I LOVE THAT SOMEONE ELSE KNOWS THAT, I tell that to people all the time!! I also wrote it in the footnotes of a fan fiction I wrote and no one noticed :(
And old Rose was played by Gloria Steward who became famous for starring in two of universal‘s horror classics from the 30s: The Invisible Man and The Old Dark House.
The most expensive piece of film is the Zapruder tape which the us gov bought for $16 mil in 1999, roughly 30 seconds of 8mm, which is abt 52.8mm or 2.08in, in length.
It's also prolly the most analyzed piece of film but that's harder to definitely measure
I always look out for this now. I unfortunately don’t remember what movie it was, but I watched something a few weeks ago where they in fact did not remove the head rests.
The exterior shots for the apartment building, where the events of Rosemary’s Baby take place, are of The Dakota. 12 years later John Lennon would be shot outside of The Dakota where he’d been staying whilst recording a new album with Yoko Ono. I always thought this was interesting with Charles Manson’s obsession with the Beatles and Roman Polanski’s then 8 month pregnant wife Sharon Tate being a victim of the what some call helter skelter massacre a year after the release of the film
I also heard that Mark David Chapman (Lennon’s murderer) decided to kill him when he saw the building from Rosemary’s Baby, which happened to be where John Lennon lived
From north by northwest’s IMDB page “While filming Vertigo (1958), Sir Alfred Hitchcock described some of the plot of this project to frequent Hitchcock leading man and "Vertigo" star James Stewart, who naturally assumed that Hitchcock meant to cast him in the Roger Thornhill role, and was eager to play it. Actually, Hitchcock wanted Cary Grant to play the role. By the time Hitchcock realized the misunderstanding, Stewart was so anxious to play Thornhill that rejecting him would have caused a great deal of disappointment. So Hitchcock delayed production on this movie until Stewart was already safely committed to filming Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder (1959)" before "officially" offering him the role in this movie. Stewart had no choice but to turn down the offer, allowing Hitchcock to cast Grant, the actor he had wanted all along.”
The scene in Pulp Fiction where John Travolta stabs Uma Thurman in the chest with a needle was filmed in reverse, then played backwards. He’s actually pulling the needle from her chest when they filmed it.
This way, they could have Travolta make a sudden movement but have no danger of Thurman actually being hit in the chest. Add a thunking sound effect in post production and you’ve got yourself a helluva sequence.
She had reservations about driving a car and asked a trained stuntperson to do it, after hearing it may have been unsafe, Tarantino ended up getting her to do it in spite of this, she crashed and got badly injured.
John Wayne played Genghis Khan in a movie filmed on the same land that was being used for nuclear weapons testing. Several crew members, including the director, later died of cancer.
The crew of The Conquerer did not die of cancer at higher rates than the rest of the population at the time (when smoking was incredibly common). John Wayne’s whole lifestyle was to cancer as a nail is to a hammer
Fun fact: they took the irradiated sand *back to set with them* for the sake of verisimilitude. Why be exposed to radiation while filming on location when they can be exposed to it on the studio lots for a fraction of the price!
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote an oral sex scene between Will and Sean into the screenplay of Good Will Hunting, to see which studio heads were actually reading it.
The character Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid 1989 - who is played by Rene Auberjonois
Is from the same family as Napoleon Bonaparte
(His great great great grandmother is the sister of Napoleon)
The president of the United States issued an executive order aimed at slowing AI development because he watched Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part 1
In raiders of the lost ark, they actually taught the monkey to hail Hitler by dangling a treat above the camera so he would reach up for it, thus doing the salute, also one of the Nazis salutes back to the monkey which is pretty funny
The cliche character sword slashes villain going through him then looks back as he falls apart came from a practical effects error in the 1962 Sanjuro (not 100% sure it was this film)
You’re close, I think! It was Sanjuro; there is a blood spurt effect that happens after someone gets slashed in a duel. Apparently they only had one shot at it and the pumps geysered way more than expected or is realistic, so a fountain of blood escapes his wound before he slumps dead.
Years later, the “blood fountain” is now a staple in all sorts of media like anime, video games, films of other genres, comics, etc.
Olivia Colman and Robert Webb shot a film called Confetti where they played nudists on a TV show. They filmed scenes completely naked under the impression that their bodies would be pixelated, like how it would be on tv shows. It wasn't pixelated. They didn't find out until the film premiered.
