29 Bits of Movie Trivia We Saw Embracing in the Rain at the Train Station

These dramatic little facts will never let you go
29 Bits of Movie Trivia We Saw Embracing in the Rain at the Train Station

This was going to be a much shorter list, but the more passionate movie facts rushed to the train station and persuaded the others not to leave. Sometimes facts imitate art. We’re glad they did because a list of solely dramatic facts would get a little sappy. Their funny, scary and action-packed counterparts really help round it out. 

Mission: Impossible 2

Hunt and Hall were going to sit down and talk about their relationship in Mission: Impossible 2. To John Woo, a scene where they sit in a room and talk was too boring, so he changed it to a call in the middle of a car chase. The filmed scene is funny, sexy, and romantic to him. CRACKED.COM

The Godfather

It was Al Pacino's idea to make Michael Corleone quiet and reserved at the start. The producers of The Godfather thought Michael should be a brash gangster, and even Francis Ford Coppola told Pacino I just thought you could do this thing, and now ... you're not cutting it for me, kid. They only kept Pacino around after they saw his performance in the restaurant shooting scene. CRACKED.COM

The Last Jedi

In the final scene with Luke and Leia in The Last Jedi, Mark Hamill came up with the forehead kiss himself. It felt like church on set that day, said Rian Johnson. CRACKED.COM

The Usual Suspects

Benicio Del Toro's character in The Usual Suspects was originally a bland nobody. Metro Goldeya adidas Mayer TRADE MARK He'd be the first to die, so the writers didn't give him any kind of personality. Since what he said wouldn't matter anyway, Del Toro talked in a near-incomprehensible way just for the hell of it. CRACKED.COM

Zelig

Mockumentaries Zelig Eleven years before Forrest Gump, Woody Allen inserted himself into early 20th century footage for this mockumentary about an enigmatic man who blends with whoever he's around. Allen and his cinematographer used real old-timey cameras, and scratched film negatives in order to age them. CRACKED.COM

Bob Roberts

Mockumentaries Bob Roberts In this prescient 1992 political mockumentary, Tim Robbins plays a narcissistic musician as he runs for senator, singing against lazy people, and even creating a Wall Street Rap. The movie has an insane all-star cast (including Jack Black in his film debut). CRACKED.COM

Alternative 3

Mockumentaries Alternative 3 This British mockumentary about a secret mission to colonize Mars and the Moon featured somewhat known actors, but people still fell for it. The reason: it came out in June 1977, when it was originally supposed to air on April Fool's Day. CRACKED.COM

Man Bites Dog

Mockumentaries N Man Bites Dog This Belgian mockumentary about a serial killer won the International Critics Prize at Cannes. It also has the coolest poster ever, which had to be softened overseas by replacing the pacifier with a set of dentures. (No babies die in the movie.) CRACKED.COM

Superman

GRACKED.COM UNCREDITED SCRIPT DOCTOR TOM MANKIEWICZ FIXED THE MESS THAT WAS SUPERMAN THE MOVIE. Richard Donner called Tom and said the film was headed toward financial disaster and asked him to rewrite the story. Mankiewicz crafted the Jor-El speeches, Clark's emotional upbringing in Smallville, and took a two-page comedy bit and developed it into the iconic flying scene with Superman and Lois.

Terminator

LNW Terminator was saved because a finance guy believed in it when no-one else did. CSM-101 Almost everyone who worked on Terminator thought it was trashy and forgettable - but Lindsley Parsons, the representative of a company that put up financing, said it would become a classic. Не fought for Terminator at every step and, when the studio threatened to take the movie away, he said he'd post guards outside the editing room if he had to. CRACKED.COM

The Matrix

Meet John Gaeta. He's the guy who designed the bullet HOME D time special effects in The Matrix. In fact, his prototype convinced Warner Bros. that the script was even filmable, which got it greenlit. CRACKED.COM

Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones owes his sense of style to Deborah Nadoolman Landis. CRACKED.COM Steven Spielberg handpicked Landis to design Indiana Jones's iconic look for Raiders of the Last Ark. To capture the look she wanted, she designed a new type of fedora for Indy, and hand-weathered his jacket herself.

Harry Potter

If you enjoy the Harry Potter films, thank David Heyman. Harry Power and Harris Potter Harry Potter OIL activities DANI HarryPotter As the guardian of the franchise, the producer has made some of the movies' most praised choices. Не convinced Daniel Radcliffe's parents to let him play Harry; pushed for Alfonso Cuarón to direct the third movie; and fought off an attempt to put the movies in an American setting, cheerleaders and all. CRACKED.COM

Reservoir Dogs

Harvey Keitel found the funding for RESERVOIR DOGS for a then- unknown Quentin Tarantino. Keitel was so impressed with the script that he signed on as a co-producer and paid for the New York casting sessions. CRACKED.COM

Eraserhead

CRACKED.COM If not for SISSY SPACEK ERASERHEAD David . film Lynch's landmark might not have been made. In addition to funding the film with her husband, production designer JACK FISK, the future Oscar winner served in various behind-the-camera roles, from script supervisor to slate-clapper.

