Movie Film Trivia

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Young up and coming actresses Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy played the lead female roles of Ellie and Sandy in 'Last Night In Soho', and while Ellie and Sandy are English Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy are in real life from New Zealand and America respectively.

A most remarkable thing from this film is that in 2015 Anya Taylor-Joy played a character with the unusual first name Thomasin in 'The Witch'.
 
Young up and coming actor Eddie Kaye-Thomas must have been riding high in the late 1990s and very early 2000s after starring in the extremely successful American Pie and its sequel the following year. And he must have thought he had made it to stardom big time when a young Canadian writer/director/actor cast him in the titular role in a new comedy movie he was making.

Unfortunately for Eddie Kaye-Thomas, the director was Tom Green and the movie in which he (Thomas) plays the title character was the infamous 'Freddy Got Fingered' of 2001. The role of Freddie although titular was a supporting character of the younger brother to Gord (played by Green), a responsible college student who works part time at a bank but who ends up in a children's home after Gord spreads false rumors that their authoritarian father is a child molester (hence the title of the movie). Freddy Got Fingered ultimately won the 2001 Golden Raspberry for Worst Picture, and often ends up close to the top of lists of bad movies even more than 20 years later.

In 2005 Eddie-Kaye Thomas won another starring role in another comedy film, this time written by and starring a very attractive blonde actress by the name of Jenny McCarthy. Eddie Kaye-Thomas was this time playing the love interest of the film's main character Rebecca (played by McCarthy). The result was the movie 'Dirty Love' and like 'Freddy Got Fingered' four years earlier was panned for its explicit gross-out humor, got a swag of bad reviews and was named the Golden Raspberry Worst Picture of 2005.

Examining Freddy Got Fingered and Dirty Love against each other is interesting, because while decades on the shock humor of Freddy Got Fingered still generates anger and revulsion among many who see it, it has become a cult movie and still very well known to this day. Dirty Love on the other hand while gross was not so shocking, and has faded away to obscurity. Many looking at lists of Golden Raspberry awards would puzzle over this long-forgotten flop saying 'I don't remember this at all.'

An interesting thought, imagine if Tom Green and Jenny McCarthy had met, fallen in love, gotten married and had kids in the early 2000s. Considering the movies that their parents made, imagine what sort of film the hypothetical offspring of Green and McCarthy could make if they were interested in writing/acting/directing!
 

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Question: What did John Wayne think of Clint Eastwood?

Not much if media reports are to be believed.

Why?

  1. Wayne disliked the spaghetti westerns that made Eastwood a star - John Wayne, for want of a better phrase, had a limited imagination. He saw films existing to tell narratives in the same manner that he felt comfortable with from his past. He was unable to consider that narratives (especially those of Westerns) could be changed from what he was used to seeing and portraying.
  2. Wayne disliked at least one of Eastwood’s roles - After seeing High Plains Drifter, Wayne wrote Eastwood a letter complaining about the film and its content. He felt that it degraded both the Western as well as the Old West. Eastwood was apparently very amused by this, and still retains the letter to this date.
  3. Wayne was jealous of Eastwood’s success - John Wayne had been offered the role of “Dirty Harry” Callahan, but rejected it. Eastwood (ironically, one of the last candidates for the role) took it and made one of the biggest box successes of 1971. Wayne saw this and decided to make Brannigan and McQ, both hard-boiled cop thrillers and neither of which were critical, nor commercial, successes.
Even before John Wayne’s death from cancer in 1979, it had to be clear to him that Eastwood was going eclipse him as a star. It’s doubtful that this engendered positive feelings in Wayne; and there’s no record of him or Eastwood ever reconciling prior to his death.
 
Al Jourgenson of Ministry fame (alternative, industrial, metal, thrash) often used obscure sound bytes from obscure movies and ads in his songs, blending them in, distortion, part of the rhythm section as well....a laugh, a word, a line.

Anyway, oddly enough, recently watched some movies and discovered where some of them came from.

Saw Platoon again for the first time in years....theres a little yelping shout in that movie that I realized made up part of the rhythm of Flashback.

Saw The Good The Bad and The Ugly recently for the first time in years....Eli Wallach yelling at the end " you know what you are" used for rhythm section of You Know What You Are....as well some random laugh in the movie.

Saw Suspiria (1977) last night, lame movie but theres a moment where the blind piano player yells out "stop ot!"....again, suddenly triggers my memory and remember a Ministry song Psalm 69 with that byte in there.

Ive listened to Ministry songs a million times each over the years ingrained in the brain....so when I randomly hear a line or laugh or shout from a movie i suddenly instantly recognize it.

