Movie Film Trivia

[Godchin]

and Charlize Theron BF for some time.

So what you're trying to say is that he didn't lose any sleep over losing the role?

 

[Red mist]

So what you're trying to say is that he didn't lose any sleep over losing the role?

Maybe. His roles have significantly changed.

 

[Exe Gesis]

In 1966, while on his deathbed, Walt Disney's wrote “Kurt Russell" on a piece of paper as his final words. Russell at the time was a child actor whom the Disney studio had just signed to a long term contract.

 

[worbod]

French actress Audrey Tautou doesn’t know how to skip stones; the stone-skipping scenes in her 2001 film Amelie had to be made with special effects.

 

[worbod]

The lights over the face-hugger eggs in Alien were provided by The Who. Ridley Scott borrowed them from the band who had been rehearsing their laser show next door to the Alien set.

 

[worbod]

Most Australians would know that the 1980 comedy Airplane was released with the title Flying High in this country.

In Argentina it was released as And Where is the Pilot?
In France it was released as Is There a Pilot on This Plane?
In Germany it was titled The Incredible Trip on a Crazy Plane.
In Brazil it was Tighten Up Your Seatbelt, The Pilot's Gone!

 

[Exe Gesis]

Most Australians would know that the 1980 comedy Airplane was released with the title Flying High in this country.

In Argentina it was released as And Where is the Pilot?
In France it was released as Is There a Pilot on This Plane?
In Germany it was titled The Incredible Trip on a Crazy Plane.
In Brazil it was Tighten Up Your Seatbelt, The Pilot's Gone!

Typical existentialist French

 

[worbod]

In one scene in the 1957 western Forty Guns, the character Jessica Drummond is dragged along a street by a horse. But it's actually Barbara Stanwyck, the actress portraying her, who is being dragged. Her stunt woman refused to do the trick, saying it was too dangerous, so the 49 year old Stanwyck performed the stunt herself, escaping with some bruises and scrapes.

 

[worbod]

Eli Wallach nearly died three times on the set of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
(1) He was almost poisoned when he accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had sat next to his soda bottle.
(2) In the scene where he was to be hanged after a pistol was fired, the horse underneath him bolted and galloped for about a mile with Wallach's hands tied behind his back.
(3) In the scene where his character has to sever a chain binding him to a henchman by laying down near a railroad track and working to get the train to run over the chain, Wallach could easily have been decapitated by steps jutting out from the train had he moved at the wrong time.

 

[the_big_sav]

Eli Wallach nearly died three times on the set of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
(1) He was almost poisoned when he accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had sat next to his soda bottle.
(2) In the scene where he was to be hanged after a pistol was fired, the horse underneath him bolted and galloped for about a mile with Wallach's hands tied behind his back.
(3) In the scene where his character has to sever a chain binding him to a henchman by laying down near a railroad track and working to get the train to run over the chain, Wallach could easily have been decapitated by steps jutting out from the train had he moved at the wrong time.

apparently when they are destroying the bridge, a huge chunk nearly hits clint eastwood and its in the shot they use in the film

 

[Exe Gesis]

Eli Wallach nearly died three times on the set of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
(1) He was almost poisoned when he accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had sat next to his soda bottle.
(2) In the scene where he was to be hanged after a pistol was fired, the horse underneath him bolted and galloped for about a mile with Wallach's hands tied behind his back.
(3) In the scene where his character has to sever a chain binding him to a henchman by laying down near a railroad track and working to get the train to run over the chain, Wallach could easily have been decapitated by steps jutting out from the train had he moved at the wrong time.

Good name for a pet cat, eli wallach

 

[wally funk]

Eli Wallach nearly died three times on the set of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
(1) He was almost poisoned when he accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had sat next to his soda bottle.
(2) In the scene where he was to be hanged after a pistol was fired, the horse underneath him bolted and galloped for about a mile with Wallach's hands tied behind his back.
(3) In the scene where his character has to sever a chain binding him to a henchman by laying down near a railroad track and working to get the train to run over the chain, Wallach could easily have been decapitated by steps jutting out from the train had he moved at the wrong time.

