31 Bits of Movie Trivia Who Smooched the Sultan’s Royal Vizier So That We Could Grab the Magic Lamp

We’ll never be able to repay these facts
31 Bits of Movie Trivia Who Smooched the Sultan’s Royal Vizier So That We Could Grab the Magic Lamp

We couldnt be more grateful for all that these movie facts have given us, but it comes with a bit of guilt. See, well never be able to give anything to them in return. They give us so much knowledge about our favorite movies, but every time we try to share one with them, theyre like, “Ya guys, we know.”

Maybe we just need to stop feeling so guilty. Weve told them that if they ever need anything from us, were on it! Youll see. We can tell you to accept these guilt-free, but theyre so good that youre bound to feel like the guy who showed up to the potluck empty-handed.

The Revenant

31 Bits of Movie Trivia Who Smooched the Sultan’s Royal Vizier So That We Could Grab the Magic Lamp

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood

31 Bits of Movie Trivia Who Smooched the Sultan’s Royal Vizier So That We Could Grab the Magic Lamp

Taxi Driver

ONE OF CINEMA'S MOST ICONIC LINES WAS AN AFTERTHOUGHT IMPROVISATION. 0 The entire mirror scene from Taxi Driver originally wasn't even supposed to have any dialogue. Martin Scorsese says that they filmed the scene in the last week of shooting, and they were in such a hurry that he told Robert De Niro to just say something to himself in the mirror. De Niro came back with, You talking to me? CRACKED.COM

Inglorious Basterds

31 Bits of Movie Trivia Who Smooched the Sultan’s Royal Vizier So That We Could Grab the Magic Lamp

Captain America

31 Bits of Movie Trivia Who Smooched the Sultan’s Royal Vizier So That We Could Grab the Magic Lamp

Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill had to be hospitalized on the shoot for The Wolf of Wall Street. It was all the fake coke he'd snorted - it was vitamin powder, which sounds harmless, but he'd snorted so much that he got sick. CRACKED.COM

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

Dirty Harry

Clint Eastwood only became Dirty Harry after everyone else said no. The role first got offered to Steve McQueen, Burt Lancaster, and Paul Newman, among others, but they all thought Harry was too right-wing. CRACKED.COM

Steve McQueen

STEVE MCQUEEN'S INFIDELITY SAVED HIS LIFE. The actor was due to attend the dinner party where Charles Manson's cult killed actress Sharon Tate and four others-but according to McQueen's then wife, he ran into a chickie and decided to go off with her instead. It might be the first time ever that being a cheating womanizer gets someone out of trouble. CRACKED.COM

JFK

JFK CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE. In a 1995 study, people who had watched Oliver Stone's conspiracy theory in movie form were left angry but helpless, less willing to vote or make political contributions. After all, what's the point of voting if a huge conspiracy runs everything anyway? CRACKED.COM

Galaxy Quest

GALAXY QUEST WAS GOING TO BE DIRECTED BY HAROLD RAMIS. Ramis wanted to make the movie a straight spoof, closer to Spaceballs than to the love letter to Star Trek it ended up being. Не walked out, though, as he didn't think Tim Allen was right to play the captain. Не admitted later that he was completely wrong about that. CRACKED.COM

Dog Oscars

There is a dog Oscars for canine actors. The Golden Collar Awards were created in 2012. The winner receives a trophy designed by Simon Tavas- soli, depicting an Italian Leather Collar embedded with Swarovski crystals. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Blade: Trinity

Behind-the-scenes feuds A Blade: Trinity Wesley Snipes vs David S. Goyer A misunderstanding led to Snipes allegedly trying to choke director Goyer, who then hired a bunch of bikers as his own private security. In the end, Snipes would only communicate through Post-It notes. CRACKED.COM

The Dark Knight

MYTH Heath Ledger improvised the explosion scene in The Dark Knight because the explosives malfunctioned. REALITY Nothing malfunctioned because the glitch was planned. A redditor claimed that the glitch was unplanned and Nolan just kept filming, but it's not true. Ledger knew exactly what was going to happen because they rehearsed the scene meticulously, even the part where Ledger's Joker looks back at the hospital that doesn't want to blow up. GRACKED COM

Home Alone

As a kid, Macaulay Culkin thought Home Alone's movie-within-a-movie was real. That's what he said on Twitter when Seth Rogen tweeted that he, as a kid, thought it was a real film. CRACKED.COM

