32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Holster As You Stroll Down A Dusty Main Street Toward What’s Left of the James Gang

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32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Holster As You Stroll Down A Dusty Main Street Toward What’s Left of the James Gang
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When it comes to duels, we always hear about pistols at dawn, but we never hear about movie facts at high noon. Is that not cinematic enough for the folks who crank out Westerns?

We don’t know who we need to petition here, but somebody needs to know that if they make a movie where two outlaws fire movie facts at each other outside the ol’ saloon, we have no doubt that it’d be a box-office smash. Yeehaw!

Summer of Soul

SUMMER OF SOUL The film was directed by Questlove, and its Oscar is one of the first South Asian Oscar wins of all time. CRACKED.COM

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Speed 2: Cruise Control

Troubleshooter, the first script for Die Hard 3, involved terrorists on a Caribbean cruise ship. Bruce Willis didn't wanty to do something similar to

Adrien Brody

In 2013, Academy Award winner Adrien Brody played a parody of Dirty Harry called Flirty Harry in the movie InAPPropriate Comedy. His character only

Reservoir Dogs

THeRe WeRen'T ANY ReseRVOIRS OR DOGS in ReseRVOIR DOGS. THE nAme comes FROM QUENTIN TARANTINO MOCKING A FRenCH movie. Before making movies, Tarantino worked as a video store clerk. According to one story, he pronounced French film Au Revoir Les Enfants reservoir dogs out of spite. Another version of the story has Tarantino's girlfriend saying she wants to see the film, and Tarantino snapping back, I don't want to see no Reservoir Dogs. Whichever it was, Tarantino liked the phrase. CRACKED.COM Salman Rushdie, 2012. Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

Bad Santa

To get her role in Bad Santa, Lauren Graham had to hump a chair. I can still remember how terrified I was at the Bad Santa audition. I had to hump a chair ...I humped a chair. Among other things. I had to do basically everything that my character does. And a lot of it is very... visual, she said. CRACKED.COM

Finding Nemo

Pixar animators had to take a graduate-level class in ichtyology (fish science) for Finding Nemo. It was to ensure the fish movements were as accurate as possible. CRACKED.COM

Star Wars

A 'Star Wars' actor survived being stabbed in the heart and suffering a stroke. In 1999, Rebecca Jackson Mendoza survived a stroke caused by a severed aorta after being stabbed by her husband. By 2005 she made a full recovery and was able to play Breha Or- gana in 'Revenge of the CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Predator

Unclean water on PREDATOR They shot the 1987 movie in the jungles of Palenque, Mexico, and many of the cast and crew got sick with travelers' diarrhea because of the unpurified water. Kevin Peter Hall said, Predator wasn't a movie, it was a survival story for all of us. CRACKED

Beauty and the Beast

Disney composers Howard Ashman and Alan Menken originally wanted Mrs. Potts' song in Beauty and the Beast to be a rock song. CRACKED.COM

Batman Returns

In Batman Returns the shadow from Selina Kyle's glasses foreshadows her later transformation into Catwoman. (1992) CRACKED.COM

Raggedy Ann

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The real doll that inspired The Conjuring was a normal Raggedy Ann. WARNING POSITIVE CRACKED .COM DO NOT In The Conjuring, and the Annabelle spin-off, the evil-possessed doll is a creepy, ventriloquist-dummy-lookingtoy with wooden skin and large, unblinking eyes. In reality, the toy that inspired the series is a regular Raggedy Ann, which is locked up in Warrens' Occult Museum in Monroe, CT.

Ant-Man and the Wasp

A deleted scene from Ant-Man and the Wasp shows how Janet Van Dyne survived. She used the communications technology in her helmet to talk with the inhabitants of the Quantum Realm, allowing her to navigate their society. CRACKED.COM

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32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Holster As You Stroll Down A Dusty Main Street Toward What’s Left of the James Gang

Woody from Toy Story

WOODY But he came perilously close to being a nightmare ventriloquist dummy. CRACKEDCON

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Of THE THIRD KIND Devil's Tower in Wyoming was made America's first national monument by Theodore Roosevelt. Geologists disagree abou

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