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28 Eyebrow-Arching Influences Behind Famous Movies

By:: Cracked Writers; Timon DJ Spajic

December 01, 2021

28 Eyebrow-Arching Influences Behind Famous Movies

Inspiration can come from all kinds of weird places. You know that cool Slo-Mo effect from Dredd? It was actually inspired by a slowed-down Justin Bieber video from YouTube. More on that and 27 other surprising inspirations behind iconic movies and shows:

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Pac-Man gobbles up stuff because its creator thought women were totally into eating. Arcades at the time were filled with violent sci-fi games that mostly attracted boys, and Toru Iwatani wanted to attract more women, so he began designing a game for them. First he thought fashion or romance themes might work, but then he had the idea that women also really enjoy eating, so he went for that. CRACKED.COM — CNN

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

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CRACKED.COM Gladiator Not just Gladiator, but also Ben-Hur and pretty much every major movie set in classical Antiquity draws from Dutch Victorian painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. — London Evening Standard & Fries Museum

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A BASEBALL GLOVE ON SOMEONE'S HEAD INSPIRED LANDO'S HELMET. The idea for Lando's skiff guard helmet came to the designer after he put a baseball glove on an engineer's head while playing ball at Skywalker Ranch. CRACKED.COM — 12 Bizarre Inspirations Behind Star Wars Movie Characters

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Mad Men was partly inspired by a particular old-school French movie. The movie is Les Bonnes Femmes, and it was shot in Paris, in the era in which Mad Men takes place-and it influenced the show's production design. CRACKED. .COM — Source

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The Wire's Omar was partly based on a hitman that creator David Simon knew. David Simon Donnie Andrews After Baltimore drug world hitman Donnie Andrews was arrested for murder, Simon -- then a Baltimore Sun reporter - - sent him copies of the Sun in prison. Once Simon made the wire, he hired Andrews as a consultant and used him as one of the inspirations for Omar. CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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19th-century artists inspired Red Dead Redemption 2. In The Mountains, Albert Bierstadt The game's lighting director, Owen Shepherd, looked to the pastoral and landscape painters like Turner, Rembrandt and American landscape painters from the 19th century such as Albert Bierstadt, Frank Johnson, and Charles Russell. CRACKED.COM — Polygon

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The TV show Psych is kind of based on creator Steve Franks' childhood. His dad was in the LAPD, and he called himself a trained observer - which inspired the premise of a fake psychic working for the police. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM the BIGBANGTHEORY 42 Raj's inability to speak around women was based on someone со- creator Bill Prady worked with in the computer business who had the same problem. — 22 Eyebrow-Arching Ways Creators' Lives Influenced Their Work

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PETER JACKSON had Shelob from The Lord of the Rings be based on the tunnelweb spider. That's a harmless but scary-looking bug from New Zealand Jackson hates above all other spiders (and that's saying something, as he's an arachnophobe). CRACKED.COM — Entertainment Weekly & Ben Britton (via Wikimedia Commons)

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1974's Chinatown was an inspiration for the Robert Pattinson Batman movie. The movie was inspired by 70s, street-grounded stories in general, but Chinatown was a key one, said director Matt Reeves. CRACKED.COM — Vanity Fair

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GH STBUSTERS Our introduction to Peter Venkman is a test that seemingly involves torturing grad students. ВЗАЯ This is a nod to the Milgram Experiment. A test disguised as a learning exercise, but really made to test how willing people were to hurt one another. CRACKED COM — 22 Real-Life Inspirations For Your Favorite Movie & TV Moments

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Show: Batman: The Animated Series: Harlequinade Inspiration: The 1992 L.A. riots Arleen Sorkin, whose character in Days of Our Lives inspired the creation of Harley Quinn, was driving home with co-creator Paul Dini during the riots in downtown Hollywood: Paul was having a breakdown. There were fires everywhere...I just started singing to try to cheer him up. Не remembered the song, 'Say We're Sweethearts Again, and put it in the show. We like to think she was in full costume at the time. CRACKED.COM — 12 Bizarre Influences Behind Famous Movies And Shows

