Movie Film Trivia

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Steve McQueen turned down roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dirty Harry and Ocean's Eleven.

During the filming of Armageddon, Ben Affleck asked directed Michael Bay, "Wouldn't it be easier for NASA to train astronauts how to drill rather than training drillers to be astronauts?" Bay told Affleck to shut the **** up.

In National Treasure, the good guys in the movie use Google and the bad guys use Yahoo!

After Top Gun was shown in cinemas, recruitment into the Navy by young men went up by 500 percent.

Kevin Spacey was cast in Se7en two days before filming began.

Pierce Brosnan was contractually forbidden from wearing a full tuxedo in any non-James Bond movie from 1995-2002.

Peter Ostrum, Charlie from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never acted in another movie after that and is now a veterinarian.

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When filming the famous opening scene for The Sound of Music, director Robert Wise had to be careful not to include a certain building in the shot as Julie Andrews began singing and walking across the grass: that of Hitler's summer retreat, the infamous Eagle's Nest, which can be seen when you stand at certain points on the top of the mountain.
 

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worbod said:
According to the Movie Mistakes website, the movies with the most goofs is Apocalypse Now with 390.
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Probably 380 of them from just the one scene with Marlon Brando :D
 
In 1960 Alfred Hitchcock and screenwriter Ernest Lehman began to work on a script called The Blind Man about a blind pianist who regains his sight after receiving an eye transplant from a murder victim. Hitchcock envisioned Jimmy Stewart in the lead role, and one of the film's main scenes was to be set in Disneyland. The film was never made, with Walt Disney refusing to let Hitchcock film at Disneyland because "he had made that disgusting film Psycho."
 
Vic and one of the children were beheaded by the copter blades and died instantly. Ken told me that one of them lived for a few minutes. When the director told him to retrieve Morrow's head before it washed downstream, he said, "YOU get his head. I'm just a stuntman, I don't get paid for retrieving people's heads!!"
 
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst tried to prevent Citizen Kane from being released. Not only was he enraged by having his life smeared on the screen, he was distressed by the use of the word "Rosebud". According to Hearst's close friend, writer Gore Vidal, Rosebud was Hearst's secret name for an intimate part of the anatomy of his long-time mistress Marion Davies.
 

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Hungarian director Michael Curtiz's accent proved difficult for many cast and crew when he was directing Casablanca. When he asked a prop man for a "poodle" to appear in one scene, a dog was promptly produced. Curtiz then screamed, "A poodle! A poodle of water!"
 
worbod said:
Hungarian director Michael Curtiz's accent proved difficult for many cast and crew when he was directing Casablanca. When he asked a prop man for a "poodle" to appear in one scene, a dog was promptly produced. Curtiz then screamed, "A poodle! A poodle of water!"
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Too funny. One can only imagine what Casablanca COULD'VE turned out to be if he was given all those misinterpreted things instead.
 
Alien Hand Syndrome, as depicted by Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, is an actual affliction that can be caused by a stroke or other brain injury. Many people actually refer to it as Dr Strangelove Syndrome.

When Sellers observed Stanley Kubrick wearing gloves to handle hot lights on set, he thought them sinister looking. Sellers decided it would be disturbing to wear one on his right hand (the one that was out of control) and then became inspired to do so for the film.
 
Taiwanese-born Hong Kong-based actress Qi Shu was originally cast as Jen Yu in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon before Ziyi Zhang was cast in the role. Qi Shu worked in the role for several weeks, before her agent had her do a Pepsi commercial in Japan. She fired the agent.

The film is an adaptation of the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane/Iron Pentalogy and written by Du Lu Wang. The novels are "Crane Frightens Kunlun", "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin", "Sword's Force, Pearl's Shine", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Iron Knight, Silver Vase".

Michelle Yeoh tore her ACL during the shoot of an early fight scene and was flown to the USA to undergo knee surgery. While rehabbing the injury, Yeoh flew back to film non-action scenes until her knee had recovered. Although Michelle Yeoh did not work on any other projects for a year leading up to the start of the shoot in order to learn Mandarin, apparently the script was still presented to Ms Yeoh phonetically. Yun-Fat Chow did speak Mandarin in the movie, but his first language is Cantonese and native Mandarin speakers believe that his Mandarin accent was over-acted.

