Random facts from your favorite movies... - Page 2

slickpoppa · #11 02-21-2007, 11:19 PM

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.

Bicycles_Biatch · #12 02-21-2007, 11:21 PM

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.

slickpoppa · #13 02-21-2007, 11:23 PM

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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] )

mastin1 · #14 02-21-2007, 11:36 PM

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.

CheckRaise · #15 02-21-2007, 11:37 PM

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.

guids · #16 02-21-2007, 11:39 PM

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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.

sublime · #17 02-21-2007, 11:43 PM

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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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u stink at this game

27offsuit · #18 02-22-2007, 12:29 PM

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.

Clan Macleod · #19 02-22-2007, 12:37 PM

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.

Bicycles_Biatch · #20 02-22-2007, 07:42 PM

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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.