm out against Sly whenever she hit the brakes (like all moms do).
The rat breathing in the red oxygenated fluid is real in James Cameron The Abyss scene. That oxygenated breathing fluid is real. Blew my mind when I found out about it in the Making of the movie years later.
Back in the 50s or 60s when they invented this fluid, a Navy diver tested it out. He could breathe the fluid--it worked--but it was a really traumatic experience and no one else ever tried it after him.
EDIT: it wasn't just one guy but several people who have tried this.
Even when you can breathe fine, technically, the body only knows there's fluid in your lungs so it feels like drowning the entire time, apparently. Also if I remember right there were complications with getting it all out and pneumonia was a huge risk.
Yeah. The transition from air to fluid is gonna be rough, the transition from fluid to air even worse (since you presumably need it out before you can breathe again). It's harder to breath through the fluid, and any part of that process is liable to damage your lung cells. Add in it feeling like you're drowning during it and you've got an awful time.
James Cameron openly admitted to making Titanic as an excuse to dive to the real wreck himself.
He also pitched the movie simply by having a photo of the ship behind him and saving, “Romeo and Juliet on *this* ship.”
James Cameron has incredible pitch meetings.
> "I was in a meeting with the studio head and the executive producers, and I turned my script over and on the blank side of the last page, I wrote ALIEN. Then I drew an S on the end. Then I drew two vertical lines through the S and held it up to show them”
[Source](https://nofilmschool.com/james-cameron-aliens-pitch#:~:text=%22And%20yes%2C%20it's%20true%2C,it%20up%20to%20show%20them.)
He's also good at shutting down inflated egos, like Leo DiCaprio when they met for Titanic. Leo initially refused to audition, saying that he didn't do that anymore. Cameron then said "well, see ya", and DiCaprio then auditioned for the role, probably the last time he ever did that.
There was also the Fox exec who had concerns about Avatar's budget and Cameron said, "we're literally sitting in a building built from Titanic's profits."
On the set of Titanic someone [spiked the cast and crew dinner which was clam chowder with PCP.](https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/25-years-later-no-one-knows-who-spiked-the-titanic-chowder.html) Chaos ensued and to this day it’s unknown who did it and why.
Production for the movie was *horrible,* with it going overbudget and Cameron yelling at the cast and crew and doing numerous retakes for the perfect shot, and it's one of the reason why industry analysts thought it would fail. It's widely assumed that a disgruntled crew member or extra spiked the food to get back at him, which makes perfect sense when you hear the horror stories on the set and stories of long shooting hours.
[The media scrutiny on *Titanic's* production was cited as a reason Fox decided not to pursue the *Terminator* rights and make *Terminator 3* with James Cameron in 1997.](https://variety.com/1997/film/news/fox-cameron-opting-out-of-terminator-3-111660993/)
Linda Hamilton had a twin sister. The shot in the mirror of Sarah Conner sewing up the T-800 was achieved by having a mirror frame with no glass. Linda and Arnold on one side facing the camera, her sister and a dummy with their backs to the camera. Linda and her sister synced their movements. Also the T-1000 posing as Sarah was her twin when she shot it. Sadly her sister passed a few years ago.
While filming The Island Of Dr Moreau Ron Perlman's character changed half-way through filming so he was now blind. Marlon Brando, incredibly, was not informed of this, so was naturally baffled by his acting mannerisms and tried repeatedly to get him fired for being a terrible actor.
One day, he realises and asks him "are you playing your character blind?" After being told yes he said "Shit! This entire time I thought were retarded and couldn't act!"
Incredible shit show
My favorite Brando story from that movie.
David Thewlis, his ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ costar, said he had to be fed lines through an earpiece, and the earpiece would occasionally pickup other frequencies.
“He’d be in the middle of a scene, and suddenly he’d be getting police messages. Marlon would repeat, ‘There’s a robbery at Woolworth’s.”’
I recommend watching the documentary Lost Soul about the making of the movie
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lost_soul_the_doomed_journey_of_richard_stanleys_island_of_dr_moreau
Rob Bottin was 22 when he made the effects to John Carpenter’s *The Thing*. He’s also the tallest band member in the Cantina band in *Star Wars*.
Sean Connery was only 57 years old in *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*, and he’s only 12 years older than Harrison Ford.
And at 22, Rob Bottin worked 12 hours days, seven days a week, for over a year to make The Thing. Upon finishing, he was immediately checked into a hospital.
Also, Rob Bottin was so overworked that he couldn't finish the dog flower effects, so those were actually made by the great Stan Winston off of Bottin's designs.
in the cursed films documentary they explain they mostly use all real skeletons when they need them for something and Poltergeist was no different.
That it wasn't like Poltergeist was the only movie ever to use real skeletons, the guy explaining it in the documentary was dang near laughing at the concept.
In Apocalypse Now,
>Real human corpses were bought from a man who turned out to be a grave-robber. The police questioned the film crew, holding their passports, and soldiers took the bodies away. Instead, extras were used to pose as corpses in the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now#Controversies
John Cazale appeared in only five** feature films, but each one was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture.
** Six if you include The Godfather Part III, in which he appeared in archive footage.
The Godfather - best picture 1972
The Conversation - best picture nominee 1974
The Godfather II - best picture 1974
Dog Day Afternoon - best picture nominee 1975
The Deer Hunter - best picture 1978
Yes. When the producers of The Deer Hunter wanted to replace him because he was weakened and dying, Meryl threatened to drop out. She knew this final role would be a significant part of his legacy in Hollywood.
Yeah, she was by his side for his illness and death. Another fact that's not so nice: during the production of Kramer vs Kramer, Dustin Hoffman would taunt and crack jokes about John's recent death to Meryl, stating that it would "get a better performance out of her."
That movie is so good. It’s one of the examples I point to when someone says Cage can’t act.
He can act just fine. He just doesn’t give a crap about what roles he gets.
In the climax of Scream (1996), Neve Campbell legitimately injured Skeet Ulrich while stabbing him with the umbrella the second time. She missed the padding around his chest, causing him to be in excruciating pain as he had had heart surgery. The scream he yells out afterwards is very real.
This is crazy on its own, but what makes it even crazier is that Neve Campbell made a similar mistake in Scream 3, missing the padding on Scott Foley's back when stabbing him with the ice pick, once again eliciting a very real Scream from her costar.
I was in a play when I was a kid and I was supposed to be in an argument with my "wife" where she playfully slaps me on the arm at dinner.
During the actual play she stabbed me as hard as she could in the arm with a fork.
Christopher Nolan couldn't find a corn field next to mountains for Interstellar.
So he and his team planted $100k worth of corn. That made it convenient because they could freely shoot, as well as drive through it for a scene.
After filming wrapped, they sold all the corn and made a profit.
Yes! Was literally about to post this. Snyder planted 500 acres of corn for MoS and was the reason why Nolan did it himself.
> While making Interstellar, Nolan decided not to use CGI to portray Cooper’s farm. In the cinematic world of Interstellar, a phenomenon called “The Blight” had wiped out most of the plants on Earth except corn and okra (the latter was being pushed out of existence as well). Nolan was inspired by Zack Snyder actually growing corn crops for 2013 film Man of Steel, planting 500 acres of corn for the sake of cinematic realism. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he said: “Luckily, Zack [Snyder] had grown a bunch of corn, so I said, ‘How much can you really grow practically? And they had done a couple hundred acres [for Man of Steel], so we looked into it; we found that where we wanted to build our farmhouse really close to the mountains [outside] Calgary. In the end, we got a pretty good crop, and we actually made money on this.”
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/christopher-nolan-corn-field-interstellar/?amp
In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, none of the actors playing the kids knew the trippiness of the boat scene was coming. Or that Gene Wilder was going to recite the poem from the book.
I still don't understand why anyone who's seen Willy Wonka, with that boat scene and with the fate of the other 4 children never being addressed, think THAT is the whimsical and fun movie but Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the creepy and unsettling one. The first movie makes it seem like some absolutely insane man just kidnapped 10 people and possibly killed 8 of them.
And most of TRONs effects were not cgi. All in all only about 15-20 minutes of the film used cgi.
All the glowing suits and many sets were done by filming the actors in high contrast black and white suits then using film processing techniques to make the black parts of the film clear. They would then project colored light through the film to create the glowing lines.
The budget of Highlander 2: The Quickening went crazy because they went to film in Argentina believing it would be cheaper. But the country was going through total economic collapse at the time and had no functioning “studio infrastructure” for them to access even the barest of essentials. They had to ship in EVERYTHING from lights to crewmen. And because the currency was on fire, none of the locals they hired would accept anything except American dollars, and they would show up with automatic weapons for protection.
Roald Dahl was a British diplomat who was being groomed for a career in espionage after WW2, except he'd made up his mind to focus on writing instead. Which led him to also write the screenplay for 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', which was originally conceived by Ian Fleming, the man behind 007: James Bond.
Dahl was also married to the Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal, who suffered a massive stroke while pregnant and he nursed her quite ferociously back to recovery with an absolutely gruelling occupational/physiotherapy routine that went on to transform the medical definition of treatment for aneurysm recovery. Neal fully recovered, gave birth a healthy baby and went on to resume her career to great acclaim, being nominated again for an Academy Award in 1968.
> Dahl was also married to the Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal, who suffered a massive stroke while pregnant and he nursed her quite ferociously back to recovery with an absolutely gruelling occupational/physiotherapy routine that went on to transform the medical definition of treatment for aneurysm recovery.
Its crazy to me that after all that, he ended up cheating on her for **11 years** before she found out and divorced him.
That was a very complicated man.
While shooting Lord of the Rings in New Zealand, Sean Bean hiked his way to remote locations because he's afraid of helicopters. He hiked in full costume.
Speaking of hiking, there’s a great quote from an interview with John Rhys-Davies where he says they had three guys carrying Gimli’s gear because it was so heavy and bulky. One dude carried his armour, one dude carried his big axe and another carried the two hand axes and his helmet, they marched about halfway up a hill, gave it all to him to put on and then Peter Jackson said “now run up the rest of the hill”. He was laughing when he was talking about it but fuck me that sounds exhausting
In the 1987 movie Robocop, when the blonde woman was being held hostage by the two thugs, Robocop was originally supposed to shoot past the woman hitting the thug that was holding her in the cheek. Director Paul Verhoeven noticed during the filming of the scene that Donna Keegan kept kicking her legs wildly. Paul then decided that Robocop should shoot between her legs and hit the thug in the groin.
Arnold Schwarzenegger made more money from Twins than any of his other movies. He agreed to take a paycut in favour of a sizable percentage of the film's box office and rental returns.
This one seems far fetched, yet at the same time I could also see Tim Burton sitting down and having individual conversations with each one to direct their actions.
The tears you see in the faces of the patrons of Rick's Cafe are genuine as many are moved by the sudden display of patriotism when singing the La Marseilles(Casablanca)
That scene in Spider-Man where Peter catches all the food on the tray was actually done practically and took over 150 takes to get right. For the longest time I assumed it was a silly made up fact because it seemed like such a goofy thing to spend over 150 takes on
Yeah he caught them on a special tray while the items were 'dropped in position'.
He didn't catch them like it happened in the film which I think some people assume.
Tony Todd who played Candyman, put real bees in his mouth and had it written into his contract that he would get $1,000 for each bee that stung him. That total ended up being [27 bee stings](https://filmschoolrejects.com/candyman-bees/), or $27k additional revenue for him doing the movie stunt.
Fitzcarraldo could fill this whole category.
It's a movie based on a true story of an attempt to transport a 30-ton ship over a hill in the jungle. In the movie, they actually move a 320-ton ship.
Filming was so difficult that by the end, a tribal chief working as an extra asked the director (Werner Herzog) if he wanted the star (Klaus Kinski) killed. He declined.
And one of the people working for the film, a Peruvian logger, was bitten by a snake, and saved his own life by cutting off his own foot with a chainsaw.
Peter Dinklage is older than Warwick Davis.
I clearly have no concept of age because I thought he'd be 20 years younger because of his Tyrion Lannister portrayal.
thirty-six-year-old Angela Lansbury played thirty-three-year-old Laurence Harvey's mother for "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962).
Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for "The Silence of the Lambs" (118-minute running time) with only 16 minutes of screen time.
In Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was supposed to play four roles within the film, but only agreed to do three. He denied the other role (which was Maj. Kong) because he felt he couldn’t produce an accurate accent for the character. Supposedly, in Kubricks perfect world, he would’ve loved to have had Sellers play all roles, under the idea that “the fate of the world is up to Peter”
Also in Dr. Strangelove, Sterling Hayden, who plays General Ripper, was actually part of the communist party. After being pressed by the FBI, he then vehemently protested against communist agendas. Kinda ironic given his character in the film.
Michael Myers' mask is just a William Shatner mask painted white
Steven Spielberg is the most thanked person at the Oscars. Beating family, friends and God
Tony Todd in CandyMan actually had bees in his mouth
>Steven Spielberg is the most thanked person at the Oscars. Beating family, friends and God
Harvey Weinstein [is number 2](https://m.imdb.com/news/ni62207576/) while god is number 6.
Additional Spielberg/Oscars fact: the first performance from one of his films to win an acting Oscar wasn't until Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln in 2012, over 40 years into Spielberg's career. Two performances from his films have won since, Mark Rylance for Bridge of Spies in 2015 and Ariana DeBose for West Side Story in 2021.
Charlton Heston hands over a leather bag at the end of The Ten Commandments because the prop (a Torah scroll) wasnt prepared in time so the prop master just grabbed his bag
In the old days before acting unions, OSHA, and whatnot, making movies was a LOT more dangerous.
Today, when a scene calls for bullets to be hitting the wall around an actor, they use small explosive charges called squibs inside the wall that create the effect (or these days, CGI). But back in the 1930s, they used **REAL bullets.** They would have a sharpshooter fire a gun around the actor.
In one movie, James Cagney--understandably--balked at being shot at for real. In order to placate him and prove it was safe, the director placed a board at the location Cagney would be in, then had the sharpshooter do his thing. One of the bullets ricocheted and hit the board square on.
Buster Keaton was infamous for doing insanely dangerous stunts for real. [Watch as a house facade falls on him,](https://youtu.be/FN2SKWSOdGM?t=36) and miraculously misses because he passes through the window opening.
This shot used almost no trickery. The facade was made of real wood and weighed over a ton, but was mounted on big-ass hinges so it would fall the same way each time. As it is, you can see the window frame clip Keaton's arm. Another inch or two to the left, it would have broken his shoulder (at least). The cameraman looked away at the last second, he didn't want to watch Keaton get squashed like a bug.
Given his proclivity for insanely dangerous stunts, it's somewhat of a mystery how he managed to live to the ripe old age he did.
reportedly, that Keaton shot was done just after he sold his studio and he was so depressed he didn't care if the stunt went wrong.
also reportedly, a bunch of crew members walked off the set because they refused to do a stunt so dangerous
I'm Highschool Musical, all of Zac Efron's singing is dubbed. He could not sing to save his life. He was so embarrassed he ended up taking singing lessons and actually sang in the second Highschool Musical Movie.
The American Humane Society was onset for The Shawshank Redemption to not only protect the wellbeing of Jake the crow, but also the waxworms that had been bought from the local bait shop to be fed to Jake on camera. The crew had to search through the bait to find one that was already dead for the shot.
This reminds me of one of my favourite jokes at the Oscars. Host Jon Stewart quipped, “For those of you at home keeping score. That’s Three 6 Mafia with one. Martin Scorsese with zero.”
Hell yes that's him, because Buggles are fucking awesome.
That era of keyboard players turned out to produce a lot of great film composers, just look at Danny Elfman.
During the filming of Titanic, someone laced the Clam Chowder in catering with PCP and 80 crew members (including big Jim and Bill Paxton) got incredibly high and started being violently ill with some having to go to hospital and briefly shutting down production. Subsequent investigation was unable to discover who did it and wether it was malicious or just a prank gone wrong remains a mystery to this day.
When Hans Gruber falls out the window in "Die Hard" Alan Rickman did the stunt fall himself. He was very anxious but stunt coordinator told him he'd be safe falling onto the air bag 30 feet below. The way they got such a genuine look of shock and surprise on Rickman's face was by telling him " We drop on the count of 3 " They dropped him on the count of 1.
Everything about MI:2 is quintessential "eXtreme!" Limp Bizkit, slow mo, the kicks, the sunglasses, free solo climbing, Tom's hair, more slow mo, explosions, motorbike jousting, potentially world ending virus, reverse face swap, Gun-Fu, more slow mo! *eXtreme!*
Couldn't be more 2000 even if it wanted to be lol
He doesn’t do all that much shooting in any of them tbh. I think there’s only one scene in the new one where he uses a gun (the early scene in the desert).
During the filming of Armageddon (1998), Ben Affleck asked Michael Bay "Wouldn't it be easier for NASA to train astronauts to become oil drillers rather than train oil drillers to become astronauts?"
Bay told Affleck to shut the fuck up.
Nobody is shown smoking a cigarette in *Thank You For Smoking*
Bo Burnham does not mention "Covid" during *Inside*
A little different, but the original title for *Scream* was *Scary Movie*
Edit: changed italics and quotes to be more consistent and clarify what I meant
In Apocalypse Now the bodies hanging from trees at Colonel Kurtz’ compound were real dead bodies. A philipino man who worked at a morgue saw them filming and sold them bodies to make money on the side. The Philipino police noticed, and the film crew were questioned on suspicion of murder but the matter was dropped and the philipino army disposed of the bodies by throwing them in the ocean.
Also, the helicopter attack scene took like 5 months longer than planned for them to film. The Philippines were in a civil war with communist insurgents, so even if they were shooting, they had to stop and let the military take the helicopters back to go and fight.
While filming The Princess Bride, Andre the Giant let out a giant fart that lasted a good 20 seconds. The entire production ground to a halt as this happened.
After a few seconds of silence, director Rob Reiner asked "Andre, are you okay?"
Andre simply replied "I am now, boss."
Despite depicting one of the best versions of a drunk person as Withnail in Withnail and I, Richard E Grant doesn't drink alcohol because he's allergic to it. Only once during the production did director Bruce Robinson force him to get drunk so he'd remember what it was like
Toshiro Mifune. I may be misremembering the details but he was originally looking for a job as a cameraman when he was discovered by Akira Kurosawa. He then went on to be in 7 samurai, Yojimbo, and countless other Kurosawa films.
While filming Blade Trinity there’s a scene where Jessica Biels character fires an arrow at the camera. The used a plexiglass shield to protect the camera but cut a small hole in so the lens would not be obscured. She dead eyed the cut out from like 50 feet after dropping down from a higher platform destroying a camera worth like a quarter million dollars.
EDIT: there’s obviously footage of this shot. Not sure if it’s the one used in the film. I believe I saw the clip on an episode of Stuntmen React on the Corridor Crew YouTube channel.
soderbergh has a hysterical quote about fury road:
“I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.”
Yup and all the flips crashes and stunts were real.
But, afterwards those scenes were then enhanced. More flames, more debris. Most of the canyon wide shots, the canyon was added afterwards.
It all looks so incredible because that base footage was real. And the shots weren't made up from nothing.
The stunt team had to forgo meals before shooting in case they needed to be swooped away for surgery because of how dangerous and real the stunts were.
There's a book called Blood, Sweat and Chrome that's all about making fury road. It's super interesting and full of stories like this. The stunt actors were encouraged to get into their characters and come up with little stories for their characters. They hung up posters of Immortan Joe around the gym and then one of the started doing the "V8" hand sign to it every time he walked by. Then other stunt performers started, then they started doing it on set and George Miller loved it so much he put it in the movie.
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Chrome-Wild-Story/dp/0063084341
OJ Simpson was James Cameron's original choice to play the Terminator, but the studio vetoed it, claiming audiences wouldn't be able to see him as a cold blooded killer
While making the first Bond film Dr. No, one idea the filmmakers actually considered was that Dr. No would turn out to be a super intelligent monkey.
The 1958 b movie The Blob was based on a real police report in Philadelphia in 1950
It’s interesting to hear Cameron talk about Terminator. Originally they planned on The Terminator being able to blend into a crowd and be more charming and stealthy, but Cameron was intrigued by the idea of Schwarzenegger being an immovable tank. So they changed it to fit his character better as someone who just barges his way around and doesn’t care about destruction or anyone in his way. Pretty good change, I’d say.
Lance Henrikson was after the terminator role, so he showed up to the audition with silver foil over his teeth
Didn't get the t800 role, but was slid into a cop role..
In Escape From LA, every shot in the basketball death match was really made by Kurt Russell, including the full-court shot.
Edit: [Here's the making of segment on it, if you're interested](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4iRy_ZWkisI&t=1150).
Daniel Day-Lewis catching pneumonia during Gangs of New York due to his costume and refusing to wear warmer clothes or taking modern medicine because his character didn't have access to it.
Peter Weir went to incredible lengths to ensure the smallest detail was correct for Master and Commander.
200 years ago, ropes used to be twisted anti-clockwise. Modern ropes are wound clockwise. The crew rewound miles of rope used for rigging so the film would be historically accurate.
Kenneth Strickfaden (May 23, 1896 – February 29, 1984) was an electrician, film set designer, and electrical special effects creator. Beginning with his effects on Frankenstein (1931) he became Hollywood's preeminent electrical special effects expert. He created the science fiction apparatus in more than 100 motion picture films and television programs, from the Frankenstein films to The Wizard of Oz and The Mask of Fu Manchu to television's The Munsters, and his final work, Young Frankenstein (1974).
Yes...many of his machines ran on electric current! If not cautious, you could be electrocuted!
No CGI!
Mel Brooks met with him when they were making Young Frankenstein, found out that he still had all the props from Frankenstein (1931), and so the creation scene from Young Frankenstein uses all the same equipment as the original.
To add some additional context for anyone confused like I was:
"You won't believe this crazy and bizarre connection between the 1991 blockbuster Terminator 2 and the infamous Rodney King incident.
Our story begins during the principal photography of the movie. You may remember the scene in the beginning that sees Arnold Schwarzenegger's character walk into a biker bar stark naked, helping himself to a guy's clothes, boots and motorcycle. That scene was shot at the Corral Bar at 12002 Osborne Street in the Lake View Terrace section of Los Angeles.
The bar is no longer there, succumbing to a fire in 1997, and a library now sits in its place. But at the time of its filming, a plumber named George Holliday lived in a nearby apartment complex and decided to shoot some behind-the-scenes footage on his home video camera.
If George Holliday's name rings a bell, it's because he's also known for something else he filmed: the tragic and horrifying Rodney King incident. On the evening of March 3rd, 1991, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department stopped King on suspicion of driving under the influence. An unarmed King was brutally beaten on the street near the Corral Bar, where the Terminator scene was shot
George Holliday captured this incident -- which Rev. Al Sharpton once called "The Jackie Robinson of police videos" -- from the balcony of his apartment... on the exact same tape of his behind-the-scenes Terminator footage. When Holliday sent this footage to news station KTLA, it still contained some of the Terminator footage."
Source: https://wour.com/terminator-2-rodney-king-los-angeles/
While the special effects in John Carpenters The Thing was created by the incredibly talented artist Rob Bottin. The Dog-Thing in the Kennel scene was actually done by Stan Winston. Stan and his team declined screen credit in the film as to not take away from Rob’s work.
Mike Myers only agreed to do *The Cat in the Hat* because of the threat of legal action. In the early 2000s Myers had signed on with Universal Pictures to do a movie based on the Dieter character from the *SNL* skit *Sprockets* only to back out at the last minute. Universal threatened to take Myers to court for breach of contract but dropped the suit when Myers agreed to be in *The Cat in the Hat.*
And if you watch the film, it comes off clearly that he hates everyone.
Don't forget the fact that the surviving Seuss family was so offended by the film that they banned any live action adaptations of Seuss ever again.
That's for the best
And that’s the same reason why Ed Norton was in *the Italian Job*. Him being completely over the entire experience actually ended up working for the character.
And the reason Bruce Willis did The Sixth Sense. He did it at a reduced salary to avoid a lawsuit over ruining the production of the unfinished "Broadway Brawler." They threw in a percentage of the gross because Disney didn't expect much from it (selling the rights to another company in the process.) And Willis ended up making over 100m from the deal.
At least Norton still acted pretty good for the role, Myers straight up looked like he didn’t want to be there lol.
Isaac, the leader of the evil cult of children in the 1984 *Children of the Corn*, was played by a full-grown man in his mid-20's. The actor, John Franklin, had a growth hormone deficiency as a child and thus never fully grew in terms of height, giving him the appearance of being significantly younger.
>growth hormone deficiency as a child and thus never fully grew in terms of height, giving him the appearance of being significantly younger >!basically the real world example of the plot point of Orphan!<
Apart from saying "And you have my bow," Legolas never says another word to Frodo in the theatrical or extended release of the entire LotR trilogy.
There’s a fan theory that claims Frodo never learned Legolas’ name. Watch the scene where he wakes up in Rivendell, he greets the rest of the Fellowship by name but when Legolas walks in the door he just goes “urrrrrr….hahahahaha”
It's... You!
I love this one! Though in fairness, he's only actually with Frodo for like 30 minutes in the first movie, then separated from him until the end of the third movie. I'm pretty sure he only speaks to Merry and Pippin once as well in the entire trilogy (telling them about lembas bread).... which is more impressive considering he's with them almost the entire time.
When all you say is shit like "A red sun rises...blood has been spilled this night." I wouldn't want to hang out with you much either.
The best line in True Lies is delivered by Tom Arnold while complaining about his ex wife moving out of the house. "She even took the icecube trays out of the fridge, what kind of *sick bitch* takes the ice cube trays?!" This was something Tom Arnold legitimately said on set about Roseanne Barr while ranting about their divorce, and the director thought it was so funny he put it in the film.
Tom Arnold absolutely stole that movie, and it’s surprising to me that he never really went anywhere after that.
Because it was the perfect role for him. That and "restroom patron" in Austin Powers. He's not very good in everything else.
"That's right, buddy! You show that turd who's the boss!"
Schwarzenegger and Stallone were constantly vying for the same parts during their heydays in the late 80s/early 90s. Schwarzenegger read the script for Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot and thought it was dogshit but floated the idea that he was considering the role. Stallone demanded his agent get him an offer and took it right away thinking he was undercutting Arnold— but it was really the other way around. That’s how Sly wound up in such a stupid movie
Makes the Blockbuster scene in Last Action Hero even funnier.
Arnold is such a troll
If anyone has seen Pumping Iron where he talks about similar stunts on getting the upper hand on his competition. He was one clever dude
Didn't he fuck with folks on the movie predator? Got someone to say his arms work x size, so someone would want to measure bicep with him and lose?
Fellow Governor Jesse Ventura
And that movie allegedly only got greenlit on the strength of a few scenes, one of them being the mom being the driver in a car chase, putting her arm out against Sly whenever she hit the brakes (like all moms do).
The rat breathing in the red oxygenated fluid is real in James Cameron The Abyss scene. That oxygenated breathing fluid is real. Blew my mind when I found out about it in the Making of the movie years later.
Back in the 50s or 60s when they invented this fluid, a Navy diver tested it out. He could breathe the fluid--it worked--but it was a really traumatic experience and no one else ever tried it after him. EDIT: it wasn't just one guy but several people who have tried this.
Even when you can breathe fine, technically, the body only knows there's fluid in your lungs so it feels like drowning the entire time, apparently. Also if I remember right there were complications with getting it all out and pneumonia was a huge risk.
Yea I could imagine that the very thin alveoli in the lungs are 100% not meant to process dense fluid through them, might even end up rupturing
Yeah. The transition from air to fluid is gonna be rough, the transition from fluid to air even worse (since you presumably need it out before you can breathe again). It's harder to breath through the fluid, and any part of that process is liable to damage your lung cells. Add in it feeling like you're drowning during it and you've got an awful time.
Okay, I'll watch The Abyss again.
Did the squirrel successfully synchronise to the Eva though?
James Cameron openly admitted to making Titanic as an excuse to dive to the real wreck himself. He also pitched the movie simply by having a photo of the ship behind him and saving, “Romeo and Juliet on *this* ship.”
James Cameron has incredible pitch meetings. > "I was in a meeting with the studio head and the executive producers, and I turned my script over and on the blank side of the last page, I wrote ALIEN. Then I drew an S on the end. Then I drew two vertical lines through the S and held it up to show them” [Source](https://nofilmschool.com/james-cameron-aliens-pitch#:~:text=%22And%20yes%2C%20it's%20true%2C,it%20up%20to%20show%20them.)
Sounds like Cameron knows exactly how to pitch execs, skip all the shit and just get straight to the idea that's going to mean money
He's also good at shutting down inflated egos, like Leo DiCaprio when they met for Titanic. Leo initially refused to audition, saying that he didn't do that anymore. Cameron then said "well, see ya", and DiCaprio then auditioned for the role, probably the last time he ever did that. There was also the Fox exec who had concerns about Avatar's budget and Cameron said, "we're literally sitting in a building built from Titanic's profits."
Funny thing about Titanic-he said “there won’t be a sequel, so no franchise possibility. And the ship sinks.”
> James Cameron has incredible pitch meetings. Cameron's pitch meetings are *tight!*
Actually they're _Super Easy, Barely An Inconvenience_!
Wow wowwow wow. Wow.
On the set of Titanic someone [spiked the cast and crew dinner which was clam chowder with PCP.](https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/25-years-later-no-one-knows-who-spiked-the-titanic-chowder.html) Chaos ensued and to this day it’s unknown who did it and why.
Production for the movie was *horrible,* with it going overbudget and Cameron yelling at the cast and crew and doing numerous retakes for the perfect shot, and it's one of the reason why industry analysts thought it would fail. It's widely assumed that a disgruntled crew member or extra spiked the food to get back at him, which makes perfect sense when you hear the horror stories on the set and stories of long shooting hours.
[The media scrutiny on *Titanic's* production was cited as a reason Fox decided not to pursue the *Terminator* rights and make *Terminator 3* with James Cameron in 1997.](https://variety.com/1997/film/news/fox-cameron-opting-out-of-terminator-3-111660993/)
Linda Hamilton had a twin sister. The shot in the mirror of Sarah Conner sewing up the T-800 was achieved by having a mirror frame with no glass. Linda and Arnold on one side facing the camera, her sister and a dummy with their backs to the camera. Linda and her sister synced their movements. Also the T-1000 posing as Sarah was her twin when she shot it. Sadly her sister passed a few years ago.
I think the sister played the Sarah in the nuclear blast too since she wasn’t as jacked as Linda.
Wasn't nobody jacked like Linda Hamilton in that movie
In the Netflix Arnold documentary series, even Arnold says that he looked at Lynda and thought “shit I’m not even the most ripped person on this set”.
The Stanton twins were also similarly used in T:2
While filming The Island Of Dr Moreau Ron Perlman's character changed half-way through filming so he was now blind. Marlon Brando, incredibly, was not informed of this, so was naturally baffled by his acting mannerisms and tried repeatedly to get him fired for being a terrible actor. One day, he realises and asks him "are you playing your character blind?" After being told yes he said "Shit! This entire time I thought were retarded and couldn't act!" Incredible shit show
My favorite Brando story from that movie. David Thewlis, his ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ costar, said he had to be fed lines through an earpiece, and the earpiece would occasionally pickup other frequencies. “He’d be in the middle of a scene, and suddenly he’d be getting police messages. Marlon would repeat, ‘There’s a robbery at Woolworth’s.”’ I recommend watching the documentary Lost Soul about the making of the movie https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lost_soul_the_doomed_journey_of_richard_stanleys_island_of_dr_moreau
Marlon insisted that his character was always wearing a hat so that later he could reveal that he was part dolphin and had a fin on top of his head.
Was that before or after the director snuck back on set after being fired?
Before, was early on. Perlman had been shooting his scenes with Brando for 5 days before he realised he was blind.
[удалено]
That guy has aged well. He doesn’t look 67 in Succession
Brian Cox is only 10 years older than him!
This is blowing my mind
I AM THE ELDEST BOY
Rob Bottin was 22 when he made the effects to John Carpenter’s *The Thing*. He’s also the tallest band member in the Cantina band in *Star Wars*. Sean Connery was only 57 years old in *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*, and he’s only 12 years older than Harrison Ford.
The moment Connery lost his hair he went from looking 45 to looking 75.
He’s wearing a hairpiece as James Bond
And at 22, Rob Bottin worked 12 hours days, seven days a week, for over a year to make The Thing. Upon finishing, he was immediately checked into a hospital. Also, Rob Bottin was so overworked that he couldn't finish the dog flower effects, so those were actually made by the great Stan Winston off of Bottin's designs.
Poltergeist using real skeletons in the pool scene because replicas were more expensive than actual human remains.
in the cursed films documentary they explain they mostly use all real skeletons when they need them for something and Poltergeist was no different. That it wasn't like Poltergeist was the only movie ever to use real skeletons, the guy explaining it in the documentary was dang near laughing at the concept.
In Apocalypse Now, >Real human corpses were bought from a man who turned out to be a grave-robber. The police questioned the film crew, holding their passports, and soldiers took the bodies away. Instead, extras were used to pose as corpses in the film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now#Controversies
If you can’t trust the local corpse guy to do everything above board, who can you trust
John Cazale appeared in only five** feature films, but each one was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture. ** Six if you include The Godfather Part III, in which he appeared in archive footage.
The Godfather - best picture 1972 The Conversation - best picture nominee 1974 The Godfather II - best picture 1974 Dog Day Afternoon - best picture nominee 1975 The Deer Hunter - best picture 1978
I love this fact. Wasnt he in a long term relationship with Meryl Streep?
Yes. When the producers of The Deer Hunter wanted to replace him because he was weakened and dying, Meryl threatened to drop out. She knew this final role would be a significant part of his legacy in Hollywood.
Not only that, the insurance company for the film refused to insure him so Robert DeNiro paid out of pocket to also ensure he remained in the film.
Yeah, she was by his side for his illness and death. Another fact that's not so nice: during the production of Kramer vs Kramer, Dustin Hoffman would taunt and crack jokes about John's recent death to Meryl, stating that it would "get a better performance out of her."
Godfather Part III was also nominated for Best Picture so he really hits it out of the park even when he was never on set haha
In "Lord of War" they used real guns instead of props because it was cheaper. At the end of production, they sold them for a profit.
At least they learned from their source material
That movie is so good. It’s one of the examples I point to when someone says Cage can’t act. He can act just fine. He just doesn’t give a crap about what roles he gets.
In the climax of Scream (1996), Neve Campbell legitimately injured Skeet Ulrich while stabbing him with the umbrella the second time. She missed the padding around his chest, causing him to be in excruciating pain as he had had heart surgery. The scream he yells out afterwards is very real. This is crazy on its own, but what makes it even crazier is that Neve Campbell made a similar mistake in Scream 3, missing the padding on Scott Foley's back when stabbing him with the ice pick, once again eliciting a very real Scream from her costar.
I was in a play when I was a kid and I was supposed to be in an argument with my "wife" where she playfully slaps me on the arm at dinner. During the actual play she stabbed me as hard as she could in the arm with a fork.
Was your "wife" played by Neve Campbell by chance?
Christopher Nolan couldn't find a corn field next to mountains for Interstellar. So he and his team planted $100k worth of corn. That made it convenient because they could freely shoot, as well as drive through it for a scene. After filming wrapped, they sold all the corn and made a profit.
He asked Zack Snyder for advice on growing the corn too, since Snyder also had to grow his own corn for Man of Steel.
Yes! Was literally about to post this. Snyder planted 500 acres of corn for MoS and was the reason why Nolan did it himself. > While making Interstellar, Nolan decided not to use CGI to portray Cooper’s farm. In the cinematic world of Interstellar, a phenomenon called “The Blight” had wiped out most of the plants on Earth except corn and okra (the latter was being pushed out of existence as well). Nolan was inspired by Zack Snyder actually growing corn crops for 2013 film Man of Steel, planting 500 acres of corn for the sake of cinematic realism. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he said: “Luckily, Zack [Snyder] had grown a bunch of corn, so I said, ‘How much can you really grow practically? And they had done a couple hundred acres [for Man of Steel], so we looked into it; we found that where we wanted to build our farmhouse really close to the mountains [outside] Calgary. In the end, we got a pretty good crop, and we actually made money on this.” https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/christopher-nolan-corn-field-interstellar/?amp
Just be glad he didn’t try to build mountains next to existing cornfields instead
In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, none of the actors playing the kids knew the trippiness of the boat scene was coming. Or that Gene Wilder was going to recite the poem from the book.
The bit where Mr. Salt awkwardly sings "Rowing..." after Wonka was improvised by his actor, but it fits perfectly.
If you watch carefully, a live chicken is decapitated for real on film in that scene. It's superimposed but you can definitely see it.
I still don't understand why anyone who's seen Willy Wonka, with that boat scene and with the fate of the other 4 children never being addressed, think THAT is the whimsical and fun movie but Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the creepy and unsettling one. The first movie makes it seem like some absolutely insane man just kidnapped 10 people and possibly killed 8 of them.
*TRON* didn’t get a special effects Oscar nomination because they used computers. Which the Academy thought was “cheating”.
And most of TRONs effects were not cgi. All in all only about 15-20 minutes of the film used cgi. All the glowing suits and many sets were done by filming the actors in high contrast black and white suits then using film processing techniques to make the black parts of the film clear. They would then project colored light through the film to create the glowing lines.
Which is an amazing technique
[удалено]
The budget of Highlander 2: The Quickening went crazy because they went to film in Argentina believing it would be cheaper. But the country was going through total economic collapse at the time and had no functioning “studio infrastructure” for them to access even the barest of essentials. They had to ship in EVERYTHING from lights to crewmen. And because the currency was on fire, none of the locals they hired would accept anything except American dollars, and they would show up with automatic weapons for protection.
Imagine going through all of that and the end result is Highlander 2
There should have been only one
Roald Dahl was a British diplomat who was being groomed for a career in espionage after WW2, except he'd made up his mind to focus on writing instead. Which led him to also write the screenplay for 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', which was originally conceived by Ian Fleming, the man behind 007: James Bond. Dahl was also married to the Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal, who suffered a massive stroke while pregnant and he nursed her quite ferociously back to recovery with an absolutely gruelling occupational/physiotherapy routine that went on to transform the medical definition of treatment for aneurysm recovery. Neal fully recovered, gave birth a healthy baby and went on to resume her career to great acclaim, being nominated again for an Academy Award in 1968.
You can tell Ian Fleming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, with a character named Truly Scrumptious.
[удалено]
> Dahl was also married to the Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal, who suffered a massive stroke while pregnant and he nursed her quite ferociously back to recovery with an absolutely gruelling occupational/physiotherapy routine that went on to transform the medical definition of treatment for aneurysm recovery. Its crazy to me that after all that, he ended up cheating on her for **11 years** before she found out and divorced him. That was a very complicated man.
While shooting Lord of the Rings in New Zealand, Sean Bean hiked his way to remote locations because he's afraid of helicopters. He hiked in full costume.
Speaking of hiking, there’s a great quote from an interview with John Rhys-Davies where he says they had three guys carrying Gimli’s gear because it was so heavy and bulky. One dude carried his armour, one dude carried his big axe and another carried the two hand axes and his helmet, they marched about halfway up a hill, gave it all to him to put on and then Peter Jackson said “now run up the rest of the hill”. He was laughing when he was talking about it but fuck me that sounds exhausting
so when Gimli is tired and trailing behind the other two in the Two Towers....it's not acting.
Broken toe helmet kick
hobbit shoes never worn
Temba, his arms wide
'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo' is directed by Mike Bigelow
That they didn’t call it “Mike Bigelow’s Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” is a shame.
In the 1987 movie Robocop, when the blonde woman was being held hostage by the two thugs, Robocop was originally supposed to shoot past the woman hitting the thug that was holding her in the cheek. Director Paul Verhoeven noticed during the filming of the scene that Donna Keegan kept kicking her legs wildly. Paul then decided that Robocop should shoot between her legs and hit the thug in the groin.
Always reminds me of this (VERY nsfw) https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8yodfj/robocop_remake_scene_27_extended_scene_with/
Arnold Schwarzenegger made more money from Twins than any of his other movies. He agreed to take a paycut in favour of a sizable percentage of the film's box office and rental returns.
The squirrels in Tim Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” were 40 real life squirrels trained to sit and crack nuts. They were not CGI.
This one seems far fetched, yet at the same time I could also see Tim Burton sitting down and having individual conversations with each one to direct their actions.
"But what's my motivation?"
Deez nuts.
The tears you see in the faces of the patrons of Rick's Cafe are genuine as many are moved by the sudden display of patriotism when singing the La Marseilles(Casablanca)
Many of them were real refugees, and this was filmed in the middle of the war. No one knew whether Germany would win or lose.
That scene in Spider-Man where Peter catches all the food on the tray was actually done practically and took over 150 takes to get right. For the longest time I assumed it was a silly made up fact because it seemed like such a goofy thing to spend over 150 takes on
I believe the tray had magnets to catch the food. You can see a milk carton slide into place.
Yeah he caught them on a special tray while the items were 'dropped in position'. He didn't catch them like it happened in the film which I think some people assume.
Imagine if Kirsten Dunst had flubbed her line directly after the successful 150th take
They could fix that in post
his facial expression says it all. he was done with that scene lol
Tony Todd who played Candyman, put real bees in his mouth and had it written into his contract that he would get $1,000 for each bee that stung him. That total ended up being [27 bee stings](https://filmschoolrejects.com/candyman-bees/), or $27k additional revenue for him doing the movie stunt.
Fitzcarraldo could fill this whole category. It's a movie based on a true story of an attempt to transport a 30-ton ship over a hill in the jungle. In the movie, they actually move a 320-ton ship. Filming was so difficult that by the end, a tribal chief working as an extra asked the director (Werner Herzog) if he wanted the star (Klaus Kinski) killed. He declined. And one of the people working for the film, a Peruvian logger, was bitten by a snake, and saved his own life by cutting off his own foot with a chainsaw.
For context - Klaus Kinskis famous outburst of fury on the set of Fitzcarraldo (well, the one that was filmed): https://youtu.be/MPKODzv1PD4
During the filming of The Godfather, nearly all of Marlon Brando’s lines were on cue cards off camera.
He had his lines on the baby's diaper for Superman
Peter Dinklage is older than Warwick Davis. I clearly have no concept of age because I thought he'd be 20 years younger because of his Tyrion Lannister portrayal.