Robert Burks

CRACKED.COM Award-winning cinematographer Robert Burks was Alfred Hitchcock's go-to camera guy. Burks was responsible for the camerawork and lighting for many of Hitchcock's most distinctive movies, including The Birds, Vertigo, and North by Northwest.

Citizen Kane

Maurice Seiderman created a way to age the then 25-year-old Orson Welles in Citizen Kane. Seiderman was sweeping floors in the RKO Studios makeup department when he started experimenting with latex and contact lenses to give the illusion of an older appearance on a person. Welles saw it, and hired him to work on the groundbreaking film. CRACKED.COM

Deadpool

DAVID FINCHER AND JAMES CAMERON HELPED DEADPOOL GET MADE. The Hollywood giants both read the script, and then threw their support for the film to 20th Century Fox, which helped convince them to go ahead with the film. CRACKED.COM

Jurassic Park

CRACKED.COM THE LOST WORLD JURASSIC PARK JURASSIC PARK JURASSIC PARK JURASSIC WORLD JURASSIC PARK .... - MICHAEL CRICHTON Chip Kidd's cover art for the first edition of Michael Crichton's novel became the logo of the Jurassic Park franchise.

Toy Story 2

WE HAVE PIXAR SUPERVISING TECHNICAL DIRECTOR GALYN SUSMAN TO THANK FOR GETTING TOY STORY ON TIME. 2 THE NEW MOM KEPT A FILE BACK-UP AT HOME so SHE COULD SPEND MORE TIME WITH HER FAMILY, WHICH WAS USED AFTER PIXAR ACCIDENTALLY DELETED A LARGE PORTION OF THE NEARLY FINISHED MOVIE. GRAGKED.COM

Pulp Fiction

CRACKED.COM Linda Chen edited the Pulp Fiction script for Quentin Tarantino. It was Chen's (unpaid) job to turn Tarantino's mass of error-riddled notebooks into an actual, readable screenplay, a process which took 3 months. Chen also worked as a live-in editor and script consultant for a - - RUS - CAL JACK MICHOLSON FRYE Chinatown writer Robert Towne. DUNAWAY CHINATOWN

Halloween

TOMMY LEE WALLACE was the production designer for John Carpenter's original HALLOWEEN Не chose Michael Myers' face. When looking for a mask for the The Shape, Wallace picked out a William Shatner mask because of its nondescript features. Не spray painted it white and cut the eye holes wider...forever scaring the sh*t out of everyone for decades to come. CRACKED.COM

Michael Kahn

Michael Kahn has been editing Steven Spielberg's movies for forty years. Kahn started working with the famous director on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and has edited almost all of his films since. Spielberg's most memorable, thrilling, and suspenseful scenes wouldn't have been possible without him. CRACKED.COM

War Movies

You can thank USMC Capt. Dale Dye for setting the bar for realism in war movies. The Vietnam veteran became a technical advisor mainly to see a war movie done right. ARRIERS, INC. After some setbacks he eventually met Oliver Stone and Platoon was made, which went on to win four Oscars including Best Picture, and Best Director. Dye then became known as CRACKED COM Hollywood's Drill Sergeant.

Jaws

VERNA FIELDS, WHO WON AN OSCAR FOR EDITING, SAVED JAWS SHE FOUND A WAY TO HIDE THE SHARK'S UNREALISTIC LOOK WITH QUICK CUTS AND MADE THE MOVIE INTO A THRILLER MASTERPIECE. AMONG THE CREW, FIELDS WAS KNOWN AS THE MOTHER CUTTER. CRACKED.COM

Batman

Whenever Batman (1989) is mentioned, you think about Tim Burton, Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. But you probably don't know who Sam Hamm is. Не was the screenwriter who saved the film from being a comedy film (Eddie Murphy was nearly cast as Robin) and instead opted for a darker Batman film. CRACKED.COM

Space Jam

Space Jam was created after a successful Super Bowl commercial. CRACKED.COM In 1992, Nike made a com- mercial where an animated Bugs Bunny played basket- ball with a real-live Michael Jordan. Warner Brothers decided to turn it into a whole movie since it was so well received.

Swingers

In one scene in Swingers, sirens can be heard from the state troopers arriving to shut down filming. CRACKED.COM Avram Ludwig pretended to have a phone call with the producer who had a permit in front of one trooper, with the producer on the other end of the call not knowing what he was talking about.

James Caan

Government agents mistook James Caan as an aspiring mobster during the production of The Godfather. During production, James Caan used to hang out with Carmine Persico, a.k.a. The Snake, who was a notorious Mafioso and later head of the Co- lombo crime family. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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