34 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Plug Into That Epic Battle Montage Playing in Your Head

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34 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Plug Into That Epic Battle Montage Playing in Your Head
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Movies need to cram a whole lot of story into a short amount of time. They’re not like TV shows that get to breathe with seasons-worth of storytelling. Movie facts are no different. They’re short, punchy little tidbits that get their point across and let you move on.

Hopefully — like the movies themselves — this batch will have you on the edge of your seats and leave you wanting more!

The Departed

The Departed BE CAPTAIN QUEENAN CRACKED.COM Gerard McSorley spent weeks working with Boston police officers, when Martin Scorsese decided to haul in Martin Sheen to replace him after filming had already begun.

Willow

CRACKED.COM Willow It was the largest casting call for little people ever. According to star Warwick Davis, the movie hired between 225 and 240 little person actors.

A Few Good Men

Aaron Sorkin wrote the first draft on cocktail napkins. Sorkin was working as a bartender while listening to his sister, a Navy JAG Corps member, discuss a case she was working on. Не wrote a version of that story on some napkins at the bar until he could borrow his roommate's computer. A Few Good Men CRACKED.COM

Deliverance

CRACKED HERBERT 'COWBOY' COWARD WAS A THEME PARK EMPLOYEE. DELIVERANCE Burt Reynolds shot Gunsmoke at the Ghost Town theme park, where Coward worked as a cowboy. Reynolds recommended him for the role, and his line, He got a real purdy mouth, ain't he? haunts us all over 50 years later.

Bill Paxton

When Bill Paxton died, storm chasers paid him a fitting tribute. They used GPS markers to make a giant BP (the Twister star's initials) across 3 states. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Shining

SHELLEY DUVALL & STANLEY KUBRICK CRACKED.COM Production delays on 'The Shining' kept Duvall from her family for a whole year, and Kubrick made her life a living nightmare by berating her in front of the crew. In an interview, she said, My character had to cry 12 hours a day the last nine months straight, five or six days a week.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

EASY BUCK$ Johnny Depp's pay or play contract. Because of the Amber Heard controversy, Warner Bros. told him to resign from Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. They replaced him with Mads Mikkelsen, but Depp got to keep his $16 million fee. CRACKED

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The French Connection

CRACKED A CAR CRASH. Filming without permits, the epic car chase has stunt driver Bill Hickman dodging and weaving (at high speeds) in actual NYC traffic. Не accidentally smashed into the car of a man on his morning commute. THE FRENCH CONNECTION

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Fourth of July Movies JFK's dad asked the movie not be shown in Europe. Joseph P. Kennedy, ambassador to the UK, wrote to director Frank Capra arguing that the film would ruin America's prestige in Europe. Yup, it was totally this movie and nothing else whatsoever. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington CRACKED.COM

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Mickey Mouse’s Archnemesis Pete

CRACKED.COM HELP Pete не first appeared in Alice solves the Puzzle. This 1925 short was part of a series about a live- action girl running around an animated landscape.

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Django Unchained

Jamie Foxx DJANGO UNCHAINED CRACKED CO There's a reason Django looks impossibly cool in his shades: sunglasses extremely didn't exist yet.

Michael Pena

Michael Pena While the actor has featured in quite a few movies and TV shows recently. it was his performance in the Ant-Mal movies that made us want

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz has an actual name. According to L. Frank Baum, it's Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. CRACKED.CO

Alan Rickman

The Prisoner of Azkaban' represents a tonal Shift in the Harry Potter series But that didn't stop the great Alan Rickman from CRACKED.COM planting a

World War Z

34 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Plug Into That Epic Battle Montage Playing in Your Head

Captain America

34 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Plug Into That Epic Battle Montage Playing in Your Head

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