The interesting film facts thread

[Rugby Gooner]

I am a bit pissed,and slightly bored,so I thought that I would start a "trivia" style thread.
1: Did you know that the alien in the first Predator film was played by Jean-Claude Van Damme?

[franksav63]

http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=12913

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12.07.10 # Top Ten # 13 Comments

Top 10 Interesting Movie Facts - Trivia Fun.I’ve been collecting these. Interesting movie facts that are often buried deep in an article, usually in a throwaway line that provides more food for thought than the article itself. Here we go.

- John Carpenter was offered the job of directing ‘Top Gun’. He turned it down.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger has won a Golden Globe for acting.

- How many times has a Canadian been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in the last 60 years? Once.

- ‘The Shining’ was nominated for two Razzies in 1980. Including worst director.

- Steven Seagal once broke Sean Connery’s wrist.

- After ‘Jaws’ and ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’, Steven Spielberg desperately wanted to direct a James Bond film. He approached the producers. They said no.

- Kiefer Sutherland has a twin sister, who looks just like him but with lipstick on.

Interesting Movie Facts - Trivia Fun
- The voice of E.T. was Debra Winger.

- If you take into account inflation in ticket price, ‘Tootsie’ made more than ‘Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone’. ‘Blazing Saddles’ made double the amount of ‘Terminator 2′. And ‘American Graffiti’ made more than ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’.

- NASA keeps ‘So I Married An Axe Murderer’ on the Space Station.

[franksav63]

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During one scene in 'The Sound of Music', an orange box can be clearly seen stamped with the words 'Produce of Israel'. The film was set in 1938, ten years before Israel was founded.

Some of the chariot racers in 'Ben Hur' were seen to be wearing wristwatches.

Edward G Robinson's character in 'The Last Gangster' gets sent to Alcatraz in 1927. This was probably not as bad a sentence as you might imagine since the prison wasn't opened there until 1934.

For the movie the Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was paid $35 a week while Toto received $125 a week.

Near the beginning of the movie Back To The Future there's a scene where they show all of the clocks at Doc's house. If you look closely there is one clock with a little man hanging from the minute hand.

Orson Welles was only 21 years old when here starred in & directed in the movie Citizen Kane.

When the Mother-Ship passes over the Devil's Tower near the end of Spielberg's movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, R2-D2 can be seen hanging from the bottom of the ship.

The Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie were named after the cop and the taxi driver from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life".

When the T-Rex devours the traffic light in San Diego within the movie "The Lost Word: Jurassic Park", there is a sign close by that reads "No Dinosaurs".

After reading the script for Men in Black, Will Smith did not want any part of the movie. It was wife Jada that persuaded him to take the part.

The carpet designs seen in Sid's hallway in Toy Story are the same as the carpet designs seen in "The Shining."

The story of Mulan had been told in China for almost 1,500 years before Disney picked it up and made it into a movie.

The ruby red slippers seen in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" once sold at an auction for $660,000.

Hitchcock used chocolate syrup to portray the blood seen in the shower scene for his classic film Psycho.

Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" was the first animated film to be nominated for an Oscar for best picture.

Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.

[Rugby Gooner]

Fucking Quality franksav63!!!

Iam a sucker for this sort of stuff,along with books like "Schotts Mescellany" etc.

[franksav63]

Fucking Quality franksav63!!!

Iam a sucker for this sort of stuff,along with books like "Schotts Mescellany" etc.

http://www.google.co.uk/

[OneBardGooner]

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During one scene in 'The Sound of Music', an orange box can be clearly seen stamped with the words 'Produce of Israel'. The film was set in 1938, ten years before Israel was founded.

Some of the chariot racers in 'Ben Hur' were seen to be wearing wristwatches.Edward G Robinson's character in 'The Last Gangster' gets sent to Alcatraz in 1927. This was probably not as bad a sentence as you might imagine since the prison wasn't opened there until 1934.

For the movie the Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was paid $35 a week while Toto received $125 a week.

Near the beginning of the movie Back To The Future there's a scene where they show all of the clocks at Doc's house. If you look closely there is one clock with a little man hanging from the minute hand.

Orson Welles was only 21 years old when here starred in & directed in the movie Citizen Kane.

When the Mother-Ship passes over the Devil's Tower near the end of Spielberg's movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, R2-D2 can be seen hanging from the bottom of the ship.

The Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie were named after the cop and the taxi driver from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life".

When the T-Rex devours the traffic light in San Diego within the movie "The Lost Word: Jurassic Park", there is a sign close by that reads "No Dinosaurs".

After reading the script for Men in Black, Will Smith did not want any part of the movie. It was wife Jada that persuaded him to take the part.

The carpet designs seen in Sid's hallway in Toy Story are the same as the carpet designs seen in "The Shining."

The story of Mulan had been told in China for almost 1,500 years before Disney picked it up and made it into a movie.

The ruby red slippers seen in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" once sold at an auction for $660,000.

