31 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About Movies For Monday, December 22nd

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31 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About Movies For Monday, December 22nd
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We’ve been slopping movie facts onto plates all afternoon, so if you want a pile, get in line! The pile might not look the most appetizing, but trust us, it’s packed with movie knowledge nutrients and it’s actually pretty tasty. Even if you don’t think so, just plug your nose or get a spoonful of sugar like that flying Nanny lady. Don’t let a little thing like flavor stand between you and immense movie knowledge.

The line begins right here, so after the next couple hungry fact seekers are served, you’ll get your fill. Actually, hold on. We’re so incredibly sorry, but we just ran out of plates. Maybe just open up your skull and let us plop this ladleful in there!

King Kong

Peter Jackson secretly pays homage to the original King Kong. Jackson directed the 2005 remake of the classic monster movie, and chose to be one of the airplane gunners who takes down the big gorilla. It's the same part co-director Ernest В. Schoedsack played in the 1933 version. CRACKED.COM

Robert Pattinson in Good Time

Robert Pattinson acted like a weirdo to prepare for his role as a robber in Good Time. Не lived in a basement apartment, just like his character, and kept the curtains closed for two months. Не jokingly said that he may have had mercury poisoning because he ate cans of tuna during that time. CRACKED.COM

How To Train Your Dragon

Pop culture inspirations House of the Dragon Director Greg Yaitanes watched HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON to prepare for the dragon fight inthe Season 1 finale. Не took inspiration from the film's cinematography for the scene. CRACKED

Linda Blair in Scream

Linda Blair has a quick cameo in SCREAM. YUKFZA She plays an eager reporter who tries to interview Sidney Prescott but gets ushered away by Deputy Dewey Riley. CRACKED.COM

Matthew Modine

Asbestos rained down daily on FULL METAL JACKET Matthew Modine (joker) said, That was one of the most toxic places I've ever been. We'd be having a cup of tea in the morning, and all the dust would fall in. You just drank the tea and didn't think too much about the dust. There was asbestos everywhere from the buildings that were knocked down. CRACKED

Paddington 2

Paddington 2 Director Paul King had to teach the children how to use a phone booth. Не called it one of the most dispiriting things he had to do during production. CRACKED.COM

Evil Dead

Evil Dead Real ammo was used. Since the groundling filmmakers didn't have the money or know-how to get blanks, the shotgun blasts were done with actual ammunition. CRACKED.COM

Colette Hiller

Aliens (1986) Colette Hiller, who played Corporal Ferro, was not happy about having to cut her hair. They told me, 'It's okay, look at Jenette!' and I just bawled...I was going to get married shortly afterwards so I made them buy me a long, blonde wig! I don't know what came over me! I never actually wore it. CRACKED.COM

Dustin Hoffman

THE ACTOR: Dustin Hoffman THE ROLE: Thomas Levy in Marathon Man THE PREP: Hoffman ran four miles a day and lost 15 pounds for the role. For a scene that called for him to be out of breath, he ran a mile and a half before the cameras started rolling. CRACKED.COM

The Wolf of Wall Street

The wolf of wall street got too real about financial crimes. The film was accused by the feds of being part of a money laundering scheme. CRACKED.COM

Midsommar

A Korean movie called Save the Green Planet! inspired Midsommar. The movie is about a rich pharma exec who gets kidnapped by a deranged guy who thinks the exec is actually a hostile alien, and that's just the start. CRACKED.COM

Singin’ in the Rain

The rain in Singin' in the Rain wasn't milk. It was just really good lighting and filming -- they lit it from behind, making sure you couldn't see all the lighting equipment in the shopfronts' windows. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Elrond, silent.

Plot Holes CRACKED Fellowship of the Ring Elrond doesn't say much about Isildur's decision to keep the Ring, even though he had seen thousands of his people die for it.

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Tangled

Tangled has a shout-out to Lion King. Y In the I Have A Dream scene, Pumbaa is in the Snuggly Duckling tavern. CRACKED COM

The Cantina Band

TRUTH: They're a species of super musicians. The Bith are biologically near-perfect musicians: They Their practice bagpipe-y music with lungs allow ma

The Little Mermaid

The crab in The Little Mermaid is named Horatio. His oceanic friends call him by last name, as in Horatio Thelonious Ignacious Crustaceous Sebastian.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

BREAKFAST TIFFANYS Truman Capote, the author of the story, thought Marilyn Monroe would be the perfect choice to play Holly Golightly. The role, of co

The Shawshank Redemption

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION Sewage gives off a toxic gas called hydrogen sulfide which can kill someone in minutes. There's no way Andy Dufresne could've

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