25 Movie Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, December 11, 2025

Technicolor facts for film fans.
25 Movie Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, December 11, 2025
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It's wild to think that for much of cinema's history, films were just in black and white. I imagine that it was terribly frustrating sometimes, as a filmmaker, to come across some beautiful landscape or build a colorful set knowing that its full beauty could not be captured on camera. It must have felt like a whole new world when technicolor was introduced and became the norm. 

I guess Hollywood got a little tired of all the color because it seems like every movie and TV show these days is horribly desaturated and near black-and-white … But I digress. The following film facts are in full technicolor!

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan has said that Inception was very much inspired by the James Bond movies.

Steven Spielberg

Seeing meteors made Steven Spielberg want to film a movie about good-guy aliens. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS THIRO KINO of THE When Spielberg was 6 or 7, his dad

Citizen Kane

In 1982, Steven Spielberg rrOSHUS bought the sled from Citizen Kane for $60,500. ROSE

George Lucas in The Godfather

George Lucas shot the news insert footage in The Godfather. Mirror Daily 3 NEW CORLEQ VITO FEARED MURDER Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola are longtime friends, and they've worked on each other's films over the years. CRACKED.COM

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George Lucas

The first to credit the full crew. 1977 George Lucas decided to list every last crew member in the Star Wars final credit crawl. Before that, only dep

Guillermo del Totoro

Guillermo del Toro was nicknamed Totoro-sann on the set of Pacific Rim. Embarrassed that she couldn't pronounce his name, nine-year-old actress Mana

Tim Burton

Before Tim Burton was directing feature films, he made his own insane version of Hansel and Gretel that aired on the Disney Channel Halloween night 19

Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan thought he'd look ridiculous in Batman's costume. BATMAN Tim Burton wanted Brosnan to play Bruce Wayne in Batman (1989). During a Reddi

Toy Story 2

Toy Story 2 was almost a direct-to-video release... SAY ROUNDUP TV STINKY PETE ...but Disney saw the potential ($$$) and it made almost $500 million at the box office. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Walk Hard

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THERE WAS A TON OF WORK PUT INTO SET DESIGN. WALK HARD Director Jake Kasdan says that compared to a regular comedy, the movie put much more effort into designing very detailed and authentic sets. Seven hotel rooms and three music studios for different time periods were built for the film. CRACKED.COM

Twilight

TWILIGHT BE CRACKED.COM The books and films are famously set in Forks, Washington, but when Edward shows Bella Vampire Baseball, Oregon's Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge can clearly be seen behind home plate.

Forrest Gump

CRACKED.COM Movie: Forrest Gump Inspiration: Norman Rockwell's art Director Robert Zemeckis used the work of the classic American painter to shape the look and feel of Greenbow, the fictional Alabama town where Forrest grew up. Rockwell's painting Girl with Black Eye was also recreated in the scene where Gump waits for his mother outside the principal's office (minus the black eye).

The Ring Two

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2005 THE RING TWO A burst water pipe flooded the production office, and weeks later a five-gallon water jug burst wide open and flooded it yet again. Then, on the set, a swarm of bees attacked and then simply vanished. Finally, a set decorator saw an antlered buck running in her direction (no reports on whether it was dodgy CGI, though). CRACKED.COM

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I Heart Huckabees

David O. Russell threw a violent temper tantrum. / HEART HUCKABEES After Lily Tomlin expressed frustration with his notes and revisions, he freaked out and started throwing and kicking props all over the set. The whole thing was caught on camera! It's wild!

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