28 Movie Trivia Nuggets That Would Like To Thank The Academy For Their Place In Pop Culture History

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28 Movie Trivia Nuggets That Would Like To Thank The Academy For Their Place In Pop Culture History
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You love them! You really, really love them! Sorry, it's not our speech to give. We just got so excited for our little movie fact buddies, who are finally getting the recognition they deserve. Your enjoyment of their little movie tidbits is all the “award” they need, but being recognized by the Movie Fact Academy is making them gush a little. How could they not?

We'll always be able to say we knew them before they were famous. Hopefully, they don't forget us little people. Take their great performances and make them your own. You'll be the life of every party, school board and HOA meeting.

The Two Towers

When Viggo Mortensen screamed and fell to his knees in The Two Towers, he was in real pain. It wasn't his way of playing Aragorn's anguish at the (presumed) death of two hobbits - it's just because, when he hit the helmet on-screen, he broke both of his toes and probably couldn't keep standing anymore. CRACKED.COM

The Notebook

For his role in The Notebook, Ryan Gosling learned how to build furniture. Built by Ryan Gosling The table in the dinner scene is his work. Before shooting started, he moved to Charleston, SC, and apprenticed with a cabinet maker for two months. CRACKED.COM

Byzantium

Saoirse Ronan, who had never played the piano, mastered a ludicrously difficult Beethoven piano sonata for Byzantium. She pulled it off in 12 weeks, which her teacher found miraculous. One section alone, which requires crossing the right hand with the left, is hard to master even for a piano player with years of experience. CRACKED.COM

Chaplin

Robert Downey Jr. learned to play tennis left-handed for Chaplin. I didn't have to, but it was an opportunity to really go for broke and nail the character as much as I could, he says. Plus, he started over learning tennis once he found out, while being trained as a right-handed player, that Chaplin was left-handed. CRACKED.COM

Dark River

For Dark River, Ruth Wilson learned to shear sheep, gut rabbits, and castrate lambs. She spent three weeks on a rundown farm, with sheep S**t everywhere to learn those skills. Once shooting ended, she said she didn't want to see sheep ever again. CRACKED.COM

Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Endgame Only Robert Downey Jr. had the full script. In order to prevent leaks, the cast was only given parts of the script relevant to their characters- aside from RDJ, who had been on the Marvel train from the beginning. CRACKED.COM

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

Ratatouille

Ratatouille None of the human characters have toes. To save time, the artists and animators at Pixar didn't make any toes for the human characters, which is odd given Pixar's reputation for fine details in their films. CRACKED.COM

Men in Black

CRACKED.COM Men in Black Vincent D'Onofrio's performance was helped by basketball gear. To create his human/bug hybrid walk, D'Onofrio put on a pair of braces of the kind basketball players wear, and locked them so he couldn't bend his legs.

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.

Seabiscuit

CRACKED.COM Seabiscuit Seabiscuit was played by ten horses. The multiplicity of horse actors was to get a good performance for the cameras and not tire a single horse out. Plus, some horses were better behaved than others for quieter, dialogue-heavy scenes.

Jack Reacher

CRACKED.COM Jack Reacher Dwayne Johnson auditioned for the title role. Johnson lost the role to Tom Cruise despite being physically much closer to the character. Не has revealed that that was one of his biggest disappointments in Hollywood.

Malignant

Malignant The opening credits spoil the movie. The sequence shows some documents that detail the movie's biggest reveal. No, we won't tell you what that is-go spoil yourself if you want to. CRACKED.COM

Con Air

Con Air Nicolas Cage did his own stunts. There were explosions five feet behind me, Cage said, flaming helicopters dropping right behind me, ball-bearing bullets over my head. So there was a level of intensity, fear, you might say. CRACKED.COM

Luca

Pixar's Luca is kind of based on the director's own childhood in Italy. PESCHERIA Enrico Casarosa says that he was inspired by how he'd spent his childhood in Cinque Terre with a friend, Alberto, who was a troublemaker. CRACKED.COM

Godzilla vs. Kong

Director Adam Wingard's cat apparently influenced Godzilla vs Kong. That's judging by an Instagram photo of his cat, which he captioned with There is a lot of her inspiration in my version of Godzilla and King Kong. CRACKED.COM

Mad Max

George Miller's time in a Sydney emergency room inspired Mad Max. He's a medical doctor who spent time in a hospital emergency room in the '70s - there, he says, he saw a lot of real road trauma. CRACKED.COM

Before Sunrise

Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise was based on an encounter he'd had. SHONEN KNIFE He'd met a woman, Amy Lehrhaupt, and spent a night with her-and he eventually turned the memory of that into Before Sunrise. CRACKED.COM

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman was inspired by the creator's poly marriage. Не lived with two wives for decades, and had two children with each of them-and he also partly based Wonder Woman on each of them. CRACKED.COM

LOTR

A region of Middle-earth was partly inspired by WWI battlefields. Tolkien, who was in WWI, said that the Dead Marshes (on the path to Mordor) owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. CRACKED.COM

Pretty Woman

The original ending of Pretty Woman was much darker. CRACKED COM Originally titled 3,000, the movie ended with Julia Rob- erts' character being tossed out of a limo into a dirty alley and thrown $3,000 in cash. The screenplay changed when Disney took over pro- duction.

Twister

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

Superman

Producers wanted Christopher Reeve to wear fake muscles. Не refused, and got so yolked they had to re-shoot the early scenes, for continuity. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Jim Carrey in 1994

Jim Carrey is the first actor to have three films reach number one at the box office in the same year. It was during 1994. The films were The Mask, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, & Dumb and Dumber. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

"I'll Be Back"

Arnold Schwarzenegger has said I'll be back in other movies besides the Terminator franchise. Eleven other movies, to be exact. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Sniper

In Sniper (1993), Thomas Beckett closes one eye when aiming. A trained sniper would keep both eyes open, both to prevent overworking his aiming eye and keep tabs on his periphery. CRACKED.COM

The Babadook

Noah Wiseman, The Babadook Noah Wiseman was only six when he starred in The Babadook and was told the movie was about his character trying to save his mother and the power of love. Не was not present for the verbally abusive scenes. CRACKED.COM

The Hangover

KEN JEONG, THE HANGOVER Jeong jokes that his wife predicted The Hangover would be a feel-good hit because even the most insecure males viewers would consider themselves well-endowed compared with her husband. GRACKED.COM

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