30 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Got Chewed Out By the Director For Having Their Phones Out on Set

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30 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Got Chewed Out By the Director For Having Their Phones Out on Set
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We’d feel sorry for these movie facts, but they really should’ve been more focused on the task at hand. How else are they going to learn more about great movies if their faces are glued to their phones on set? 

Some directors are cool with it, but we hear that some will scream at you and drop your phone in a mop bucket or something. Here, take a look at what they’ve learned so far before they head home with their tails between their legs…

Kong: Skull Island

A member of the Kong: Skull Island crew quit because of the scene where Kong's eyes glow. Kong's eyes glowing in the fog made no sense to them, and they didn't understand why that would happen, so they quit the movie. CRACKED.COM

Peter Pan

Disney behind the scenes Peter Pan Neverland live They filmed some scenes on spare, bare sets, looking like a black box theater production. CRACKED.COM

Tommy Boy

chris Farley and David spade got Rob Lowe-related jealousy. Tommy Boy The two got jealous over the fact that the other was hanging out with Lowe, and it led to Farley (supposedly) pushing Spade down the stairs, after stepping on his lunch. They got over it, eventually - presumably after a threesome with Lowe. CRACKED.COM

Blade Runner

A T-shirt war broke out on the Blade Runner set. In an interview, Ridley Scott complained that American crews don't just do what he says, while British ones just say Yes, Guv'nor. His (American) crew saw it, and had T-shirts printed saying YES GUV'NOR MY ASS! Then Scott and some other Brits showed up in shirts saying XENOPHOBIA SUCKS -- which, apparently, broke the tension. CRACKED.COM

Hocus Pocus

BEHIND-THE-SCENES- SFACTS Hocus Pocus is Bette Midler's favorite movie I'm flawless in that movie, she says, adding that it was the only time she disappeared behind a real mask.

Drive

Ryan Gosling's jacket in Drive is actually a subtle nod to an old-school music video. DISINC Ryan Gosling and director Nicolas Winding Refn had the idea to pay homage to Scorpio Rising, one of the earliest music videos ever. CRACKED.COM

2001: A Space Odyssey

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL sings Daisy while dying as an IBM homage. Arthur C. Clarke, the co-author of the screenplay (and author of the book), visited IBM in 1962, and they had an IBM 704 computer sing Daisy Bell to him. CRACKED.COM

The Hidden Fortress

Star Wars has a nod to The Hidden Fortress hidden in plain sight. Before Vader chokes him, Admiral Motti says Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not ... given you clairvoyance enough to find the Rebel's hidden fortr- CRACKED.COM

Spartacus

Stanley Kubrick Movies Spartacus Kubrick didn't like the movie. In fact, this was the movie that made him want to have complete creative control over any future project, as he wasn't calling all the shots here. CRACKED.COM

Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick Movies Dr. Strangelove Peter Sellers' pay was more than half the budget. As Sellers plays three different characters, Kubrick joked that he got three for the price of six. CRACKED.COM

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick Movies A Clockwork Orange Darth Vader is in the movie. Frank Alexander's beefy manservant? That's David Prowse, who'd go on to play Vader some years later. George Lucas sought Prowse out after seeing him here. CRACKED.COM

Pink Floyd

Stanley Kubrick Movies A Clockwork Orange Pink Floyd didn't want to be on the soundtrack. Roger Waters denied Kubrick permission to use Atom Heart Mother, as Kubrick was terribly vague about what he wanted to do with the song. Still, the album appears in the movie. 200l CRACKED.COM

The Box Office

Classic movies crushed at the box office Batman swept Ghostbusters II away. Batman, released on June 23 1989, grossed $251,188,924 from 2201 theaters in the U.S. Columbia Pictures' Ghostbusters II came in eighth that year, with $112,494,738 from 2,410 theaters. CRACKED

Moon

WAKE WHEN ME IT'S QUITING TIME Sam Rockwell's shirt in Moon telegraphs the twist. Toward the end, we find out that he's one in a long line of clones that get replaced every three years. His shirt says Wake me up when it's quitting time, and that's what every clone does: it wakes up whenever the previous one is forced to quit. CRACKED.COM

The Princess Bride

In the book, Princess Buttercup is rather stupid, has nothing CRACKED COM going for her other than her beauty, and she dumps Westley outside the Fire Swamp to save herself. Fortunately, when adapting his book for the screen, William Goldman gives her some personality, and during the Fire Swamp showdown, she sacrifices her freedom in order to save Westley from Humperdinck. THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco CRACKED COM Removed: a weirdly slapsticky side plot where Al Pacino's character is gifted a pet lion. Heartbreaking for the lion, who thought this was finally his big break.

Heath Ledger as Bruce Wayne?

Heath Ledger AUDITIONED FOR Bruce Wayne THE DARK KNIGHT CRACKED.COM Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for his iconic turn as The Joker, and it's hard to imagine him beating that performance as Batman.

Do the Right Thing

Do The Right Thing Barack and Michelle Obama saw this movie on their first date. She claims he was trying to impress her by picking a movie by an independent filmmaker. CRACKED.COM

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steve McQueen was offered the leading role of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. CRACKED.COM McQueen declined since he couldn't cry on cue. Steven Spiel- berg offered to remove the scene but McQueen said it was the best part of the film.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer

The Commercial Success of I Know What You Did Last Summer Lois Arquette's book I Know What You Did Last Summer was written in 1973, and when it became
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