...and just to screw with Death, went and lived until 98!

 

[wally funk]

Not 'film trivia' but actor trivia...

A drunk Peter O'Toole once went to see a play, having forgotten he was supposed to be in it.

 

[worbod]

Mike Farrell and Wayne Rogers, who both went on to become regulars on the TV version of M*A*S*H, had bit-parts as reporters in the 1972 film Doomsday Machine.

 

[Dan Moody]

When the star of the 1931 Universal classic Dracula, Bela Lugosi, died, he was laid to rest in the original Dracula cape he wore in the film.
Boris Karloff, another great Universal Horror star, was born William Henry Pratt. He never actually legally changed his name.

 

[PVF]

Pulp Fiction:

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Speculation abounds as to the nature of the mysterious glowing contents of the case (which Tarantino said was simply a MacGuffin plot device):
* Could it be Elvis's gold suit, seen worn by Val Kilmer (as Elvis) in True Romance (1993)?
* The most persistent theory is that it is Marcellus Wallace's soul. The story goes that when the Devil takes a person's soul, it is removed through the back of the head. When we see the back of Marcellus's head he has a Band-Aid covering the precise spot indicated by tradition for soul removal. Perhaps Marcellus sold his soul to the devil which would also explain why the combination to open the briefcase is 666.
* Quentin Tarantino has said that the band-aid on the back of Marsellus Wallace's neck had nothing to do with an allusion to the Devil stealing Marsellus's soul... but that the actor Ving Rhames had a scar on the back of his neck he wanted to cover up.
* According to Roger Avary, who co-wrote the script with Quentin Tarantino, the original plan was to have the briefcase contain diamonds (urban legend has it that they were the diamonds from Resevoir Dogs). This seemed neither exciting nor original, so Avary and Tarantino decided to have the briefcase's contents never appear on screen; this way each film-goer could mentally "fill in the blank" with whatever struck his or her imagination as best fitting the description "so beautiful". The orange light bulb (projecting shimmering light onto the actors' faces) was a last-minute decision and added a completely unintended fantastic element.
In a radio interview with Howard Stern in late 2003, Quentin Tarantino was asked by a caller the contents of the briefcase, and he answered, "It's whatever the viewer wants it to be."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/trivia?item=tr0791471

 

[worbod]

One of the three volleyballs named Wilson in Castaway was sold at auction for $18,400.

 

[Godchin]

Eric Roberts starred in my cousin's music video for $5 and a bag of coke.

 

[worbod]

The first kiss between a black man and a white woman (Harry Belafonte and Joan Fontaine) is featured in the 1957 film "Island in the Sun".

 

[sherbrook]

In The Getaway (1972) the wife of Steve McQueen's character, played by Ali McGraw, reveals that she had sex with an official to get him out of jail.

McQueen pushes her and slaps her face repeatedly.

It was not in the script but McQ thought that this was how the character would act.

Her cries of fright and pain in the movie are real.

Also Doris Day was approached to play Mrs Robinson in The Graduate but declined as it went against her clean image

 

[worbod]

The mayor of the city of Batman in Turkey once threatened to sue Warner Bros for not asking permission to use the city's name in the Batman movies.

 

[Exe Gesis]

 

[wally funk]

Click has the honour of being the only Adam Sandler movie nominated for an Oscar, for Best Makeup.

 

[chefmeister]

Quentin Tarantino toyed with the idea of shooting a scene in Reservoir Dogs from behind a bathroom cabinet mirror but the then 'greenhorn' director remembered how he'd been chastised for the concept in film school and abandoned the idea...

 

[Exe Gesis]

In Captain America The First Avenger, when Chris Evans comes out of the transformation stage, the actress marveling at his muscly physique was genuinely overcome by his attractiveness, eye-sexing him and instinctively reaching out and groping his bulging chest, before getting a hold of herself and continuing her role. The director kept part of the shot in the film.