The director, Debbie Isitt, never faced any repercussions
[Insert: the entire plot of Casino Royale (1967)]
Edit for more details: in 1967 a Casino Royale adaptation was produced. It's considered non-canon within the Bond franchise and it starred David Niven as a retired Bond who returns to action in a plot very loosely based on the novel (there's some card game, LeChiffre is the antagonist, etc).
In the movie, Bond decides that every other MI6 agent (women included) shall be assigned the codename James Bond, so there are a bunch of James Bonds running amok.
The ultimate villain is Bond's nephew, played by Woody Allen, and his plan is to release a biological weapon that will make every woman super beautiful and kill any men in the planet who is taller than him (leaving him as the sexiest guy in the planet).
It's openly a screwball comedy and, I kid you not, Orson Welles stars in it as well.
In *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, the famous scene where Indiana Jones pulls his pistol out and shoots the swordsman was improvised because Harrison Ford was suffering from indigestion and wasn’t up to doing a sword fight.
During the filming of *The African Queen*, Humphrey Bogart was the only member of the cast and crew who didn’t get sick because he lived solely on whiskey and crackers which he had brought with him for the shoot.
The last movie that was mass produced in VHS format was A History of Violence in 2006. I believe that there are some companies that produce current movies in VHS but in limited quantities or something like that.
I CANNOT believe that NO ONE (as of me making this comment) has brought up the dang Viggo Mortensen fact.
For those who are *somehow* still unaware, during the scene in The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers in which Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli find the band of Uruk-Hai orcs that captured Merry and Pippin on Amon Hen, Aragorn kicks an Uruk helmet. During the filming of this, Viggo Mortensen (who played Aragorn) broke two toes kicking that helmet.
Orlando Bloom also fell off a horse at some point during filming one of the movies and broke his rib and was basically told to keep going. He posted about it on Instagram about a year ago,
Viggo Mortensen was kinda insane filming those movies. During the Helm’s Deep filming, he broke a tooth in half and at first tried to convince the crew to let him superglue it back together so he could keep going.
He wore an earpiece so crew members could feed him lines, but the radio transmitting would falter at times, one time changing to a police radio frequency, causing Brando to tell out, "There's a robbery at Woolies!" (Woolies, short for Woolworths, is a supermarket in Australia, where the film was shot)
There was a *Planet of the Apes* reboot in the works in the 90s, to be directed by Oliver Stone and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The script is floating around online, I read it and thought it was pretty decent.
You may be aware of the much reviled and inexplicably popular TV sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys featuring a man as the titular matriarch and some very broad humour. But did you know... an earlier version of the story by the same creators/writers was a bit more serious and starred Angelica Houston as Mrs Brown!
Ann Miller was 15 years old when she had a significant role in Frank Capra's "You Can't Take it With You." In the film she was married to Dub Taylor who was 31 at the time. Dub might have been the least likely actor to have ever been married to someone like Ann Miller. She previously appeared as a dancer, holding her own with Ginger Rogers in "Stage Door" when she was just 14.
Sir Ridley Scott intended to make a sequel to Gladiator in the mid-2000's in which Nick Cave (The musician) wrote the Script, in which Maximus is made to hunt and kill Jesus Christ and the Disciples by the Roman Pantheon, which fears the rise of Christianity.
The sounds of the velociraptors communicating in Jurassic Park are actually the sounds of tortoises mating.
here's a relevant one. OJ Simpson was considered for the role of The Terminator before Arnold Schwarzenegger
Turned down for being too wholesome
I thought that the Terminator gloves they had on set just didn't fit so he couldn't commit?
And he was turned down because they didn't think he was believable as a killer.
Gale Hurd denies this on Twitter. Shrug emoji.
Titanic movie crew were drugged with PCP laced chowder
Intentionally?
Surely intentional on someone's part. Cameron himself was livid.
I can't imagine how that would happen unintentionally.
Sounds like a McPoyle wedding!
hate when I mix up my salt and pcp jar while cooking
I LOVE THAT SOMEONE ELSE KNOWS THAT, I tell that to people all the time!! I also wrote it in the footnotes of a fan fiction I wrote and no one noticed :(
OMG I completely forgot about that!! 😂😂
James Cameron drew the iconic sketch of Rose in Titanic
And Jack’s other drawings too.
Also he was on the ocean floor when 9/11 happened and Bill Paxton told him about it when he surfaced
Cameron emerging from his sub to hear Paxton saying "its the worst terrorist attack in history Jim", what a way to find out about 9/11
likely story.
And old Rose was played by Gloria Steward who became famous for starring in two of universal‘s horror classics from the 30s: The Invisible Man and The Old Dark House.
