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November 10, 2023

Movies are big, complicated productions — and that frequently results in weird, fun facts that made us say, “Neat!” Here are some of our favorites…

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While auditioning for Elizabeth I, Eddie Redmayne led the director to believe he was an experienced horseback rider. Не got the part and the truth came out. Redmayne nearly killed himself trying to shoot his scene on the horse. GRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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In the casino scene in Black Panther, the colors of the outfits worn by T'challa, Okoye, and Nakia collectively form... The colors found on the Pan-African Flag. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Mace Windu's lightsaber is purple so Samuel L. Jackson could find himself in the Episode II arena battle. Jackson said, Well S***, I wanna be able to find myself in this big ol' scene. So he asked for a purple lightsaber. George Lucas told him lightsabers don't come in purple, but Jackson said, Yeah, but I want a purple one. I'm like the second baddest Jedi in the universe next to Yoda. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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The Pacifier

From the Director of Bringing Down the House THE SPANISH TITLE FOR THE PACIFIER TRANSLATES TO A SUPER HARD KANGAROO. Disney vin DIESEL is the PACIFIER GRACKED.COM WELCOME TO THE INFANTRY. namero - - INTERNATIONAL musers — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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TERMINATOR 2 JUDGMENT DAY Robert Patrick got the part of the T-1000 because Billy Idol, who was James Cameron's first choice, had recently broken his leg in a motorcycle accident, and would not be physically up to the demands of the role. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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31 Cool Movie Facts About a Bunch of Cool Movies — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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31 Cool Movie Facts About a Bunch of Cool Movies — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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31 Cool Movie Facts About a Bunch of Cool Movies — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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eww! walt Disney didn't like the iconic à I are scene of the romantic dinner in The Lady and the Tramp (1955) Не thought that two dogs eating pasta would be a disaster without any kind of tenderness involved. But Frank Thomas, the cartoonist in charge of the film, created a scene so perfect that Disney couldn't resist the charm. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Apparently, Jurassic Park and Face/Off are in the same universe. C.R35 Gen There's an InGen container in a Face/Off scene --that's the company that brought Jurassic Park's dinos back to life. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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John Wick: Chapter 3 put in an homage to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. John Wick putting together a gun from the components of different guns is basically lifted straight from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, where Tuco does the same thing --including listening to the cylinder. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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The Fate of the Furious director F. Gary Gray put in an homage to his first film, Friday. It's when Tej says Hey Miss Parker, and it's kind of his substitute for a director cameo (which he doesn't like to do, because he's a terrible actor, he says) - in Friday, Ice Cube and Chris Tucker call out Hey Miss Parker to a girl in their neighborhood. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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The Iron Giant

The tentacles on The Iron Giant's back were an old-school movie reference. They were Brad Bird's way of paying homage to the 1953 The War of the Worlds movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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Kong: Skull Island

Athena in Kong: Skull Island has an homage to Alien. ٨ I I С V ATHENA Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts deliberately made the lettering on the ship reminiscent of Alien, to make the ship his dumb, unnecessary nod to that movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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In Thor: The Dark World, a simple Loki gesture is actually a Steve McQueen homage. When Loki lies on his bunk and tosses his cup in the air, then catches it, that's a reference to Steve McQueen's character doing the same thing with a baseball in solitary confinement in The Great Escape. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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In Aladdin, a lot of the scene where Aladdin takes the lamp was lifted from Raiders of the Lost Ark. The filmmakers even apologized to Spielberg for stealing so much of the imagery, but he said that was okay, because he'd stolen it from other movies. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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Coco has a couple of nods to The Shining. When Dante wakes up, there's an axe behind him-- it's one of the axes from The Shining. And there's a red drum, too, which is an elaborate reference to Redrum. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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There's a Doctor Strange Easter egg in Spider-Man 2. 233 Bleeker Street (212) 366-1182 The pizza shop Peter works for is in Bleeker Street, and the address of Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum is 177A Bleecker Street. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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Viggo Mortensen

The role that made Viggo Mortensen's career, Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, almost went to Nicolas Cage. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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One of Tony's Als in Avengers: Age of Ultron is from Big Hero 6. EXOUTA PRIDAY ADAS One of the labels says Tadashi, and Tadashi Hamada is the creator of Baymax in Big Hero 6. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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Tangled has a shout-out to Lion King. In the I Have A Dream scene, Pumbaa is in the Snuggly Duckling tavern. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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Sonic the Hedgehog has a shout-out to Apocalypse Now. It's when Dr. Robotnik uses a piece of metal to shave his head -- that's a nod to Colonel Kurtz. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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Zoolander

Mugatu in Zoolander is named after a Star Trek monster. خمصة Star Trek's Mugato is a giant ape-like monster that showed up in the original series. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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Easter Eggs

Bumblebee has a shout-out to John Carpenter. DRAGON OF THE BLACK DRAGON OF THE TOOL BLACK POOL CANTONESE CANTONESE CUISINE CUISINE They snuck the facade of Wang Chi's eatery in Big Trouble in Little China, into the background of the town in Bumblebee. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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Boogie Nights has a nod to Raging Bull. The last scene, when Dirk Diggler talks to himself in the mirror, is an homage to the last scene of Raging Bull - where pretty much the same thing happens. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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Russell Crowe

Hugh Jackman says he owes his career to Russell Crowe. Crowe passed on the role of Wolverine, and then recommended his friend Hugh for the job, which eventually made him a household name. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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The relationship between Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi CRACKED.COM in Tim Burton's was a reflection of Burton's own relationship with Vincent Price. — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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The Star Trek episode Amok Time showed us Vulcans' mating season, which is triggered by a condition called Pon Farr which would kill Spock unless he mates... Unless you saw the German edit, which changed Pon Farr to a space fever, cut out all mating references and turned everything else that happened into a hallucination Spock was having. CRACKED COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Gone with the Wind

Censor Joe Breen almost had the most famous line in GONE WITH THE WIND replaced with such alternatives as: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a whoop! Thankfully director David Selznick successfully contended that the dramatic use of the word 'damn' was at worst a common vulgarism, not a curse or oath that required censoring. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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ON THE SET OF ROAR, A FILM ABOUT A FAMILY LIVING WITH LIONS, A 14 YEAR OLD MELANIE GRIFFITH WAS MAULED SO BADLY THAT SHE REQUIRED FACIAL CRACKED.COM RECONSTRUCTION AND ALMOST LOST AN EYE. — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Jackie Chan is famous for his on-set injuries while doing his own stunts. ARMOUR of GOD 2 OPERATION CONDOR One such injury on the set of Armour of God II required him to get brain surgery, and left him with a metal plate inside his head. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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