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15 Strange Inspirations For Iconic Pop Culture

By:: Andrea Meno

May 20, 2021

15 Strange Inspirations For Iconic Pop Culture

In 1975, a short story by GRRM was illustrated with a drawing of a hairy humanoid, and science fiction history was made. Here’s the full story, plus 14 others:

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A GRRM short story influenced how Chewbacca was designed. John Shoenherr Ralph McQuarrie Analog. July 1975 Circa November, 1976 GRRM's 1975 story And Seven Times Never Kill a Man was accompanied by an illustration that looks an awful lot like the initial design for Chewie. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenRant

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The colors in Spike Jonze's Her were basically taken from Jamba Juice. Juice Juice. jamba Even before I sat down to write the script, I had these notes, and one of the notes said 'Jamba Juice, said Jonze - he wanted a look as colorful and clean as Jamba Juice's. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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The Bates Motel in Psycho was based on an Edward Hopper painting. 4OFFIC Hitchcock took a painting of an old house standing on its own next to a railroad, and turned it into the Bates mansion. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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King Kong was inspired by a movie about komodo dragons. A 1926 expedition left the U.S. to capture komodo dragons, and they did- they filmed the whole thing, too. The movie was a big hit at the time (as were the dragons), and Merian Cooper lifted parts of the story for King Kong. CRACKED.COM — Source: Slate

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A turn-of-the-century traveling illusionist inspired The Wizard of Oz. KFILAR Harry Kellar was one of the world's most popular illusionists when the book was written, and he inspired the Wizard -- early illustrations of the Wizard looked a lot like Kellar, too. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Knives Out's score was influenced by an old-school movie Lawrence of Arabia. AWRENCE OF ARABIA Khives JOHNSON QTO With that score, like a bunch of others, it feels like you can hear every instrument. It's not a blurry, washed-out sound. Every voice has its place, says composer Nathan Johnson. Which worked great for Knives Out. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Peter Sellers based Dr. Strangelove's voice on a little-known photographer's. Sellers couldn't figure out what voice to do for Dr. Strangelove, so he eventually based it on the kind of strangled-sounding voice of the photographer Weegee, who Sellers had heard around the set. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The iconic Robert De Niro shot in Heat was inspired by a 1967 painting. To director Michael Mann, the painting showed somebody who was involved in some life of aggression and action and yet [there was a] contrast within the mental state because here was a moment of inner loneliness, SO he basically made it a shot. CRACKED.COM — Source: La Trobe University

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The design of the Gremlins was based on Japanese Chin dogs. CRACKED.COM — Source: Sun-Sentinel

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Joker's laughing in the 2019 movie was inspired by an actual disorder. In the movie, he can't control when he erupts into laughter, so he carries a card that explains his condition. That's based on a real condition, pseudobulbar aggression, which makes sufferers laugh or cry uncontrollably. CRACKED.COM — Source: People.com

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A horror movie, Jason X, inspired one fight in Godzilla VS Kong. At one point, Kong swings two winged titans around to kill them - that was based on Jason X's holodeck murder, where Jason swings around two camp counselors in their sleeping bags to kill them. CRACKED.COM — Source: CinemaBlend

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The Americans wasn't inspired by Cold War-era spies or anything like that. It was based on the 2010 arrest of ten Russian spies that had operated in the U.S., pretending to be actual Americans. But people didn't seem to care about the incident at the time, so the series was set during the Cold War to make it more interesting. CRACKED.COM — Source: TIME

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Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal was based on CPR training materials. Annie is based on Resusci Anne or Annie, a CPR doll and asking Are you OK? is one of the first steps you take before you administer CPR. CRACKED.COM — Source: Red Cross

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Billie Jean was based on someone who sent MJ a weapon to kill himself with. Billie She wrote to him, saying he was her child's father, and sent him a weapon with instructions on how to kill himself. He kept a photo of her around, so he could recognize her if she showed up near him. CRACKED.COM — Source: Rolling Stone

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Ren Kylo's helmet in The Rise of Skywalker drew on a Japanese practice. It's called kintsugi, and it involves repairing any cracks with visible material (like gold or silver), so that the cracks become part of the object's history and not a defect. CRACKED.COM — Source: Inverse

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