18 Now-You-Know Movies Facts to Write Parody Songs About
![18 Now-You-Know Movies Facts to Write Parody Songs About](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/9/857519_320x180.jpg)
If you had a band that sang parody songs with movie titles inserted into the lyrics, you’d have a wealth to choose from. Like take Bon Jovi’s “Bad Medicine” and be like, “Your love is like Good Burger, and Good Burger is what I’d eat, woah-oh!” Or maybe take the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” and do like, “If you wanna be Jack Reacher, you gotta fight Wer-ner Herzog (Wer-nerrrr-Herzoggggg!)” Then again, you could take the Spider-Man theme and take it to streaming titles like, “Spider-head, Spider-head, Netflix is hoping this film’s not dead.”
But if you’re gonna go that route and sing songs based on movies, you have to know about the movies first. After all, how else are the folks at the state fair going to fully appreciate your jokey lyrics if you don’t know the movies you’re singing about? You can’t be a poser.
So here are some movie facts. Enjoy.
The Shining
![CRACKED.COM The Shining Stanley Kubrick never read Stephen King's script. The author wrote a full draft, but the director didn't bother to read it. In fact, Kubrick thought of King's writing overall as weak. Ouch.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/4/857534.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
One Upon a Time in Hollywood
![HOLLYWOO Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Burt Reynolds was going to play George Spahn. Reynolds was originally cast as the rancher, but sadly died before his scenes were shot. Не was replaced with Bruce Dern. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/3/857523.jpg)
Source: Cinemablend
The Social Network
![The Social Network Shia LaBeouf was almost Mark Zuckerberg. LaBeouf turned down the part, thinking it was a fine movie, but not a game-changer. The Social Network was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won three. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/0/857530.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
![CRACKED.COM Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Raphael is the only turtle played by just one actor. Josh Pais, the actor in the turtle suit, had the idea of giving Raphael a Brooklyn accent during shooting. Не did such a good job, they gave him the voice role as well.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/9/857539.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Parasite
![CRACKED.COM Parasite The movie was inspired by Boon Joon-ho's past. The director worked as a math tutor for a wealthy family during college, after the English tutor (his then-girlfriend/now-wife) got him the gig, much like what happens in the film.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/3/857533.jpg)
Source: Variety
Zero Dark Thirty
![CRACKED.COM Zero Dark Thirty The characters are based on actual people. The names were changed because many of them were still undercover at the time of filming.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/6/857536.jpg)
Source: Time
Selma
![CRACKED.COM Selma The movie couldn't use MLK's actual speeches. Director Ava DuVernay had to rewrite Dr. King's speeches, as someone else had the rights.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/8/857538.jpg)
Source: iHeart
Parasite
![CRACKED.COM Phantom Thread The lead character's name was a joke. Daniel Day-Lewis suggested the name Reynolds Woodcock to director Paul Thomas Anderson as they were joking over text messages. Anderson pretty much went, What the hell, let's do it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/2/857532.jpg)
Source: Vulture
Moonlight
![Moonlight The three lead actors never met. The three actors who play the protagonist at different stages of his life never met each other in the 25 days of shooting. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/7/857537.jpg)
Source: Vogue
The Lobster
![CRACKED.COM The Lobster Colin Farrell gained 40 pounds for the role. According to Farrell, he just ate the same things he typically ate, but in bigger portions. It only took him two months to shed the weight off.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/5/857535.jpg)
Source: Yahoo
Lady Bird
![CRACKED.COM Lady Bird The original script was 350 pages long. Director Greta Gerwig's first draft was obscenely long. If shot at that length, the movie would have been over five hours long.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/9/857529.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
The Irishman
![CRACKED.COM The Irishman Scorsese and Pacino hadn't worked together before. It seems insane and incorrect, but it's true. Martin Scorsese had been wanting to work with Al Pacino ever since they met in 1970 - but they wouldn't for fifty years.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/1/857531.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Hereditary
![Hereditary The cult symbol is everywhere. If you look closely, you will see the symbol of Paimon throughout the movie. For example, Annie weats it on her necklace. And it's also ominously scratched on that post. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/2/857522.jpg)
Source: Bloody Disgusting
Dutch
![Dutch CHICAGO The film was called Driving Me Crazy overseas. Apparently, it was thought that people in U.K. and Australia wouldn't understand that a movie called Dutch was unrelated to the Netherlands. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/5/857525.jpg)
Source: TV Overmind
Dunkirk
![CRACKED.COM Dunkirk Actual survivors attended the premiere. About 30 survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation saw the film at the London premiere. Several of them thought that Hans Zimmer's score was louder than the actual bombardment.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/7/857527.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Get Out
![CRACKED.COM Get Out Chance the Rapper was a huge supporter. Chance bought every ticket on opening day at the Chatham Theater in Chicago, urging his Twitter followers to see the film on his dime.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/8/857528.jpg)
Source: Chance the Rapper/Twitter
Boyhood
![Boyhood The movie was paid for in installments. The studio didn't want to give director Richard Linklater all $2.4 million dollars in a lump sum for a movie that would take over a decade to make, so he got $200,000 each year. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/6/857526.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
![CRACKED.COM Ferris Bueller's Day Off Love bloomed during the shoot. Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey (Ferris and his sister) got engaged shortly before the film's release. Also, the actors playing Ferris' parents met on set, and eventually got married.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/4/857524.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss