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Let's share some stories that aren't common knowledge, even among film buffs. I'll start off. Did you know? In the original theatrical print of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," Kirk (William Shatner) shouts "Tron!", rather than "Khan!" as is commonly believed. This was a promotional tie-in for Disney's upcoming film the following month. Director Kevin Smith released several slightly different prints of "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" to theaters at release. The alterations were in the opening scenes. Differences include whether or not Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) is heard speaking or not. He did this to create dissent on internet discussion boards and maybe to get "Askewniverse" nerds to purchase an additional ticket to see if they were right or not.
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Ben Gazarra and Patrick Swayze switched roles right before filming Road House.
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Sep 19, 2014 14:47
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The twist in Planet of the Apes wasn't faked. The entire film was actually shot on location on Earth.
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Sep 19, 2014 15:38
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Doctor Katz was supposed to be animated with on-model characters, but ended up being animated by a group of animators with Parkinson's disease. Nobody on the production staff had the heart to tell them they made errors and just adopted the style of 'squigglevision'.
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Sep 19, 2014 18:12
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While in costume as Batman, Christian Bale never blinks once. This allowed him to "summon the rage" necessary for the role, but ultimately left him with a scratched cornea.
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Sep 20, 2014 01:02
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The Maltese Falcon did in fact did turn out to be worth quite a bit of money, despite what the characters say about it. The movie just ended before it was eventually sold at an auction.
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Sep 20, 2014 01:35
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Comedian and former talk show host Jay Leno is quite the car enthusiast. He owns the largest collection of cars in the world. However, he doesn't know how to drive stick shift.
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Sep 20, 2014 01:47
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Funny stuff, all
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Sep 20, 2014 03:31
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Trivia: The scalps that the Indian chief shows John Wayne in The Searchers are authentic. Goofs: In the climactic Red Sea crossing in The Ten Commandments, one of the Isrealites has his dick out. It is uncircumcised. General Dog fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Sep 20, 2014 |
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Sep 20, 2014 05:07
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Sep 20, 2014 16:16
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After filming each Beethoven movie, all the dogs are destroyed. This is due to a clause in Charles Grodin's contract.
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Sep 20, 2014 17:20
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Cannibal Holocaust was a documentary.
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Sep 20, 2014 17:39
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In the film North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock was unable to secure permission to film at UN headquarters. He instead filmed all the scenes covertly and enlisted the then current US ambassador to the UN Lester Townsend's aid to do so. Townsend was a big Hitchcock fan and gameplay pretended to be murdered by throwing knife for a pivotal scene, briefly causing an international incident.
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Sep 20, 2014 21:34
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The oldest recurring character in Disneys wide stable is Black Pete. He predates Mickey Mouse's introduction in Steamboat Willie by over three years.
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Sep 22, 2014 11:49
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Roman Polanski raped a thirteen year old girl and then fled the country before his sentencing.
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Sep 22, 2014 16:39
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Woody Allen one-upped him.
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Sep 24, 2014 00:55
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Trivia: Sean Penn beat and assaulted Madonna Goof: In the movie 'RocknRolla,' Johnny wants to become 'a real RocknRolla.' However, this is not a sentence any real human would speak.
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Sep 24, 2014 12:09
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John Malkovich will not work with actors who are against, or have ever stated an objection to, the Israeli Zionist state. He will go so far as to have them removed from the cast or he will quit the film completely.
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Sep 24, 2014 12:42
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That *is* a fun fact.
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Sep 24, 2014 20:17
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During production the briefcase in "Pulp Fiction" contained a picture of Uma Thurman's feet.
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Sep 24, 2014 20:21
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Johnny 5 was never actually alive
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Sep 24, 2014 23:29
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There never actually was a Jimmy Stewart. It was just highly advanced puppetry and special effects.
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Sep 25, 2014 04:27
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After viewing a DVD release of Donnie Darko, Harvey successfully sued director Richard Kelly for using both his likeness and life events without authorization as major plot elements in the film. This is why a significantly longer "director's cut" of Donnie Darko that over explains original aspects of the film's "mythos" was released shortly after and was made the default version of the film.
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Sep 25, 2014 06:01
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Clerks: Trivia: Shot entirely in color on VHS tape. Kevin Smith then edited the film on two VCRS then used a film camera set up in front of a B&W television to put it to traditional film stock to save money. Trivia: The funeral scene was cut from the film because director Kevin Smith had gotten hungry while transferring the movie to film and called Jason Mewes to see if he'd bring some Burger King and weed and also invite him to play some Mortal Kombat. Smith later realized all the audio in the scene had been ruined by the sound of his voice. Trivia: Smith had originally written the roles of Dante and Randall with Laurence Fishburne and Steve Buscemi in mind after seeing them in King of New York, but the actors were unavailable. Fishburn would later say in an 2009 Vanity Fair interview that he regrets filming the Tuskegee Airmen and Othello and wishes he'd chosen to work with Smith, instead.
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Sep 25, 2014 07:10
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Everyone knows that Charles Chaplin lost a Charles Chaplin lookalike contest, but what you may not know is that he once won one as well.
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Oct 15, 2014 04:25
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Orson Welles was once offered a role in, of all things, Caligula.
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Oct 15, 2014 05:25
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You might think the scene at the end of Boogie Nights where Wahlberg whips his dick out is real. In fact, in that scene Wahlberg is wearing a fake, prosthetic rubber chin.
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Oct 15, 2014 06:02
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Originally, the Purple Rose of Cairo ended with Cecilia living happily ever after inside a movie. Allen lost the footage when it was stolen by a jilted ex-lover. He doggedly attempted to reclaim the lost reel from his ex-mistress, but security wouldn't let him into the middle school.
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Oct 15, 2014 06:06
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Mike Nichols was hesitant about the Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack for The Graduate and even throughout the mid-1980s considered a director's cut subbing in the Quiet Riot hit "Cum on Feel the Noize" for each instance "Mrs. Robinson" plays, citing that it "more accurately represented the themes [he] wanted the soundtrack to invoke."
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Oct 15, 2014 21:53
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Magnolia asserts that no animals were harmed in the production of the movie, but this is incorrect. One of Jason Robards's dogs had to get his stomach pumped after accidentally swallowing pills spilled by Philip Seymour Hoffman. That same dog later choked to death on a plastic frog in the infamous scene at the end of the film. Jason Robards, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and that dog
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Oct 16, 2014 04:47
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David Fincher's directorial debut was a never-released-in-the-USA music video for the 80s smash 99 Luftballoons, which featured, among other things, a robotic Hitler stomping across Israel, shots of the bombing on Hiroshima, and clips of the original series of Star Trek, interspliced with scenes of a bloated William Shatner assaulting a young arab man in 1978.
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Oct 16, 2014 05:00
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The gaffer on the movie Re-Animator was named Dennis Bishop. Many years ago I committed that to memory for reasons.
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Oct 16, 2014 16:58
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metricchip posted:The gaffer on the movie Re-Animator was named Dennis Bishop. Many years ago I committed that to memory for reasons. Do you know any of the PAs? This is very important and I need to know ASAP.
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