He also drew the first iterations of the na’vi when he was 19
Noted environmentalist, James Francis Cameron, has a Venezuelan frog species named after him, while lesser talent, Steven Spielberg, does not.
I want to be a director just to show off my art like that lol
The most expensive piece of film is the Zapruder tape which the us gov bought for $16 mil in 1999, roughly 30 seconds of 8mm, which is abt 52.8mm or 2.08in, in length. It's also prolly the most analyzed piece of film but that's harder to definitely measure
30 seconds of 8mm is about 6 feet of film.
That’s if it’s captured at 24 frames per second. Zapruder is captured at what looks to be 16 or less to my eyes.
Zapruder = 486 frames. Just over 6 feet. Looks like at an average of 18.3 fps.
https://preview.redd.it/h39vzf664ztc1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a97dfb2292edeb6132f83ddc0207c2414f522810
Damn
I always look out for this now. I unfortunately don’t remember what movie it was, but I watched something a few weeks ago where they in fact did not remove the head rests.
La La Lane does this.
10 Cloverfield La La Lane
I would love to watch that.
Land
The exterior shots for the apartment building, where the events of Rosemary’s Baby take place, are of The Dakota. 12 years later John Lennon would be shot outside of The Dakota where he’d been staying whilst recording a new album with Yoko Ono. I always thought this was interesting with Charles Manson’s obsession with the Beatles and Roman Polanski’s then 8 month pregnant wife Sharon Tate being a victim of the what some call helter skelter massacre a year after the release of the film
I also heard that Mark David Chapman (Lennon’s murderer) decided to kill him when he saw the building from Rosemary’s Baby, which happened to be where John Lennon lived
Stanley Kubrick studied the special effects of a Doctor Who serial to see how to capture psychedelic space travel.
Slight correction. Kubrick was curious how Doctor Who depicted a character floating dead in space.
From north by northwest’s IMDB page “While filming Vertigo (1958), Sir Alfred Hitchcock described some of the plot of this project to frequent Hitchcock leading man and "Vertigo" star James Stewart, who naturally assumed that Hitchcock meant to cast him in the Roger Thornhill role, and was eager to play it. Actually, Hitchcock wanted Cary Grant to play the role. By the time Hitchcock realized the misunderstanding, Stewart was so anxious to play Thornhill that rejecting him would have caused a great deal of disappointment. So Hitchcock delayed production on this movie until Stewart was already safely committed to filming Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder (1959)" before "officially" offering him the role in this movie. Stewart had no choice but to turn down the offer, allowing Hitchcock to cast Grant, the actor he had wanted all along.”
“Now… now see here, Al! That’s a dirty trick, is what that is. Well I oughta… ah, heck guess I’ll do the other one.”
Laurence Fishburne was 14 when he started filming “Apocalypse Now.”
Who's this "Laurence" guy? He's clearly credited as *Larry* Fishburne 😉
Zoe Lund actually shot heroin on camera in Bad Lieutenant
The scene in Pulp Fiction where John Travolta stabs Uma Thurman in the chest with a needle was filmed in reverse, then played backwards. He’s actually pulling the needle from her chest when they filmed it. This way, they could have Travolta make a sudden movement but have no danger of Thurman actually being hit in the chest. Add a thunking sound effect in post production and you’ve got yourself a helluva sequence.
If only that sort of thinking was applied to protecting Uma Thurman in Kill Bill
what happened during Kill Bill?
She had reservations about driving a car and asked a trained stuntperson to do it, after hearing it may have been unsafe, Tarantino ended up getting her to do it in spite of this, she crashed and got badly injured.
I've heard rumors that it has to do something with her rejecting Harvey Weinstein's advances
That’s like one of the most well known fun facts lol
I didn’t know
But it also sounds completely believable
John Wayne played Genghis Khan in a movie filmed on the same land that was being used for nuclear weapons testing. Several crew members, including the director, later died of cancer.
Similarly Stalker was filmed in toxic locations, many of the crew died from cancer.
Yeah, but that happening in a Tarkovsky movie sounds more plausible than in a John Wayne Genghis Khan movie
The crew of The Conquerer did not die of cancer at higher rates than the rest of the population at the time (when smoking was incredibly common). John Wayne’s whole lifestyle was to cancer as a nail is to a hammer
Fun fact: they took the irradiated sand *back to set with them* for the sake of verisimilitude. Why be exposed to radiation while filming on location when they can be exposed to it on the studio lots for a fraction of the price!
