Movia trivia most people don't know

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Marlon Brando read his lines off cue cards in (among others) The Godfather, Mutiny on the Bounty, and Superman.

In Alien, John Hurt was the only actor briefed on what would be happening in the dinner scene. All the reactions from the other actors when the alien bursts through his chest are genuine.

O J Simpson was considered for the title role in The Terminator.

In Six Degrees of Separation, Will Smith refused to do the scene where he kisses Anthony Michael Hall, so the kiss was faked with (I think) a green screen.
 
crowphoenix said:
After the filming of the movie Manos:Hands of Fate, made famous by MST3K, several of the cast committed suicide.
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bzzzt.

just torgo ;_;

http://jophan.org/mimosa/m18/brandt.htm

http://jophan.org/mimosa/m18/brandt.htm said:
and the tragic figure of John Reynolds, whose creepy Confederate-uniformed character of Torgo so endeared himself to MST3K that they incorporated him into their act.

"I heard a rumor on the net," I said, "that John had committed suicide."

"That's no rumor," said Bob. "He killed himself about six months after the movie was finished. John was a troubled kid; he didn't really get along with his dad, who was an Air Force colonel, and he got into experimenting with LSD. It's a shame, because he was really a talented young actor."

Bob explained that John Reynolds had built himself the metallic rigging underneath his costume which produced his ungainly, knobby-kneed walk. One of the reasons he hates the Mystery Science Theater version, he said, is the silhouettes of the MST cast which block the bottom portion of the screen throughout the film. They obscure the few shots where you can see that Torgo actually does have cloven-hoofed feet. The subtle explanation for Torgo's awkward gait: he's a satyr.
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McBacon said:
In Fight Club, Marla's line after having text with Tyler was originally "I want to have your abortion", Fox 2000 Pictures President of Production Laura Ziskin was appauled and asked David Fincher to change it. He said he would, but with one caveat - the new line would be final.

He chose "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school", Ziskin was more outraged than ever, asked Fincher to change it back, but Fichner refused.
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:lol that's awesome.
 
Sopranos


Tony Sirico only agreed to sign on for the Sopranos if it was guaranteed that his character Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri would not be a "rat", an informant.

Ray Liotta was the top choice to play Tony Soprano but he turned it down stating he did not want to commit to a television series. (good choice Ray :lol )
(looks like they wanted ALL of the Goodfellas cast)....


Six of the regular cast members appeared in Goodfellas: Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Tony Sirico, Vincent Pastore, Frank Vincent, and Joseph R. Gannascoli. Ten recurring cast members also appeared in the film: Nicole Burdette, Tony Darrow, Tony Lip, Frank Pellegrino, John 'Cha Cha' Ciarcia, Suzanne Shepherd, Paul Herman, Marianne Leone, Daniel P. Conte, and Frank Albanese. Eleven one-time guest stars also appeared in the film: Nancy Cassaro, Anthony Caso (as Martin Scorsese), Chuck Low, Tobin Bell, Gene Canfield, Gaetano LoGiudice, Vito Antuofermo, Frank Adonis, Anthony Alessandro, Victor Colicchio and Angela Pietropinto.
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BrightYoungThing said:
Dude I saw the fight scenes that he finished before he died on that A&E special they had on him. Shit was amazing. Never saw it in the released form though. Is it really that bad?
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The original concept was to demonstrate JKD/MMA principles and comment on the state of martial arts. The final version had a motorcycle fight scene, bad dialogue, an evil businessman, time paradoxes, and of course a stand-in for Bruce with some face scar excuse.
 
Formless said:
In the Game of Death, many of the people Bruce fights in the pagoda are his students (Inosanto, even Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and tentatively Kimura). Of course the movie shown in theaters is a stapled-together-disgrace, only 30 min of the movie are what Bruce intended.

EDIT: Also, the yellow suit in Kill Bill is a reference to Bruce's in Game of Death.
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Game of Death is so hilariously bad. Another fun fact is that they used footage of Bruce Lee's actual funeral.
 
In keeping with the "hands" theme of the first page, it's James Cameron's hands doing the drawing and not DiCaprio's in Titanic. Cameron actually did the drawing of Rose - and all of Jack's portfolio - himself. But that's pretty common knowledge, I think.

Also, Tarantino confirmed it was Butch who keyed Vince Vega's car in Pulp Fiction, after their encounter in the bar.
 
The Black Knight in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" had lines written and spoken for the first exchange of dialogue, but the audio for his end wasn't working and they ended up deciding they liked it better that way.

"Contact" isn't about aliens.
 
Hitokage said:
The Black Knight in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" had lines written and spoken for the first exchange of dialogue, but the audio for his end wasn't working and they ended up deciding they liked it better that way.

"Contact" isn't about aliens.
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Yes it was. They even used the same aliens at the end of AI.
 
I've posted about this on GAF before, but it was a while ago. I'm cutting and pasting this from the IMDb Ratatouille "movie connections" page, but I submitted it so it's okay:

Medal of Honor: Underground (2000) (VG)
- During the cook introduction scene, a short musical theme from Medal of Honor: Underground (2000) (VG) accomanies the introduction of the former WWII French resistance fighter. The action of Medal of Honor: Underground centers on the French resistance, and Michael Giacchino scored both the game and the film.
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I hadn't heard the MoH:U score in years when I noticed this. It was really great geek moment.
 
Borgnine said:
More hand movia trivia:

LOTR Return of the King: Sam's hand holding a sword appears in the shot ready to fight Shelob, but it was actually Peter Jackson's hand.
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well, whenever you see aragon from the back, it's not really Viggo, it's my mate dean from school.
 
