21 Bankable Bits of Movie Trivia Whose Names Alone Basically Guarantees A Decent Return at the Box Office

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21 Bankable Bits of Movie Trivia Whose Names Alone Basically Guarantees A Decent Return at the Box Office

We cant believe that these huge movie facts signed on to our low-budget list. They must really believe in this little project to work for such paltry pay. Well, we know theyll bring the factual goods, so its on us to make them look good and not mess up the final cut. 

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Lord of the Rings

CRACKED.COM The Lord of the Rings Christopher Lee was the only cast member to have ever met Tolkien. Lee met the author by chance in a pub in Oxford. Не was a huge fan of the books when they came out in the 1950s.

Schindler’s List

CRACKED.COM Schindler's List They got costumes via newspaper ads. The costume designer needed outfits for over 20,000 extras for a scene in Plaszow, so they advertised in Krakow newspapers Krakow asking for period clothing in mint condition. And it worked!

Mad Max: Fury Road

The flame guitar in Mad Max: Fury Road was totally real. Everything actually worked, while driving at full speed, exactly as you see it in the movie. CRACKED.COM

Knives Out

Marta's hand on the mug near the end of Knives Out is a visual effect. They originally shot it with the words revealed, but then realized revealing the words early on would weaken the final shot -- so they moved her hand to make it cover the words. CRACKED.COM

Armageddon

Bruce Willis kind of made up his own lines in the Armageddon scene where he lists the drillers' demands. Michael Bay asked every actor to write down what he'd really ask, and Bruce Willis took all that and riffed on it instead of rattling off what's on the papers. CRACKED.COM

The Jerk

Steve Martin improvised the entire farewell speech in The Jerk (And that's all I need... ... ). Co-writer Michael Elias says it's the scene he's proudest of, even though he didn't write a word for it. CRACKED.COM

Venom

Tom Hardy just decided to jump into that lobster tank in Venom. The crew put a huge lobster tank in the restaurant, and when Hardy saw it, he said he had to get in it -- so he did, and they worked the idea into the movie. CRACKED.COM

Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Movie: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Inspiration: Crazy holiday shoppers This is how director Tobe Hooper came up with his chainsaw idea: I was in a department store around the holidays, thinking, 'I just can't wait to get out of this department store.' I looked down and there was a rack of chain saws in front of me for sale. I said, 'If I start the saw, those people would just part. They would get out of my way. A reminder to never go shopping with this guy. CRACKED.COM

Forrest Gump

CRACKED.COM Movie: Forrest Gump Inspiration: Norman Rockwell's art Director Robert Zemeckis used the work of the classic American painter to shape the look and feel of Greenbow, the fictional Alabama town where Forrest grew up. Rockwell's painting Girl with Black Eye was also recreated in the scene where Gump waits for his mother outside the principal's office (minus the black eye).

Kong: Skull Island

CRACKED COM Movie: Kong: Skull Island Inspiration: Shadow Of The Colossus While Pokémon and Predator also served as inspiration, it was SotC that hit home for director Jordan Vogt-Roberts: It's such a beautiful thing to have a boss fight where you feel sad after you've killed the boss. The colossi in those games have such a slow, melancholy, morose quality to them. I think and I hope that Kong has a similar vibe in the film. That, and finding out what would happen if you add colossi-like monsters to Apocalypse Now.

The Purge

CRACKED COM Movie: The Purge Inspiration: A drunk driver (and a vengeful wife) Director James DeMonaco tells the story of the time a drunk driver almost killed him and his wife by cutting them off on the road. They confronted the driver, but he showed no remorse. My wife was so worked up over this guy's attitude... and said, 'Wouldn't it be great if we all had one free one a year?' I'm like, 'That's so fucked-up, honey,' but it stayed with me. Now there's your movie.

Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975) was shot without the addition of any artificial light. At the time, in order to film this apparently simple low-light, by the candlelight, scene, Kubrick had to get special modified lenses from NASA's Apollo NASA mission. CRACKED.COM

Scott Pilgrim

21 Bankable Bits of Movie Trivia Whose Names Alone Basically Guarantees A Decent Return at the Box Office

Jaws

GRAGKED.COM IN JAWS ROBERT SHAW DID 50 TAKES ASSEMBLING THE GREENER GUN. THE REASON? DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG HAD TO KEEP EVERYONE BUSY WHILE THE SHARK WAS BROKEN SO THEY WOULDN'T GET BORED.

Eraserhead

21 Bankable Bits of Movie Trivia Whose Names Alone Basically Guarantees A Decent Return at the Box Office

Psycho

The shower scene from Devoun took 7 days and 70 takes to shoot. CRACKED.COM

Beauty and the Beast

Disney composers Howard Ashman and Alan Menken originally wanted Mrs. Potts' song in Beauty and the Beast to be a rock song. CRACKED.COM

Alien 3

CRACKED.COM H.R. Giger wanted the xenomorph in Alien 3 to be a lot more sexual. Alian In Phy Kiss Alle The creature was originally designed to have human-like lips, and it would kill its victims with a kiss.

Logan

HUGH JACKMAN WANTED A HAPPIER ENDING FOR LOGAN. We would never have gotten that powerful and near perfect ending had the director listened to Jackman, who pitched a happier ending in which Logan survives and goes off to the sunset with Laura. Jackman now agrees that the final ending was the better choice. GRAGKED.COM

Rocky V

DIRECTOR JOHN AVILDSEN SAID THE ITALIAN STALLION WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE IN ROCKY V FOLLOWING A BRUTAL BEATING BY TOMMY GUNN. THE STUDIO VETOED THE ENDING TWO WEEKS INTO SHOOTING. ROCKY BALBOA 1951-1990 S KILLED BY LEAST INTERESTING CHARACTER IN THE FRANCHISE CRACKED.COM

Prometheus

Writer Damon Lindelof and director Ridley Scott initially had the idea that the Engineers seen in Prometheus had sent Jesus to elevate humanity from their war- like ways. GRACKED.COM

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