15 Bizarre Facts About Iconic Movie Scenes’ Filming Locations
![15 Bizarre Facts About Iconic Movie Scenes’ Filming Locations](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/6/769536_320x180.jpg)
Considering movies use CGI for practically everything, you might think that The Last Jedi’s Crait scenes were just green-screened. Turns out -- nope.
Fans of The Matrix may well not know where all the film's notorious commands came from, and Spider-Man audiences might not have been able to identify what this specific scene required 156 takes. Honestly!!!
Similarly, during his meeting with Bonasera, Don Corleone was just not intended to be fondling a cat. Rather, the animal was sighted on the set by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, who decided to be included in the scene.
From neglecting your robotic makeup and going out for dinner to contracting nasty infections, the cast and directors have assembled quite a few interesting information and incredible stories over the decades, and it's pleasant to see some of them have fun with that as well. The greatest feature is that you're bound to find some film trivia about your favorite film on this list!
We're always concerned about what happens behind the scenes of the motion picture. Backstage antics are frequently amusing. Even so, people can sometimes be harmful to the film's operation.
Having to look for behind-the-scenes film facts was a wonderful adventure in and of itself. Here’s the whole story, plus 14 others:
![A scene in The Empire Strikes Back was filmed in George Lucas' backyard. It's the one where the dragonsnake comes out of the bog, and it was shot in the foundation of his swimming pool.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/1/769551.jpg)
Source: Starwars.com
![They tested military hardware at the site where Skyfalr's finale was filmed. The location was Hankley Common in the south of England, and that's where the British army tested a tank designed to smash through walls in WWIl.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/0/769550.jpg)
![Jurassic World was shot in a theme park abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. The park was Six Flags, New Orleans, and it was so heavily flooded after Katrina that it never reopened. Shooting in a place like that had some advantages - namely, that the production was pretty safe from people snooping](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/9/769549.jpg)
![The real-life King's Landing was the site of a long siege. The city of Dubrovnik, Croatia, doubled for King's Landing on Game of Thrones, and Dubrovnik was heavily fought over in the Croatian War of f Independencec- in 1991, it was shelled by artillery for three months.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/8/769548.jpg)
![Theed Royal Palace in The Phantom Menace was where Nazi Germany surrendered. That's Caserta Palace in Italy, and it's the place where the Allied High Command for the Mediterranean was established in 1943. In 1945, a delegation from Germany signed their country's surrender there.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/7/769547.jpg)
![The Berlin airport in The Last Crusade was actually a radioactive San Francisco island. 1lll BERLIN ELUGHAEEN The man-made Treasure Island was where the U.S. Navy established its Nuclear War Academy which conducted exercises such as spraying a ship with radioactive material, then cleaning it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/6/769546.jpg)
![The Crait scenes in ThE Last Jedi were shot on the world's largest salt flat. It's called Salar de Uyuni, and it stretches over 086 square miles in Bolivia.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/5/769545.jpg)
Source: Treehugger.com
![A WWIl internment camp used to be right next to Elliot's house in E.T. 17 Tuna Canyon Detention Station, in the suburbs of L.A., held about 500 people from 1941 to 1943 and the E.T. house is basically right next to where it stood.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/4/769544.jpg)
![The house in Malcolm in the Middle was being rented to the production for $3-4,000 per day. The house (used for exterior shots-- interiors were shot by a soundstage) was owned by a doctor, who earned around $100,000 for letting his house be used for exterior shots.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/3/769543.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly
![Camp Crystal Lake from Friday the 13th is real Ckind of), and you can go there. Camp NOREFOSCO TO WELCOME CAMP CRYSTALLAKE Those scenes were shot at Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, a Boy Scouts camp in New Jersey that's still active today.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/0/769540.jpg)
Source: SlashFilm
![A bunch of Elf scenes were shot in an abandoned mental institution. TTTE The Riverview Hospital in British Columbia, Canada was used for Greenway Press, the orphanage, and the Hobbs' apartment.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/2/769542.jpg)
Source: Comicbook.com
![Training Day was shot on location in some of the most dangerous parts of L.A. At first, they weren't supposed to be shooting in some of them for safety reasons, but the residents then allowed them to come and shooto- -they wanted the work they could get thanks to the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/1/769541.jpg)
Source: Kingroom
![Kingsman's tailor shop scenes are filmed at a real tailor shop. It's called Huntsman & Sons, and it inspired the franchise at an appointment there, creator Matthew Vaughn got the idea for a place like that being a spy headquarters. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/9/769539.jpg)
Source: Huntsman
![The King's Speech was shot at the same place as gay porn. The scenes in Lionel Logue's office were filmed in 33 Portland Place, London, in 2009- just a year after gay porno Snookered was shot at the same address, in the same room.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/8/769538.jpg)
Source: Movieline