30 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Utterly Decimate Your Brain’s Fourth Wall

Staring down your brain like Jim Halpert — just slightly less annoying
30 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Utterly Decimate Your Brain’s Fourth Wall
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Always Be My Maybe

ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE Michelin star chef Niki Nakayama was the culinary consultant on the film. In the movie, Ali Wong's character Sasha is a celebrity chef, and Wong said Nakayama -who owns the LA restaurant n/naka- helped a lot with all the food elements. BEHIND THE SCENES GRACKED.COM

Goodfellas

Scorsese himself would tie Ray Liotta's tie every day. GoodFellas Behind the Scenes Не was insistent that it had to be done in a very specific way. CRACKED.COM

Raya and the Last Dragon

Disney behind the scenes Raya and the Last Dragon The movie was written over Zoom. The film was partially written via live draw-overs on Zoom, to try and keep the sense of collaboration alive (and failing whenever Zoom decided to say no). CRACKED.COM

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

na 49095 Russell Brand's audition was ENTIRELY IMPROVISED. When he walked in, he told Jason Segel that he only gave the script a cursory glance and instead wanted them to tell him what he had to do. Не then did an improv scene where he needed to convince Sarah Marshall to go horse riding with him, leaning into the whole man versus beast thing. BEHIND THE SCENES | FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL CRACKED.COM

Crimson Peak

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes Crimson Peak They built the entire mansion. You could just walk around the thing.

Romeo + Juliet

ROMEO + JULIET Baz Luhrmann asked Des'ree to write Kissing You for the fish tank scene, and she also performed it. She said she was prety terrified when the director asked her to write the love theme for the movie. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

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

Singin’ in the Rain

Musical movies singin' in the Rain Despite being one of the most adored musicals ever, it wasn't as fun behind the scenes. One day, Fred Astaire found 18-year-old Debbie Reynolds crying under a piano from the stress. (Не comforted her.) CRACKED.COM

Finding Nemo

FINDING NEMO You had me at 'fish.' That's what Pixar's chief creative officer said to writer/director Andrew Stanton to give him the green light to start working on the movie. CRACKED.COM

Up

Pixar designers were super, super specific about the details of Carl's house in Up. They decided on everything down to how often cracks would appear in the paint, and how large they'd be. CRACKED.COM

Jonah Hex

When asked about Jonah Нех, Josh Brolin says he hated it. Hated it. It would have been better to shoot a movie about the making of it, he says - they had to reshoot 66 pages in 12 days, which apparently didn't give a great result. CRACKED.COM

Avengers: Age of Ultron

During the making of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the production team would round up actors' scripts at the end of filming and shred them all --every single day. CRACKED.COM

Clerks

and - Cambridge 768 - SOULING 5 5 65 REFRESH POR LESS Shuter Cambridge Kate phridge CoN Phot kevin smith The making of clerks was hard on everyone. In addition to his parents getting a mortgage, Smith sold all of his comics and maxxed out his credit cards to finance the indie darling. CRACKED.COM

Edward Scissorhands

Не wanted to be Edward Scissorhands CRACKED.COM Tim Burton made a lot of weird decisions in the making of Edward Scissorhands, but his best move by far was slapping down Michael Jackson's insistence that he play Edward.

Uncle Buck

CRACKED.COM Babysitter Movies Form Design S Clest Luces . Uncle Buck Despite being a family man, Uncle Buck himself hired a clown and strippers for director John Hughes' birthday during the making of the movie. This sounds like a better film than the one we got.

Candyman

Real bees were used during the making of the '90s horror trilogy CANDYMAN. Over the course of the three films, actor Tony Todd got stung 23 times. Thanks to his lawyer, he was paid $1,000 per sting. And yes, those are real bees in his mouth. I had a dental dam that prevented any kind of intake, and I just had balls of steel. CRACKED.COM

The Original Yoda

Yoda the little green Jedi master puppet might seem bizarre. But he was almost a lot weirder. George Lucas originally intended Yoda to be played by a real monkey wearing a mask and carrying a cane. Appreciate the puppet more, you should. CRACKED.COM J.W. Rinzler, 2007.The Making of Star Wars.

The Wizard of Oz

CRACKED.COM In The wizard of OZ, Toto made more money than the Munchkins. Hollywood has never been fair, but it's mind-boggling that the actors portraying the Munchkins were paid $50 per week, while Toto and his trainers got $125 per week.

Jaws

Hooper escaped because of some choice B-roll footage. JAWS CRACKED.COM An actual wild shark visciously attacked the cage while no one was inside. So they rewrote the script to let Hooper get away.

The Wolf of Wall Street

30 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Utterly Decimate Your Brain’s Fourth Wall

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Jimi: All Is By My Side

JIMI HENDRIX JIMI: ALL IS BY MY SIDE CRACKED.COM The 2013 film with Andre Benjamin portrays Jimi as a domestic abuser who beat his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham. According to Etchingham, he was a sweet and funny guy who never once laid a hand on her. The story came from an unauthorized bio that never consulted her.

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Avengers: Infinity War

Tom Holland ad-libbed his death scene in Avengers: Infinity War. As he says, It is kind of true, but really all I say is 'I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go,' three times in a row so it's not that amazing of an ad lib, you know. CRACKED.COM

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Garden State

Garden State $2.5 MILLION CRACKED.CO This saccharine Zach Braff quirk-gasm pulled in $36 million in theaters, and, more importantly, got The Shins added to every mixtape on the continent for half a decade.

The Last Jedi

GRACKED.COM STAR THE LAST JEDI WARS During the climactic battle between Luke and Kylo Ren, Kylo's feet leave marks ini the salt, whereas Luke's don't.

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