Interesting Movie Trivia...

[JaD]

Jon Heder was paid $1000 for his role of Napoleon Dynamite, the film ending up making 44.5 million.

The film was cut using Final Cut Pro, and contains almost all stationary camera shots, with there being only a few moving camera shots

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

Chris o'Donnell was the first choice to play Agent Jay in Men In Black.

 

[JaD]

Marlon Wayans was first cast as Robin, with him being a mechanic who fixed the batmobile, he was later replaced by well you know, that guy above.

Christian Bale first auditioned for the role of Robin with the earlier films

 

[cerealkiller182]

Danny Trejo's characters in Robert Rodriguez are often named for blades.

George Lucas's dog,Indiana, was the basis for Indiana Jones nickname and Chewbacca.

Technically, Charlie Theron is the first African to win an Oscar

 

[JaD]

The film Epic Movie was actually made

 

[Figs]

Uwe Boll's films keep getting produced/financed even though all his previous efforts have done horrible.

 

[cabel]

Clint Eastwood's film debut was a 'Revenge of the Creature'

 

[JaD]

Anthony Hopkins' role as Hannibal Lecter was good enough to win him the role of Best Actor at the Academy Awards, although he only has just over 16 minutes of screen time in the film. Its still the shortest screen time to win Best Actor.

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

the producers of the graduate wanted Robert Redford of the title role.

you can see a man expose his penis at the end of teenwolf.

Marlon Brando didn't read the script for superman for fear that he would not like it and not want to do it. later trence stamp told him that he should because it was good.

in wild things you can see Kevin Bacons penis, even though he has a now nudity clause. he said that he was ok with it.

 

[Mister J]

OJ Simpson was offered the role as Terminator

O.J Simpson passed over for the role of the terminator because producers feared he wouldn't be taken seriously as a killer.

I guess he showed them. lol

 

[hammerhedd11]

the producers of the graduate wanted Robert Redford of the title role.

you can see a man expose his penis at the end of teenwolf.

Marlon Brando didn't read the script for superman for fear that he would not like it and not want to do it. later trence stamp told him that he should because it was good.

in wild things you can see Kevin Bacons penis, even though he has a now nudity clause. he said that he was ok with it.

I'm pretty sure that was debunked.

 

[Dark Donnie]

I'm pretty sure that was debunked.

It's real....

 

[murdock_matt]

The original Little Shop of Horrors was the result of a bet that Roger Corman couldn't make a film in the course of a weekend. Principal photography was completed in two days (reports claimed that reshoots were done several weeks later).

 

[murdock_matt]

The line "Play it again, Sam" was never said in "Casablanca"

Harrison Ford's wife wrote "E.T."

Uncle Ben Parker's car in "Spider-Man" is Sam Raimi's Oldsmobile Delta 88 which is used in the majority of Raimi's films (It was Ash's car in all of the Evil Dead movies, driven by Ethan and Joel Cohen in "Darkman")

 

[CBGB]

The famous scene in Raiders of the Lost Arc where Indiana Jones is confronted by the swordsman with a scimitar and just shoots him and walks away, was not in the script. Harrison Ford did it because he had to go to the bathroom.

 

[JaD]

It's real....

no it was a woman who noticed her fly was down, shes holding a purse and jacket

 

[JaD]

(In Die Hard*) Alan Rickman's look when he is dropped from the building is genuine, the director chose to release Rickman a full second before he expected it in order to get genuine surprise, something that angered Rickman

 

[cerealkiller182]

^^^Not that anyone wouldnt know but it should be said that that is from Die Hard

 

[JaD]

o my bad haha

 

[cerealkiller182]

When McLane misses the duct while hanging in the vent was real. The stuntman missed it but when it was edited with Bruce catching the duct,it looked fluid so the director left it. Thats why when the terrorist sees McLanes lighter later it is coming from the duct he should have aught

 

[DawnWarrior]

The famous scene in Raiders of the Lost Arc where Indiana Jones is confronted by the swordsman with a scimitar and just shoots him and walks away, was not in the script. Harrison Ford did it because he had to go to the bathroom.

For that scene, they intended to shoot a long choreographed fight scene between Indy and Scimitar Man which would have taken days to shoot, as most fights do (footage exists for the first leg of the fight). But Ford was getting sick from heat exhaustion, and remarked that "If this were real, I would just take out my gun and shoot him!"

 

[General_Obol]

Only three scripts for the film "The Empire Strikes Back" has the famous revelation at the end, these scripts being Lucas's, the director's, and James Earl Jones's. The other scripts had Darth Vader telling Luke Obi-Wan killed his father. Before the scene was shot, Lucas pulled Mark Hamill (who played Luke, for all that don't know) and told him the truth. This was to get the most realistic reaction Hamill could get to information.

A similar effect was used in the second Pirates film. At the end of the movie, when Captain Barbossa walks down the stairs in Tia Dalma's shack (it never explained why a shack would have stairs...), the scripts all said that Anamaria would walk down the stairs. This was done for the same reason as before.

During an interview with Orson Welles shortly after his masterpiece Citizen Kane was released, the interviewer asked him "If no one was around to hear his last words, how does anyone know what they were?" After hearing this, Welles eyes widened and said, "Don't you dare tell anybody." Keep in mind that many movie criticsand fans alike consider Citizen Kane to be the best movie ever made.

For any LOST fans, I saw a DHARMA logo on the Cloverfield monster. Probably just an easter egg or my eyes playing tricks on me (admit it, that movie gets you dizzy), but still notable.

It was mentioned earlier that O.J. Simpson was the Terminator before Arnold Scwharzenegger took on the role. Before shooting began, Arnold tried and tried to get Cameron to cast him as his robot, but Cameron just wouldn't allow it. Arnold finally won over the director's support when he showed him a review of Conan the Barbarian, in which Arnold's acting is described as robotic.

One of the towers of Neptune's castle in The Little Mermaid is a phallic symbol.

The only line said in Mel Brooks's 1976 film Silent Movie was the word "no"... spoken by famous mime Marcel Marcaud.

During the Inquisition scene in History of the World, Pt. 1, another Brooks film, the nuns rising out of the pool with sparklers on their heads. Because the scene was shot in reverse, with the nuns being submerged, the sparks are flying into the sparkler, instead of away from it.

 

[JaD]

In There's Something About Mary, the paramedics dropping Ted on the gurney was completely unintentional, but the directors found it hilarious (so did I) and left it in

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

no it was a woman who noticed her fly was down, shes holding a purse and jacket

thats a guy and where do you see a purse?

 

[turtlefocker]

Does anyone have any interesting movie trivia??

I'll start

Daniel Day Lewis
Daniel Day Lewis was Jonathan Demme's first choice for the part of Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia (1993).

After Michael Madsen was found to be unavailable for the part, Day-Lewis tried to get the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction (1994), one of the few times he actively pursued a part. However, by that point in the casting, Quentin Tarantino had John Travolta in mind for the part

No Country For Old Men

Heath Ledger had been in talks to play Llewelyn Moss, but withdrew to take "some time off" instead.

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen refused to give Josh Brolin an audition for the movie, so he asked director Robert Rodriguez to help him shoot an audition tape. Rodriguez shot and Quentin Tarantino directed the tape, which was shot in a $950,000 digital camera.

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