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Shawshank Redemption:
Kevin Costner turned down the role of Andy Dufresne, a decision he strongly regretted later on.


Hoosiers:

The scene with Jimmy and Coach Dale talking while Jimmy shot baskets was filmed in one take. Maris Valainis said that he "wasn't even listening to him." "I was just concentrating on making them and I made one and they kept going in."

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In City Slickers, when Billy Crystal is talking about his best day... his first trip to Yankee Stadium, learned to keep score, Mickey hit one out... that is a true story.

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Blues Brothers:

License Plate of the Bluesmobile: BDR 529
Sunglasses Model: Raybans 5022-g15
Notable Cameos: Steven Spielberg, Pee Wee Herman

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The liscence plate question is ALWAYS a question at catholic grade school trivia nights.


Goodfellas:

The Fbi agent at the end of goodfellas who convinces Henry and Karen to go into the WPP is a real-life FBI agent.

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They ran out of funding for Monty Python and the Holy Grail so that is why it ends so suddenly.

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You know K-Pax was written for Will Smith? Never actually saw it, though.

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About 1/3 of the furst Back to the Future was originally filmed with Eric Stolz playing the role of Marty McFly. Michael J. Fox had originally turned down the role because of Family Ties filming, but the producers were able to change his mind after they became dissatisfied with Stolz's performance.

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About 1/3 of the original Back to the Future was filmed with Eric Stolz playing the role of Marty McFly. Michael J. Fox had originally turned down the role because of Family Ties filming, but the producers were able to change his mind after they became dissatisfied with Stolz's performance.

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Another Goodfellas one:

Tommy's mom is played by Martin Scorsese's mom. And in her scene, the painting with the two dogs in the rowboat ("One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way, and this guy's sayin', 'Whadda ya want from me?'") was painted by the mother of Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote the book the movie was based on.

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Here's one that is pretty well known, but is worth mentioning:

The scene In Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indy just shrugs and shoots the huge Arab swordsman was originally supposed to be a long, drawn out fight scene. But Harrison Ford got really sick during the filming and suggested that Indy just shoot the guy.

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Dirty dancing almost didn't get released because Jennifer Gray was 17 during filming and a bunch of right wing nut-cases thought the movie promoted sex with minors in an inappropriate way.

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Dirty dancing almost didn't get released because Jennifer Gray was 17 during filming and a bunch of right wing nut-cases thought the movie promoted sex with minors in an inappropriate way.

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So Dirty Dancing is one of your favorite movies? (Not that there's anything wrong with that [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] )

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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Dr. Aki Ross' hair is only half as dense as the average human crop, however, that still left 60,000 strands to put realistically into motion. When designing the computer graphics, a fifth of the time spent was devoted to those 60,000 hairs.

Wedding Crashers

The painting of Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) that Todd Cleary ('Keir O'Donnell' ) creates and gives to Jeremy was kept by Vaughn after filming.

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Casino

Joe Pesci's character Nicky Santoro was based on real-life Chicago gangster Tony Spilotro. As portrayed in the movie with Nicky and his brother, Spilotro and his brother really were beaten and buried in an Indiana cornfield together in 1986.

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Casino

Joe Pesci's character Nicky Santoro was based on real-life Chicago gangster Tony Spilotro. As portrayed in the movie with Nicky and his brother, Spilotro and his brother really were beaten and buried in an Indiana cornfield together in 1986.

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Most everyone in that movie was based on real characters, Ace Rothstein = Lefty Rosenthal, etc.




Not a movie, but Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico), will never flip, he has it in his contract that his character wont rat becuase he actually has some connections to half assed wiseguys in new york.

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Casino

Joe Pesci's character Nicky Santoro was based on real-life Chicago gangster Tony Spilotro. As portrayed in the movie with Nicky and his brother, Spilotro and his brother really were beaten and buried in an Indiana cornfield together in 1986.

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JAWS:

When the shark goes into the lagoon and knocks the guy out of the boat, you see a leg fall to the lagoon floor.

That was a real leg of a cameraman that dropped his camera during the accident and it filmed his own leg sinking to the bottom.

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Full metal jacket

Former US Marine Corps Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey was not originally hired to play Gunnery Sgt. Hartman but as a consultant for the Marine Corps boot camp portion of the film. He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for 15 minutes without stopping, repeating himself or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges. Stanley Kubrick was so impressed that he cast Ermey as Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann.
The videotape demonstration was not the only factor which got R. Lee Ermey the role as the drill instructor. Ermey went to Stanley Kubrick and asked for the part, as the actors on the set were, in his opinion, not up to snuff. When Kubrick declined, Ermey barked an order for Kubrick to stand up when he was spoken to, and the director instinctively obeyed. That sealed the matter, and Ermey won the part as Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann.

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Dirty dancing almost didn't get released because Jennifer Gray was 17 during filming and a bunch of right wing nut-cases thought the movie promoted sex with minors in an inappropriate way.

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So Dirty Dancing is one of your favorite movies? (Not that there's anything wrong with that [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] )

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yeah... I know... i think I was suppose to be gay... but for some reason I just prefer boobs.

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I thought this thread was going to be about facts we learned from movies.

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I thought this thread was going to be about facts we learned from movies.

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The human head weighs eight pounds!!

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I thought this thread was going to be about facts we learned from movies.

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ditto

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JAWS:

When the shark goes into the lagoon and knocks the guy out of the boat, you see a leg fall to the lagoon floor.

That was a real leg of a cameraman that dropped his camera during the accident and it filmed his own leg sinking to the bottom.

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no. it. isn't.

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Jim Carey's "Hello Clarise, its good to see you again" reference to Silence of the Lambs was improv. If you pay close attention, you can see Matthew Broderick cracking up.

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In Best Seller James Woods hands Brian Dennehy a watch as a gift. He says, "Patek Philip, the best".

So it is, imo.

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About 1/3 of the furst Back to the Future was originally filmed with Eric Stolz playing the role of Marty McFly. Michael J. Fox had originally turned down the role because of Family Ties filming, but the producers were able to change his mind after they became dissatisfied with Stolz's performance.

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This is the first one that came to mind for me.

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"Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi" orig. was named "Revenge of the Jedi", but George Lucas later changed the title because he didn't believe 'Revenge' was the way of the Jedi.

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this might be pretty well known but Beverly Hills Cop was originally written for Sylvester Stallone... I dunno why he did not do the film, but thank god!!

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The actor who played Moe Green in the godfather, is a suspect in a real mob shooting that sparked a fairly big mob war. He was connected with the Winter hill gang (irish).

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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf for LOTR and ??? (never heard what role, Architect maybe) for Matrix. He claims he didn't "get it" when reading the script.

He took the role in League of Extrodinary Gentlemen because he didn't "get it".