The gist here...that just funnily saw a string of movies back to back and randomly stumbled on where some of the ministry dubs came from.
 
In his classic 1945 political novel 'Animal Farm' George Orwell only gets into the thoughts of one character with this being Clover, a mare who is one of the few surviving animals who was there in the days of Mr. Jones and at the end of the story when Napoleon, Squealer and the other pigs have turned the farm into a dystopian dictatorship.

However in the two adaptations of the film made so far - a very strange and somewhat disturbing cartoon from 1954 and a forgotten live action film in 1999 - Clover is barely seen at all, just a few 'extra' scenes with her in the background, no dialogue and no impact on the plot. Her major scenes from the book are delegated to other characters - Benjamin the donkey in 1954, and a dog named Jessie in 1999.
 
emuboy said:
In his classic 1945 political novel 'Animal Farm' George Orwell only gets into the thoughts of one character with this being Clover, a mare who is one of the few surviving animals who was there in the days of Mr. Jones and at the end of the story when Napoleon, Squealer and the other pigs have turned the farm into a dystopian dictatorship.

However in the two adaptations of the film made so far - a very strange and somewhat disturbing cartoon from 1954 and a forgotten live action film in 1999 - Clover is barely seen at all, just a few 'extra' scenes with her in the background, no dialogue and no impact on the plot. Her major scenes from the book are delegated to other characters - Benjamin the donkey in 1954, and a dog named Jessie in 1999.
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3 adaptations, I saw a version in high school that shall we say is fairly well removed from Orwell's novel
 
Mazlum said:
3 adaptations, I saw a version in high school that shall we say is fairly well removed from Orwell's novel
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Three adaptations of Animal Farm? I know of only two - the weird and disturbing 1954 cartoon and the failed live action version in 1999. A Google search only brings up the two film adaptations. Do you have any details of the third adaptation?
 
American actress Julie Haggerty first came to prominence in 1980 playing a flight attendant in 'Flying High', a comedy about an insane flight.

Since then, Julie Haggerty has often played a long suffering wife/mother dealing with crazy people in comedy films. For example, in the 1991 comedy 'What About Bob' she plays the wife of the grouchy psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin, who was driven insane by his problematic patient Bob and he (Dr. Marvin) wound up blowing up his own holiday house and committed to a mental institution completely catatonic.

In the 2001 shock comedy 'Freddy Got Fingered' she played Mrs. Brody, who is the mother of Gord and Freddy and the wife of the authoritarian husband/father Jim. In this crazy film the completely crazy older son Gord drives his father insane by lying about having a job, staging moronic stunts and pranks and spreading false rumors that the father is a child molester, Jim Brody losing it to such an extent that he goes on violent rampages in which he chases people.

The forgotten (and IMO under-rated) 2005 film 'Just Friends' sees Julie playing the widowed mother of two sons, the older of whom who works in the music industry brings home a dim witted and completely psychotic pop singer Samantha James (played so well by Anna Faris) to stay in the house over Christmas when bad weather grounds flights. It doesn't go very well needless to say.

When the 2006 teen comedy 'She's The Man' was released, it was Julie Haggerty's character's turn to be driven crazy. Playing the girly-girl mother to a tomboy daughter (played by Amanda Bynes), things quickly fall out of place when the daughter begins masquerading as her twin brother while he has snuck away to England for two weeks. She can't work out why she keeps seeing her son around the place when he is supposed to be at boarding school and so little of her daughter (who doesn't attend boarding school) either at home or work, and lots of other chaos seem set to drive her mad.
 

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Wings (1927) the dolly shot was achieved with a special-built inverted rig hanging from an overhead rail. Nice

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It STILL takes your breath away! Though "Wings" won the very first Best Picture Oscar, it's astounding that director, William Wellman, wasn't even nominated!
 
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, who are married, have both been in separate Batman franchises. Gyllenhaal played Bruce’s love interest in The Dark Knight, and Sarsgaard played the DA in The Batman.

Funnily enough,
both characters were killed by explosion at the hands of the film’s villain
 
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I am watching a long documentary about 80s sci-fi movies and one of the strange things that popped up was that Jean Claude Van Damn
was the original predator in Predator.
He was in a crappy suit that was going to be improved off screen with CGI but they swapped him for a big guy in a more traditional monster suit early in the shoot. The same big dude was also in the Bigfoot suit in Harry And The Hendersons
 
The Stephen King horror novel 'Carrie' has been adapted into a movie three times, and in each version the character has had different color hair. In 1976 the original Carrie played by Sissy Spacek;was a blonde, in 2002 the character was played by brunette Angela Bettis; and in the 2013 adaptation with Chloe Grace Moretz in the lead role Carrie was a redhead.
 
emuboy said:
The Stephen King horror novel 'Carrie' has been adapted into a movie three times, and in each version the character has had different color hair. In 1976 the original Carrie played by Sissy Spacek;was a blonde, in 2002 the character was played by brunette Angela Bettis; and in the 2013 adaptation with Chloe Grace Moretz in the lead role Carrie was a redhead.
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What was she in the book?
 