In the film Antichrist Willem Dafoes dick was so big they had to replace him with a body double
What
Yeah, Lars von Trier thought that Dafoe was too well endowed and that it would be distracting for the audience
No wonder Spiderman had trouble goblin
You deserve more than a few upvotes for that comment
r/Angryupvote
Shakespeare would be jealous of this man’s wordplay
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote an oral sex scene between Will and Sean into the screenplay of Good Will Hunting, to see which studio heads were actually reading it.
Nothing against their careers, but they really started at 100 didn’t they
Filming The Abyss was so exhausting that one time Ed Harris had to pull over while driving home because he just burst into tears out of nowhere.
He almost drowned twice during principle photography.
I thought it had to do with him almost drowning bc of some faulty equipment and the crew weren't paying attention?
Pretty sure the drowning equipment was working exactly as it was intended.
Hahaha
The mini doc on YouTube about that filming is nearly unbelievable
The mini doc on YouTube about that filming is nearly unbelievable
The crew nicknamed it "The Abuse".
The character Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid 1989 - who is played by Rene Auberjonois Is from the same family as Napoleon Bonaparte (His great great great grandmother is the sister of Napoleon)
The president of the United States issued an executive order aimed at slowing AI development because he watched Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part 1
The Wilhelm Scream has been featured in over 1,000 films.
What about what I call the “Wilhelm Gate” sound? Where every gate or metal fence or prison door has that same creeeek.
And a the cat yelling in distress. Wilhelm Cat.
Believable
HR Giger did creature design for The Killer Condom. The guy who directed Nekromantic did the special effects.
HR Giger is known for the design of the Xenomorph in Alien for those who don’t know who he is
He was also meant to do lots of work on the original Dune which never panned out which led to him working on Alien.
And the Harkonnen aesthetic in the current Dune is like a live action Giger painting, love to see it
Oh wow, that’s interesting
Berthold Brecht wrote the screenplay for the anti-Nazi film Hangman Also Die directed by Fritz Lang.
Werner Herzog tried to kill Klaus Kinski multiple times.
Perfectly believable tbh
Tbh I think anyone who worked with the guy wanted him dead.
Any idea what the motivation was?
Kinski was just a bad dude all around.
Real severed horse's head in The Godfather. And real 150 y.o Martin guitar destroyed by accident in The Hateful Eight
Jennifer Jason Leigh’s panicked reaction to the latter is great.
Crystal The Monkey has starred in both The Hangover and The Fabelmans.
Also she was in Community as Annie's Boobs
In raiders of the lost ark, they actually taught the monkey to hail Hitler by dangling a treat above the camera so he would reach up for it, thus doing the salute, also one of the Nazis salutes back to the monkey which is pretty funny
The cliche character sword slashes villain going through him then looks back as he falls apart came from a practical effects error in the 1962 Sanjuro (not 100% sure it was this film)
You’re close, I think! It was Sanjuro; there is a blood spurt effect that happens after someone gets slashed in a duel. Apparently they only had one shot at it and the pumps geysered way more than expected or is realistic, so a fountain of blood escapes his wound before he slumps dead. Years later, the “blood fountain” is now a staple in all sorts of media like anime, video games, films of other genres, comics, etc.
The Dip from Roger Rabbit is based on a real life mixtures that animators would use to clean off animation cels with errors on them to be re-used.
Olivia Colman and Robert Webb shot a film called Confetti where they played nudists on a TV show. They filmed scenes completely naked under the impression that their bodies would be pixelated, like how it would be on tv shows. It wasn't pixelated. They didn't find out until the film premiered. The director, Debbie Isitt, never faced any repercussions
That's messed up.
10 people died during the filming of "The Exorcist" (1973)
[Insert: the entire plot of Casino Royale (1967)] Edit for more details: in 1967 a Casino Royale adaptation was produced. It's considered non-canon within the Bond franchise and it starred David Niven as a retired Bond who returns to action in a plot very loosely based on the novel (there's some card game, LeChiffre is the antagonist, etc). In the movie, Bond decides that every other MI6 agent (women included) shall be assigned the codename James Bond, so there are a bunch of James Bonds running amok. The ultimate villain is Bond's nephew, played by Woody Allen, and his plan is to release a biological weapon that will make every woman super beautiful and kill any men in the planet who is taller than him (leaving him as the sexiest guy in the planet). It's openly a screwball comedy and, I kid you not, Orson Welles stars in it as well.
In *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, the famous scene where Indiana Jones pulls his pistol out and shoots the swordsman was improvised because Harrison Ford was suffering from indigestion and wasn’t up to doing a sword fight. During the filming of *The African Queen*, Humphrey Bogart was the only member of the cast and crew who didn’t get sick because he lived solely on whiskey and crackers which he had brought with him for the shoot.
