30 Bits of Movie Trivia to Help You Get At Least One Pie in ‘Trivial Pursuit’

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30 Bits of Movie Trivia to Help You Get At Least One Pie in ‘Trivial Pursuit’
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If you were hoping this was a one-stop shop for Trivial Pursuit studying, you’re in the wrong place. This list of movie facts can help you in the “Entertainment” category, but that’s about it. And even then, movies are just one of many forms of entertainment.

You know what? The words “movie trivia” are right there in the title, so why are we even explaining this to you? We don’t foresee any pie collecting in your near future.

Doctor Strange

CRACKED COM The 2016 Doctor Strange isn't the superhero's first live-action film. The 1978 Doctor Strange TV movie was initially created for CBS as a TV pilot, but was ultimately rejected.

The Lego Movie

CRACKED.COM THE POLIC LEGO MOVIE The movie caused a 15% worldwide increase in Lego sales. The year the film was released, Lego sold 62 billion Lego elements. That would equate to 102 Lego bricks per living person.

School of Rock

There was a real School of Rock, that precedes the movie. 7 un adidas - ING quize - The real School of Rock, started by Paul Green in Philadelphia, shared a lot of similarities to the movie - even down to Jack Black's look. Green considered suing, but thought the movie was ultimately good for business. CRACKED.COM

James Wan

JAMES WAN saw Poltergeist when he was very young, and the movie scarred for life with its creepy dolls. Billy the Puppet in Saw? The scary Annabelle in The Conjuring? Those all come from that childhood movie experience. CRACKED.COM

Pirates of the Caribbean

I am the master of my fate, says Barbossa in On Stranger Tides, when he's telling the tale of how he lost his leg. That's a line from Robert Henley's poem Invictus, and Henley - who had a wooden leg, and was a larger-than-life kind of guy -was the inspiration for the archetypal pop-culture pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island. CRACKED.COM

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain The movie almost starred Matt Damon and Joaquin Phoenix. Those were Gus Van Sant's choices, back when it was his project. Damon reportedly told him, Gus, I did a gay movie (The Talented Mr. Ripley), then a cowboy movie (All the Pretty Horses), I can't follow it up with a gay cowboy movie! CRACKED.COM

Willow

Fantasy movies There is a Willow expanded universe. Willow Besides board games and videogames, the movie was followed up by a trilogy of novels centered around Elora, the baby from the movie now grown up into a teenager. CRACKED.COM

The Wedding Singer

CRACKED.COM THE WEDDING SINGER ADAM SANDLER WANTED TO MAKE A PRO-MARRIAGE MOVIE. Sandler said that he just wanted to make a movie that was pro-love and pro-marriage while still being heavy on the laughs. According to him, guys who are against love were just hurt.

It’s A Wonderful Life

It became a Christmas classic thanks to a lapsed copyright and TV. RIA - 04 Condition The film accidentally became public domain after Republic Pictures forgot to renew the copyright for it in 1974. This allowed every TV station to play the movie whenever they wanted, until 1993, when Paramount managed to secure the rights for the film. CRACKED.COM

House of the Dragon

Pop culture inspirations House of the Dragon Director Greg Yaitanes watched HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON to prepare for the dragon fight inthe Season 1 finale. Не took inspiration from the film's cinematography for the scene. CRACKED

The Exorcist

Pop culture inspirations The Exorcist René Magritte's series THE EMPIRE OF LIGHTS explores mind-bending oxymorons, and William Friedkin recreated this work for the movie, capturing the disharmonious spiritual aura that surrounds the home. CRACKED

Dunkirk

Historical war drama Dunkirk was partly based on a sci-fi horror movie. ALIEN In space no one can have you scream Director Christopher Nolan says Ridley Scott's Alien inspired him-it might be from a different genre, but it's an established classic of tension. CRACKED.COM

The Nightmare Before Christmas

CRACKED COM The Nightmare Before christmas Each minute of movie took around one week to film. Since each second of film consists of 24 frames, each character had to be posed 24 times per a single second of footage. This is why this holiday classic took over three years to complete.

Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers: Infinity War was partly based on 1990s heist movies, it turns out. Co-director Joe Russo said that Structurally, with this first film, Avengers 3, we've been using the smash-n-grab '90s heist films, so there's a real urgency to the film. CRACKED.COM

Clerks

CLERKS ALMOST HAD A BIZARRELY DARK ENDING. 1.50 Unsure of how else to finish his cult classic film, Kevin Smith decided to just kill Dante in a robbery gone wrong and roll credits. Не even shot the scene, but for some reason, the producers didn't think the main character getting shot would make a good ending to a comedy film and forced Smith to come up with a different one. CRACKED.COM

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON THIS WAS ZHANG ZIYI'S SECOND FILM. The 19-year-old didn't even have her first film appearance released before she was signed on for the Ang Lee classic. Lee chose her due to Zhang's innate cinematic charisma. CRACKED.COM

Gremlins

Gremlins Gremlins is partly responsible for the PG-13 rating. 3 Z 4 7 5 8 O B I DANKET RUS PREGRANT - STREET STOP Prior to 1984, movies either had a PG or an R rating. Following the release of Gremlins (with its PG rating), people were upset about the movie's level of violence, with some arguing that the film tricked kids into watching a movie that's actually meant for their parents. Spielberg said he agreed, and argued for tougher ratings. Two months later the first PG-13 rated film, Red Dawn, was released. CRACKED.COM

Dr. Strangelove

MOVIES SAVED BY RESHOOTS DR. STRANGELOVE THE JOKE (AND THE PIE) WERE A LITTLE ON THE NOSE. The film originally ended with a pie fight in the war room, but it was too silly for the more subtle, satirical film. Stanley Kubrick later called the scene a disaster of Homeric proportions. CRACKED

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The plot of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly was improvised during a meeting. The story of the film was improvised in a meeting between the Italian director and American movie executives. They asked him what film he had in mind, and in the span of a couple minutes, they quickly improvised the entire story. CRACKED.COM

Harold and Maude

In order to get the classic 1971 film Harold and Maude made, producer Robert Evans lied to the executives and didn't tell them that the movie's romance was between a 20-year-old boy and an 80-year-old woman. HAROLD AND MAUDE CRACKED.COM

The Sound of Music

CRACKED.COM The Sound of Music was the third film about the Von Trapp family. surprising day ven Sister Maria DU out of the cred convent Two movies were made in give her love a man- and г songs to P world Germany in the 1950s, all based M SCHOOL der. - By on the same book as the play THE TRAPP that was then turned into the FAMILY classic Julie Andrews musical. All the wonderful - D of

Glenn Close

For Glenn Close Guardians of the Galaxy was a means to an end. She agreed to appear in the blockbuster in order to have financial security while she makes independent films. CRACKED.COM

New York, New York

CRACKED.COM New York, New York Robert De Niro caused the movie's iconic theme to exist. New York City owes its unofficial anthem to De Niro's meddling. Не found the intended song too weak, and pretty much embarrassed director Martin Scorsese into requesting a new one. MARK

Batman v Superman

Everybody hates on Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. But it made $873 million, and its $166 million Easter Weekend opening was the highest ever. CRACKED.COM

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog's Dr. Robotnik was originally a human-egg hybrid. Не suffered a lab accident that bathed him and a rotten egg in a nearby fridge in chaos energy, turning him into a mutant in which human and egg combined. CRACKED.COM

Terminator 2

James Cameron and his movies Shooting Terminator 2 caused him a permanent injury. Не has a piece of shrapnel lodged in his forearm from a pyrotechnics explosion that happened while filming the movie. CRACKED.COM

The Oscars

Akward Awards 2000 OSCARS TREY PARKER and MATT STONE Parker and Stone went to the Oscars wearing dresses and had taken LSD. It had such a big impact on Stone that he's stayed away from LSD since. CRACKED

Being John Malkovich

A drunken extra hucked a beer can at Malkovich's bean. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH CRACKED.COM Some extras got ripped and decided to do a drive-by while the scene was live. Malkovich's reaction (pissed off) is genuine.

George Lazenby

George Lazenby basically tried to be Sean Connery to get cast as Bond. Не not only got Sean Connery's haircut, he also bought one of Connery's old suits, all to make an impression. CRACKED.COM

Harry Potter

Snape's costume never changed in any of the Harry Potter films. Costume designer Jany Temime says it's because that costume was him, and he never changed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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