31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Do Their Own Stunts and Don’t Believe in Antidepressants, Just Like Scientology Jesus

As crazy as these sound, you really should believe every word they say
31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Do Their Own Stunts and Don’t Believe in Antidepressants, Just Like Scientology Jesus

Welcome to the movie fact congregation, where we spread the good word of the filmmaking industry. This isn’t like those boring Sunday morning sermons with some grey-haired dude droning on in Latin. Nope, this is a hip, cool, new age “event” that you can really learn from while boogying down! 

And best of all, these movie facts won’t ask for a percentage of your salary!

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Samuel L. Jackson came up with Valentine's lisp. Kingsman THE SECRET SERVICE Jackson based the lisp on his own experiences of growing up with a stutter, and people not taking him seriously because of it. It also took some convincing on Jackson's part, because the director hated the idea at first. CRACKED.COM

Pitch Perfect

31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Do Their Own Stunts and Don’t Believe in Antidepressants, Just Like Scientology Jesus

Iron Man

Tony Stark passed silently thanks to Robert Downey Jr. The screenwriters of Avengers: Endgame wrote several possible final lines and presented them to Downey. Не rejected all of them and proposed that the character go out in a more impactful way - without saying anything. CRACKED.COM

Lord of the Rings

Elijah Wood shot his own audition tape for the LOTR trilogy back in the day. Не did that way before making your own tape was common and, he says,he enlisted some friends, including George Huang, who is a writer and filmmaker. We went out to the woods in Griffith Park and shot two of the audition sequences there and one at my house. CRACKED.COM

Thor

Chris Hemsworth thinks his mom helped him get the role of Thor. Не blew his first audition, he says, then tried again, and his mom Leonie read the part of Odin. She must have nailed it, because it got me back in the room, he says. CRACKED.COM

Bond

George Lazenby basically tried to be Sean Connery to get cast as Bond. Не not only got Sean Connery's haircut, he also bought one of Connery's old suits, all to make an impression. CRACKED.COM

Bad Santa

To get her role in Bad Santa, Lauren Graham had to hump a chair. I can still remember how terrified I was at the Bad Santa audition. I had to hump a chair ...I humped a chair. Among other things. I had to do basically everything that my character does. And a lot of it is very... visual, she said. CRACKED.COM

Dr. Strange

Behind-the-scenes Drama Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness The movie had to be changed because of the pandemic. The entire plot was rewritten after Marvel's films were shuffled around and this became a sequel to Spider-Man: No Way Home. CRACKED.COM

Superman

The black suit Superman wears in Justice League wasn't chosen accidentally. In the comics, he wears it after he gets back to life-so, in the movie, it's what he wears after he comes back too. CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man

SPIDER-MAN EASTER EGGSTRA! INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE The Toby Maguire dance. The producers were worried that audiences would not get the throwback to Maguire's Peter Parker dancing down the street in Spider-Man 3. CRACKED.COM

Jack Black

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS Jack Black scared the heck out of the PARENTS CRACKED.COM The moms were spooked by the rampaging wild man they knew from Orange County and Tenacious D. My mom was just terrified that he was going to be a terrible influence on me, says Jordan-Claire Green. But Black quickly won them over: He was just amazing.

Napoleon Dynamite

BEHINO-THE-SCENESPHOTS That was a helluva throw from UNCLE RICO CRACKED.COM Не actually nailed bike-riding Napoleon in the face with Kip's steak. The impact gave Heder two black eyes that you can see in multiple scenes. The steak fling is especially impressive considering actor Jon Gries is a vegan.

Jason Segel

Jason Segel wrote a DRACULA PUPPET MUSICAL in real life. In his early twenties, Segel wrote songs for the super serious musical. WHEN НЕ PLAYED SOME OF THE SONGS TO JUDD APATOW, НЕ WAS TOLD TO NEVER EVER PLAY IT FOR ANOTHER HUMAN BEING AGAIN. BEHIND THE SCENES | FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL CRACKED.COM

Judd Apatow

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Apatow worried that Steve would lose a BODY PART CRACKED COM We were looking for who was a professional waxer, says Apatow. Somebody said 'this is the person. And the woman who claimed to know how to wax I think lied. She put the wax over Steve's nipple and we almost lost a nipple. That's all I'm going to say.