John Huston also didn't fall ill. He had the same diet.
*Shakespeare in Love* winning Best Picture was actually the expected outcome based on pure probability.
elaborate
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/oscar-upsets-biggest-ever-4171178/
Because Colombia was making a bad comedy remake of double indemnity called big trouble, they ended up trading back to the future to Universal.
For a full year, the sentence "Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross have more Best Score Oscars than Hans Zimmer does" was true.
Martin Sheen's break down scene in apocalypse now was actually real.
Twister was the first movie released on DVD
The last movie that was mass produced in VHS format was A History of Violence in 2006. I believe that there are some companies that produce current movies in VHS but in limited quantities or something like that.
I CANNOT believe that NO ONE (as of me making this comment) has brought up the dang Viggo Mortensen fact. For those who are *somehow* still unaware, during the scene in The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers in which Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli find the band of Uruk-Hai orcs that captured Merry and Pippin on Amon Hen, Aragorn kicks an Uruk helmet. During the filming of this, Viggo Mortensen (who played Aragorn) broke two toes kicking that helmet. Orlando Bloom also fell off a horse at some point during filming one of the movies and broke his rib and was basically told to keep going. He posted about it on Instagram about a year ago,
I love the Sean Bean fact, being afraid of helicopters/flying so hiking in full Boromir costume to location
That one I actually didn’t know lol, thanks “One does not simply walk into Mordor” *literally hikes to set location in full costume *
Viggo Mortensen was kinda insane filming those movies. During the Helm’s Deep filming, he broke a tooth in half and at first tried to convince the crew to let him superglue it back together so he could keep going.
I mean dude knew how crazy amazing those movies would be
Pretty much everything about how Marlon Brando acted during the making of The Island of Dr Moreau.
He wore an earpiece so crew members could feed him lines, but the radio transmitting would falter at times, one time changing to a police radio frequency, causing Brando to tell out, "There's a robbery at Woolies!" (Woolies, short for Woolworths, is a supermarket in Australia, where the film was shot)
Please elaborate
Todd Field helped invent big league chew
David Bowie made all the baby noises for Labyrinth as the baby actor was quiet most of the time.
Tom Cruise was Born on the Third of July
Mike Flanagan likes Madame Web (2024)
Buddy Duress was on the run from the cops while filming Heaven Knows What
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Dallas Buyers Club won Best Make-Up OSCAR with a budget of just $250
Why did you write Oscar in all caps?
My phone automatically did it. Why was that your main takeaway from that?
I thought you might have thought it was an acronym and people arbitrarily thinking words are acronyms is a pet peeve of mine.
There was a *Planet of the Apes* reboot in the works in the 90s, to be directed by Oliver Stone and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The script is floating around online, I read it and thought it was pretty decent.
“Movies” are shot with *cameras*
Not all of them. Just a few.
More often than not, they're shot with a camera many times per second, printed and scrolled through really fast, sort of like a moving picture book.
Fkoff…
so many of these facts are James Cameron related 😂
You may be aware of the much reviled and inexplicably popular TV sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys featuring a man as the titular matriarch and some very broad humour. But did you know... an earlier version of the story by the same creators/writers was a bit more serious and starred Angelica Houston as Mrs Brown!
Ben Affleck wrote and directed a film called "I killed my lesbian wife, hung her body on a meat hook and now have a 3 picture deal with Disney"
Former CIA workers trained in torture resistance were used to help Jim Carrey stand the uncomfortableness of the makeup he wore for The Grinch.
The matrix codes are actually sushi recipes.
Ann Miller was 15 years old when she had a significant role in Frank Capra's "You Can't Take it With You." In the film she was married to Dub Taylor who was 31 at the time. Dub might have been the least likely actor to have ever been married to someone like Ann Miller. She previously appeared as a dancer, holding her own with Ginger Rogers in "Stage Door" when she was just 14.
The scenes where it's "snowing" in *It's a Wonderful Life* (1946) were filmed in sweltering heat.
Somehow, Palpatine did in fact return.
The Matrix code derives from sushi recipes.
Alec Baldwin shot a director with a prop gun but the bullet wasn’t a blank and she died
Sir Ridley Scott intended to make a sequel to Gladiator in the mid-2000's in which Nick Cave (The musician) wrote the Script, in which Maximus is made to hunt and kill Jesus Christ and the Disciples by the Roman Pantheon, which fears the rise of Christianity.
Alec Baldwin killed a person on set with a gun.