32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Look Like A Running Stick Figure If You Flip Through Them Fast Enough

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32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Look Like A Running Stick Figure If You Flip Through Them Fast Enough
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If you still have a printer, you’re going to get a little something extra out of this list today. Don’t get us wrong, you non-printer havers will still get a ton of awesome movie facts, it’s just that printing these, cutting them into squares and flipping through them like a pad of Post-It notes will really make them come alive! 

Come back tomorrow when we shine a light through them to project them onto a wall! Man, we love movies.

The Predator

The Predator 2018 CRACKED.COM They had to delete a scene of an actual predator - actor Steven Wilder Striegel had been convicted of attempting to lure a minor online. Almost no one knew until after he filmed a scene gratuitously soliciting Olivia Munn.

Kill Bill

O-Ren Ishii's kimono in Kill Bill Vol. 1 is modeled after a 1973 revenge flick. Tarantino took a lot from Lady Snowblood, including inspiration for the battle in the snow and the costume O-Ren Ishii wears in that battle. CRACKED.COM

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python And The Holy Grail $380K CRACKED.COM They blew their first attempt at a feature film with 1971's And Now For Something Completely Different. But they scraped together less than half-a-million dollars in funding for Holy Grail, and turned that into a $5 million theatrical run.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

CRACKED.COM FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF Matthew Broderick was the only choice for Ferris Bueller. I had to have that look, John Hughes has said. That charm had to come through. Jimmy Stewart could have played Ferris at 15. I needed Matthew.

Freddy vs. Jason

Freddy vs. Jason could have shown us Freddy raping Jason as a child. That scene, which ends with Freddy drowning Jason so he wouldn't tell anyone, was in script drafts for four years. It only kind-of shows up in the final movie, as the dream sequence in which Freddy is a camp counselor and drowns Jason. CRACKED.COM

Dancing to Pop Song Scenes

32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Look Like A Running Stick Figure If You Flip Through Them Fast Enough

The Natural

Ny T H È NATURAL THE NOVEL THE NATURAL IS THE TOTAL OPPOSITE OF THE MOVIE. In the movie, a star baseball player is offered a bribe to throw the match, but nobly refuses. In the novel, he accepts but changes his mind mid-game and tries to win. Не loses anyway. And after the game, a journalist discovers the truth and ruins him. CRACKED.COM

Beauty and the Beast

CRACKED COM Alan Menken created the music to Be Our Guest as a low-effort dummy for Howard Ashman to write the lyrics while he composed something better. Then he found he couldn't improve on how well the simple tune worked.

Global Releases

Release dates for big action films might greatly depend on the health status of other countries, especially in ASIA AND EUROPE. ADVENTURELAND Everyone knows about the love affair between Dwayne Johnson and China, which means it wouldn't make much sense to release a film like Disney's Jungle Cruise (starring The Rock) if cinemas in China remain closed. The importance of global revenues would just be too critical. CRACKED.COM

Deadpool 2

Deadpool breaking Cerebro wasn't in the Deadpool 2 script -- it was an accident, and they used that take. CRACKED.COM

Rugrats Go Wild

Spike, the Pickles' family dog in Rugrats, is voiced by Bruce Willis in Rugrats Go Wild. NICKELODEON Rugrats CRACKED.COM

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan got his start in showbiz as a child actor. Не got cast in his first movie when he was just five - it was Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, which was released in 1962. CRACKED.COM

Iron Man 2

Deleted scenes that would've changed everything Iron Man 2 Tony stark almost spoiled several upcoming movies. In the original version, Tony hacked S.H.I.E.L.D. and stole files related to various projects - Pegasus (Captain Marvel), Exodus (mutants), and Goliath (Ant-Man and the Wast). CRACKED.COM

Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg Movies Spielberg was skeptical about CGI. The director doubted CGI could properly represent living, breathing animals. A test with Gallimimus skeletons sparked his attention, but it was only a fully rendered T. rex in broad daylight that finally convinced him. Jurassic Park CRACKED.COM

Palm Springs

ALL THE COSTUME NODS TO FAMOUS MOVIES IN PALM SPRINGS. Andy Samberg's character Nyles' red Hawaiian shirt is a nod to the one Leonardo DiCaprio wears in Romeo + Juliet, and the nudie suit that Trevor wears is a nod to Punch-Drunk Love. CRACKED.COM

Home Alone

32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Look Like A Running Stick Figure If You Flip Through Them Fast Enough

