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15 Movie Details That Came From The Director’s Life

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15 Movie Details That Came From The Director’s Life

December 15, 2020

Movie directors are just like us, it turns out: they want to leave a tiny fingerprint on their movie, kind of like we all did on our Play-Doh as toddlers. We’ve gathered 15 examples of those fingerprints for your enjoyment and, potentially, bewilderment.

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Death Wish

Waban brake fluid in Death Wish is Eli Roth's personal shout-out. waban His brothers were arrested for breakdancing in a place named Wabans, and he pu — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Tim Burton wrote the note that the Joker gives to Vicki Vale along with the gas mask in Batman. this oN Put now right That's my handwriting, he said — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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John Boorman's son is the kid in Ed's wallet photo in Deliverance. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Moonlight

Moonlight's penis comparison scene actually happened to Barry Jenkins in middle school. I think there's something very universal about the way boys g — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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James Gunn

That's James Gunn's own dog in the Guardians of the Galaxy hologram on Morag. His name is Dr. Wesley Von Spears. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The mask that the Exterminators wear in Zardoz was based on John Boorman's face. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The Shake Weight that Skurge uses in Thor: Ragnarok is Taika Waititi's. One night, when Waititi was in his hotel room for the Green Lantern shoot with — Source: CinemaBlend

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Titanic

James Cameron made the drawing of Rose in Titanic (and those are his hands in the shot). CRACKED.COM — Source: 6 Actors Hidden In Your Favorite Films

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The river god scene in Spirited Away basically came from Hayao Miyazaki's own life. When they cleaned out a river near where he lives, they found a bi — Source: Midnight Eye

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The apartment that Tom Cruise's and Nicole Kidman's characters live in Eyes Wide Shut used to be Stanley Kubrick's. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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They filmed James Gunn as the motion reference for Baby Groot's dance in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Somewhere in a secret vault there is me doing all — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Ivan Reitman's son Jason is the boy saying that the Ghostbusters are full of S#&! in Ghostbusters 2. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Vincent Vega's car in Pulp Fiction, a 1964 red Chevy Malibu, was actually Quentin Tarantino's car. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

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Michael Bay had actually said the line Wow, that tongue thing is amazing, from The Island. The first girl who ever French kissed him got to hear tha — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The home in Mission: Impossible 3s party scene was heavily based on J.J. Abrams' own home. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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