Office Space

The cast ramped up the cussing on purpose. CRACKED COM During production, they heard the studio was angling to get a PG-13 rating. They started spouting more profanity to make that a much harder sell, and managed to keep the R rating.

Walk Hard

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE PENIS BELONGS TO A FAMOUS DIRECTOR. ? WALK HARD According to Judd Apatow, the guy whose penis is shown onscreen went on to become a famous director, however, he refuses to reveal who it is. CRACKED.COM

Seth Rogen

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SUPERBAD FACTS Seth Rogen said no effing way to PG-13 GRACKED.COM According to one count, Superbad uses the F word 176 times. Watering it down wasn't an option, even when the studios pressed hard for a cleaner version. We were just like, 'No, says Rogen.

Star Wars

31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Do Their Own Stunts and Don’t Believe in Antidepressants, Just Like Scientology Jesus

The Return of the Living Dead

THE YELLOWISH SMOKE DURING THE OPENING CREDITS WAS PRETTY TOXIC THE RETURN of THE LIVING DEAD. Apparently the only way to get yellow smoke was for the production team to use sulfur. It took a few minutes of pumping that smoke to give most of the people on set terrible headaches. CRACKED.COM

It

BILL SKARSGARD SKYPED HIS BROTHERS A LOT WHILE FILMING IT... IN HIS PENNYWISE MAKE-UP. The Skarsgard brothers were apparently psyched that Bill was playing the iconic clown. Brother Bill ended up skyping them a lot, so they could get a kick out of seeing him all done up. CRACKED.COM

Carrie

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Sissy Spacek slept in her bloody clothes for three days. CRACKED.COM When Spacek's character in Carrie is covered in pig's blood, it makes for quite the stunning visual. During the three days it took to finish the scene, Spacek slept in the blood-soaked clothes to not risk losing continuity.

The Lorax

Audrey in The Lorax was played by none other than Taylor Swift. In a film with musical numbers by Ed Helms, Betty White, Rob Riggle, and more, how many songs did Tay Tay perform? Exactly none. CRACKED COM

Toy Story

WOODY Woody was based on John Lasseter's pull-string Casper doll, so he always had a voice box. GRAGKED.COM

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs in movies Then vs. Now Animation 1914's Gertie the Dinosaur was the first cartoon ever, and also an interactive vaudeville act. From there, dinosaurs in animation have come a long way. Fantasia's segment was terrifying, and The Land Before Time was terrifying and adorable. With the coming of CGI we got Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, which was, erm... a movie someone saw, probably. CRACKED.COM

Frozen

Animation code from Frozen was used to solve a 63 year old, erm, 'cold' case. CRACKED.COM The Dyatlov Pass incident left nine Russian hikers dead in 1959. Engineers recently relied on animation codes in Frozen to prove a long- standing theory that an ava- lanche resulted in the deaths of the nine hikers.

Claymation

CLAY ANIMATION 1912 CRACKED.COM Modelling Extraordinary was released in 1912 and was one of the first clay animation movies to use stop motion. It was met with great critical acclaim.

Shrek

Shrek won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. SHREK SHREK! WILLIAM.STEIG It's a clear improvement on the book, which is about an ogre marrying the most stunningly ugly princess on the surface of the planet and is only 30 pages long. CRACKED.COM

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chief Bromden is a legitimate danger to society. Не believes that society is controlled by an inhuman machine called The Combine, and that everybody is secretly a robot. In the movie, he's one of the most soulful characters in cinematic history. Instead of being a threat to the world, he's just a man beaten down by the system. His escape CRACKED.COM is a cause for celebration, not fear.

The Natural

31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Do Their Own Stunts and Don’t Believe in Antidepressants, Just Like Scientology Jesus

Stuart Little

Adaptations of works by legendary authors have a high bar to clear, but 1999's Stuart Little is by all accounts a well-done kids' movie SUMMER MEMORIES The book begins with a human giving birth to a mouse, sends that mouse through a series of disjointed adventures that includes teaching an elementary school class the virtues of dictatorship, then ends on an unsatisfying cliffhanger. CRACKED.COM

Big Hero 6

The Big Hero 6 movie got rid of Baymax's weird original backstory. In the comics, Hiro's dead father's brain engrams were programmed into Baymax, so Baymax has his personality. Because of that, Baymax feels very close to Hiro's mother, but both he and Hiro decided it's in her best interest that she doesn't know Baymax's AI was built from her dead husband's memories. CRACKED.COM

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