The Shining

Pop culture inspirations The Shining Stanley Kubrick was inspired by A DIANE ARBUS PHOTOGRAPH to cast the Grady sisters as twins. The original book by Stephen King does not feature twins. CRACKED

Stunt Doubles

CRACKED.COM DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON'S STUNT DOUBLE... TANOAI REED. NOTABLE MOVIES: Has been Johnson's double in every movie since Scorpion King in 2002. Non-Johnson movies include Smokin' Aces, Gamer, StarTrek Into Darkness. SCARIEST INJURY CHE'S HAD A LOT): I tore my arm open in F7 when it went through a big piece of glass while I was doing a fight with Jason Statham's stunt double. I had to have emergency surgery for that one because there was shrapnel in my arm...I asked what the worst-case scenario was, and he said, 'I have to reattach all the blood vessels, tendons, ligaments. Worst-case scenario

Alien

Ridley Scott had to fight the studio to use the work of surrealist painter H.R. Giger in Alien. Giger, who designed all the aliens in the movie, almost didn't make the cut because the studio thought his work was too obscene. Scott got into a fight with the studio: I said, are you kidding me? Obscene is good! We're doing an R rated movie. I want to make you uncomfortable, apart from the fact that it's scarier than shit. CRACKED COM

Batman & Robin

The Gotham City set was full-scale BATMAN & ROBIN CGI wasn't used to create a full cityscape scene, which was later covered in ice. There were even actual size ice-blasted mannequins. CRACKED.COM

Jimmy Stewart

Fourth of July Movies Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Jimmy Stewart became a very cautious driver. Stewart was so determined to complete the film (which he called the role of a lifetime) that he would drive slowly to the studio, to make sure nothing happened to him. CRACKED.COM

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Fourth of July Movies Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Congressmen walked out of the movie. When the movie premiered in front of congressmen, senators, and Supreme Court justices, a third of them walked out. Senate Majority leader Alben W. Barkley said the movie makes the Senate look like a bunch of crooks. Imagine that. CRACKED.COM

Michael Fassbender

Fourth of July Movies 12 Years a Slave Michael Fassbender had alcohol on his mustache. Fassbender asked his makeup artist to paint his mustache in alcohol, to get a proper reaction to his alcoholic character. It worked: The other performers were disgusted by the smell. CRACKED.COM

Lupita Nyong’o

Fourth of July Movies 12 Years a Slave It was Lupita Nyong'o's first movie (and she got an Oscar). We'll just say it: Little Monsters and Us were good, but between the Star Wars sequels and The 355, Hollywood is just wasting her talent. CRACKED.COM

Liam Neeson

Fourth of July Movies Lincoln Liam Neeson was Spielberg's choice to play Lincoln. Due to personal tragedies and character disconnect, however, he just couldn't do it. Steven, this is not for me, he said. I can't explain it. It's gone. CRACKED.COM

Daniel Day-Lewis

Fourth of July Movies Lincoln Daniel Day-Lewis didn't think he could play Abraham Lincoln. When offered the role, he found the idea preposterous. Almost a decade later, however, it became as natural as human freedom CRACKED.COM

Born on the Fourth of July

Fourth of July Movies Born on the Fourth of July Oliver Stone wanted Tom Cruise to be wheelchair-bound for real. Stone suggested Cruise take a drug that would paralyze him for a few days. Cruise was in, but the insurance company made it impossible. CRACKED.COM

Jaws

Fourth of July Movies Jaws John Williams had to stop working to pick up his Oscar. Williams was directing the orchestra during the Oscar ceremony, so he had to stop that duty, run to get the award and give his speech, and then go back to work. Not bad for a score Spielberg thought was a joke. CRACKED.COM

Child’s Play

One of Chucky's body doubles was an actual child Good Guys ...which looks even more horrifying. When robot versions of Chucky wouldn't do the trick, a producer tapped his neighbor's two-year-old. CRACKED.COM

Gary Busey

Gary Busey swears he's been to Heaven. GARY BUSLY OZ PERKINS QUIGLEY AN ANGELIC TALL THERES to THES - THE DE Busey nearly died in a motorcycle accident in 1988. Не demanded the set of Quigley (2003) be changed to match his brief stint in Heaven before he would record a single damn line. CRACKED.COM

I Am Legend

The zombie dog from I Am Legend was really just a green-suited puppeteer. CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters

The abduction scene in GHS STBUSTERS was actually goofy as hell. They just made three guys kneel out of frame with hairy gloves on. CRACKED.COM

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