34 Movie Trivia Nuggets That Beat Those Two Old Nerds To A Place In Pop Culture History

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34 Movie Trivia Nuggets That Beat Those Two Old Nerds To A Place In Pop Culture History

Movie critics think they know everything about movies, but there's just no way they know more than movie facts themselves. Were they there when every one of these little behind-the-scenes movie moments went down? No! They just watch the final cut and give a thumbs up or thumbs down. And argue; they argue a lot, like all the time.

These facts were there for the inception of the idea, the script, pre-production, production, post-production, promotion, release, the theater run, the box office results, the home video sales, and wherever the movie lands in the zeitgeist. Let's see those old nerds get off their lazy behinds for that epic journey!

Parasite

The house in Parasite was stitched together using CGI. They built the first floor and the yard on an outdoor lot, and put a green screen above them --they'd later put the second floor there. The other rooms were built separately on soundstages. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

1917

Scofield getting knocked down on the battlefield in 1917 was a total accident. An extra just walked into George MacKay, and they kept filming. Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns loved it, though, and says it's one of her favorite scenes in the movie. I wish I wrote that, she said. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Hannibal Lecter

Hannibal Lecter was partly inspired by Anthony Hopkins' drama school teacher. His movement teacher Christopher Fettes had a cutting voice, and he would slice you to pieces. His analysis of what you were doing was so precise. So he made Lecter act the same way in Silence of the Lambs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

They didn't let George Lazenby cry in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. When he's cradling his dead wife as Bond, he had tears running down his face, but the director told him to stop that because James Bond doesn't cry -- so they shot the scene without tears. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Mulan

Mulan touches her hair a lot because her voice actress, Ming-Na Wen, does that. Disney animators noticed her doing that, and gave her character that habit. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Fight Club

Brad Pitt took out a bit of his front teeth for Fight Club. Не went to the dentist to have his teeth chipped, so he could really look like a guy who fights all the time. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Last Crusade

Harrison Ford put a nod to his philosophy professor in The Last Crusade. When Indy says If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall, that's a reference to William Earl Tyree, Ford's old professor at Ripon College (where Ford majored in philosophy). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Star Wars

Star Wars got made partly thanks to Grace Kelly. She joined the board of directors of 20th Century Fox in 1975, and stayed quiet when they discussed Star Wars. The board was totally divided over the movie, so she was kind of the tiebreaker - and her silence was interpreted as approval, so the movie got greenlit. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

El Mariachi

When making El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez was too cheap to buy a can of black paint. His budget was so tight, he didn't paint the guitar case that had the weapons black (the color it was supposed to be). For shots of its exterior, he just used the Mariachi's case, which was black. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Social Network

Natalie Portman consulted on The Social Network. When she heard David Fincher was doing the movie, Portman (who went to Harvard from 1999 to 2003) called him over for dinner. She told him about how final clubs worked and how prestigious they were for underclassmen -- which made its way into the movie, as it starts with Zuck talking about how much he wants to join one. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Mars Attacks

Mars Attacks is secretly Christmas-themed. PROP DAY The skeletons are bright green or bright red because the movie was scheduled to be released for Christmas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Rocky

CRACKED.COM ROCKY IS A STORY ABOUT PERSEVERANCE. ROCKY BALBOA NEVER QUITS, NO MATTER WHAT. THAT'S JUST THE FINISHED MOVIE, THOUGH. ORIGINALLY, НЕ DID QUIT. The first script had Rocky throw the fight after realizing he didn't actually want to be a boxer.

The Empire Strikes Back

In The Empire Strikes Back, footage of Luke wandering the plains of Hoth was shot from a hotel's back door. It was so cold outside that cameras wouldn't work, and tape recorders instantly froze up. So the crew were restricted to shooting from the rear entrance of their hotel - Mark Hamill staggered in the snow 12 feet away. CRACKED.COM

Batman

BATMAN CRACKED.COM Tim Burton's Batman raked in $411 million and did wonders for the comic book genre. Movies like The Rocketeer, The Shadow, and The Phantom presumed consumer interest, but critically and financially failed to recapture that lightning in a bottle.

Richard Matheson

I Am Legend This may be the most femilying - and you will EYES me 25 HOT -Williom Campbell Goult Police Vining Ryon المتوسط I I AM LEGEND Richard Mathesan CRACKED.COM Author Richard Matheson hated every adaptation of his book, especially the 2007 film: I don't know why Hollywood is fascinated by my book when they never care to film it as I wrote it.

Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers' Club total makeup budget was $250. But it won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Matt Stone and Trey Parker

To get funding for CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL Matt Stone and Trey Parker shot a three-minute preview, complete with costumes and songs, and, as Parker says, went around to people and said 'Hey, we need finishing money for our movie. They'd leave out that they also needed starting money, as they would be starting over from scratch. CRACKED.COM

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Space Jam: A New Legacy

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SARAH SILVERMAN POPPED UP IN SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY. She plays, of all people, a studio exec - one of the two who pitch Bronny on a new algorithm that can put LeBron James into any Warner Bros. IP.

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The Rise of Skywalker

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JEFF GARLIN HAS A (VERY) SMALL CAMEO IN THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. Apparently, he plays Junn Gobint, an alien that shows up in a scene near the end.

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Chucky's Homage to Ghoulies

CHUCKY Chucky hiding in the toilet is a shout-out to the 1985 comedy-horror, Ghoulies. CRACKED.COM

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34 Movie Trivia Nuggets That Beat Those Two Old Nerds To A Place In Pop Culture History

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