If young American actress Mikey Madison is especially cautious of fire it would be understandable. In two movies - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood & Scream 5 - her character has met her end by being set on fire and burning to death.

On the small screen and far more obscure, Australian actress Belinda Giblin has twice played characters who have been targeted by a pesticide attack, although surviving in each case. In a 2021 episode of Home and Away in which she plays Alf Stewart's wife Martha her character was stricken when a dangerous pesticide was sent into a function center through the vents and air-conditioning. Years earlier in 1997, Belinda Giblin was in an episode of crime-comedy 'Good Guys Bad Guys' playing lead character Elvis's mother, and in this episode she was locked in a sauna while pesticide was pumped in, this part of a revenge plot against her shonky husband (Elvis's stepfather) who had gotten on the wrong side of some really heavy guys in Melbourne's underworld.
 
emuboy said:
If young American actress Mikey Madison is especially cautious of fire it would be understandable. In two movies - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood & Scream 5 - her character has met her end by being set on fire and burning to death.

On the small screen and far more obscure, Australian actress Belinda Giblin has twice played characters who have been targeted by a pesticide attack, although surviving in each case. In a 2021 episode of Home and Away in which she plays Alf Stewart's wife Martha her character was stricken when a dangerous pesticide was sent into a function center through the vents and air-conditioning. Years earlier in 1997, Belinda Giblin was in an episode of crime-comedy 'Good Guys Bad Guys' playing lead character Elvis's mother, and in this episode she was locked in a sauna while pesticide was pumped in, this part of a revenge plot against her shonky husband (Elvis's stepfather) who had gotten on the wrong side of some really heavy guys in Melbourne's underworld.
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Nice One. Although she does have a habit of returning from the dead! In Sons and Daughters, her character turned out to be the notorious 'Pat the Rat' returned after extensive plastic surgery. And in Home and Away, she plays Alf's first wife, long presumed to be dead.
 
STFU Donnie said:
Nice One. Although she does have a habit of returning from the dead! In Sons and Daughters, her character turned out to be the notorious 'Pat the Rat' returned after extensive plastic surgery. And in Home and Away, she plays Alf's first wife, long presumed to be dead.
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I remember hearing about that plotline in Sons and Daughters, and how the original 'Pat the Rat' actress Rowena Wallace returned to the show, playing Pat the Rat's nice natured identical twin sister! Ah, the 80s. Interestingly, Belinda Giblin was on Home and Away years earlier in the early 1990s, playing Michael's angry and bitter ex wife who caused nothing but trouble. And while she looks nothing like Georgie Parker who plays her daughter Roo, Belinda Giblin looks quite similar to Justine Clarke, the actress who originally played Roo Stewart in the 1980s. Even stranger is that Jodie Gordon who played Roo's daughter on the show had features more similar to Georgie Parker than Justine Clarke, but her tenure in the 2000s started and ended before the character of Roo was resurrected by Georgie Parker in 2010.
 
emuboy said:
I remember hearing about that plotline in Sons and Daughters, and how the original 'Pat the Rat' actress Rowena Wallace returned to the show, playing Pat the Rat's nice natured identical twin sister! Ah, the 80s. Interestingly, Belinda Giblin was on Home and Away years earlier in the early 1990s, playing Michael's angry and bitter ex wife who caused nothing but trouble. And while she looks nothing like Georgie Parker who plays her daughter Roo, Belinda Giblin looks quite similar to Justine Clarke, the actress who originally played Roo Stewart in the 1980s. Even stranger is that Jodie Gordon who played Roo's daughter on the show had features more similar to Georgie Parker than Justine Clarke, but her tenure in the 2000s started and ended before the character of Roo was resurrected by Georgie Parker in 2010.
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Belinda Giblin really looks like Shelley Long. At least I think so. When I saw this pic, I thought it was Diane Chambers, perhaps from some Cheers reunion I missed.

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In the 2003 movie Runaway Jury, a scene between Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman was quickly written up and added in while the rest of the movie had finished being filmed weeks prior after someone on the crew learned that Hackman and Hoffman, despite being close friends since 1956, had never acted in a film together with dialogue between each other.
 

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