We all love movies. I mean, who doesn't? We all love also knowing cool facts about those movies. Like, for example, when The Full Monty premiered in the US, movie theaters gave out brochures translating the British slang used in the movie. So here are
100 Interesting Movie Facts
IDK if this one will be on here, but the original choice to play one of the Terminators in Terminator 2: Judgement Day was Billy Idol. He was originally supposed to play the character that Robert Patrick plays. But he was due to go on his Charmed Life tour
-Hugh Jackman had a cameo as Wolverine in Spider-Man, but his costume got lost
-In Toy Story, the carpet in Sid's house is the same one as in The Shining
-Darth Vader's name was changed to Lord Fener in Italy because 'vader' in Italian sounds too similar to the word for 'toilet'
-In the movie
Elf, the actor who played Ralphie in
A Christmas Story, plays an elf
-O.J. Simpson was a possible choice for the role of
The Terminator, but was deemed too likeable
-In
The Lego Movie, the crack in Benny's helmet is a real defect associated with his mini-fig model
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Raiders of the Lost Ark contains hieroglyphics of C3PO and R2-D2
-In Anchorman, the name of the Mexican restaurant translates to "We spit in your food"
-Up until the filming of X-Men started, neither Ian McKellen or Patrick Stewart had ever played chess
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-During the filming of
Alien, Ridley Scott borrowed blue laser lighting to light the egg chamber from The Who, who were practicing next door
-In
Trainspotting, the toilet was filled with chocolate
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Beverly Hills Cop was the highest-grossing R rated movie until
The Matrix Reloaded knocked it out of the top position
-In
The Avengers, Robert Downey Jr. hid food all over the set to eat in scenes where it wasn't scripted
-During the waxing scene of
The 40-Year Old Virgin, it was Paul Rudd's idea for Steve Carrell to yell "Kelly Clarkson"
-To make The Wrestler more believable, Mickey Rourke used a razor blade to cut his forehead, an injury sustained by wrestlers
-Before
The Fast and The Furious was made, actresses Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster didn't have driver's licenses
-Jennifer Lawrence was temporarily deaf in one ear during the filming of
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
-The screenplay for The Breakfast Club was written in only 2 days by John Hughes
-In The
Cabin In the Woods, the tongue of the wolf she kisses was covered in powdered sugar
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-The word "man" is used 147 times in
The Big Lebowski, almost 1.5x a minute
-Heath Ledger, who played The Joker in
The Dark Knight, not only played the role of the Joker, but also directed the videos the Joker sent to the media
-It was a suggestion of Harrison Ford that Han Solo sacrifice his life to save his friends in
Return of the Jedi, but George Lucas refused
-The last line said by Superman in
Superman IV is "See you in 20". 20 years later,
Superman Returns is released
-In Crank: High Voltage, Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan makes a cameo as the man controlling the electric shock collar
-On the movie site IMDb.com,
This is Spinal Tap is the only movie to get an 11 star rating
-In
Evil Dead 2, one of Freddy Krueger's gloves makes an appearance
-In
Spider-Man 2, the number for Joe's Pizza is real
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Skyfall is the first Bond movie made by an Oscar-winning director
-In
Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, Dan Aykroyd has a cameo as an airport employee
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-The battle scenes in
Braveheart had to be reshot because several extras were wearing sunglasses and wrist watches
-The character Arthur in
Inception was meant to be played by Heath Ledger before his death
-There was a second Stan Lee cameo in
The Avengers, but it was cut
-For one scene, Daniel Stern agreed to have a real tarantula on his face in
Home Alone
-Keanu Reeves pays homage to Bruce Lee in
The Matrix, by imitating his signature pre-fight nose rubbing
-Han Solo's response to Leia's "I Love You" in
The Empire Strikes Back was improvised by Harrison Ford
-Jeremy Renner learned to shoot arrows with both hands for his role as Hawkeye in
The Avengers
-The scene in
Ferris Bueller's Day Off with Ben Stein in his Economics class was done in one take and improvised
-During the famous jogging up the stairs of the Philadelpha Museum of Art scene in Rocky, Sylvester Stallone was to a nearby hospital via a wheelbarrow after pulling a tendon in his leg
-In
Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Linda Hamilton's twin sister played the T-1000 double
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-Olaf's dance with seagulls in
Frozen is a nod of respect to Dick Van Dyke's dance with penguins in
Mary Poppins
-Adult film star Ron Jeremy has a cameo in
Ghostbusters as a crowd extra
-While filming
Casino Royale, Daniel Craig had two teeth knocked out
-Nancy Wilson of Heart is the girl behind the wheel at the stoplight in Fast Times at Ridgemont High
-Andy and Lana Wachowski used a 600 page shot for shot storyboard to convince Warner Bros to make
The Matrix
-A ball droid from
Star Wars: The Force Awakens was inspired by R2D2
-In
Pulp Fiction, the F word is said 265 times
-The first movie to feature a toilet flushing was
Psycho
-In
Star Wars: A New Hope, Darth Vader appears for only 12 minutes