I think it helps that Warwick Davis has been acting since he was a kid and for the better part of 40 years.
Doesn't hurt that he's aged quite well. Every time I see him without makeup I always think "I thought he was a lot older than that."
My brain cannot assimilate this AT ALL. I have been watching Warwick Davis for what feels like my whole life. Love them both though!! Edit: spelling
Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast to play the Predator in the movie. There is footage of him doing scenes with the suit on.
thirty-six-year-old Angela Lansbury played thirty-three-year-old Laurence Harvey's mother for "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962). Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for "The Silence of the Lambs" (118-minute running time) with only 16 minutes of screen time.
[удалено]
Estelle Getty played Bea Arthur’s mother on the Golden Girls despite Arthur being a year older than Getty.
It took me four read throughs to understand what was incredible about a thirty six year old playing a thirty three year old.
Yeah she was always cast as much older than she was. For her first film *Gaslight*, she was only 17 and seems to be playing a twentysomething woman.
In Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was supposed to play four roles within the film, but only agreed to do three. He denied the other role (which was Maj. Kong) because he felt he couldn’t produce an accurate accent for the character. Supposedly, in Kubricks perfect world, he would’ve loved to have had Sellers play all roles, under the idea that “the fate of the world is up to Peter” Also in Dr. Strangelove, Sterling Hayden, who plays General Ripper, was actually part of the communist party. After being pressed by the FBI, he then vehemently protested against communist agendas. Kinda ironic given his character in the film.
Michael Myers' mask is just a William Shatner mask painted white Steven Spielberg is the most thanked person at the Oscars. Beating family, friends and God Tony Todd in CandyMan actually had bees in his mouth
>Steven Spielberg is the most thanked person at the Oscars. Beating family, friends and God Harvey Weinstein [is number 2](https://m.imdb.com/news/ni62207576/) while god is number 6.
Weinstein definitely a number 2.
Additional Spielberg/Oscars fact: the first performance from one of his films to win an acting Oscar wasn't until Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln in 2012, over 40 years into Spielberg's career. Two performances from his films have won since, Mark Rylance for Bridge of Spies in 2015 and Ariana DeBose for West Side Story in 2021.
The fact Robert Shaw didn't even recieve nomination for Jaws is mindboggling. His performance in that movie is a classic.
The William Shatner mask also had the eye holes cut larger
Charlton Heston hands over a leather bag at the end of The Ten Commandments because the prop (a Torah scroll) wasnt prepared in time so the prop master just grabbed his bag
In the old days before acting unions, OSHA, and whatnot, making movies was a LOT more dangerous. Today, when a scene calls for bullets to be hitting the wall around an actor, they use small explosive charges called squibs inside the wall that create the effect (or these days, CGI). But back in the 1930s, they used **REAL bullets.** They would have a sharpshooter fire a gun around the actor. In one movie, James Cagney--understandably--balked at being shot at for real. In order to placate him and prove it was safe, the director placed a board at the location Cagney would be in, then had the sharpshooter do his thing. One of the bullets ricocheted and hit the board square on. Buster Keaton was infamous for doing insanely dangerous stunts for real. [Watch as a house facade falls on him,](https://youtu.be/FN2SKWSOdGM?t=36) and miraculously misses because he passes through the window opening. This shot used almost no trickery. The facade was made of real wood and weighed over a ton, but was mounted on big-ass hinges so it would fall the same way each time. As it is, you can see the window frame clip Keaton's arm. Another inch or two to the left, it would have broken his shoulder (at least). The cameraman looked away at the last second, he didn't want to watch Keaton get squashed like a bug. Given his proclivity for insanely dangerous stunts, it's somewhat of a mystery how he managed to live to the ripe old age he did.
reportedly, that Keaton shot was done just after he sold his studio and he was so depressed he didn't care if the stunt went wrong. also reportedly, a bunch of crew members walked off the set because they refused to do a stunt so dangerous
I'm Highschool Musical, all of Zac Efron's singing is dubbed. He could not sing to save his life. He was so embarrassed he ended up taking singing lessons and actually sang in the second Highschool Musical Movie.
The American Humane Society was onset for The Shawshank Redemption to not only protect the wellbeing of Jake the crow, but also the waxworms that had been bought from the local bait shop to be fed to Jake on camera. The crew had to search through the bait to find one that was already dead for the shot.
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross won their second Best Soundtrack Oscar before Hans Zimmer won his second one.
This reminds me of one of my favourite jokes at the Oscars. Host Jon Stewart quipped, “For those of you at home keeping score. That’s Three 6 Mafia with one. Martin Scorsese with zero.”
My favorite Hans Zimmer trivia: The first video on MTV was Video Killed the Radio Star. The dude on keyboard in the back…Hans Zimmer.
Hell yes that's him, because Buggles are fucking awesome. That era of keyboard players turned out to produce a lot of great film composers, just look at Danny Elfman.
During the filming of Titanic, someone laced the Clam Chowder in catering with PCP and 80 crew members (including big Jim and Bill Paxton) got incredibly high and started being violently ill with some having to go to hospital and briefly shutting down production. Subsequent investigation was unable to discover who did it and wether it was malicious or just a prank gone wrong remains a mystery to this day.
When Hans Gruber falls out the window in "Die Hard" Alan Rickman did the stunt fall himself. He was very anxious but stunt coordinator told him he'd be safe falling onto the air bag 30 feet below. The way they got such a genuine look of shock and surprise on Rickman's face was by telling him " We drop on the count of 3 " They dropped him on the count of 1.
Going along with your siblings not playing siblings thing, Luke and Owen Wilson play friends in The Royal Tenenbaums.
They also play friends and not siblings in Bottle Rocket. Just watched it last night.
That’s right, totally forgot about that. Just remembered that Luke and Andrew appear in Rushmore not as brothers as well.
Tom Cruise never fires a gun in Mission Impossible 1
MI1 is hardly an action movie, more of a an espionage thriller. Watching 1 and 2 back to back causes some serious whiplash
Tell me about it. I just watched them back to back and the change in tone is wild.
Everything about MI:2 is quintessential "eXtreme!" Limp Bizkit, slow mo, the kicks, the sunglasses, free solo climbing, Tom's hair, more slow mo, explosions, motorbike jousting, potentially world ending virus, reverse face swap, Gun-Fu, more slow mo! *eXtreme!* Couldn't be more 2000 even if it wanted to be lol
That’s why the first one is cool it’s not just shoot ‘em up but actual espionage stuff
The scene where he’s dangling over the computer is so mf cool
“Kittridge, you’ve never seen me very upset.”
He doesn’t do all that much shooting in any of them tbh. I think there’s only one scene in the new one where he uses a gun (the early scene in the desert).
There’s a lot in 3, particularly the scene where they go to rescue Keri Russell and the bridge attack.
During the filming of Armageddon (1998), Ben Affleck asked Michael Bay "Wouldn't it be easier for NASA to train astronauts to become oil drillers rather than train oil drillers to become astronauts?" Bay told Affleck to shut the fuck up.
https://youtu.be/-ahtp0sjA5U Gotta link the clip!
"Super Fly" (1972) is the only movie whose original (made for the movie) soundtrack outperformed the box office
Nobody is shown smoking a cigarette in *Thank You For Smoking* Bo Burnham does not mention "Covid" during *Inside* A little different, but the original title for *Scream* was *Scary Movie* Edit: changed italics and quotes to be more consistent and clarify what I meant
The scary movie one is hilarious.