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CRACKED.COM ETERNALS took inspiration from FINAL FANTASY VII and SPIRITED AWAY. Hayao Miyazaki's movie and the role-playing video game were both constantly brought up during production, as illustrations of the gray areas and moral complexity and the movie was aiming for. — Polygon

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Justin Bieber inspired Slo-Mo scenes in Dredd. The scenes where someone is on the drug Slo-Mo are accompanied by ethereal, otherworldly music. The original inspiration? Someone's YouTube clip of a Justin Bieber song slowed down 800%, which made it sound, well, ethereal and otherworldly. They used a different track for the film, but did the same thing. GRACKED.COM — 5 Bizarre Inspirations Behind Famous Movie Scenes

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Lady Gaga based her role in American Horror Story: Hotel on one murderer. It was Robert Durst, and she said she watched him in The Jinx every day to sort of study the practical nature in which he was devious and evil. CRACKED.COM — Esquire

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Good Will Hunting inspired Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. MARVEL STUDIOS Shang-Chi is a lot like Will Hunting - they both have a big secret, and there's a lot of baggage they need to take care of to fully realize their potential. CRACKED.COM — Collider

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BlacKkKlansman's scene where David Duke takes Ron as a bodyguard was real. There were a few tweaks, but undercover Chuck really did ask for a polaroid of the moment and Ron really did put his arms around Duke. CRACKED.COM — ScreenRant

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Redwall Gonff the Mousethief is a rodent version of Brian Jacques. The author of the Redwall book series has stated that Gonff was based on himself as a kid. Also, Gonff was his favorite character. CRACKED.COM — Brian Jacques: The Official Site

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Henry Winkler channeled his inner Sylvester Stallone to bring out the Fonz from Happy Days. CRACKED.COM — Characters Based On Celebs, Really

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Norman Bates, the knife-wielding momma's boy in Devoun Purunu was actually much tamer than the real-life inspiration for the movie, Ed Gein. Gein liked to visit cemeteries and exhume women's bodies, which he used to craft tributes to his dead mother. Police who searched his house found a large collection of body parts, and trash baskets, chairs, and several pieces of clothing, all made from tanned human skin. CRACKED.COM — 5 Badass Movie Characters You Didn't Know Were Real People

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AURIC GOLDFINGER is a villainified CHARLES ENGELHARD, JR. An acquaintance of lan Fleming, Engelhard became very rich in the gold business. Не was happy to play up his similarities to Goldfinger when the movie came out. CRACKED.COM — All Engelhard

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G.I. Joe's Snake Eyes is only black to save paint. They made him black so they wouldn't have to put any paint on the action figure -- it's 100% black, the color of the plastic straight from the vat. CRACKED.COM — 6 Shockingly Dumb Reasons People Invented Famous Characters

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Trey Shults wrote IT COMES AT NIGHT after his dad passed away. Shults wrote the script two months after his dad died and says the movie comes from a place of personal grief. Не also read up about genocide. I hadn't seen my dad in over 10 years, because he battled with addiction. We cut off our relationship and, on his death bed, he was so full of regret. When you think about the saying there's worse things than death, what's worse is regret. People can do things where they lose their own humanity in the process. So, thinking about — Gizmodo

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DJ Snake & Lil Jon's Turn Down for What music video influenced Captain America: Civil War. The lighting style and the overall look of the scene in Bucky's apartment were partly based on that video. CRACKED.COM — Film School Rejects

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ALBOA ROCKY IV - - any After Rocky IV, people in Hollywood started joking that the only thing left for Rocky to do is fight an alien. Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas thought that'd be a great movie, so they wrote a screenplay for it, and it turned into Predator. CRACKED.COM — The 7 Most WTF Origins of Iconic Pop Culture Franchises

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Castle Rock, Maine STEPHEN KING NOVELS GREEN WILL THE RUS FROM THE WORLD OF STEPHEN KING JOHN CRACKED.COM Stephen King's often-used fictional town is based off his hometown of Durham, Maine. — The Stephen King Story

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Star Fox' gameplay comes from Shigeru Miyamoto's visits to a Japanese shrine. K, LOOK!! When he walked through the gates of the Fushimi Inari Shrine, he thought about what it'd be like to quickly fly through them -- so he gave that idea to the Star Fox team when he talked to them during smoke breaks. CRACKED.COM — DenOfGeek

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