37 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Holster for the Long Ride Across A Dusty Plain Toward A Town That Needs Your Help

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37 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Holster for the Long Ride Across A Dusty Plain Toward A Town That Needs Your Help
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It must feel good to know you’ve done your part to help people. We honestly have no idea, so could you help explain it to us? What’s it like to mouth-deliver a big hearty batch of movie facts to a group of bored folks at a party? While you’re at it, can you tell us what it’s like to actually be at a party?

Hmm, maybe if we helped more people, we’d be invited to more parties. We’ll mull that over while you read and regurgitate these facts to those in need.

Skyfall

SKYFALL CAUSED A SURGE IN RAZOR SALES. The sexy scene in the James Bond film caused a 735% percent spike in Google searches for straight razors. One razor company experienced a 405% up-tick in sales for the outdated razor. CRACKED.COM

The Terminator

CST3-188 The Terminator The movie came from James Cameron's nightmare. Cameron was in Rome, Italy doing the final cut of Piranha II, when he was stricken with a 102-degree fever. As he tossed and turned at night, he dreamt of the unstoppable robot. CRACKED.COM

The Lord of the Rings

1 out of every 160 New Zealanders worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. L To give you a sense of their ludicrous scale, there were 20,000 extras, and over 48,000 individual weapons were made just for those movies. CRACKED.COM

The Jungle Book

The vultures from The Jungle Book are a barbershop quartet instead of a rock group because Walt Disney wasn't a fan of The Beatles. Originally, We're Your Friends was supposed to be have a Beatles sound to it, but Disney thought that they were a fad, and decided to go with something timeless. CRACKED.COM

Alice in Wonderland

DISNEY'S ALICE MOVIE WAS GOING TO BE A LIVE-ACTION HYBRID. SHE'D MEET LEWIS CARROLL. But Disney was concerned about the optics of a little girl befriending a strange adult man. So Walt Disney lobbied to give Carroll (played by Cary Grant) a separate love interest and then just scrapped the live section altogether. CRACKED.COM

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Wall Street

The movie WALL STREET was seen as a celebration of greed, which was not the intention of screenwriter STANLEY WEISER. Не was disappointed to hear how people interpreted the movie CRACKED

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NPR

Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher

Surprising Celebrity Couples Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher Han Solo and Princess Leia had an affair. CRACKED.COM

Source: Vanity Fair

Street Fighter

The stunt coordinator refused to use the characters' moves. STREET FIGHTER Stunt coordinator Charlie Picerni, who was tasked with shooting fight scenes, thought that signature moves from the game weren't real enough, and just decided not to use them - without telling the director. De Souza had to reshoot several fights himself.

Source: Polygon

Princess Bride

There's a Spinal Tap easter egg in Princess Bride DORAL USS OV-18 CRACKED.COM The hat Rob Reiner wore in Spinal Tap is hanging on the wall of The Grandson's room

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was written as a Black kid. Roald Dahl changed his mind about that only because his agent thought it'd be a bad idea.

Source: NPR

Harry Potter

37 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Holster for the Long Ride Across A Dusty Plain Toward A Town That Needs Your Help

Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson insisted McMurphy be the catalyst for the patient rebellion. ONE FLE OVER THE CUCKC'SNEST Director Milos Forman and Nicholson allegedly

A Quiet Place

The aliens in A QUIET PLACE were thought to be invincible until the Abbot family discovers that high-frequency noises expose their vulnerable fleshy b

Braveheart

Tibetan monks are huge Braveheart fans and watch it all the time. Braveheart is about the Scots asserting their independence from England, and since T

Mr. Turner

To play the great British painter J.M.W Turner, Timothy Spall CAKA Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter) trained with a watercolorist, on and off, for two

Deadpool

The Deadpool movie is a snarky mix of drama and satire. In it, Deadpool constantly breaks the fourth wall and openly mocks the superhero genre. And al

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