33 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Run Alongside With During the Training Montage Playing in Your Head

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33 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Run Alongside With During the Training Montage Playing in Your Head
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Think you can keep up with these determined bits of movie trivia? There’s only one way to find out. We recently noticed a really fit dude jogging in our neighborhood and thought that if we could just keep up with him, we’d end up looking like him at some point. This workout — “parasite jogging” as we called it — was like our “before” picture chasing our “after” picture. 

Sadly, we didn’t take into account the fact that he was already years ahead of us on his fitness journey. 

What’s our point, you ask? It’s that you better be prepared to go hard right now, because like our hot neighbor, these fit movie facts will leave you in the dust.

Elf

CRACKED.COM Macy's refused to let Elf say that their santa wasn't real. The department store was happy to let the filmmakers shoot at their premises-but they drew the line at the movie saying that their Santa Claus was just a guy in a costume. That scene had to be shot somewhere else, and the film couldn't use the name Macy's.

Death of a Stuntman

An old-timey movie featured the real death of a stuntman. Daredevil Ormer Locklear crashed while performing aerial stunts for the 1920 movie The Skywayman. In a move that makes today's tabloids seem respectful, the film didn't just include Locklear's death, but used it as a selling point. CRACKED.COM

The Princess Bride

CRACKED.COM THE PRINCESS BRIDE André the Giant was too big for his horse. A pulley system was devised to lower the huge guy onto the horse without putting too much weight on the poor beast's spine.

Wonder Woman

WONDER WOMAN General Erich Ludendorff actually existed. While the thing involving the Greek god of war wasn't real (probably), Ludendorff was actually a general in the German army during World War I. Unlike the movie version, the real Ludendorff resigned and fled to Sweden. CRACKED.COM

Frozen

Animation code from Frozen was used to solve a 63 year old, erm, 'cold' case. CRACKED.COM The Dyatlov Pass incident left nine Russian hikers dead in 1959. Engineers recently relied on animation codes in Frozen to prove a long- standing theory that an ava- lanche resulted in the deaths of the nine hikers.

Die Hard

DIE HARD Bruce Willis did the movie due to a pregnancy. At first, Willis couldn't take the part of John McClane due to his commitment to Moonlighting. That changed when his Moonlighting co-star Cybill Shepherd announced she was pregnant, and the series paused production. CRACKED.COM

Godzilla

CRACKED.COM GODZILLA Godzilla was allegedly named after some big dude. According to director Ishiro Honda, Gojira (westernized as Godzilla) was a nickname for a large man that worked at Toho's publicity department. Gojira came about when two people argued whether he was as big as a gorilla or as a whale (kujira).

Mortal Kombat (2021)

CRACKED.COM MORTAL KOMBAT (2021) Sub-Zero's costume weighed 33 lbs. As the movie relied on realistic and practical effects/costuming, the entire outfit that Joe Taslim wore weighed in at 33 pounds, making his quick stunt moves even more impressive.

Michael Kahn

Michael Kahn has been editing Steven Spielberg's movies for forty years. Kahn started working with the famous director on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and has edited almost all of his films since. Spielberg's most memorable, thrilling, and suspenseful scenes wouldn't have been possible without him. CRACKED.COM

Charlize Theron

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES CHARLIZE THERON in Children of the Corn III Theron appears (uncredited) in 1995 as a cult follower in the B-tier horror franchise inspired by Stephen King. Nowadays, Theron has rather focused her interest in action movies, even appearing in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. CRACKED.COM

Spaceballs

Meta Movies Spaceballs Nobody liked the costumes. John Candy was frustrated he couldn't move Barf's ears and tail himself, and had to rely on puppeteers. Yogurt' makeup gave Mel Brooks a severe allergic reaction. And Pizza the Hutt's costume included actual melted cheese, which gave the actor serious burns. CRACKED.COM

Wonder Boys

Serious actors and directors doing comedy Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys By 2000, Douglas had already appeared in a few interesting comedies, but had also built a solid career with dramas like Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, or Falling Down. Wonder Boys, however, is not only a perfect comedic drama. Douglas also leads a cast of greats with a hilarious performance as a stoner creative writing professor with writer's block. CRACKED.COM

School of Rock

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Jack Black gave all the kids their NICKNAMES GRACKED.COM Tinkerbell. Blondie. Brace Face. While the script was locked, Black improvised nicknames for each of the kids while assigning them band roles. Zach Attack, Spazzy McGee, Posh Spice, Mr. Cool, and Turkey Sub are just some of the other monikers.

Lawrence of Arabia

Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif were drunk during a big action scene in Lawrence of Arabia. The two actors were nervous about filming the Battle of Aqaba, where they charge at full speed alongside hundreds of men riding camels and horses. A bottle of Brandy and two bottles of milk is what it took to make O'Toole feel supremely confident. CRACKED.COM

Evil Dead

Lightning killed the original owner of the Evil Dead cabin. Years later, the cabin was occupied by a mother, daughter, and grandmother. The mother and grandmother died unrelated deaths during a single stormy night. Presumably, it became haunted, and yet Sam Raimi's crew had to sleep there because the film's budget was so low. CRACKED.COM

Home Alone

Home Alone's movie-within-a-movie was shot in one day, in an abandoned high school gym. They filmed Angels with Filthy Souls on a sound stage in the New Trier West High School gymnasium (which was used for a lot of Home Alone's interior shots, too). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs was the first movie to be released on home video before winning the Best Picture Oscar. It was also the first ever horror movie to win the award (Hitchcock's work was famously snubbed). CRACKED COM

Stephen Colbert

Steven Colbert is obsessed with J.R.R. Tolkien. Не even beat Peter Jackson's Tolkien expert, in a quiz. Jackson says Colbert is the biggest Tolkien geek he's ever met, and Colbert owns Aragorn's sword- which he got directly from Viggo Mortensen. CRACKED.COM

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't tough enough for the German dub ofTerminator. Schwarzenegger wasn't al- lowed to voice himself be- cause the producers thought that his Austrian accent wasn't tough enough for the Terminator. He's never dubbed himself in all of his movies since. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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The First Use of Color Film

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects The earliest known 1902 color film footage British inventors Edward Turner and Frederick Lee produced color motion picture tests of Turner's children playing. Не died before perfecting it, but his work led to Kinemacolor in 1906 (the world's first motion picture in natural colors.) CRACKED

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Noah’s Ark

Hollywood tragedies that brought change Noah's Ark Drowning (well, allegedly) On the set of the 1928 movie Noah's Ark, three people reportedly passed away while filming a scene about the Great Flood. This caused safety rules to be put in place in Hollywood - a new idea at the time. CRACKED

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Anna Faris and Chris Pratt

CRACKED.COM On-Screen Couples That Became Real Anna Faris and Chris Pratt They met on the set of Take Me Home Tonight, playing love interests-turned-exes. This foreshadowed their divorce in 2017.

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Knives Out

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Sleuth The film starts with detective Benoit Blanc having recently solved a case involving a tennis player. Johnson explained: At the beginning of Sleuth, the novel that he's dictating is Death by Double Faults, and he's describing how the killer paced along the lines of the tennis court and threw the body into the clay. Knives Out CRACKED.COM

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The Graduate

The Graduate ended the way it did because the editor slipped up. The day the final scene was being shot, the movie's editor was standing in for the di

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