30 Butter-Soaked Bits of Movie Trivia to Wash Down With Some Soda-Soaked Bits of Movie Trivia

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30 Butter-Soaked Bits of Movie Trivia to Wash Down With Some Soda-Soaked Bits of Movie Trivia
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Like a sommelier, we’ve gained enough experience in the random-movie-fact realm to consider ourselves high-level connoisseurs. So as you scroll down this list, note how the hints of behind-the-scenes trivia on the nose pair ever so elegantly with the fruitful filmmaking factoids on the tongue. 

Don’t forget to pretentiously swirl it either, and violently jam your schnoz into it before that first brain sip.

Walk Hard

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THERE WAS A TON OF WORK PUT INTO SET DESIGN. WALK HARD Director Jake Kasdan says that compared to a regular comedy, the movie put much more effort into designing very detailed and authentic sets. Seven hotel rooms and three music studios for different time periods were built for the film. CRACKED.COM

Tokyo Drift

Tokyo Drift couldn't secure certain permits but filmed scenes anyway. RECARD Universal Studios hired a fall guy to go to jail instead of the director. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Moonstruck

Moonstruck The original title was The Bride and the Wolf. Producer Norman Jewison loved the script but thought the title sounded like a horror film, so it was changed. CRACKED.COM

The Blair Witch Project

Horror movies on streaming HBO hulu peacock max Paramount+ The Blair Witch Project There was no script, only a 35-page outline for the actors to improvise dialogue around. CRACKED.COM

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The Sound of Music

Musical movies The sound of MUSIC Christopher Plummer hated the film, calling it The Sound of Mucus. Не also despised working with Julia Andrews, who was a real-life Manic Pixie Dream Girl. (Не calmed down later in life... a little.) CRACKED.COM

Source: BBC

Sleeping Beauty

Disney behind the scenes sleeping Beauty sleeping Beauty play Before the movie was animated, it was shot with full costumes, sets, and makeup. CRACKED.COM

It looks a bit like Donkey Skin.

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Idiocracy

Idiocracy was filmed in Austin, TX so that the director could stay close to his family. Mike Judge thought about never returning to film after the box office failure of Office Space. He wanted to spend more time with his kids and the set location made it possible.

The Gyllenhaals

The Gyllenhaals dec lile CRACKED.COM Siblings Maggie and Jake were born into Hollywood. Their mom is an oscar- nominated screenwriter and producer. Their dad is a director.

Some nepo babies do deserve their fame. 

Source: GQ

Napoleon Dynamite

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Nearly all the wardrobe was found at THRIFT STORES VITE CRACKED.CO With a crazy-low budget, wardrobe was largely DIY. Napoleon's signature moon boots were twenty years old and borrowed from Jerusha Hess's Uncle Wally. His glasses were a thrift-store find and the prescription played havoc with Heder's eyes.

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Romeo + Juliet

ROMEO + JULIET Director Baz Luhrmann made this movie because he wanted to make Shakespeare more accessible. The thing really set out to do was to smash what I call club Shakespeare, you have to be a member of the club to understand it. This 26-year-old writer wrote

Say what you want about this movie, it got a lot of kids to read some Shakespeare!

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I Heart Huckabees

David O. Russell threw a violent temper tantrum. / HEART HUCKABEES After Lily Tomlin expressed frustration with his notes and revisions, he freaked out and started throwing and kicking props all over the set. The whole thing was caught on camera! It's wild!

Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox nearly hanged himself on set. Fox messed up his hand placement in Back to the Future Part LII'S hanging scene, resulting in him passing

Han Solo’s Jacket

Han Solo's snow jacket was brown, not blue. The coat the Rebel pilot dons on Hoth is often mistaken for navy blue due to lighting. Even the toy compan

Saw II

GRAGKEDCOT Saw II from was adapted a completely different movie's screenplay that had been widely rejected. SAWJ With no time to write screenplay, a t

This Is the End

Sony really didn't like the idea of actors playing themselves in THIS IS THE END. So Seth Rogen lied and assured Sony they would shoot the movie in a

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