29 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Inhabit Our Brains Like All Those People Who Live in John Malkovich’s Head

These are great but sometimes we wish they’d keep in down up there!
29 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Inhabit Our Brains Like All Those People Who Live in John Malkovich’s Head
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We have a ton of party-animal movie facts bouncing around our brains, but we don’t have a single one in our sinus cavities pounding on their ceiling with a broomstick screaming, “Keep it down up there!” 

Don’t get us wrong, we love movie facts. We just love sleep too, ya know? Maybe we’ll luck out and one of these tidbits will be the brownnoser narc we need to keep the rest in check!

Eyes Wide Shut

Released in 1999 Stanley Kubrick bought the rights to Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story in 1968. Then he sat on the story for three decades until he finally adapted it into EYES WIDE SHUT. CRACKED.COM

Raya and the Last Dragon

An early scene from Raya and the Last Dragon showed totally different Druun. In the final movie, the Druun are just mist without form-- but early on, as shown in this scene, they were armored humanoids with a clear shape. CRACKED.COM

Richie Rich

CRACKED After his 1994 movie Richie Rich. MACAULAY CULKIN told his parents, I'm done, guys - 1 hope you all made your money, because there is no more coming from me. Не took his parents to court to stop them from controlling his $17 million in earnings.

Jackie Chan

CRACKED.COM Jackie Chan Не has been in over 150 movies. Skip Rush Hour and just start with the classics: 1978's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master, 1983's Project А, 1988's Dragons Forever, 1989's Miracles, 1993's Crime Story, 1994's Drunken Master 2, and the first three Police Story movies.

Scream 2

IN SCREAM 2, THE KILLER BEHIND GHOSTFACE'S MASK IS MICKEY ALTIERI. THAT WASN'T THE PLAN. НЕ REPLACED DEREK AND HALLIE. The identity of the killers was changed after the script was leaked on the internet. CRACKED.COM

On Golden Pond

HENRY FONDA scored his first Oscar ON GOLDEN POND CRACKED.COM Fonda's kid Jane purchased the play On Golden Pond specifically to work out some real-life father/daughter issues. Onscreen wife Katherine Hepburn gave Spencer Tracy's lucky hat to Fonda, who wore it for the film.

Gun Myths in Movies

29 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Inhabit Our Brains Like All Those People Who Live in John Malkovich’s Head

Inglorious Basterds

CRACKED.COM CHRISTOPH WALTZ is a true polyglot. Waltz didn't need any coaching for Inglourious Basterds - he does fluently speak all those languages. However, he plays it down as just a part of traveling around Europe. If you needed Cherokee to order dinner, you'd speak Cherokee, he has said.

Jaws: The Revenge

WORST SEQUELS EVER JAWS: THE REVENGE So this film was directed by a nobody, right? Nope. Joseph Sargent had a long career on movies and TV. In fact, he directed the two-hour Kojak pilot in 1973, which Spielberg himself credited for inspiring him to hire Lorraine Gary to play Jaws' Ellen Brody (leading to her prominent role in this fourth part). CRACKED.COM

Harry Potter

CRACKED.COM Matthew Lewis's eardrum was perforated during a scene with Helena Bonham Carter, when she got a little too into character while torturing him with her wand.

Monsters University

The collegiate cameo: 2013 2015 CRACKED.COM The star of The Good Dinosaur briefly appears as a distinctly Pixar-ian toy, inside a Monsters University scare emulator.

Merida

Merida is the only Pixar princess. She is also Pixar's first female lead. CRACKED.COM

Lightning McQueen

Cars' Lightning McQueen is an homage to a Pixar animator who passed away. His name was Glenn McQueen, and he worked at Pixar from 1994 to his death in 2002. Pixar also dedicated its 2003 movie (Finding Nemo) to him. CRACKED.COM

The Turning

One of Gillian Anderson's first roles was a thriller with white supremacists. - WHAT C - the TURNING ... ILLS - In The Turning, she was the girlfriend of a guy who stays with white supremacists. On the video cover, she's unbuttoning her blouse. CRACKED.COM

Back to the Future

CRACKED CONIC com CO PORK RE NK heappop a DANC BACK TO THE FUTURE Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reunited at New York Comic-Con, 37 years after 'Back to the Future'. They talked about their first meeting and their friendship, with Fox honoring his mom who passed away two weeks before.

