27 Random Bits of Movie Trivia Spoken Smugly by a Finger-Steepling Diabolical Mastermind

Welcome to the fact lair
27 Random Bits of Movie Trivia Spoken Smugly by a Finger-Steepling Diabolical Mastermind
Add Cracked to Google

Muahaha, you fell right into our movie fact trap. You thought you’d outsmart us, but you’re no match for our villainous treachery. Now that you’re here and tied to that chair, you’ll be forced to read these amazing movie facts before you no doubt find some way of escaping and thwarting us.

Of course, we’ll then escape as well and be back with a new evil scheme, so we’ll replay this scenario over and over again, Batman — or whoever you are!

The Wolf of Wall Street

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE PRODUCTION GOT INTO TROUBLE WITH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET SBI The film's production company, Red Granite Pictures, was forced to pay around $60 million to the U.S. government after being sued for using money misappropriated from a Malaysian state fund to finance the film. CRACKED.COM

Lord of the Rings

A lot of Lord of the Rings fans have asked why the Fellowship didn't just ride the giant eagles into Mordor. But maybe that was Gandalf's plan, and the reason his dying words were fly, you fools! CRACKED.COM

Carrie

The original poster for Carrie (1976) gave away the prom scene. IF YOU'VE GOT A TASTE FOR TERROR... TAKE CARRIE TO THE PROM. SPOILER the VU ALERT! CARRIE anovel da girl will . frightening power STEPHEN KING If you compare the book cover with the movie poster, you can clearly see the prom scene spoiler. And sure, the novel came out two years prior, but Carrie only became a hit after the movie was released. CRACKED.COM

The Prisoner of Azkaban

'The Prisoner of Azkaban' represents a tonal shift in the Harry Potter series But that didn't stop the great CRACKED.COM Alan Rickman from planting a fart machine on Daniel Radcliffe

Black Panther

CRACKED.COM In Black Panther, a society living near a meteorite crash site quickly advances thanks to a rare metal from the meteorite. That's happened more than once. For example, in Greenland, Africa, and South America, societies with stone age technology used iron from a crashed meteorite to make metal tools and harpoons. And, because of a meteorite, Egyptians had iron 2,000 years before humanity figured out how to make iron from scratch.

Lord of the Rings

Before the Lord of the Rings movies, Gollum was usually drawn as a giant, deformed creature. In the books, Tolkien doesn't mention Gollum's size, so artists apparently assumed he was massive. CRACKED.COM

Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi originally featured a resurrected Yoda and Obi-Wan. In an early draft, Luke goes to the Imperial capital planet to fight Vader. Just before the duel, flesh-and-blood versions of Obi-Wan and Yoda appear out of nowhere, saying they came back to help him fight Vader and the Emperor. But they, and the Emperor, just watch Luke and Vader duke it out and comment the duel. CRACKED.COM

J.J. Abrams

ELLO ASTY IS A BEASTIE BOYS TRIBUTE. PUIL beastie boys: hello nasty REMASTERED EDITION INCLUDES: Bonus disc of b-sides unreleased tracks PARENTSU ADVISORY EXPURIT CONTENT Beastie Boys fanboy J.J. Abrams decided to name one of the Resistance pilots in tribute to them. Не did so by removing the first letters from their 1998 album Hello Nasty. CRACKED.COM

A Christmas Story

Ted Turner made it into a holiday classic. In 1986, Turner bought MGM's entire film library, which included A Christmas Story. TNT started running the movie non-stop during Christmas season in 1997. CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man 3

SPIDER-MAN 3 CRACKED.COM Critics call Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002) & Spider-Man 2 (2004) some of the best superhero films ever made. In Spider-Man 3, Raimi was forced to add villains, Topher Grace was painfully miscast as Venom, and Spidey's jazz/emo phase had the trilogy's Rotten Tomatoes score read: 90, 93, 63.

The Princess Bride

CRACKED.COM Princess Buttercup Robin wright ran from André the Giant when she met him. Не would put his hand on her head as a face warmer when the set got cold.

