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31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Better Bring Your Brain A Diet Coke or They’ll Never Work in This Town Again!

May 03, 2025

These facts just want to bring your brain its script for today’s scenes, but if it’s busy talking about last night’s party with its entourage, maybe they can come by later. It’s a tough situation for young, go-getter facts to be in. They want to please their producer boss who asked them to deliver these pertinent bits of movie trivia, but they also don’t want to get chewed out by your star of a brain.

Well, they’re knocking on its trailer door now, so we’ll see how this all plays out.

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Primer

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES PRIMER THE MOVIE COST 7,000 TO MAKE. Only five people worked on the film, with Shane Carruth acting as director, writer, producer, editor, designer, composer, and protagonist. To call Primer an indie film is truly an understatement. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

CRACKED.COM Amazing effects made without CGI Close Encounters of the Third Kind Besides the insane model work, the alien ship was shot on 70 mm film, which has a greater resolution than the 35 mm film used for the rest of the movie. This allowed it to keep a good deal of sharpness and detail in the final composition. — Source: Wikipedia

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Toy Story

Pixar Rules of Storytelling LASER LIGHTYEAR brase ... 3 Trying for theme is important, but you won't see what the story is actually about till you're at the end of it. Now rewrite. The original Toy Story script had Woody as an abusive, tyrannical villain because the crew wasn't sure what the real story was yet. In rewrites, the movie we saw came to form, and so did the themes along with it. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Emma Coats/Twitter, Screen Rant

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Alfred Hitchcock

CRACKED.COM Alfred Hitchcock Не directed the first British talkie. Hitchcock's first success, 1929's Blackmail, was also the first sound film made in the UK. The movie was conceived as silent, but later on had sound added in post-production. — Source: Mental Floss

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Clueless

'90s Teen Rom-Coms Right -LibER Clueless out Alicia Silverstone really couldn't say Haitians. Cher's quirk wasn't in the script - Silverstone actually couldn't pronounce the word, and director Amy Heckerling decided to leave that in the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: BuzzFeed

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Clerks

view Askewniverse clerks After dropping out of film school, Kevin Smith made a bet with Scott Mosier that whoever finished their script first would make their movie, with the other working as producer. Smith won. Quick STOP GROCERIE I ASSURE You WE'RE OPEN! AB06703 - GRACKED.COM — Source: Clerks (Director’s Commentary)

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Peter Pan

A theater actor most known for her portrayal of Peter Pan changed movie making forever. Maude Adams designed a dynamic lighting system to enhance a stage play that was performed at night. She also spent part of the 1920s testing various color film techniques which became the standard in Hollywood. CRACKED.COM — How 'Peter Pan's Original Actor Changed How Movies Are Made

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The Dark Knight

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2009 Supporting Actor Sound Editing Cinematography Film Editing Art Direction The Dark Knight Bruce Wayne's car is a Lamborghini Murciélago. Murciélago is Spanish for bat. So it's a Batmobile. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Batman Fandom, IMDb

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Paul Rudd

Farts on and off-screen PAUL RUDD'S UNSCRIPTED FART SCENE THIS IS 40 Absolutely no one liked Rudd's unscripted fart. His co-star Leslie Mann, wife of director Judd Apatow, joined the crew in hating it. Regardless it stayed in. CRACKED.COM — Source: Film School Rejects

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Street Fighter

Ken's actor couldn't pronounce Ryu's name. Ryu's actor Byron Mann had done his homework about the pronunciation (kind of like Ree-ewe) - but Ken's Damian Chapa just couldn't get it right. So director Steven de Souza decided everyone would just say, Rye-you. — Source: Bristol Bad Film Club

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The Royal Tenenbaums

The Royal Tenenbaums The inspiration behind the title card scene. THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS Cookelly request the please Lyrus company of heme - adidas The director was inspired by a similar scene in the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chris Farley

CHRIS FARLEY: STUNTMAN CRACKED COM If anyone was gonna fall flat on his face through a coffee table, it was gonna be Farley. Producer Michael Ewing told him, Chris, we'll get some stunt guy to come in and do this, and he said absolutely not. Не was completely dedicated to doing all his own comedic stunts. — Source: cinemablend

