15 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Feast On
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Cinema has been with every single Cracked reader’s entire life. Can you imagine how all-encompassing that is? There are more movies than years you’ve been alive, or years you’ll ever be alive. Whether it’s in the theater, on television, on your laptop, or on your phone, you cannot escape them.
So you might as well get to know them. After all, it’d be embarrassing to call yourself a person without some bits of random movie knowledge. You don’t want to be seen as a pretentious fool who reads books inside bars (not that there’s anything wrong with that, but if you do that, how?).
Let us help you on your journey to better movie knowledge. You never know when you’ll have to prove if you are a person with a soul or not, so you should be prepared. Take a look at some movie facts for you to tastily consume, lest your humanity be questioned.
Kubrick's Favorite
![COLNAGO stanley Kubrick loved White Men can't Jump. The lauded director counted this basketball comedy among his favorite films. Goes to show that even the most celebrated auteurs can enjoy jokes about Los Angeles streetballers. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/5/846385.jpg)
Source: Vanity Fair
The Penguin and the Monkey
![CRACKED.COM Batman Returns Danny Devito got bitten by a monkey. The monkey was trained to deliver a letter to the Penguin, but instead leapt at him and bit him on the crotch. Fortunately for DeVito, the Penguin costume had extra padding in the area.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/8/846378.jpg)
Source: Mashable
Cursing Kids
![south Park: Bigger, Longer, and uncut Exactly 399 curse words are uttered during the movie. Trey Parker and Matt Stone wanted to make their R-rating worth their while. They topped off their swearing count at 399 because 400 would have given the movie an NC-17 rating. CAKES Dinhig CHOCO CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/3/846383.jpg)
Source: Moviefone
Generous Tom Hanks
![CRACKED.COM Forrest Gump Tom Hanks paid to get the movie finished. When the production was running out of money, Hanks (who really believed in the project) decided to pay for it in exchange for a larger percentage of the box office. It paid off, as he got $65 million in profit.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/4/846374.jpg)
Source: IndieWire
Gene Kelly's Sick Dance Moves
![CRACKED.COM singin' in the Rain Gene Kelly shot that iconic scene with a 103-degree temperature. Despite being sick, Kelly convinced the director not to send him home without doing at least one take. That was all that was needed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/8/846388.jpg)
Source: Time
Fake Washington Post
![CRACKED.COM trulling All the President's Men The washington Post's offices were a near perfect recreation. Shooting on location at the newspaper's offices was not feasible. So the place was painstakingly recreated, including cluttering the desks with scraps of paper donated by actual Post reporters.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/0/846380.jpg)
Sources: The Washington Post, Mental Floss
Kidnapped Hairdresser
![TODO Romeo + Juliet The hairdresser was kidnapped. Hair stylist Aldo Signoretti was kidnapped and held for ransom. Makeup artist Maurizio Silvi paid the ransom outside a hotel, and the kidnappers threw Signoretti out of the car, breaking his leg in the process. The total ransom amount? $300. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/9/846379.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Sword-Swinging Viggo Mortensen
![CRACKED.COM The Lord of the Rings Police nearly arrested viggo Mortensen for swinging his sword. New Zealand police noticed Mortensen training, and cars were called in with sirens blazing. After an explanation, he was released and signed autographs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/2/846382.jpg)
Source: Showbiz CheatSheet
Stop-Motion Nightmare
![CRACKED.COM The Nightmare Before christmas Each minute of movie took around one week to film. Since each second of film consists of 24 frames, each character had to be posed 24 times per a single second of footage. This is why this holiday classic took over three years to complete.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/7/846387.jpg)
Source: BuzzFeed
Starbucks Cups in 'Fight Club'
![Fight club M David Fincher hid starbucks cups everywhere. If you pay attention, you 'Il notice that there's a cup in nearly every shot. Fincher did this as a commentary on corporate success (and for funsies). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/4/846384.jpg)
Source: Far Out Magazine
A Killer in 'The Exorcist'
![CRACKED.COM The Exorcist A cast member turned out to be a serial killer. Paul Bateson was hired to play a radiologic technologist. Не would be eventually convicted of murdering a film journalist, and was implicated in a number of unsolved slayings during the 1970s.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/6/846386.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Interstellar Corn
![CRACKED.COM Interstellar The movie turned christopher Nolan into a corn farmer. Since he didn't want to use CGI, Nolan decided to grow a crop of his own for shooting. It ended up growing so well that he was able to turn the produce around for a profit when the movie was done.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/7/846377.jpg)
Source: Cinemablend
Makeup Budget
![CRACKED.COM ... Dallas Buyers club The makeup budget was $250. The makeup to transform Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey into AIDS patients was less than the cost of a modern video game console. The movie was nominated for an Oscar in makeup and hair styling.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/5/846375.jpg)
Source: Vanity Fair
Catwoman's Skin-Tight Outfit
![Batman Returns Michelle Pfeiffer had to be vacuum sealed into the catwoman suit. The tight-fitting outfit was one of the most uncomfortable experiences ever for Pfeiffer. They had to powder me down, help me inside, and then vacuum-pack the suit, she said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/1/846381.jpg)
Source: Cinema Blend
Climbing Boromir
![CRACKED.COM The Lord of the Rings sean Bean climbed steep hills dressed as Boromir. Bean is afraid of heights and planes, so he would take nearly 30 minutes to climb to the shooting location in full costume rather than take a five-minute helicopter ride.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/3/846373.jpg)