Awesome Movie Trivia
ZeroGrip
Published
10/09/2015
24 cool movie trivia facts
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The Karate Kid (1984) -
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Mad Max: Fury Road Fury Road, unlike most hollywood feature films was shot in sequence. Meaning the scenes were filmed in the order they were shown in the film. -
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The Italian Job (1969) During the chase sequences, the minis always stay in the order red, white and blue, the colors of the British Union Flag. (pictured here is not a chase scene :) ) -
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Being John Malcovich John Malkovich was a producer on the movie but refused to play the part, suggesting that another actor would be better suited. -
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The Ides of March Many of the posters of fictional candidate Mike Morris (played by George Clooney) used in the film are similar in style to Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” Posters used by President Barack Obama. The photo used in Fairey’s poster was taken from a press conference with Obama, Senator Sam Brownback and George Clooney. Obama is actually talking to Clooney in the original photo. -
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Desperado For most of the killings they used a gun that essentially fired fake blood at the characters instead of squibs. This unfortunately created too realistic of an effect resulting in them having to edit out much of the deaths for the censors. -
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Empire of the Sun One of the actors who played an adult British POW, Eric Flynn, actually was a British POW as a child in a Japanese camp. -
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It Follows Jay is named after scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis. Jay’s sister Kelly is also in reference to Curtis’s sister, also named Kelly. -
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Jarhead John Krasinski wrote all of his own dialogue for the movie. 10 Jarhead John Krasinski wrote all of his own dialogue for the movie. -
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Lawrence of Arabia The film was banned in many Arab countries as they felt they were misrepresented. Omar Sharif arranged with President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt to view the film to show him there was nothing wrong with the way they were portrayed. Nasser loved the film and allowed it to be released in Egypt where it went on to become a monster hit. -
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Punch-Drunk Love A subplot of the film was inspired by an article in ‘Time’ magazine about David Phillips, a University of California civil engineer who stumbled upon a lucrative frequent-flyer promotion. By purchasing 12,150 cups of Healthy Choice pudding for just $3,000, he accumulated 1.25 million air-miles. Adam Sandler’s character pursues a very similar idea throughout the movie. -
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Shame The movie takes place in New York (despite a mostly British cast) because they were unable to find financing initially in the U.K. 12 The Matrix For the cell phone conversation scene between Neo and Morpheus in the Meta Cortechs office Keanu Reeves actually climbed up the window without a stuntman, which was 34 floors up. -
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Snowpiercer In the “torchlight” scene there were no external lights used in the scene. It was shot only by torchlight. -
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The Day the Earth Stood Still To give the appearance of seamlessness to the space ship, the crack around the door was filled with putty, then painted over. When the door opened the putty was torn apart, making the door seem to simply appear. -
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The Goonies One-Eyed Willy’s skull was made from real bone. -
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The Graduate None of the older characters has their first name identified in the film; only the younger characters of Benjamin, Elaine and Carl do, increasing the sense of a generation gap. -
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The Green Mile Originally set in 1932, the timeframe was bumped to 1935 so the movie Top Hat (1935) could be featured in a scene authentically. -
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Thelma & Louise Then struggling actor George Clooney auditioned five times for Ridley Scott for the part of J.D. that went to Brad Pitt. -
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The Matrix For the cell phone conversation scene between Neo and Morpheus in the Meta Cortechs office Keanu Reeves actually climbed up the window without a stuntman, which was 34 floors up. -
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The Wrestler Darren Aronofsky revealed that Mickey Rourke was the first choice to play Randy “The Ram” Robinson but the studio wanted Nicolas Cage. Aronofsky fought to have Rourke as “The Ram”, and ultimately won out. -
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Unbreakable Osteogenesis Imperfecta, the affliction that plagues Sam Jackson’s character is a real but rare disease. -
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Unforgiven The script floated around Hollywood for nearly 20 years, during which time Gene Hackman read and rejected it several times, only to be later convinced by Clint Eastwood (who had owned the rights to the script for some time) to play a role. A gritty western about a murderous man who has given up killing, only to be dragged back for revenge. -
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