15 Iconic Movie Props And Their Weird, Weird Stories
![15 Iconic Movie Props And Their Weird, Weird Stories](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/8/795408_320x180.jpg)
Movies have a lot of moving parts. There's the set, the script, the makeup and prosthetics, the technical equipment like lights, cameras, boom mics and that cool thing the director gets to clap to start the scene. One of the most interesting parts of movies as an art form are all the physical artifacts they produce.
One of our favorite aspects of movies of course are the amazing props. The thing about these props of course are the stories that accompany them.
For example, did you know the fish skeleton in Airplane! was actually a very expensive museum piece? The production paid over $350 for something they probably could have got from a fish store for a buck.
In the movie the Wrestler, the drugs might not have been real--but the effect of the inositol sure was.
Turns out, Lord of the Rings had so many leftover props, it made at least one other show possible. Here’s the full story, plus 14 others:
![The fish skeleton in Airplane! was a stupidly expensive museum piece. Steven Levine, who was in charge of props on the movie, ended up calling a museum for a fish skeleton, and the movie shelled out $350 for it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/8/795398.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![The fake drugs used in The Wrestler could actually give you a nice kick. For cocaine, they used inositol, a Vitamin B, which is used to cut actual cocaine with. It was so powerful, Mickey Rourke even asked if there was something in it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/4/795404.jpg)
Source: IndieWire
![In the Dexter episode The Decomposing Couple, they used rice as maggots. They needed a ton of maggots for a corpse scene, so they ordered 20,000-but it wasn't enough, so they put brown rice under them. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/0/795400.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![In Star Wars, they just taped over a brand name that showed up on a lightsaber. Luke's lightsaber prop included an old camera gizmo labelled Graflex, so to hide that name, they just put some chrome tape over it and called it a day. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/9/795399.jpg)
Şource: Esquire
![The lettering on the Marauder's Map in Harry Potter was pretty demanding to design. MOONE EADION NORMEAL THONGS you MARA The graphics department didn't bother with off-the-shelf fonts they created their own custom font, just to make that one prop look great. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/5/795395.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly
![An Orange is the New Black prop required lots and lots of cock sketches. For the Pin the cock on the hunk scene, the crew did dozens of cock sketches they had to look like different people drew them, so it was a team effort. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/6/795396.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![What We Do in the Shadows couldn't have been done without Lord of the Rings. They went to LOTR's costume designer and asked for spare props and they got teeth and elf ears, which turned out to be perfect for vampires. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/2/795392.jpg)
Source: DenOfGeek
![The Parks and Rec voting machine was really just the chassis of an old ATM. vote PRESS N The team needed something like a voting machine for the episode Win, Lose, or Draw, and the closest thing they found was a shell of an ATM. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/1/795401.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly
![The rotting human heads in The Walking Dead were super hard to make. To create the heads in the Governor's fish tank, the team used both human and yak hair, and they head to punch in every single hair by hand. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/3/795393.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly
![The watch in Tenet was a (very difficult) custom job by a watch company. O 2 M HAMILTOR 10 350 It was made by Hamilton, and they had no idea what it would be for- it was their third job on a Nolan movie, and the most complicated by far. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/3/795403.jpg)
Source: GQ
![An ordinary cheesecake package on Mad Men was surprisingly tough to make. They couldn't find actual '60s cheesecake packaging so they had to look for it in images of '60s kitchen scenes and redraw it from scratch. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/7/795397.jpg)
Source: Collectors Weekly
![The life-size dragon in Shang- chi has a total of 8,000 scales, all placed by hand. It was really hard on the person who hand-modeled and placed them all but he did the initial sculpt, and wanted to make sure every scale was right. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/1/795391.jpg)
Source: ComicBook.com
![The Doof Mobile in Mad Max: Fury Road includes literal parts of buildings. a 00000 They took the base of a rocket truck, and added a bunch of stuff including AC ducts taken from the insides of several large buildings. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/2/795402.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![The painting in the living room in Parasite isn't just random decoration. It's actually a piece of very expensive artwork- Maya 2078, by the artist SeungMo Park, and it cost $120,0 (apparently, a reproduction wouldn't do). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/4/795394.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![The Y-Wing craft in A New Hope is partly made out of hosiery packaging. The front caps on its two engines are actually L'eggs containers L'eggs were hosiery that came in, well, egg-shaped containers. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/0/795390.jpg)
Source: StarWars.com