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33 Easter Eggs and Behind-the-Scenes Tidbits About Hollywood Movies

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33 Easter Eggs and Behind-the-Scenes Tidbits About Hollywood Movies

May 25, 2024

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2 Fast 2 Furious

CRACKED.COM 2 Fast 2 Furious John Singleton wanted to direct the sequel because he loved the original. Growing up in South Central L.A. ,Singleton was into the street race scene. In fact, he was reportedly jealous he didn't come up with the movie's concept. eparco Епусе 42 — Source

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Gotta be honest: didn't know there was black licorice mouthwash

The Lord of the Rings The orcs' black mouths were done with mouthwash. As orcs are supposed to have black blood, they couldn't go around with normal human pink mouths. So the actors swished black licorice mouthwash between takes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day James Cameron wanted Billy Idol as the T-1000. That became impossible when Idol broke his leg and forearm in a motorcycle accident, so the role went to Robert Patrick CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alien

Aliens It took 14-16 people to operate the Alien Queen animatronic puppet. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Evil Dead II

CRACKED.COM Evil Dead II Stephen King is the franchise's godfather. The horror writer loved the first Evil Dead so much that he told Dino De Laurentiis to fund the second one without Sam Raimi's knowledge. — Source

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Deadpool 2 Brad Pitt did his cameo for scale and a Starbucks coffee. His condition was that the coffee was hand- delivered by Ryan Reynolds. Fair trade (the price to get Pitt, not the coffee itself). CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dawn of the Dead The zombies were left to do whatever they felt like. To get authentic performances (and because he was busy with other things), director George Romero just let the zombie extras roam on their own without giving them any directions. — Source

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A Quiet Place Part II Brian Tyree Henry was originally cast in the film. Не had to drop out due to scheduling issues, and was replaced by Djimon Hounsou. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Dark Knight Heath Ledger's performance was partially inspired by Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. Not only did Ledger use the character of Alex to help form his speech pattern as the Joker, but kept clippings and pictures of the character in his Joker diary for inspiration. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 2 There was originally going to be a love triangle with Peter, Mary Jane, and Doc Ock. The idea was to make Octavius younger and have Mary Jane reciprocate his feelings towards her. Luckily they went in another, more Molina direction. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Godfather Part II Robert De Niro lived in Sicily to prepare for the role. Going the method route, De Niro stayed in Sicily to thoroughly learn the local language, as all but eight words of his dialogue were in Sicilian. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Max only has 16 lines of dialogue. Two of them are the repeated line, I only came for the gasoline. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Ricardo Montalbán couldn't remember how to play Khan. Не had to watch his Star Trek episode three or four times to recall how to perform as the character. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rocky II An early draft of the script revealed Rocky's real name as Robert. It was scrapped because of that face you're making right now. Rocky CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Amanda Seyfried found out about the sequel only two days after giving birth. Her first thought was, Now we're doing it? — Source

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Avnature Ralph Breaks the Internet Bill Hader wasn't credited, for some reason. His condition was that the coffee was hand- delivered by Ryan Reynolds. Fair trade (the price to get Pitt, not the coffee itself). ebay CRACKED.COM — Source

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Paddington 2

Paddington 2 Director Paul King had to teach the children how to use a phone booth. Не called it one of the most dispiriting things he had to do during production. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Batman Returns

CRACKED.COM Batman Returns In an early. draft of the script, the Penguin and Max Shreck were brothers. — Source

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Ant-Man

Ant-Man has an obscure SNL reference. It's Garrett Morris' cameo -- a nod to his playing Ant-Man in an old SNL sketch about a superhero party. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Last Jedi riffed on an ancient Star Wars parody. The shot of what turns out to be a sci-fi iron is an homage to Hardware Wars, a 13-minute 1978 spoof that used everyday objects like irons, flashlights, and vacuum cleaners as spaceships and planets. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes

In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, when Caesar enters the apes' common space through the tunnel for the first time, that's director Rupert Wyatt's nod to Maximus entering the arena in Gladiator. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Wick: Chapter 2

The mirror room scene in John Wick: Chapter 2 was an homage to the 1973 Bruce Lee flick Enter the Dragon. CRACKED.COM

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Independence Day

Jasmine's kid's toys in Independence Day are actually an Easter egg. Her son plays with Godzilla toys, a reference to Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich's 1998 Godzilla movie (Independence Day came out in 1996, but they'd already made the deal to do Godzilla by then). CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Aladdin, when Jafar ends the Prince Ali reprise by launching Aladdin and the tower into the sky, that's a nod to the golf swing Johnny Carson would end his monologues with. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sam lavishing care on his plants in Moon was a reference to 1972's Silent Running. And each of his plants is named after a sci-fi movie director (the names are on their labels). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Goonies

The Goonies' Jake Fratelli wearing a fedora is the filmmakers' way of paying homage to Indiana Jones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The ficus plant that shows up at the start of Iron Man 3 is a nod to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, also starring Robert Downey Jr. (it was his idea). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tron

Programs fighting other programs in the Disc Arena was Tron's way of paying homage to Spartacus. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mission: Impossible — Fallout

The Mission: Impossible - Fallout team built a hallway set just so they could film a reference to 1967's Point Blank. B CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kong: Skull Island

Kong: Skull Island has a reference to Taxi Driver. King Konga LIZZY Hank Marlow has a jacket that says Lizard Company --а riff on Travis Bickle's jacket (which says King Kong Company). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Get Out's shade of light blue for its opening credits is an homage to The Shining. G E T OUT THE SHINING CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Trek

2009's Star Trek put in a very subtle nod to the original show. When Pike sits in the captain's chair for the first time, there's a band of light over his eyes - : a reference to the '60s show's mood lighting. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Valkyrie's way of opening bottles in Thor: Ragnarok is a New Zealand film reference. She opens them with a knife because a guy in 1994's Once Were Warriors opens beer bottles with a fish slicer. CRACKED.COM — Source

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