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April 24, 2021

We all know that movies are built upon a foundation of coordination and elaborate preparation. From set design and build, to writing and editing, to cinematography, to directing and editing--there are literally armies of people working to plan and erect these cathedrals of the modern media landscape.

The funny thing is, despite all of this extensive planning some of the greatest moments in movies are completely improvised and unpredictable.

Apparently, if you let Bill Murray show up every day and say more or less whatever he wants on camera, he’ll be happy to do exactly that.

We had no idea that Will Smith came up with one of his most famous monologues in the Fresh Prince on the spot. The last scene of Wayne's World? You guessed it, also unscripted.

Want to be surprised? Well, don't just stick to the script. Take a chance and scroll down for more! Here’s the full story, plus 14 others:

The You know how I know you're gay bit in The 40-Year-Old Virgin wasn't in the script. Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd came up with it in an improv session, then put it into the movie. CRACKED COM — Source: The Dissolve, New York Times

The Fresh Prince

Source: CheatSheet

The last scene of Wayne's World was improvised. WAXNE WRt DROSY Director Penelope Spheeris just kept filming and let Mike Myers and Dana Carvey improvc- he knew that was the only way he could get that scene, he says. — Source: Entertainment Weekly

A big line in The Cosby Show pilot was ad-libbed. Cosby's exclamation That's the dumbest thing I ever heard! was just something he came up with the fly, because the audience's applause to the line just before that threw him off balance. CRACKED COM — Source: Yahoo

The history of the Blair Witch in Burkittsville was something a bystander just made up. The woman telling the story was just somebody the filming crew of The Blair Witch Project came across, and she pulled the story out of thin air. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

Harry Shearer and Jeff Goldblum improvised everything in The Right Stuff. They had exactly zero written lines, and writer-director Philip Kaufman told them You and Jeff improvise. Hopefully it'll be a little funny. CRACKED COM — Source: Wired

Robin Williams made up the fart line in Good Will Hunting. It's when he says his wife used to fart in her sleep. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up.' Apparently, the camera kind of wobbled, so it was probably so funny it made the operator — Source: The Independent

The ending of Iron Man was all Robert Downey Jr. He just said the line I am Iron Man. it wasn't in the script. Marvel producer Kevin Feige kept it in because it was something very much in keeping with the comics character and what he could have done. CRACKED COM — Source: IndieWire

Bill Murray came up with pretty much all his lines in Kingpin. He'd just ask the directors what they wanted in the scene, and say whatever lines he felt would best achieve that, changing them on every take. CRACKED COM — Source: Mental Floss

Anthony Hopkins ad-libbed Lecter mocking Clarice's accent in Silence of the Lambs. Jodie Foster's reaction was real oshe felt genuinely horrified. CRACKED COM — Source: CBR

Bill Paxton

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Jack Nicholson improvised Here's Johnny! in The Shining. He lifted the line straight from the Tonight Show, which would open with Johnny Carson saying exactly that. — Source: People.com

Ben Stein

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