Weird Facts About Famous Movies

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#251
Fun fact I just learned from the Unspooled pod...Mad Max originally had no intention of being a post-apocalyptic story. They couldn't afford to pay extras and film in civilization, so everything happened in abandoned/remote areas and then in post production they add the text in the opening credits to tell you about a nuclear holocaust that explains their wasteland. Nothing else in the whole movie makes any reference to any of that. It's funny because that aspect of the back story becomes a huge part of the franchise's lore.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Fun fact I just learned from the Unspooled pod...Mad Max originally had no intention of being a post-apocalyptic story. They couldn't afford to pay extras and film in civilization, so everything happened in abandoned/remote areas and then in post production they add the text in the opening credits to tell you about a nuclear holocaust that explains their wasteland. Nothing else in the whole movie makes any reference to any of that. It's funny because that aspect of the back story becomes a huge part of the franchise's lore.
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I did remember thinking it was weird he was a cop in the post apocalypse without any major civilization nearby. like who even had him patrolling?
 
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Volwark said:
The tiger in Neil Breen's "Cade: the totured crossing" was not a real tiger, but actually CGI
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Neil Breen is an independent filmmaker that doesn’t have a big budget to afford real Wild animals outside of a zoo so not surprised he used a CGI Tiger.
 
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The Indiana Jones vs the Swordsman face off in Raiders of the Lost Ark was an improvisation.

The guy who played the Swordsman was considered an expert in the use of the sword, and he had been paid the equivalent of supporting cast members John Rhys-Davies and Denholm Elliot to participate in the film. That scene was supposed to be a long, drawn-out battle that would culminate with Indiana using his whip to snatch the sword from the Swordsman's's hands .... and then using the sword to kill him. Instead, Indy just casually pulls out his gun and shoots.

Just like in the carbon freeze scene from The Empire Strikes back the year before (I love you! .... I know), Harrison Ford thought it would be making better use of the character to make the scene comically abrupt after teasing with some brief action. Ford had not even told the guy playing the Swordsman that he was making the change. The guy falls to the ground after Indy fires his gun .... and Spielberg loved it, and immediately decided to go with it. An alternate scene with a long fight was never filmed. Anyway, that Swordsman got paid a lot of money for about 15 seconds of screen time.
 
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I read part a story about Aaron Eckhart, talking about filming the hospital bed scene with Heath Ledger. He said the whole time they got him set up in the bed and was setting up for filming that Ledger stayed in character as The Joker. Ledger would pace around and mumble to himself and every now and then look at Eckhart strangely but wouldn't talk to him. Then they filmed the scene and the end of it, Ledger finally broke character and said "Now that is acting."
 
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firestorm said:
Neil Breen is an independent filmmaker that doesn’t have a big budget to afford real Wild animals outside of a zoo so not surprised he used a CGI Tiger.
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Neil Breen does so much with so little. A generational talent.

Space Ice does some great reviews of his movies on YT.
 
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Godfatha said:
Neil Breen does so much with so little. A generational talent.
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Not only that, but he's also got a twin brother (the only way I can tell them apart is the brother's magnificent beard) that is as good at acting as Neil is at directing. What are the chances of that?
 
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Behr said:
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First, no official copy of the script has ever been seen with the words “huckle bearer” used. Second, Val Kilmer maintains that the line written in the script was huckleberry, and Kilmer even titled his autobiography I’m Your Huckleberry.
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The movie “Tombstone” came out in 1993, but even all these years later, one line from the film stands out. The phrase “I’m your huckleberry,” spoken by Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in the film, can be seen on t-shirts and in memes everywhere.
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Kurt Russel accidentally broke a irreplaceable 145 year old Martin guitar on loan from the Martin museum in the movie 'The Hateful 8'. It was suppose to be a prop guitar he breaks but no one told him they had a real guitar on set. He just followed the script and smashed the real one.
 
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thehardknoxlife said:
Kurt Russel accidentally broke a irreplaceable 145 year old Martin guitar on loan from the Martin museum in the movie 'The Hateful 8'. It was suppose to be a prop guitar he breaks but no one told him they had a real guitar on set. He just followed the script and smashed the real one.
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This is worth the 6 minutes. Talks about Stripes and how it was filmed in a dry county in Kentucky, and John Candy kept a tub filled w/ ice and beer.

 
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Just listened to a pod about This Is the End and there are lots of fun tidbits. They said 85% of the lines of dialog were improvised. Evan Goldberg (writer/producer) had a goal to push every cast member to their limit and have them tell him, 'No, I'm not gonna do that." and all but two told him no at some point (I believe it was Rogen and Franco who never told him no).

Egos were hurt all over the place with the insults and digs they made at each other. Jay is the only one who really played the movie accurate to life. Everybody else was allowed to play a silly version of themself, which helped them let their guards down a little. Like Jonah Hill is a dick, but not in the manner he portrayed himself in the movie, so it was OK to put that out there. By all accounts, McBride is the nicest guy on earth, which is why he has no qualms about playing the biggest a-holes.

This project is one of the first things Goldberg and Rogen wrote together, but evolved quite a bit over time, and became a reference (including the title) to the end of movie comedies as we knew them, and it was a goodbye to that portion of their careers.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
This is worth the 6 minutes. Talks about Stripes and how it was filmed in a dry county in Kentucky, and John Candy kept a tub filled w/ ice and beer.

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That's true. Stripes was filmed completely in Kentucky. The city scenes were in Louisville. The basic training scenes were filmed in Fort Knox and the "Czechoslovakia" scenes were filmed in Clermont, Kentucky.

I think it's an interesting part of filmmaking to take notice of where scenes are filmed vs where they supposedly were. One example is that movies set in Appalachia during the 19th century will often be filmed in Romania. That is where "Cold Mountain" (from 2003; starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Natalie Portman and Phillip Seymour Hoffman was filmed) .... and so was The Hatfields and The McCoys mini-series (starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton from 2012).
 
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The Fugitive
Harrison Ford as Richard did get injured jumping off the train so so it’s not unusual to see Richard limping during this movie.

Also, people can still see the crash site of the train scene in North Carolina. It is a tourist attraction.
In the movie it’s the Northern Illinois area before returning to Chicago even though the escape scene , and other scenes filmed in North Carolina.
 
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Rewatchables just covered Rudy....

I think everybody knows the jersey scene didn't happen and that Rudy got a controversial sack.

I did not know this, but Joe Montana said Rudy getting carried off the field was a joke. It wasn't serious. They were happy for him, but it wasn't the team, it was a couple pranksters doing it tongue in cheek.

Also, Coach Devine is portrayed as a dick to Rudy and that's how he's remembered even tho he was good to Rudy IRL

And Rudy's done prettyuch nothing but embarrass himself since the movie.
 
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