Night_Trekker said:
I've posted about this on GAF before, but it was a while ago. I'm cutting and pasting this from the IMDb Ratatouille "movie connections" page, but I submitted it so it's okay:



I hadn't heard the MoH:U score in years when I noticed this. It was really great geek moment.
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yeah but he does make some great soundtracks... the video game BLACK had a great soundtrack too... almost worth playing teh game jsut for how the soundtrack fit with the game...

and no don't knock the soundtrack to that game until you listen to it.
 
Buttchin said:
yeah but he does make some great soundtracks... the video game BLACK had a great soundtrack too... almost worth playing teh game jsut for how the soundtrack fit with the game...

and no don't knock the soundtrack to that game until you listen to it.
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Yeah, I heard it was good but I was waiting to pick up the game for cheap. I'll check it out.
 
Will Smith turned down Neo in The Matrix to play in Wild Wild West

Sean Connery was offered 15% of box office returns to play Gandalf in the LOTR trilogy
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
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Yes, the idea of OJ Simpson crossing Los Angeles to hunt down and kill a specific woman and anyone who tries to protect her is ridiculous.
 
Fritz said:
Atreyu's horse Ajax in the first The NeverEnding Story Movie actually died while they were shooting it's death scene in the swamps. The hydraulic lift broke, the horse drowned. They used the shot, of course!
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damn. and I thought that scene couldn't get any more depressing...

duckroll said:
This is untrue. It's an internet urban legend that has been proven false. :P
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jakncoke said:
Will Smith turned down Neo in The Matrix to play in Wild Wild West

Sean Connery was offered 15% of box office returns to play Gandalf in the LOTR trilogy
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I think both of these are pretty well known.
 
demon said:
Yes it was. They even used the same aliens at the end of AI.
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Somebody spell this out for me.

Is the implication that in both cases the characters are hallucinating?
 
I haven't read it, but I've heard that the second half of Contact (not in the movie) becomes more about belief/faith. The aliens don't really serve much purpose other than to spark off the debate.
 
Jack Nicholson was the original choice to play the role of Coach Norman Dale in Hoosiers which, of course, ended up being played to perfection by Gene Hackman.

As an aside, the gymnasium used for Hickory's home games is located near where I live and my daughter and son-in-law held their wedding reception there!
 
A better Disney film flub:

A photograph of a naked women appeared in the The Rescuers.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/rescuers.asp

On 8 January 1999, Disney announced a recall of the home video version of their 1977 animated feature The Rescuers because it contained an "objectionable background image." Approximately 38 minutes into the film, as rodent heroes Bianca and Bernard fly through the city in a sardine box strapped to the back of Orville, proprietor of Albatross Air Charter Service, the photographic image of a topless woman can be seen at the window of a building in the background in two different (non-consecutive) frames: first in the bottom left corner, then at the top center portion of the frame.

Unlike most rumors of risque words images hidden in Disney's animated films, this one is clearly true, and the images in question were undeniably purposely inserted into the movie. The two "topless woman" frames had reputedly been present in the film ever since its original 1977 theatrical release (a fact apparently confirmed by Disney, whose spokesperson said that the tampering "was done more than 20 years ago"), although Disney claims that they were not included in the 1992 home video version because "it was made from a different print." Disney also claimed that the images were not placed in the film by any of their animators, but were inserted during the post-production process.
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JakOfTheShadows said:
In the movie Teen Wolf at the end when Michael J. Fox wins the basketball game and everyone runs off the bleachers to celebrate, there is an extra standing on the bleachers in the background that has his dick out for a moment (he's wearing a red sweater). The extra then proceeds to tuck himself back into his jeans and zips his pants back up. Not only did no one catch this and in made the final movie, but the best part is when they edit the movie to play on TV it's still there.
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Here is the scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqrBRn5HaBg&NR=1

It's at 0:37
 
All the trivia about James Cameron makes him that much more of a mangod!

In Pineapple Express, James Franco's character runs into a tree and smashes his face. Franco actually broke his nose in that scene.
 
when eva green takes her clothes off in the dreamers you will never want to see her naked again. that woman has tits--they're pretty big--but everything else is kind of disgusting. just like the scene in which pitt's jo'ing using his own spit as lubricant to masturbate whilst writing a letter to his mom.

this counts as trivia, right?
 
bud said:
when eva green takes her clothes off in the dreamers you will never want to see her naked again. that woman has tits--they're pretty big--but everything else is kind of disgusting. just like the scene in which pitt's jo'ing using his own spit as lubricant to masturbate whilst writing a letter to his mom.

this counts as trivia, right?
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Horribly wrong. I've seen the stills and I want to see her naked ALL THE TIME.
 
y2dvd said:
All the trivia about James Cameron makes him that much more of a mangod!

In Pineapple Express, James Franco's character runs into a tree and smashes his face. Franco actually broke his nose in that scene.
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Actually Franco ran head first into a tree and split his head open, and that is why he is wearing a bandana for most of the movie, since he had to get stitches...
 
jakncoke said:
Will Smith turned down Neo in The Matrix to play in Wild Wild West: Dumb
Sean Connery was offered 15% of box office returns to play Gandalf in the LOTR trilogy: Dumber
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Oh man
 
bud said:
when eva green takes her clothes off in the dreamers you will never want to see her naked again. that woman has tits--they're pretty big--but everything else is kind of disgusting. just like the scene in which pitt's jo'ing using his own spit as lubricant to masturbate whilst writing a letter to his mom.

this counts as trivia, right?
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:runs to google image search:
:searchs:

I don't see the problem
 
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