-Johnny Depp based his character Capt. Jack Sparrow heavily on his good friend, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, who also coincidentally appears as Capt. Teague, Jack's father in the 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean movie
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-The adrenaline shot in
Pulp Fiction was shot in reverse then flipped in post
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SAW was filmed in just 18 days
-Since there is no underwear in the
Star Wars world, Carrie Fisher didn't wear a bra under her Princess Leia costume
-In
Night of the Living Dead, the word 'zombie' is never spoken
-Before playing Sloth in The Goonies, John Matuszak played for the Oakland Raiders
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-To fit both The Hulk and Black Widow in the same frame in
The Avengers, the filming was done in 1:85:1 time instead of 2:35:1 time
-Quentin Tarantino's first film was
Kill Bill. This was also one of the first movies to feature the use of the F word less than 17 times
-By combining the sounds of a tiger, alligator and baby elephant sounds, sound engineers could create the roar of the T-Rex in
Jurassic Park
-The original idea for Stan Lee's cameo in
Guardians of the Galaxy was as a statue in the trophy cases
-Beverly Hills Cop featured fake tech called "satellite tracking system", which is ironic by today's standards, since it's real and is now known as GPS
-Heath Ledger drew inspiration for The Joker from singer Tom Waits and Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious
-Quentin Tarantino did an un-credited script work on
Saturday Night Live spin off
It's Pat
-Early drafts of
Star Wars had Yoda's name as Buffy
-In the movie
It, that is Tim Curry's real hair
-The roadster that Tony Stark is working on in
Iron Man belongs to director John Favreau
-In
Stand By Me, the cigarettes they smoked were made from cabbage leaves
-Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne thought This is Spinal Tap was a real documentary when he first saw it
-Macaulay Culkin has an actual scar from where Joe Pesci bit him in
Home Alone
-In
Avatar, the cigarette that Sigourney Weaver is smoking is computer generated
-Ron Perlman broke a rib when jumping on a train coming towards him at 45 mph in
Hellboy
-The iconic Halloween mask is actually a William Shatner mask painted white
-For the dancing baby Groot in
Guardians of the Galaxy, director James Gunn's dance moves were the inspiration
-Hoyt Axton, who was a 1960s singer with "Joy to the World" plays the inventor of the
Gremlins
-You can actually visit Hook and Ladder #8, which was the firehouse used in
Ghostbusters
-Despite playing father and son in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery are only 12 years apart
-Laurence Fishburne lied about his age when auditioning for Apocalypse Now. He was only 14 at the time
-In Fight Club, singer Meat Loaf wore a fat suit that contained bird seed and weighed more than 100 pounds
-Han Solo and Marty McFly served as the inspiration for Star-Lord in
Guardians of the Galaxy
-A plaque marks the spot where Bill Murray repeatedly stepped into a puddle in
Groundhog Day
-To achieve the stoned out, disheveled look in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Charlie Sheen stayed awake for 48 hours straight
-In
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, his "to do list" changed for every country
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-In
SAW, actual pig intestines were used as human innards, because pigs organs and skin is so similar to humans
-Peter Weller could only wear the top half of the Robocop suit when sitting in a car because it was so bulky
-In
Casino Royale, billionaire Richard Branson has a VERY QUICK cameo. If you blink, you'll miss it
-Some of the early drafts for
Back to the Future had Marty McFly using a refrigerator to travel through time instead of a Delorean
-When funds ran low for
Mad Max director George Miller, he offered his own van for one crash scene
-Cuba Gooding Jr., who plays Laurence Fishburne's son in
Boyz in the 'Hood, is only 6 years younger in real life
-In the movie
Boyhood, director Richard Linklater's daughter Lorelai wanted her character killed off
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The Blues Brothers set a record by smashing 103 cars
-The alien language spoken by the aliens in
District 9 came from rubbing pumpkins together
-In Batman Returns, Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman costume was vacuum-sealed on
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-Early drafts of
Frozen had Elsa as a blue-skinned villain wearing a coat of weasels
-The license plate numbers on Fillmore, the hippie bus in Cars, are George Carlin's birthday. Fillmore is the character he voices
-During the shooting of
Twilight, Nikki Reed injured her hands on set and had to wear gloves to cover them
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21 Jump Street stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill reunite in
The Lego Movie, as Superman and Green Lantern
-In
Mean Girls, Amy Pohler plays Rachel McAdams mother, despite being only 7 years older
-The original idea for the Minions in Despicable Me were meant to be large Orc-like creatures, but were instead changed to smaller and cuter
-In
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Jena Malone's nude scene was filmed in a glass elevator in a real hotel
-The script to
Toy Story 2 was so good it was sent directly to theatres instead of direct to video
-The year that
8 Mile won the Oscars, rapper Eminem didn't appear because he thought it would lose
-In
Frozen, Rapunzel has a quick cameo as a guest at Elsa's coronation