Billy Madison

In Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit kids with dodgeballs. When one of them started crying during the filming of the dodgeball scene, his parents came up to Sandler and complained. Sandler asked Didn't they read the script? and the parents told him They're six, they don't read yet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Coming to America

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Coming to America АКЕЕМ GIVES MONEY TO THE DUKE BROTHERS. The two homeless old men who benefit from the prince's charity turn out to be Randolph and Mortimer Duke, the villainous rich stock brokers that became penniless. Trading Places CRACKED.COM

Mad Max: Fury Road

MYTH Mad Max: Fury Road didn't have a script at first. REALITY It very much did. А rumor surfaced that the co-writers along with director George Miller approached the film without a script. Miller said of course there was a script, and wondered if the rumor started because of an image that showed the Mad Max room lined with around 3,500 storyboards. One of the writers suggests that Miller himself started the rumor. GRACKED COM

Evil Dead II

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Evil Dead II FREDDY KRUEGER LEFT HIS GLOVE HERE. Freddy's trademark blades appear twice in the movie, once in the woodshed and when Ash goes into the cellar. It seems we're long overdue for a classic horror crossover. CRACKED.COM

Batman

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES HAVE you SKEN THIS iNPH Batman (1989) A SKETCH ARTIST IS BATMAN'S CO-CREATOR. As Knox walks through the bullpen of the newspaper, he's handed a sketch by Bob Kane. No word on whether it was actually drawn by Kane, or if he just took credit for it like he used to do. CRACKED.COM

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The term Easter Eggs for a hidden reference in film and TV originated from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The cast of the film had some fun on set by having their own Easter Egg hunt, and then ended up miss- ing a few of the eggs. Some of these eggs made it into the movie, creating the term. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Paddington 2

Paddington 2 Director Paul King had to teach the children how to use a phone booth. Не called it one of the most dispiriting things he had to do during production. CRACKED.COM

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings The orcs' black mouths were done with mouthwash. As orcs are supposed to have black blood, they couldn't go around with normal human pink mouths. So the actors swished black licorice mouthwash between takes. CRACKED.COM

Terminator

Terminatorused time travel to make (325) HIPH the movie cheaper. Setting an entire movie in the future costs a lot of money-money which no one would give to James Cameron at that point in his career. So he came up with the time travel angle, to be able to afford the movie about a killer cyborg he wanted to direct. CRACKED.COM

Million Dollar Mystery

Hollywood tragedies that brought change MIZONA RZARD U.S.ARMT Million Dollar Mystery A failed motorbike stunt After stuntman Dar Robinson died while filming Million Dollar Mystery in 1987, it became a requirement for ambulances to be on movie sets to make sure everyone was safe. CRACKED

The Lego Movie

The Lego Movie merchandise spoiled the mystery of The Kragle. SPOILER ALERT! LEGO LEGO THE MOVIE Agenhadades 8-14 0809 Business - cs/pzs The film's delightful twist was ruined when, E a week before the movie 10 hit theaters, the Lego set Kpo was released, complete with a tiny bottle of Krazy Glue. CRACKED.COM

Young Frankenstein

CRACKED.COM YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN USED THE LABORATORY FROM THE ORIGINAL FRANKENSTEIN. Mel Brooks' opus nailed the look and feel of the lab from 1931's Frankenstein-because it was the same lab. For authenticity, Brooks sought out Kenneth Strickfaden, who had designed the set of the original movie. As it turned out, Strickfaden had kept most of the props in his garage.

El Mariachi

When making El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez was too cheap to buy a can of black paint. His budget was so tight, he didn't paint the guitar case that had the weapons black (the color it was supposed to be). For shots of its exterior, he just used the Mariachi's case, which was black. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Matt Damon

Matt Damon wrote the first act of Good Will Hunting for a playwriting class. CRACKED.COM After being assigned to create the first act of a play, Matt Damon turned in the 40 page script and said, Look, I might have failed your class, but it is the first act of something longer.

Borat

Kazakhstan waged a media campaign against Sacha Baron Cohen over Borat. PABLO ESCORAN To fight the portrayal of their country in Borat, the Kazakhs ran TV ads and a New York Times insert. Cohen responded in-character as Borat, saying that claims that women are treated equally, and that all religions are tolerated are disgusting fabrications. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Star Wars

Mark Hamill burst a blood vessel while filming the trash compactor scene in Star Wars. Не made his face red on purpose so he'd look like he's really really straining, but he overdid it and burst a blood vessel in his eye. It was so obvious, they had to make sure the camera wouldn't catch it until it healed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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