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Cher

The Addams Family THE STUDIO WANTED CHER TO PLAY MORTICIA ADDAMS But director Barry Sonnenfeld and producer Scott Rubin felt that it would unbalance the film if they cast such a megastar. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama hates Hollywood's Dragon Ball movie. Не hated Dragonball: Evolution so much, he says, that that made him rewrite the whole script for Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Parasite

BEHIND- THE-SCENESFACTS CRACKED.COM THERE WOULD BE NO PARASITE WITHOUT SONG KANG-HO. coln Film at Lincoln Center ter Film Lin Ce PARASITE Bong Joon-ho says that Song was the only option to play Kim and that he would've abandoned the project entirely if the actor didn't like the script for the movie. — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Bong Joon-ho Films

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Kevin Bacon

KEVIN BACON, WILD THINGS I was a producer on the film, and in my contract, as an actor, I had a clause, says Bacon.SO,in theory, I could've sued myself. CRACKED.COM — HuffPost

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Borat

A scene where Borat visits a porn movie set was cut from the first Borat film. Borat was supposed to participate in the porn shoot, but complained to the director Why would you have cameras while we are making sexy time? CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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The Exorcist

Here's a sound trick that will make your HEAD SPIN THE EXORCIST CRACKED.COM How did they make the sound of Linda Blair's head spinning round? SFX man Gonzalo Gavira pulled out a cracked leather wallet full of credit cards, held it up to the mike and twisted. The riffling sound made the final cut. — Vulture

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13

Harry Potter

Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double broke his neck on the last Harry Potter movie. During rehearsals for a flying scene, David Holmes did a jerk back stunt, which broke his neck and left him paralyzed from the chest down. CRACKED.COM — Source: Deadline

12

The SNL Movie

THE SNLMOVIE NEVER GOT PAST THE SCRIPT STAGE UNPRODUCED IN 1990, SNL WRITERS PENNED A SCREENPLAY FOR A 90-MINUTE FILM FEATURING CAST MEMBERS IN COMEDY SKETCHES, INCLUDING DANA CARVEY AS BUSH. MAYBE IT NEVER GOT MADE BECAUSE IT'S ON EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT FOR FREE? — Film Buff Online

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Con Air

Con Air was written as an indy drama. In script form, the movie was a little character- driven piece. Then it landed on the desk of Jerry Bruckheimer, Hollywood's biggest let's just blow s#!t up producer in the '9os. The movie was tweaked accordingly, becoming an explosion-packed blockbuster starring Nicolas — More: 5 Beloved Movies That Changed Wildly Between Drafts

10

The Karate Kid Part II

The Karate Kid Part II KREESE BREAKING JOHNNY’S TROPHY The opening was actually in the script for the first movie. The scene wasn’t filmed at that time, though, as the director thought it was not necessary. — Source: retroCRUSH (archived)

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Predator

They only put Shane Black in Predator SO he could rewrite the script for them. 5FTROCY He didn't want to do a rewrite, so they gave him a role, thinking that they could get him to do it if he was on set. But when he showed up, he again — Source: 6 Crazy Auditions That Landed Actors Their Famous Roles

8

Austin Powers

Austin Powers' shushing scene wasn't in the script. Just like 30-40% of the movie, it's actors riffing on each other. — Source: Google Books, Newsweek

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Game of Death

Bruce Lee's final film foretold his son's death. GAME OF DEATH/ THE CROW CRACKED CO In Lee's final film, he played an actor who is accidentally killed

6

Say Anything

31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Better Bring Your Brain A Diet Coke or They’ll Never Work in This Town Again! — Source: Mental Floss

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James Cameron

31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Better Bring Your Brain A Diet Coke or They’ll Never Work in This Town Again! — Source: Keegan, Rebecca. The Futurist: The Life And Films Of James Cameron. Three Rivers Press, 2010.

4

Midsommar

Midsommar included a ull-smashing scene that took a few takes. POwH So the team created a self- imploding mechanical skull. The crew needed a solution

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James Gunn

For Guardians of the Galaxy 2, they had to reshoot Quill's eulogy, then insert the footage into the eulogy scene. Director James Gunn thought Chris Pr

2

Pan’s Labyrinth

Movie: Pan's Labyrinth CRACKEDcO Inspiration: Francisco Goya Director Guillermo del Toro drew a lot of inspiration from Goya's work in the film, but n

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Wayne’s World

WAYNE'S CRLD without the Bohemian Rhapsody scene. Director Penelope Spheeris and producer Lorne Michaels wanted to use a Guns N' Roses song for the

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