29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About Movies For Thursday, December 25th

Random movie facts we overheard in a cinema bathroom
29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About Movies For Thursday, December 25th
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Why didn’t we think of this sooner?! All these years we’ve been busting our humps tracking down the most interesting movie facts on the planet, when all we had to do was lurk around a movie theater! It’s teeming with movie lovers, so of course they’d have all the behind-the-scenes goods we need. 

Now, all we have to do is hope that no one catches us with a recording device in a movie theater. It’s only for the audio, but who knows, maybe they’d think we were recording clips for a movie podcast or something. Either way, we got this batch without getting caught, so enjoy these while we get back in there and keep living on the wild side.

Dumb and Dumber

DUMB AND DUMBER Don't worry, we'll catch our break, too. Producers wanted Harry and Lloyd to get on the bus with the bikini babes at the end, but Jim Carrey refused to film the take. CRACKED.COM

Iago from Aladdin

Doofy henchmen Aladdin IAGO Voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, lago is a squawking soundboard for Jafar, and it's Gottfried at his Gottfriediest. Не is named after lago in Shakespeare's Othello (although that lago was the main villain). CRACKED

The Rocker

CRACKED TELL US NOW CRITICALLY PANNED MOVIES WE LOVE THE ROCKER Russell C. says, I know it bombed at the box office but I think it's really funny. It also has a great cast. Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, and Josh Gad all before they were really famous.

Parasite

Bong Joon-Ho based Parasite on his days as a private math tutor. The family he worked for was super-rich, just like the one in the movie, and he got the job through his girlfriend (now his wife), who was working for them as an English tutor r-- she recommended him. CRACKED.COM

Toy Story 2

TOY STORY 2 The Pixar lamp Our old friend Luxo Jr. has its own constellation in the first shot of the movie. CRACKED.COM

The First Academy Awards Ceremony

THE VERY FIRST ACADEMY AWARDS RAN A MERE 15 MINUTES,AND A NAZI WON BEST ACTOR OVER A DOG. RINTINUN Rin Tin Tin was the biggest German Shepherd star in Hollywood, having helped Warner Bros. become a major film studio. During the first award show in 1929, he received the most votes for Best (and Goodest) Actor, but the Academy wasn't having it, and a second round of voting led to Emil Jannings winning the award, only to go on and make Nazi propaganda movies until 1945. CRACKED COM

Movie Sound Effects

The T-1000 transforming noise from 'Terminator 2' was made with a condom on a microphone. CRACKED.COM The mic was stuck into a goop made from flour, water and Dust-Off spray, which would make bubbles and sounds similar to a cappuccino maker.

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Young Frankenstein

STEVEN TYLER WROTE THE SONG WALK THIS WAY WHEN НЕ HEARD MARTY FELDMAN USE THE PHRASE IN YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. Not unironically, it was Run-DMC's cover of the song that brought Aerosmith back from the dead in the 1980s. CRACKED.COM 9109 97

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Trading Places

Eddie Murphy inspired part of a law. His 1983 movie Trading Places features insider trading in futures, which actually wasn't illegal at the time though it is in the movie. It only became illegal under the Dodd-Frank act in 2010, which included the Eddie Murphy Rule. That rule made it

Source: Uproxx

The Big Lebowski

The French part of Beyonce's song Partition is from The Big Lebowski It's almost a direct sample from the French dub of the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKE

Source: Slate

Sly's Success

GREEK FILm DISTRIBUTORS WANTED TO CAPITALIZE on SLY'S 80S success so THEY MADe suRe THE GREEK AuDlencE knew LOCKUP WHO STARRED in THE movie LOCK UP (1

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