The role of Li Mu Bai (played by Yun-Fat Chow) was first offered to Jet Li, but he turned down the role in order to star in Romeo Must Die.
 
My Big Fat Greek Wedding made over $250 million at the box office but was never #1 in the USA.

The Bible and Planet of the Apes are the only two G-Rates movies (apparently) to feature nudity.

Beverly Hills Cop pre-empted GPS technology years before it was invented; in the movie, it's referred to as "Satellite Tracking System".

Crispin Glover played Michael J. Fox's father, George McFly, in Back to the Future. Glover did not appear in the sequels because he and the producers could not agree on terms. The character's role was greatly reduced and re-cast with the new actor Jeffrey Weissman wearing prosthetics to appear like Glover. Brief footage of Glover filmed for Back to the Future was used in Back to the Future II, and Glover received an on-screen credit as "George McFly in footage from Back to the Future". Glover then sued the producers on the basis that his likeness had been used in the sequels without his permission, and he had not been paid for the reuse of the footage from the original movie. The Screen Actors Guild collective bargaining agreement was subsequently amended to prevent similar conduct.
 
Samuel L. Jackson gave permission for his likeness to be used in creating Nick Fury in the Marvel Ultimate Universe, so it was only natural that he was cast in the role in The Avengers movie.

Atuk is the working title of an unfilmed American film screenplay, intended to be a film adaptation based on the 1963 novel The Incomparable Atuk, written by Mordecai Richter. The film is intended to be a fish out of water comedy of an Inuit hunter trying to adapt to life in the big smoke. A film adaptation was planned in the early 1970s, then again in 1988. Actors, such as John Belushi, Sam Kinison, John Candy and Chris Farley have all been linked to the lead role, and of course, all suffered untimely and early deaths, giving rise to an urban legend about the film.

When working on Armageddon, Ben Affleck asked director Michael Bay as to why NASA would send an inexperienced drill crew into space in order to drill into the comet when it would be easier to teach astronauts how to drill. Bay told Affleck to shut up.

Tom Hanks is one inch too tall to be accepted into the NASA astronaut program. Their height limit is six foot.

Laurence Fishburne lied about his age in order to win a minor role in Apocalypse Now. He told the producers he was 17, but he was in actuality only 14.

Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg share the billing as co-directors of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Kubrick's only actual directing was of Robin Williams' voice work, which was recorded years before Spielberg completed the movie.

Although it created the zombie genre, the word "Zombie" is never used in Night of the Living Dead.

The MPAA would not allow Meet the Fockers' producers to use Fockers in the title until they proved that there was a family in the US actually named "the Fockers".

If you watch It's A Wonderful Life this Christmas, you might end up hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee on the basis that you're watching a film sympathetic to Communism by discrediting bankers.
 
The first meeting of The Tramp and the Blind Girl in Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" required 354 takes.

Marlon Brando, after being directed by the perfectionist Chaplin in The Countess from Hong Kong, claimed, "He was the most sadistic man I ever met."
 
One of Federico Fellini's early writing assignments was the Italian translation of Flash Gordon.

Italian actress Sandra Milo admitted that in all her years together with Fellini, they never actually made love in a bed.
 
If you go one step past each letter in the name of HAL (from 2001: A Space Odyssey) you end up with IBM.

Co-screenwriter Arthur C Clarke wouldn't take credit for this little quirk, insisting that HAL stands for Heuristic Algorithmic Computer. Clarke said had he been aware of the IBM relation, he would definitely have changed the name.
 
worbod said:
If you go one step past each letter in the name of HAL (from 2001: A Space Odyssey) you end up with IBM.

Co-screenwriter Arthur C Clarke wouldn't take credit for this little quirk, insisting that HAL stands for Heuristic Algorithmic Computer. Clarke said had he been aware of the IBM relation, he would definitely have changed the name.
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I kinda stilll like to hold to the theory it was deliberate. Even if it wasnt. It just makes me love the movie even that little bit more.
 

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