38 Pithy Bits of Movie Trivia to Make Your Protagonist Say Instead of Stuff Like ‘Um, Awkward’ and ‘He’s Right Behind Me, Isn’t He?’

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38 Pithy Bits of Movie Trivia to Make Your Protagonist Say Instead of Stuff Like ‘Um, Awkward’ and ‘He’s Right Behind Me, Isn’t He?’

Man, are we glad we got to give this list one final rewrite! It was okay up until this point, but a little scheduling snafu with one of the leads gave us time to spruce things up a bit more. These succinct, expressive little movie tidbits are gonna get you on the edge of your seat in ways that that David Mamet hack could only dream of!

American Beauty

CRACKED.COM American Beauty S The cheerleader dance was choreographed by Paula Abdul. She made the dance a little flawed on purpose, so it would replicate how teens would dance rather than trained professionals. S S S

Batman

CRACKED.COM Batman (1989) Batman's boots are sneakers. The boots, which were made by Nike as part of an endorsement deal with Warner Bros., had black sneakers incorporated into them.

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain The movie almost starred Matt Damon and Joaquin Phoenix. Those were Gus Van Sant's choices, back when it was his project. Damon reportedly told him, Gus, I did a gay movie (The Talented Mr. Ripley), then a cowboy movie (All the Pretty Horses), I can't follow it up with a gay cowboy movie! CRACKED.COM

Dick Tracy

CRACKED.COM Dick Tracy The movie only uses seven colors. To get that newspaper comic strip feel, the film only uses red, green, fuchsia, orange, суап, blue, and yellow in its aesthetics.

Aladdin

The magic carpet in Aladdin wasn't 2D-animated. It was done in CG, and they drew the pattern on paper before turning into a texture for a 3D object. That was super expensive at the time, and Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg wan't happy about paying so much for a bunch of squiggles. CRACKED.COM

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The squirrels in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were real, trained animals. They gathered 40 squirrels (some were raised on set and some others taken from squirrel rescues or people's homes) and spent eight weeks training them for the scene. CRACKED.COM

John Wick

John Wick spent $5,000 on CG dog poop. They weren't allowed to give laxatives to the dog on the set, so they had to make do with CGI. CRACKED.COM

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The scenes with two Sarahs in Terminator 2 didn't involve Linda Hamilton filming twice. The second Sarah was her twin sister Leslie Hamilton Freas, and she played whichever version of Sarah was farther from the camera. CRACKED.COM

Wonder Woman

Diana's belly in Wonder Woman is sometimes CGI. Gal Gadot was pregnant when they were doing the reshoots, so they cut open the front of her costume and CGI'd her pregnant belly out. CRACKED.COM

X-Men

Hugh Jackman came up with the line What do they call you? Wheels? on the X-Men set. CRACKED.COM

John Wick

In John Wick, it was Michael Nyqvist's idea to have Viggo smoke a joint to tune out the knowledge that John Wick is killing his son. CRACKED.COM

22 Jump Street

Jonah Hill and Jillian Bell winged their initial fight in 22 Jump Street. PRI REA Since it was all improv, the whole thing was done in a single take (with two cameras). CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters

Sigourney Weaver ad-libbed the line You're more like a game show host in Ghostbusters. The version in the script said You're more like a car salesman. CRACKED.COM

Aladdin

When he was recording his lines for Genie, Robin Williams spontaneously called Aladdin AI. The filmmakers liked that, and changed the script so Genie would call him that all the time. CRACKED.COM

Transformers

38 Pithy Bits of Movie Trivia to Make Your Protagonist Say Instead of Stuff Like ‘Um, Awkward’ and ‘He’s Right Behind Me, Isn’t He?’

Cast Away

CAST had to stop production for a year to AWAY let Tom Hanks lose 50 pounds of weight and grow his beard in order to achieve a natural shipwrecked look. GRAGKED.COM

The Lord of the Rings

38 Pithy Bits of Movie Trivia to Make Your Protagonist Say Instead of Stuff Like ‘Um, Awkward’ and ‘He’s Right Behind Me, Isn’t He?’

The Mummy

38 Pithy Bits of Movie Trivia to Make Your Protagonist Say Instead of Stuff Like ‘Um, Awkward’ and ‘He’s Right Behind Me, Isn’t He?’

Beetlejuice

The iconic role of Beetlejuice was almost played by Sammy Davis Jr. Tim Burton originally wanted the role to go to the Rat Pack member, but once Burton met Michael Keaton he was blown away by his performance. CRACKED.COM

Dr. No

In the original script for Dr. No, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz made the titular villain a monkey. The producer Albert R. Broccoli nixed the idea and had the script rewritten. CRACKED.COM

Age of Ultron

JOSS WHEDON WANTED A DREAM-FOCUSED SUBPLOT WITH ERIK SELVIG, THOR, AND LOKI IN AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON. The version of the movie with that subplot was 3 hours and 15 minutes long - almost one hour more than the final cut. CRACKED.COM

Bridesmaids

Melissa McCarthy based her character in Bridesmaids after Guy Fieri She was able to wear many costume pieces that referenced him, but if she had gotten her way she would have physically transformed into Fieri all the way to his spiky blonde hair. CRACKED.COM

Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds regrets making the movie that earned him an Academy Award nomination. Reynolds hated making Boogie Nights with the then 26-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson, who the actor described as young and full of himself. Не even turned down the director's next film, Magnolia. CRACKED.COM

Moonstruck

Moonstruck The original title was The Bride and the Wolf. Producer Norman Jewison loved the script but thought the title sounded like a horror film, so it was changed. CRACKED.COM

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Carrie Fisher

about FEN CITYNA ANK USE ay up. Make the women smarter, and the love scenes better. That was Carrie Fisher's advice on how to make films better, including The Wedding Singer for which she did an uncredited rewrite as a script doctor. CRACKED.COM

Source: /Film

Interstellar

Remember the wormhole scene in Interstellar? That was a physical set. The Tesseract, an artificial construct that depicts time as a physical dimension

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