26 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Might Just Help You Learn Kung Fu and Dodge Bullets

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26 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Might Just Help You Learn Kung Fu and Dodge Bullets

So you want to learn the ancient art of random movie fact consumption, do you? 

Well, you’ve come to the right place. We don’t know if a little over 130 years of filmmaking can be considered “ancient,” but it’s getting up there, no?

Labels aside, you’ve strolled through our door, ready for movie facts and we aim to please. “Aim” being the keyword here, because you have about five seconds to warm up before we start hurling these at you!

Blade Runner

Daryl Hannah shattered her elbow. BLADE RUNNER When Pris mets Sebastian for the first time, Hannah slips and fals into a van, breaking a window and her own elbow. In eight places.

Doc Brown

Doc Brown might have funded his experiments with insurance fraud. Back to the Future co-writer Bob Gale says that he might have set his house on fire for the insurance money he needed for his work. Gale didn't confirm it outright, but said that everyone is full of contradictions, and that Doc Brown is shown doing unethical things in the movie, anyway. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Thor

HAMMER CHRIS HEMSWORTH CRACKED.COM Nope, it's not a Thor reference. I was actually called Hammer back in the day by one of the Home And Away directors, says Hemsworth. It was a nod to MC Hammer. There was a bit of , neither of any great talent.

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood squints because his eyes are sensitive to light. Shooting in bright light for the Fistful of Dollars trilogy only highlighted the effect. At the time he wasn't even thinking about how it would look on camera. CRACKED.COM

Back to the Future

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS BACK A REFERENCE TO THE TO FUTURE A GALE/ZEMECKIS MOVIE HE assier KOWN HOKE ever ELMO - - USED CARS IS TREE - - POLICIA - When Marty rides to school holding onto the back of a Jeep, he skates past a sign that says Used Cars. It's a referènce to the 1980 movie with the same title. CRACKED.COM

The Dark Knight

Same series, almost a different role THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY HEATH LEDGER as Batman Before Christian Bale took the role, Ledger was up for the Dark Knight, but turned it down. CRACKED.COM

Pitch Perfect

THE MOVIE IS BASED ON A NON-FICTION BOOK. Journalist and former senior editor at GQ Magazine Mickey Rapkin researched competitive collegiate a cappella, and the result was the 2008 book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate a Cappella Glory. PITCH PERFECT CRACKED.COM

Sam Raimi

Spider-Man Movie Villains Sam Raimi's Trilogy Fans thought Bruce Campbell was Mysterio. Some fans believed that Campbell was playing the same person, illusionist villain Quentin Beck, in each of his cameos throughout the trilogy. Campbell debunked the rumors in 2019. NC QUIET PLEASE WHILE CRACKED.COM

Lillian Gish

The first film actress: CRACKED.COM Known to act so hard she'd collapse, Lillian Gish was the first actress hired specifically for film. She method-acted so hard, she gave herself permanent nerve damage and almost starved to death on film.

Goldfinger

Hollywood Rumors and Myths Did an actress die for real in Goldfinger? When Jill Masterson tries to double cross Goldfinger, he paints her gold, killing her via skin asphyxiation. Many people somehow believed that actress Shirley Eaton actually died in real life, because of how realistic the scene looks. CRACKED

Thandiwe Newton

Thandiwe Newton's first name was misspelled as Thandie in the credits of her 1991 first movie, Flirting. GRAGKED.COM In April 2021, after three decades, the actress reclaimed her original first name.

The Ring

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The shadows under all the actors in The Ring were removed. CRACKED.COM In order to give the viewer an unsettling feeling from the movie, cinematographer Bojan Bazelli used very deliberate lighting to remove shadows under the actors and have them look like they're floating in space.

Us

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JORDAN PEELE WOULD STAND-IN FOR THE ACTORS. Us Due to the actors playing two roles in the film, Peele would often play their doppelgängers on set so the actors would have an easier time reacting in scenes. CRACKED.COM

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST THE ACTORS LIVED IN THE PSYCHIATRIC WARD DURING SHOOTING. All of the actors who played patients actually stayed in the sleep quarters at the Oregon State Hospital, to get a sense of what it was like to be hospitalized. CRACKED.COM

Moonlight

Moonlight The three lead actors never met. The three actors who play the protagonist at different stages of his life never met each other in the 25 days of shooting. CRACKED.COM

X-Men

Kevin Feige was hired on to the first X-Men film as an assistant. Feige was eventually given an associate producer credit when another producer dis- covered he was a walking encyclopedia of Marvel. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Transporter

June on prime video June 1 The Transporter The movie was born from writer/producer Luc Besson and producer Steve Chasman discussing how talented Jason Statham was. The story just grew from there. CRACKED.COM

Face/Off

CRACKED.COM FACE/OFF IT WAS PRODUCED BY MICHAEL DOUGLAS. The actor is also a prolific producer, having worked behind the cameras in such films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Flatliners, and The Rainmaker.

Gladiator

Hollywood feuds RUSSELL CROWE VS A GLADIATOR PRODUCER While filming Gladiator, Crowe allegedly threatened seasoned producer Branko Lustig, and said that he would kill him with his bare hands, because he was annoying the hell out of him. CRACKED

Friday the 13th

CRACKED COM The RV crash scene in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was a way to screw over the producer. Producer Don Behrns would get a chunk of any of the budget that the movie didn't spend, and could take home on-set equipment. So he drove director Tom McLoughlin nuts by almost never letting him spend cash. Behrns had his eye on a $5,000 swamp cooler on set, and McLoughlin made sure to stick that cooler on top of the RV when he filmed the crash scene.

Toy Story 4

THE TOY STORY 4 PRODUCER DEBUNKED THE PIXAR THEORY. Producer Mark Nielsen and director Josh Cooley said on the Blu-ray commentary track that part of the reason for using the antique shop in the movie was to debunk the Pixar Theory that states all Pixar movies happen in a shared universe. The truth is, what leads to a lot of these theories is the fact that we've reused characters and sets from previous movies for efficiency's sake.... Without knowing that, if you're going to look at it, you could read intentionality there that's not really there. That's really what's happened

The Force Awakens

In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it took the special effects crew months to create the bread rising effect, in Rey' S bowl. Special effects supervisor Chris Corbould told MTV News; You wouldn't believe how long it took to actually perfect that one, that little tiny gag in the film. In the end they used a suction pump that sucked out the liquid, as an air pump inflated the bread from underneath. CRACKED.COM

The Rains Came

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects The first Academy Award.. 1939 for Best Special Effects. The Rains Came won the first-ever special effects Oscar. Of its $2.5 million budget, $500k was used for flood and earthquake scenes. The effects took almost 50 days, requiring 350 laborers, 14 cameras, and 33 million gallons of water. CRACKED

Escape from New York

Escape From New York showed a wireframe view of the city. NOSE VIEW And it was done with tape and a black light. The filmmakers wanted to create a high-tech computer readout but didn't have the budget. So they grabbed the model they'd been using for high angle shots and striped it with green tape. When they hit it with a black light, it glowed. CRACKED.COM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Escape_From_New_York_Wireframe.jpg

Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings trilogy mixed hobbits, dwarves, and humans. With forced perspective. Making normal-sized actors look vastly different in size wasn't just a matter of swapping out children for the long shots. Filmmakers built special rigs that separated the actors so that small characters would look tiny compared to human-sized ones. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/V3ZiHEQimwE

Skyfall

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