31 Movie Trivia Nuggets We Plucked From Obscurity In Pop Culture History

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31 Movie Trivia Nuggets We Plucked From Obscurity In Pop Culture History
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Like Willy Wonka, we ran a pretty life-changing promotion in the movie fact world. Movie facts everywhere were chomping at the bit to be selected for this list, and these lucky few were chosen. It's not an easy field to be part of. The whole of pop culture history is ginormous, and you have to be special to make the cut.

But here are the winners. They're not a bunch of brats like Wonka had. They're fine facts that will enrich your pop culture knowledge and hopefully make you the hit of any party, school board, or HOA meeting. You're about to get wittier.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST THE ACTORS LIVED IN THE PSYCHIATRIC WARD DURING SHOOTING. All of the actors who played patients actually stayed in the sleep quarters at the Oregon State Hospital, to get a sense of what it was like to be hospitalized. CRACKED.COM

DVD Collections

CRACKED The Ultimate Matrix Collection in the Nebuchadnezzar ship With only 400 ever made (and only released in Japan), they're extremely hard to find. The two-foot long ship contains the three movies, The Matrix Experience, The Animatrix, and a ton of bonus features. SPECIAL EDITIONS

The Doors

THE ACTOR: Val Kilmer THE ROLE: Jim Morrison in The Doors THE PREP: Kilmer spent six months learning and rehearsing 50 Doors songs, 15 of which he act

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane had to depict obscene wealth, but it had a shoestring budget. THE IMPROVISATION: Orson Welles got super creative, coming up with tricks like filming rooms from the floor to make them look big and using props to strategically hide areas. THE RESULT: Other directors picked up all those tricks later on, and they're used so much that we don't even notice them today. CRACKED.COM

The Lego Movie

THE LEGO MOVIE NO CHARACTER UTTERS THE WORD LEGO. Go ahead and watch the movie again. We'll wait. You back? Told ya. CRACKED.COM

Wall-E

The Pixar crew behind Wall-E watched Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin films every day for a year. They watched at least one of those movies every single day, so they could learn how to get across emotion without spoken words. CRACKED.COM

Walk Hard

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE STORY WAS WRITTEN AROUND THE SONGS. DE WALK HARD Songs for the movie were recorded for about six months before the film even started shooting. Each time a new song was recorded, the filmmakers made new decisions about the characters and the plot. CRACKED.COM

Will Smith as Neo

Will Smith was happy Keanu Reeves accepted the role of Neo in 'The Matrix' after he turned it down for 'Wild Wild West.' GRAGKED.COM Smith says, When you see somebody do it like Keanu, you think, 'Thank God.' I don't think I was mature enough as an actor at that point to get out of the way and just let it be and allow the directors to make the movie.

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The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels played by Steve Martin and Michael Caine were portrayed in 1964 by Marlon Brando and David Niven. The original was called Bedtime Story.

Source: Vulture

Movie Mistakes

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB BEHIND RON WOODROOF'S DESK AT THE OFFICE MOTEL, THERE IS A CALENDAR SHOWING A 2011 MODEL OF LAMBORGHINI AVENTADOR. THE MOVIE TAKES

Stan Lee's Training Films

STAN LEE worked on written manuals, and training films for the U.S. Army during World War D. cartoonists charles Addams ORAOE and Theodore Geisel also

Ghost Rider

GHOST RIDER SET IN: TEXAS FILMED IN: MELBOURNE The bridge seen in the background of the riding a flaming motorcycle on water scene in Ghostrider def

Eddie Redmayne

While auditioning for Elizabeth , Eddie Redmayne led the director to believe he was an experienced horseback rider. He got the part and the truth came

X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Failed Sequels X-Men: Dark Phoenix It's been done. The final installment of the Fox reboot was same- old, story-wise, as the Jean Grey turned dark plot had been done in X-Men: The Last Stand (which was itself a failed sequel). CRACKED

Napoleon Dynamite

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS Low budget, BIG PROFITS CRACKED.COM The original budget was $200,000. It took $400,000 to finish the film for Sundance. Fox Searchlight saw Napoleon there and bought it for $4.75 million. The film grossed more than $46 million and made $130 million in DVD sales.

Scream

ROSE MCCOWAN DID HER OWN SHOPPING FOR HER CHARACTER IN SCREAM. The actress said the original look for her character was very tomboyish and that the costume designer tried to put her in overalls and stacked Keds. So McGowan went to the mall and bought her entire wardrobe. CRACKED.COM

Sounds like they didn't hire a warbrobe department.

Source: ELLE

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