Yes, that's right folks. Believe it or not, these facts about movies are real.
So put away those skeptical hats and throw on your "I can't believe that" face, 'cause we're getting into it.
Yes, that's right folks. Believe it or not, these facts about movies are real.
So put away those skeptical hats and throw on your "I can't believe that" face, 'cause we're getting into it.
Remember that "candy" teacup that Willy Wonka took a bite out of in the "Pure Imagination" scene?
Well, it wasn't actually candy, it was wax, so Gene Wilder had to spit it out between takes.
When Alfred (Michael Caine) first saw Heath Ledger in his Joker makeup, he was so terrified of what he saw that he forgot the line he was supposed to say.
Remember that kind of weird scene where Richard Gere snaps the necklace closed before Julia Roberts could grab it?
Well, that was improvised, and her reaction was totally natural.
In Princess Diaries, the moment where Mia climbed the bleachers and tripped wasn't supposed to happen, that was just Anne Hathaway being an adorable dork.
Obviously, director Garry Marshall kept it in the film.
In The Hateful 8, there's this scene where Daisy Domergue is playing a beautiful antique guitar (probably not antique in the film's universe, but antique in ours).
Now, Daisy was supposed to play the antique guitar for some cuts and switch to a smashable guitar for the smashing take.
Let's just say that didn't happen and Kurt Russell smashed a beautiful antique guitar.
So it's Rocky IV now, and Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) is going up against Dolph Lundgren (Ivan Drago). In an effort to make the scenes look more realistic, Stallone told Lundgren to actually punch him in certain moments.
It didn't end well for Stallone, who ended up in the hospital for five days.
He refused to take any. He said that it would be "blood money" and made sure all the profits went back into the Jewish community.
What a good guy! Or should I say what a Mensch?
Stanley Kubrick, being the level-headed gent that he's known to be, destroyed all the sets and props from 2001: A Space Odyssey so they wouldn't be used in any "lesser" Sci-Fi movies.
As sexy as it may be, gents, there is no possible way that a Catwoman suit could be comfortable.
Michelle Pfeiffer learned this the hard way because she had to be vacuum-sealed into hers every day of shooting Batman Returns.
Not talking about the original ship here, although that couldn't have been cheap.
As a matter of fact, the movie Titanic cost more to make than the ship, itself!
We could've made another one with that money, James Cameron!
As much as it is love and life, one person lost their life so we could have Mike Myers play the iconic role.
That was Chris Farley, who died before he could finish voicing the character.
Psycho was the first American movie ever to show a shot with a flushing toilet.
This caused much controversy in its time!
That's right! Football star and guy who possibly did some other stuff I can't remember, O.J. Simpson was supposed to be the T-800.
Why didn't James Cameron cast him? He said the footballer was "too pleasant".
The Nightmare Before Christmas may be a fun movie for us to watch, but it didn't sound that fun to make.
It took the crew seven days to produce only one minute of stop motion animation.
David Holmes, who was Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter stunt double, was paralyzed while doing a stunt for the movie.
Radcliffe hosted an auction to pay for Holmes' bills while he was in the hospital.
Do you remember the snowstorm in the poppy field of The Wizard of Oz?
That was actually asbestos that was falling gracefully on the actors.
In How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Jim Carrey had to complete torture-endurance training from the CIA.
This was to help him get through the makeup for the Grinch, which took 8.5 hours each day.
It's exactly how it sounds.
Every time the helicopter passed her while she was filming The Sound of Music on the hill, it sprayed mud all over her because of the rain.
Sorry to burst your happy bubble here, but Sean Connery wore a toupee when he played James Bond.
Hey, he still sells the role, that's what matters.
George Lucas directed American Graffiti while he was still in the development phase of Star Wars.
Walter Murch, the sound designer for American Graffiti, had a reel titled R2-D2, and claims George Lucas couldn't get that name out of his head.
Babe was not made with one cute pig that could nail all his scenes.
In fact, it took 48 pigs to deliver that movie magic.
Pumbaa is the first Disney character to ever fart.
Maybe Disney thought that farting wasn't family-friendly.