Hitchcock used chocolate syrup to portray the blood seen in the shower scene for his classic film Psycho.

Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" was the first animated film to be nominated for an Oscar for best picture.

Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.

Also one of the stunt men in that scene (Chariot race) was Killed.

And during the filming of "Enter The Dragon" Bruce Lee was 'challenged' 8 times by actual Gang leaders who had parts as extra's but were also the real deal when it came to Martial arts - and he fought each one of them.....broke one guys jaw, another one had 6 ribs and an arm broken and 2 others were KO'd...he won all 'challenges'.....there is film of some of the actual (real) fights in existence.....The film company (Owned by Raymond Chow I think) got worried in case their 'star' got injured...so they ended up hiring Body Guards 24 hrs on the film set for Bruce Lee.....

[franksav63]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_some ... ovie_facts


During one scene in 'The Sound of Music', an orange box can be clearly seen stamped with the words 'Produce of Israel'. The film was set in 1938, ten years before Israel was founded.

Some of the chariot racers in 'Ben Hur' were seen to be wearing wristwatches.Edward G Robinson's character in 'The Last Gangster' gets sent to Alcatraz in 1927. This was probably not as bad a sentence as you might imagine since the prison wasn't opened there until 1934.

For the movie the Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was paid $35 a week while Toto received $125 a week.

Near the beginning of the movie Back To The Future there's a scene where they show all of the clocks at Doc's house. If you look closely there is one clock with a little man hanging from the minute hand.

Orson Welles was only 21 years old when here starred in & directed in the movie Citizen Kane.

When the Mother-Ship passes over the Devil's Tower near the end of Spielberg's movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, R2-D2 can be seen hanging from the bottom of the ship.

The Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie were named after the cop and the taxi driver from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life".

When the T-Rex devours the traffic light in San Diego within the movie "The Lost Word: Jurassic Park", there is a sign close by that reads "No Dinosaurs".

After reading the script for Men in Black, Will Smith did not want any part of the movie. It was wife Jada that persuaded him to take the part.

The carpet designs seen in Sid's hallway in Toy Story are the same as the carpet designs seen in "The Shining."

The story of Mulan had been told in China for almost 1,500 years before Disney picked it up and made it into a movie.

The ruby red slippers seen in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" once sold at an auction for $660,000.

Hitchcock used chocolate syrup to portray the blood seen in the shower scene for his classic film Psycho.

Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" was the first animated film to be nominated for an Oscar for best picture.

Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.

Also one of the stunt men in that scene (Chariot race) was Killed.

I've also read somewhere that a red sports car can be seen in the background during the chariot race scene, but I've yet to see the car when I've watched it...???

[xDAVEYx]

Look out for the jeans in gladiator near the beginning (about 20 minutes in anyway)

[DB10GOONER]

In Debbie Does Dallas you can see an actual vagina in one of the scenes!

It's right before a cock slams into it. Seriously.

[northbankbren]

Cool fact. We used to have a sofa and fridge from the set of the shining, my dad worked on set

He aslo went round to kubricks house for dinner, and got beans on toast

Also just saw a this on yahoo, directors stealing footage from previous films, this is quite blantant from the new tranformers movie....
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article ... -film.html

[Yankee_Gooner_Dandee]

michael bay steals scenes froom all of his movies for all his new movies. every movie has the shot where the camera is looking up at the hero's face while there's a shine in the background from the sun and some sort of flying plane passes overhead. happens in armageddon, pearl harbor, transformers, bad boys 2.


michael bay is the definition of hollywood trash.

[goonersid]

The Shawshank Redemption is actually a shite film, not at all a brilliant film as is believed by many.

[brazilianGOONER]

I am a bit pissed,and slightly bored,so I thought that I would start a "trivia" style thread.
1: Did you know that the alien in the first Predator film was played by Jean-Claude Van Damme?

no it was not. it was a black guy taller and slimmer than kanu. i saw the making of.

van damme is shorter than db10gooner for fucks sake!

[Rugby Gooner]

I am a bit pissed,and slightly bored,so I thought that I would start a "trivia" style thread.
1: Did you know that the alien in the first Predator film was played by Jean-Claude Van Damme?

no it was not. it was a black guy taller and slimmer than kanu. i saw the making of.

van damme is shorter than db10gooner for fucks sake!

It definitely was him B.G. He is even in the credits at the end of the film.

[OneBardGooner]

I am a bit pissed,and slightly bored,so I thought that I would start a "trivia" style thread.
1: Did you know that the alien in the first Predator film was played by Jean-Claude Van Damme?

no it was not. it was a black guy taller and slimmer than kanu. i saw the making of.

van damme is shorter than db10gooner for fucks sake!

It definitely was him B.G. He is even in the credits at the end of the film.

WHAAAAAT!!!??? DB10 played the Predator !!!??? Fucccckkkkk!

Ere DB10 can I have yer autograph?