24 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Read Before David Zaslav Deletes Them

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24 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Read Before David Zaslav Deletes Them

Whether we paint these movies in a good light or not, we just have to get the truth out there. Our journalistic integrity depends on it. Don’t laugh at us for calling ourselves journalists! It’s what we tell our parents that we do to feel better about ourselves — and to stop them from pressuring us to get “real jobs.” 

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24 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Read Before David Zaslav Deletes Them

Thor

The levitating truck in Thor: The Dark World was an actual cement truck. They skewered the truck on a huge bar and then rotated with a hydraulic arm (the only CGI they used was to remove the arm). CRACKED.COM

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects 1926 The term. Special Effect gets its first screen credit In the 1920s, studios began dedicating entire departments to special effects, and the term Special Effect first appears in the credits of 1926's What Price Glory? CRACKED

The Social Network

In The Social Network, the puffs of breath in Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin's outdoor conversation are CGI. It was cold, but not enough for their breath to be visible, and David Fincher felt that to ask people to stand out in this kind of cold weather and not see their breath was unfair. CRACKED.COM

Rocky

CRACKED.COM The skating date in ROCKY was supposed to take place in a crowded ice rink. But the production ran out of money, and couldn't afford all the extras. So the scene was shot in an empty rink, leading to one of the franchise's most memorable moments.

Arrival

CRACKED.COM جان your purpose Fress, R N In ARRIVAL Dr. Banks explains to Col. Weber all ARMY the nuances of language that make communicating with the aliens a slow, painstaking process. The scene is based on a similar explanation screenwriter Eric Heisser gave to the movie's producers, who just went, all that needs to be in the script.

Borat

CRACKED.COM BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM was going to be about Trump and Trumpism - and then COVID-19 struck. Instead of ignoring the pandemics, the movie became about the conspiracy mindset in such a time.

Se7en

Mills' arm cast in SE7EN wasn't in the script - Brad Pitt got seriously injured for real while shooting a chase scene. Rather than shutting down production, Pitt's broken arm was written into the movie (and simply hidden for scenes happening before the accident). CRACKED.COM

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

A deleted scene from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer explains why Cornelius licks his ax. After Rudolph guides Santa to the Island of Misfit Toys, Cornelius picks up his ax after throwing it in the air, then licks it and says Peppermint! What I've been searching for all my life! I've struck it rich. So he was just licking his ax to see if he'd finally found peppermint. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction wouldn't have gotten made without Danny DeVito. His production company Jersey Films bought the Pulp Fiction script from Tarantino. DeVito was the person who then shopped the script around, and eventually brought it to Miramax, which made the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Clerks

Kevin Smith's original ending for Clerks was extremely grim and brutal. Ministry Try for price. Stay Cambridge EXPRESS FOR LESS - Try for price. pension Stay for - FILA Laste, 1.50- In that ending, Dante Hicks would get murdered by a robber, and the movie's last shot would be of Dante's dead body lying on the ground. CRACKED.COM

Toy Story

Early drafts of movies Toy Story LASER LIGHTYEAR SPALD Disney wanted Woody to be edgy. Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg said that the wooden cowboy had to have an edge to him - and the resulting storyboard reel tanked hard. Disney wanted to shut everything down, but Pixar instead made the movie they wanted to make. CRACKED.COM

Zach Braff

Celebrity Crowdfunding ZACH BRAFF's movie is funded by fans! (And a financier.) Braff raised $2 million through Kickstarter for his film Wish / Was Here, and secured millions in extra support from a traditional film financier. Braff denied that this changed the picture he initially presented to fans. CRACKED

Remember the Titans

Basedona true story REMEMBER THE TITANS Released in 2000, this Disney movie was allegedly based on a true story about a high school football team. It showed how the team overcame racial tensions, although quite a few of the facts were changed or left out. CRACKED

The Thing

Movie and TV Aliens The Thing The Thing put its FX artist in the hospital. FX wizard Rob Bottin got pneumonia and bleeding ulcers for overworking himself. An up-and-coming Stan Winston stepped in to help (uncredited, as he insisted that it was Rob's film). CRACKED.COM

Chewbacca

Movie and TV Aliens Star Wars Chewbacca was inspired by George Lucas' dog. The dog lay next to Lucas as he was typing the first Star Wars script. Over time, the furry companion would bond with Han Solo just like Lucas with his pup. CRACKED.COM

Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers based Dr. Strangelove's voice on a little-known photographer's. Sellers couldn't figure out what voice to do for Dr. Strangelove, so he eventually based it on the kind of strangled-sounding voice of the photographer Weegee, who Sellers had heard around the set. CRACKED.COM

Dracula

Bram Stocker's Dracula Dracula's castle is modeled after 1903's The Black Idol, by František Kupka - a Czech painter with a keen interest for the occult. CRACKED.COM

Star Wars

CAPTAIN PHASMA IS A TRIBUTE TO A 1979 CULT CLASSIC. If this one doesn't scare you... You're Already Dead! PHANTASM PHANTASM -MICHAEL BALDWIN BILL THORNBURY, REGGIE BANNISTER KATHY LESTER and ANGUS SCRIMM . The Tall Man = T. DON COSCARELI - DA COSCARELLI PALL PEPPERMAN + FRED MYROW MALCOL SEAGRAVE to DI R AVEC EMBASSY ENCILURED Gwendoline Christie's shiny stormtrooper commander is a riff on the equally shiny Phantasm, one of J.J. Abrams' favorite films. CRACKED.COM

The Iron Giant

Brad Bird's loss of his sister partly inspired The Iron Giant. She died of gun violence, and he approached the movie from the angle of What if a gun had a soul? The connection was subconscious when he pitched it, but his feelings about gun violence definitely ended up in the movie, he says. CRACKED.COM

James Bond

Canadian spy Sir William Stephenson inspired James Bond. Bond creator lan Fleming met Stephenson at Camp X, an Ontario espionage school -- they became friends, and eventually even bought real estate in Jamaica together. CRACKED.COM

Hunger Games

Hunger Games: Catching Fire was heavily influenced by Breaking Bad. Director Francis Lawrence binge-watched the show while making the movie, and its cliffhangers inspired him to end his own movie on a cliffhanger. CRACKED.COM

Alien 3

Illegal filmmaking David Fincher took matters into his own hands on Alien 3. Producers thought the drooling Xenormorph was too much, so Fincher took a rogue crew, stole an alien costume, and took Sigourney Weaver to another location (without a permit) to shoot the scene against their wishes. CRACKED

The Conqueror

THE CONQUEROR was the most carcinogenic set of all time They filmed so close to an atomic bomb test site that 91 out of the 220 cast and crew members got cancer later in life. 46 of those, including John Wayne, died from it. Radiologist Dr. Robert Pendleton said, Blame for their exposure on set would hold up in a court of law. CRACKED

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