24 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Are Crying Happy Tears on the Phone With Their Small-Town Folks After Booking A Spot in Your Brain

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Goodfellas

The producer didn't want Ray Liotta. Scorsese was dead set on Liotta, but producer Irwin Winkler kept pushing him towards hiring someone with more star power. Liotta was able to pitch himself to Winkler during a chance meeting in a restaurant, winning him over.

Source: GQ

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard wore the original author's jacket. THE WIZARD OF OZ The wardrobe department scavenged an old jacket from a nearby thrift shop. When actor F

Peter Hinwood

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Peter Hinwood (Rocky) retired from acting after the film He said, One, I can't act. Two, I cringe with embarrassment every time I see myself on film. He sold his gold shorts in auction for over $1000 in 1994.

Source: People

The Ring

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The shadows under all the actors in The Ring were removed. CRACKED.co In order to give the viewer an unsettling feeling from the movie, cinematographer Bojan Bazelli used very deliberate lighting to remove shadows under the actors and have them look like they're floating in space.

Aliens

Aliens (1986) The studio didn't believe that Gale Anne Hurd was a real producer. Even though she had worked as a producer (and had also produced The Terminator), Hurd had to ask her industry connections to call Fox and vouch for her.

IGN

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Instead of spending money on music for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the director made it himself. THE IMPROVISATION: With a sound recordist, he did t

The Sound of Music

The 1965 film The Soundof Music was based on the 1956 German film The Trapp Family. In the German version, the von Trapp family and RODGERS. HAMMERSTE

American Beauty

The screenplay for American Beauty is loosely based on the Amy Fisher/ Joey Buttafuoco story. Alan Ball got the idea for the movie after he saw a comi

The Lightsaber

The lightsaber sound is the result of a gadget being broken. Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt was carrying a tape recorder with a broken mic cable.

The Purge

The Purge's budget went from $8 million to $2.5 million.. THE IMPROVISATION: The producer realized the movie shouldn't be that expensive, as it's set

It's crazy to me that everyone time I see that a movie had a “tiny” budget, it's always way more money than I am capable coneiving of having at one time.

Police Academy

The CRACKED POLICE ACADEMY franchise had 07 movies 1'live action TV show .1 animated TV show Michael the man of 10,000 sound effects Winslow was the only, original cast member to appear in everything (except, oddly, the cartoon.)

Cher

Cher called her 2010 movie Burlesque horrible. RLESQI Terrible director! Really terrible director. And really terrible script. ! remember him saying

This is shocking no one, I think. 

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