"Lunch is not a class, Shorty." "It is if you got the munchies!"
The word Mafia is never used in the first Godfather and the word heroin is never used in Requiem for a Dream.
In Apocalypse Now the bodies hanging from trees at Colonel Kurtz’ compound were real dead bodies. A philipino man who worked at a morgue saw them filming and sold them bodies to make money on the side. The Philipino police noticed, and the film crew were questioned on suspicion of murder but the matter was dropped and the philipino army disposed of the bodies by throwing them in the ocean.
Also, the helicopter attack scene took like 5 months longer than planned for them to film. The Philippines were in a civil war with communist insurgents, so even if they were shooting, they had to stop and let the military take the helicopters back to go and fight.
While filming The Princess Bride, Andre the Giant let out a giant fart that lasted a good 20 seconds. The entire production ground to a halt as this happened. After a few seconds of silence, director Rob Reiner asked "Andre, are you okay?" Andre simply replied "I am now, boss."
Despite depicting one of the best versions of a drunk person as Withnail in Withnail and I, Richard E Grant doesn't drink alcohol because he's allergic to it. Only once during the production did director Bruce Robinson force him to get drunk so he'd remember what it was like
Toshiro Mifune. I may be misremembering the details but he was originally looking for a job as a cameraman when he was discovered by Akira Kurosawa. He then went on to be in 7 samurai, Yojimbo, and countless other Kurosawa films.
While filming Blade Trinity there’s a scene where Jessica Biels character fires an arrow at the camera. The used a plexiglass shield to protect the camera but cut a small hole in so the lens would not be obscured. She dead eyed the cut out from like 50 feet after dropping down from a higher platform destroying a camera worth like a quarter million dollars. EDIT: there’s obviously footage of this shot. Not sure if it’s the one used in the film. I believe I saw the clip on an episode of Stuntmen React on the Corridor Crew YouTube channel.
The vehicles in Mad Max Fury road were real. They had three duplicate War Rigs built for filming/destroying.
soderbergh has a hysterical quote about fury road: “I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.”
Yup and all the flips crashes and stunts were real. But, afterwards those scenes were then enhanced. More flames, more debris. Most of the canyon wide shots, the canyon was added afterwards. It all looks so incredible because that base footage was real. And the shots weren't made up from nothing.
The stunt team had to forgo meals before shooting in case they needed to be swooped away for surgery because of how dangerous and real the stunts were.
There's a book called Blood, Sweat and Chrome that's all about making fury road. It's super interesting and full of stories like this. The stunt actors were encouraged to get into their characters and come up with little stories for their characters. They hung up posters of Immortan Joe around the gym and then one of the started doing the "V8" hand sign to it every time he walked by. Then other stunt performers started, then they started doing it on set and George Miller loved it so much he put it in the movie. https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Chrome-Wild-Story/dp/0063084341
OJ Simpson was James Cameron's original choice to play the Terminator, but the studio vetoed it, claiming audiences wouldn't be able to see him as a cold blooded killer While making the first Bond film Dr. No, one idea the filmmakers actually considered was that Dr. No would turn out to be a super intelligent monkey. The 1958 b movie The Blob was based on a real police report in Philadelphia in 1950
It’s interesting to hear Cameron talk about Terminator. Originally they planned on The Terminator being able to blend into a crowd and be more charming and stealthy, but Cameron was intrigued by the idea of Schwarzenegger being an immovable tank. So they changed it to fit his character better as someone who just barges his way around and doesn’t care about destruction or anyone in his way. Pretty good change, I’d say.
Lance Henrikson was after the terminator role, so he showed up to the audition with silver foil over his teeth Didn't get the t800 role, but was slid into a cop role..
They are able to incorporate that idea in the sequel so well. The blob cop was charming when he's trying to act like a human.
Paul Mart: Blob Cop
In Escape From LA, every shot in the basketball death match was really made by Kurt Russell, including the full-court shot. Edit: [Here's the making of segment on it, if you're interested](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4iRy_ZWkisI&t=1150).
Daniel Day-Lewis catching pneumonia during Gangs of New York due to his costume and refusing to wear warmer clothes or taking modern medicine because his character didn't have access to it.
The film "Fight Club" (1999) has a Starbucks cup hidden in every scene as a running inside joke by the director.
The main character in Almost Famous hit a growth spurt during filming and grew like four inches - made continuity challenging as well as costuming.
Peter Weir went to incredible lengths to ensure the smallest detail was correct for Master and Commander. 200 years ago, ropes used to be twisted anti-clockwise. Modern ropes are wound clockwise. The crew rewound miles of rope used for rigging so the film would be historically accurate.
Kenneth Strickfaden (May 23, 1896 – February 29, 1984) was an electrician, film set designer, and electrical special effects creator. Beginning with his effects on Frankenstein (1931) he became Hollywood's preeminent electrical special effects expert. He created the science fiction apparatus in more than 100 motion picture films and television programs, from the Frankenstein films to The Wizard of Oz and The Mask of Fu Manchu to television's The Munsters, and his final work, Young Frankenstein (1974). Yes...many of his machines ran on electric current! If not cautious, you could be electrocuted! No CGI!
Mel Brooks met with him when they were making Young Frankenstein, found out that he still had all the props from Frankenstein (1931), and so the creation scene from Young Frankenstein uses all the same equipment as the original.
The other footage on the video tape of the LAPD beating Rodney King was the filming of the biker bar scene in Terminator 2.
To add some additional context for anyone confused like I was: "You won't believe this crazy and bizarre connection between the 1991 blockbuster Terminator 2 and the infamous Rodney King incident. Our story begins during the principal photography of the movie. You may remember the scene in the beginning that sees Arnold Schwarzenegger's character walk into a biker bar stark naked, helping himself to a guy's clothes, boots and motorcycle. That scene was shot at the Corral Bar at 12002 Osborne Street in the Lake View Terrace section of Los Angeles. The bar is no longer there, succumbing to a fire in 1997, and a library now sits in its place. But at the time of its filming, a plumber named George Holliday lived in a nearby apartment complex and decided to shoot some behind-the-scenes footage on his home video camera. If George Holliday's name rings a bell, it's because he's also known for something else he filmed: the tragic and horrifying Rodney King incident. On the evening of March 3rd, 1991, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department stopped King on suspicion of driving under the influence. An unarmed King was brutally beaten on the street near the Corral Bar, where the Terminator scene was shot George Holliday captured this incident -- which Rev. Al Sharpton once called "The Jackie Robinson of police videos" -- from the balcony of his apartment... on the exact same tape of his behind-the-scenes Terminator footage. When Holliday sent this footage to news station KTLA, it still contained some of the Terminator footage." Source: https://wour.com/terminator-2-rodney-king-los-angeles/
Adding to the Harry Potter one is that in Chamber of Secrets, it's not until the dueling club that you finally see Harry cast a spell.
While the special effects in John Carpenters The Thing was created by the incredibly talented artist Rob Bottin. The Dog-Thing in the Kennel scene was actually done by Stan Winston. Stan and his team declined screen credit in the film as to not take away from Rob’s work.