Weird Facts About Famous Movies

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#327
Not really a weird fact, but in the live action Grinch with Jim Carrey he nearly quit due to getting into the suit/make up, and started refusing to do reshoots.

In the scene below, hopefully the gif works, he wasn't supposed to do the "magic trick" pull, everything was supposed to be a very Grinchy destruction. He failed, and instead of reshooting the scene he just goes and knocks over everything himself. basically it was a blooper that made the final cut because it seemed like a very appropriate Grinch thing to do because Carrey was in a bad mood.

I always appreciate it when little things like that make the final cut, especially if it feels honest like this scene.

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n_huffhines said:
I feel like it doesn't count because the movie is almost as much about him.

The example with Rudy is the guy is just this wise sage who pops in and out of the story whenever the hero needs a sounding board. Red gets his own redemption arc and he's the narrator.
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Late to a reply but I agree, I don't think that counts as the other. I actually think he is the main character in the movie and he was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. I don't know about the book as much.

Hard to believe that the movie is considered one of the best ever and didn't win one single Oscar.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Late to a reply but I agree, I don't think that counts as the other. I actually think he is the main character in the movie and he was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. I don't know about the book as much.

Hard to believe that the movie is considered one of the best ever and didn't win one single Oscar.
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I will never understand why it is #1 on IMDB.com. It's a good movie for sure .... but the best movie ever? Are you kidding me?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I will never understand why it is #1 on IMDB.com. It's a good movie for sure .... but the best movie ever? Are you kidding me?
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It's because the scale has flaws. We incorrectly interpret its score to mean that it is the best movie or most popular movie all time, but the correct interpretation is that it's the least disliked. A movie with two 0's and eight 10's gets an average score of 8, while a movie that gets nine 9's and one 0 gets an 8.1, but it's a movie that nobody thinks is a 10.
 
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#335
Not really fitting the theme of the thread, but a funny anecdote....

Bill Simmons had his 19 YO daughter home from college this summer and they watched Brokeback Mountain, she not knowing anything about it. All she knows is who Jake G and Ledger are. He said that when JG goes for the reach-around in the tent, his daughter was so confused and exclaimed something like, "Wait, what's happening?!"

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#336
I just learned an awesome movie fact. Donnie Darko (one of my top 5 favorite movies) was struggling to get funding and Chris Nolan screened it. This was as Nolan was making Memento, so far from a made man, and he convinced his production company to also fund DD.

IDK if he meant to do this. Was it a nod, did he steal it, or did he just forget he heard it somewhere else?...

"The fact that they burn the money is ironic. They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart." - Donnie Darko

The Joker burns the mob's money, and Alfred has almost exactly the same thought/quote.
 
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