Birdman

CRACKED.COM FOR SEBS NE Early drafts of movies - - Birdman The original ending was like a lame SNL sketch. Michael Keaton's play was a success - and then the story began again, with Johnny Depp sitting in a dressing room next to a Jack Sparrow poster. The poster then came to life and asked him: What the f**ck are we doing here, mate?

Mortal Kombat

MORTAL KOMBAT (1995) It took eleven people to bring Goro to life. The four-armed champion required six puppeteers and four technicians (plus the stuntman stuffed into the suit). CRACKED.COM

Batman Returns

In Batman Returns the shadow from Selina Kyle's glasses foreshadows her later transformation into Catwoman. (1992) CRACKED.COM

Parasite

THE HOUSE IN PARASITE IS COMPLETELY FAKE. The movie wasn't shot in a real house-the lavish Park residence was built from scratch in a studio backlot to meet the needs of the script. The entire second floor was added in post-production. CRACKED.COM

Transformers

MEGAN FOX is not a Megan Fox clone GRACKED.COM During the height of her Transformers fame, rumors speculated that Fox was being duplicated into several clones that the studios would trade back and forth. For better or worse, Megan Fox technology has not yet reached that level of sophistication.

Star Wars

The first to credit the full crew. 1977 CRACKED.COM George Lucas decided to list every last crew member in the Star Wars final credit crawl. Before that, only department heads would get their moment in the limelight.

Lady Bird

Lady Bird According to Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird's quirky movements are based on the film's director, Greta Gerwig. GRAGKED.COM

Alice in Wonderland

CRACKED.COM Alice in Wonderland The Dodo is Lewis Carroll. A lot of the animals in the book represent people the real-life Alice knew, with the dodo as the author himself. It was a play on Dodgson, his real name- as he was a stutterer, he'd sometimes introduce himself as Dodo-Dodgson.

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood

The Manson girls really scavenged through dumpsters for food to eat. It wasn't made up for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood-the whole Manson family relied pretty much 100% on the girls dumpster diving for food. CRACKED.COM

Moana

Dwayne Johnson based his Moana character on someone from his family. In a tweet, he explained that my character Maui was partly inspired by my late grandfather, High Chief Peter Maivia of Samoa. CRACKED.COM

American Psycho

Christian Bale based Patrick Bateman's gaze in American Psycho on Tom Cruise's eyes. Specifically, a David Letterman interview of Tom Cruise where Bale noticed Tom Cruise's intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes. CRACKED.COM

Trading Places

The Dukes' failed attempt to corner a market in Trading Places actually happened. The Hunt brothers created a silver shortage by hoarding the precious metal, eventually leading to a price plunge. The collapse cost the pair $1.7 billion and they were banned from future trading. Co-writer Herschel Weingrod CRACKED.COM cites the Hunts' silver fiasco as an inspiration for the story, but said frozen orange juice was much more funny.

A Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton grew up in ever-sunny Burbank, CA, where pretty much only holiday decorations changed with the seasons. Burton would notice Christmas and Halloween decorations getting mixed up, and would sneak Halloween decorations among Christmas tree ornaments. Years later, that gave him the idea for A Nightmare Before Christmas. CRACKED.COM

Lord of the Rings (Again)

A region of Middle-earth was partly inspired by WWI battlefields. Tolkien, who was in WWI, said that the Dead Marshes (on the path to Mordor) owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. CRACKED.COM

Godzilla

An American B-movie inspired Godzilla. The movie was The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, about an ancient dinosaur awoken by a nuclear explosion who heads towards New York City -- Japanese producer Tomoyuki Tanaka just mashed that up with then-current hydrogen bomb testing in the Bikini Atoll, creating Godzilla. CRACKED.COM

Parasite

Bong Joon-Ho based Parasite on his days as a private math tutor. The family he worked for was super-rich, just like the one in the movie, and he got the job through his girlfriend (now his wife), who was working for them as an English tutor r-- she recommended him. CRACKED.COM

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

VIRAL ON CRACKED

A WEEKLY
NEWSLETTER OF
JOKES + TRIVIA

Forgot Password?