18 Yummy Movie Facts To Feed Fact-Hungry Brains
![18 Yummy Movie Facts To Feed Fact-Hungry Brains](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/3/856213_320x180.jpg)
You gotta feed your mind, or at least that’s the turn of phrase. We mean, it’s good advice in a metaphorical sense, but what does that look like in action? Do you eat things that boost your brain? If so, what foods would that be? Surely it’s not enough to take that mushroom-based brain booster supplement that you heard about on that one podcast you like. There has to be substance to it.
What is the mouth of the brain? What do we feed into it? Is the mouth of the brain the same mouth as the mouth in our head? They're close to one another and the mouth feeds the rest of the human body, so that would make sense.
What does this all mean? It means that we think the best mind food is random movie facts. These bits of info are pretty fun to snack on, whether they benefit you or not.
Avengers: Endgame
![Avengers: Endgame Only Robert Downey Jr. had the full script. In order to prevent leaks, the cast was only given parts of the script relevant to their characters- aside from RDJ, who had been on the Marvel train from the beginning. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/6/856216.jpg)
Source: Cinemablend
The Terminator
![CST- The Terminator The movie came from James Cameron's nightmare. Cameron was in Rome, Italy doing the final cut of Piranha II, when he was stricken with a 102-degree fever. As he tossed and turned at night, he dreamt of the unstoppable robot. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/3/856233.jpg)
Source: Terminator Files
A Few Good Men
![Aaron Sorkin wrote the first draft on cocktail napkins. Sorkin was working as a bartender while listening to his sister, a Navy JAG Corps member, discuss a case she was working on. Не wrote a version of that story on some napkins at the bar until he could borrow his roommate's computer. A Few Good Men CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/8/856218.jpg)
Source: Considering Aaron Sorkin, by Thomas Fahy (via Google Books)
Rocky
![CRACKED.COM Rocky Sylvester Stallone wrote the first draft in half a week. In the original script, Adrian was Jewish, Mickey was racist, and Rocky ended up throwing the fight so that Adrian could have her own pet store.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/7/856227.jpg)
Source: The New York Times
Ratatouille
![Ratatouille None of the human characters have toes. To save time, the artists and animators at Pixar didn't make any toes for the human characters, which is odd given Pixar's reputation for fine details in their films. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/6/856226.jpg)
Source: /Film
Men in Black
![CRACKED.COM Men in Black Vincent D'Onofrio's performance was helped by basketball gear. To create his human/bug hybrid walk, D'Onofrio put on a pair of braces of the kind basketball players wear, and locked them so he couldn't bend his legs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/2/856232.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
Get Out
![CRACKED.COM Get Out The movie was inspired by an Eddie Murphy stand-up bit. Jordan Peele loved Murphy's comedy bit about watching Poltergeist, and how a black family would just leave the house at the first sign of ghosts. Не fleshed out the rest of the story from there.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/2/856222.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Tonight/YouTube
Big Trouble in Little China
![Big Trouble in Little China John Carpenter wanted Jackie Chan. The director wanted to hire Chan for the role of Wang Chi based on his performance in Police Story, but the producers nixed the idea because he wasn't well known in the United States. Dumb move. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/1/856221.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Willow
![CRACKED.COM Willow It was the largest casting call for little people ever. According to star Warwick Davis, the movie hired between 225 and 240 little person actors.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/1/856231.jpg)
Sources: Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and 'Enfreakment,' by Anna Kerchy (via Google Books), Mental Floss
Swiss Army Man
![Swiss Army Man The movie was pitched as a joke. As Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert were pitching movie ideas, they jokingly tossed in the premise of a man befriending a dead body on a desert island. Then one producer told them to go ahead with it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/0/856230.jpg)
Source: IndieWire
Seabiscuit
![CRACKED.COM Seabiscuit Seabiscuit was played by ten horses. The multiplicity of horse actors was to get a good performance for the cameras and not tire a single horse out. Plus, some horses were better behaved than others for quieter, dialogue-heavy scenes.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/9/856229.jpg)
Source: ESPN
Jack Reacher
![CRACKED.COM Jack Reacher Dwayne Johnson auditioned for the title role. Johnson lost the role to Tom Cruise despite being physically much closer to the character. Не has revealed that that was one of his biggest disappointments in Hollywood.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/5/856225.jpg)
Source: ET Canada/YouTube
Malignant
![Malignant The opening credits spoil the movie. The sequence shows some documents that detail the movie's biggest reveal. No, we won't tell you what that is-go spoil yourself if you want to. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/8/856228.jpg)
Source: Mashable
Everything Everywhere All At Once
![CRACKED.COM Everything Everywhere All At Once The working title was A Woman Tries To Do Her Taxes. The production shot under this title to prevent folks from spying and leaking details.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/7/856217.jpg)
Source: BuzzFeed
Good Burger
![CRACKED.COM Good Burger There was nearly a ton of rotting meat on set. According to Kenan Thompson, at one point there was 1,750 pounds of meat on set that the poor extras had to pretend to eat, as the burgers got older and older with each take.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/0/856220.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
Elf
![CRACKED.COM Elf Ralphie from A Christmas Story has a cameo. Peter Billingsley, who starred in the holiday classic A Christmas Story, is in a quick cameo in this holiday classic as Ming the Elf.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/3/856223.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
![CRACKED.COM The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Marilyn Burns was tied for 26 hours (and it terrified her). The short scene took nearly 26 hours to shoot. Burns being restricted for that long with men looming all around her made her scared for real.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/9/856219.jpg)
Source: Esquire
Con Air
![Con Air Nicolas Cage did his own stunts. There were explosions five feet behind me, Cage said, flaming helicopters dropping right behind me, ball-bearing bullets over my head. So there was a level of intensity, fear, you might say. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/4/856224.jpg)
Source: Metro