30 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About Movies For Saturday, December 20th

Movies are too long, but this list of film facts is just right.
30 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About Movies For Saturday, December 20th
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Grand Budapest Hotel

Saoirse Ronan had to actually learn how to bake. Director Wes Anderson had Ronan bake the courtesan au chocolat herself on screen, which wasn't easy. We have to wonder if Anderson knows what acting is. Grand Budapest Hotel CRACKED.COM

Well, it is hard to fake an experienced baker's precision if you have little experience in the ktichen.

Strange Magic

George Lucas' 2015 flop Strange Magic was one of his biggest passion projects. It's an animated musical with a story built around lyrics from Lucas' f

I think the biggest mistake here was thinking that Star Wars couldn't possibly be for girls, too, and that he had to do a whole other thing instead.

George Lucas

According to his ex-wife Marcia, George Lucas planned to reveal BOBA FETT AND DARTH VADER WERE BROTHERS in the STAR WARS prequels. BROTHERS STICy ROTH

Goofy and Jar Jar Binks

WE CAN THANK COOFY FOR JAR JAR BINKS. According to George Lucas, the main inspiration for the now-infamous Jar Jar was the king of clumsy comic relief

The Terminator

JAMES CAMERON ORIGINALLY BASED THE TERMINATOR ON LANCE HENRIKSEN. CRAGH Cameron had a fever dream about a robotic assassin rising from a fire, and tha

Guardians of the Galaxy

After filming Guardians of the Galaxy, they had to melt down the Kyln set and sell off the steel. That was the only way to make the budget for the Kyln scenes work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Burglar On Set

A BURGLAR WORKED SPIDER-MAN AND BATMAN FILMS, TO STEAL COSTUMES CRACKED.COM In 2001, four costumes vanished from the set of the first Spider-Man film while filming was still ongoing. Detectives investigated for 18 months before tracking them down, in Japan, L.A. and New York, and all of them had once been in the possession of Sony security guard Glenn Gustafson. The previous decade, working security at the Warner Bros. studio that had shot Batman Forever, a $150,000 batsuit went missing, along with a mannequin. In the end, investigators weren't able to tie Glenn to the Batman theft, but he pleaded

Sylvester Stallone

KLUTE SYLVESTER STALLONE WAS AN EXTRA. Before he became a Hollywood and literal juggernaut, one of Stallone's first film roles was an extra in this 1971 movie. Не can be (barely) spotted disco dancing in the background of a scene. CRACKED.COM

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Mad Max: Fury Road

THE FLAMETHROWER GUITAR THAT DOOF WARRIOR PLAYS IN MAD MAX: FURY ROAD WAS MADE FROM BEDPANS. Director George Miller explained, everything had to be found objects, repurposed in the post- apocalyptic world. CRACKED.COM

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'Somewhere in Time'

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES SOMEWHERE IN TIME CHRISTOPHER REEVE'S AGENT DIDN'T WANT HIM TO DO A TIME TRAVEL MOVIE. The producer had to sneakily slip the script under Reeves' hotel room door. Reeves loved it and agreed to do the film. (Plus, he deemed it way better than his other offer, a viking movie.) CRACKED.COM

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Horror movies on streaming A Nightmare HBO on Elm Street max Freddy wears a red and green sweater because Wes Craven read on Scientific American that the human eye doesn't like seeing those colors together. CRACKED.COM

That's why Christmas is well-known to be such a spooky, frigtful holiday. 

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