Captain America

Captain America: The First Avenger CRACKED.COM THE COMIC THE MOVIE Cap socks Hitler in his fascist face on the cover of his first comic, 1941's Captain America #1. The scene is faithfully recreated in the film as part of Cap's propaganda routine to promote war bonds.

Vin Diesel as Groot

Vin Diesel became Groot because fans blindsided him. Diesel was caught off guard during a Comic-Con, when fans asked him about his (then merely introductory) meetings with Marvel. Fearing to be a killjoy, he blurted out something about big news coming soon. Marvel saw that as an opportunity and offered him Groot right away. CRACKED.COM

Christopher Nolan

christopher Nolan bans phones, water bottles, and smoking on set. Dunkirk stars Mark Rylance and Barry Keoghan spoke about these rules in an interview. It was also rumored that he wouldn't let people sit in chairs, either. CRACKED

Martin Scorsese

Martin scorsese bans wristwatches to heighten immersion. This is to cultivate a bubble, cut off from the real world. Like, if you're checking your watch, you're thinking about being somewhere else, and not being present. CRACKED

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino asks his actors to say, Hi, sally. In a sweet, peculiar ritual on all of his sets until 2012's Django Unchained, he asked his cast to say hi to his editor Sally Menke at the end of a take. This would crack her up in the editing room until her untimely passing in 2010. CRACKED

Steven Soderbergh

CRACKED steven soderbergh doesn't want to see your toes. When asked about his rules on set, he didn't hesitate to sharply reply, No open-toed shoes!

Schindler’s List

Robin Williams was put on speaker phone to cheer up the cast and crew of Schindler's List. CRACKED.COM Williams would call director Steven Spielberg once a week on schedule and do 15 minutes of stand up on the phone. When Williams got the biggest laugh out of Spielberg, he would hang up without saying goodbye.

Us

Us came from a persistent fear that Jordan Peele had been having. He'd imagine seeing his own doppelganger on the subway, across the platform, and he would smile at Peele. That was the seed for the movie. CRACKED.COM

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park prudently left out the baby-eating. Steven Spielberg movies are usually quite safe for child characters-but Michael Crichton novels, not necessarily so. The original Jurassic Park book features a scene where a baby is found surrounded by small dinosaurs-and they're not just gushing over how cute the baby is. CRACKED.COM

The Smurfs (2011)

The Smurfs (2011) was critically panned, scoring only 22% positive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, but that didn't stop it from making more than five times its budget. That's right, this terrible CGI-fest of a cartoon no one asked for made over $560 million with only $110 million budget. CRACKED.COM

Dogma

by DOGMA Jason Mewes took the role seriously due to Alan Rickman. Mewes didn't want to anger an actor of Rickman's caliber by being his usual slackish self, so he went out of his way to learn his lines. CRACKED.COM

Halloween Kills

COMEDY NERD Halloween Kills has a Bob Odenkirk cameo that you'd never, ever notice. ZD BREAKING NEWS 11 COMMUNITY IN SHOCK OVER MULTIPLE MURDERS WS WCTD 11 EVENING NEWS The high school picture of Bob Simms is actually a high school photo of Bob Odenkirk - because that was basically the easiest option for that picture. CRACKED.COM

The Talkies

TALKIES CRACKED.COM In 1928, the President of production company United Artists said that talking doesn't belong in pictures. Actress Mary Astor recalled the prevailing opinion that the noise would simply drive audiences from the theaters.

Wah Chang

Who was WAH CHANG? A lot of Chang's work was uncredited. Chang's name had a funny way of falling off the credits of movies and shows, for different reasons. Just go to Chang's IMDb page and count how many times the word uncredited appears. CRACKED.COM

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