The Telepods in [b]The Fly[/b] were actually based off of David Cronenberg's motorcycle engine. The engine was removed for the designers to study and hasn't been put back on since.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/faeZ0.jpg[/img]
In the film [b]Sherlock Holmes[/b], the set that was used as Sherlock's home was the same set used by [b]Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix[/b] as Sirius Black's home.
For the role of the Waco Kid in [b]Blazing Saddles[/b], Mel Brooks originally wanted John Wayne for the role. After Wayne read the script, he turned it down for being too dirty, but he then said to Brooks that he'd be first in line to see the movie.
While writing [b]Goodfellas[/b], Martin Scorsese told writer Nicholas Pileggi to include "Cream" in the script. Unbeknownst to Pileggi, he meant the band.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;31773852]While writing [b]Goodfellas[/b], Martin Scorsese told writer Nicholas Pileggi to include "Cream" in the script. Unbeknownst to Pileggi, he meant the band.[/QUOTE]
Is there an example in the movie of where this comical misunderstanding takes place?
In [B]Blazing Saddles[/B], after Lili von Shtupp exclaims, "It's true, It's true!" in the dark, Bart replies, "That's my arm your sucking." That line is the only thing cut from the original movie after it's screening.
[QUOTE=GodKing;31782400]Is there an example in the movie of where this comical misunderstanding takes place?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure Scorsese found the error when going over the script. I can only assume that there was a reference to ejaculation in the movie where "Sunshine of Your Love" is supposed to be.
Also on [b]Goodfellas[/b]
The "How am I funny? Like a clown? Do I ammuse you?" dialogue exchange was really an improv piece done by Joe Pesci that was based on an encounter with an actual mobster while he was working as a waiter.
And
The scene before the burial of Billy Bats that takes place in Tommy's Mother(played by Martin Scorsese's Mother)'s House was all improvised. The painting shown was painted by the writer Nicholas Pileggi's mother. The fact that the bearded guy looked like Frank Vincent (i.e. Billy Bats) was incidental.
Not quite for a movie, but long running UK soap [B]Coronation Street[/B] (or "Corrie") was intended to run for just 13 episodes. Now it's up to its 37 billionth epsiode.
Also it was originally going to be called Florizel Street but the tea lady at the Granada TV offices said "It sounds like some sort of disinfectant" so it was cut.
[QUOTE=LightSwitchRave;31336005]To help sell his concept for the film, Leigh Whannell shot a scene in which he appears to be ensnared in a bear trap. There were no special effects involved, he actually had to [b]place the teeth of the rusty bear trap in his mouth[/b] to make it seem real.[/QUOTE]
In addition to that, while the bear trap in Saw 1 was harmless, the bear trap used in the short was fully working and could indeed kill someone if used.
[b]Harry Potter fact dump[/b]
In the Harry Potter series, both Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) and Rupert Grint (Ron) admitted to having a crush on Emma Watson (Hermione) at some point during the series, and Emma Watson admitted to having a crush on Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) at one point during the series.
Parvati and Padma Patil are actually in Gryffindor and Hufflepuff in the books, but in the movies both are shown to be in Gryffindor for convenience's sake.
JK Rowling wrote the final part of the 7th book before writing the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th books.
An outbreak of lice occurred on set in Chamber of Secrets.
Robert Pattinson openly said that he would rather play Cedric Diggory than Edward Cullen.
JK Rowling said that the 't' on the end of Voldemort is silent.
Voldemort means 'flight of death' in French: Vol (flight) de (of) mort (death)
The actress who plays Moaning Myrtle is actuall 37 years old - the oldest actor to play a Hogwarts student.
So many fans go to King's Cross station between platforms 9 and 10 that the station staff actually put up a 9 3/4 sign.
George will not be able to conjure a patronus since his brother's death.
Snape hates Neville because he was one of the two children (Harry being the other) who the prophecy could have been about (the prophecy caused Voldemort to try and kill Harry) so if Voldemort had gone for Neville instead, Lily wouldn't be dead.
JKR told Alan Rickman (Snape) his character's fate before the release of the final book.
Snape is the only character who never calls Harry by his first name.
[QUOTE=TRLEChippers;31810627]37 billionth episode[/QUOTE]
wat. I knew Corrie had been going a while but jesus christ.
[QUOTE=TRLEChippers;31810627]Not quite for a movie, but long running UK soap [B]Coronation Street[/B] (or "Corrie") was intended to run for just 13 episodes. Now it's up to its 37 billionth epsiode.
Also it was originally going to be called Florizel Street but the tea lady at the Granada TV offices said "It sounds like some sort of disinfectant" so it was cut.[/QUOTE]
Season 52, Episode 125 – Aired: 6/20/2011
Episode 7629
yeah nice one
Not sure if this was posted yet.
When shooting the scene outside the bar in fight club, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt were both extremely drunk. When the time came for Ed to punch Brad, he was supposed to just pretend to hit him in the shoulder. However, Fincher pulled him aside at the last second and told him to follow through on the punch, thus Brad's reaction of "Mother fucker! Ya hit me in the ear!"
Also, when the two were playing golf near Tyler's house, they were doing so not because it was in the script, but out of drunken boredom, and they were aiming for the catering truck.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;31820377]Season 52, Episode 125 – Aired: 6/20/2011
Episode 7629
yeah nice one[/QUOTE]
I admit, it was a bit of an exaggeration but Corrie [I]has[/I] been on for yonks
On the subject of Corrie, actor [B]William Roache[/B] has played character Ken Barlow on the soap since the very first episode, in 1960. Compare this with Corrie's main competitor [B]EastEnders[/B], where longest-running character [B]Ian Beale[/B] started in 1985.
[B]Doctor Who[/B] was originally intended to be an educational program, with episodes set in the past teaching children about history, and episodes in the future about science and technology. This format was dropped when it became too costly to decorate the TARDIS for each episode (as in the original format it had a working Chameleon Circuit)
Episode 2 of the 2005 reboot of Doctor Who ("The End of the World") was the first episode to feature [B]a character swearing[/B] (Rose calling Cassandra a "bitchy trampoline").
Because I really don't feel like typing this, I'll just let IMDB say it for me.[QUOTE=IMDB]According to Paul Sammon, who toured the set in 1981, the level of detail on everything (what Ridley Scott refers to as 'layering') was amazing, even though much of it would never be seen on screen. For example, written on the door of a bus was "Driver is Armed; Carries No Cash", whilst written in tiny print on the parking meters was "WARNING - DANGER! You Can Be Killed By Internal Electrical System If This Meter Is Tampered With". Also written on the parking meters was the rate - 1 minute parking cost $3. On a magazine rack were to be found magazines with mocked up twentieth-first covers; these magazines included Krotch, Zord, Bash, Creative Emotion and Droid. A skin magazine called Horn had headlines reading "The Cosmic Orgasm", "Hot Lust in Space", "Tit Job Review", "Scratch and Sniff Centrespread." Crime magazine Kill had covers reading "Multiple Murders - Readers' Own Photos", "98 Dead in Spinner Dive", "Death Penalty Snuffs 12 Jurors in Freak Accident." Another magazine, Moni, had headlines "Earthlings: Pay Big $ to See Future" by M. Deeley, "Higher Tech" by L.G. Paull and "Illegal Aliens" by R. Scott.[/QUOTE]Basically, there were many little and often humorous details on the set of [b]Blade Runner[/b].
In the filming of Predator, most of the cast became afflicted with terrible diarrhea. The looks of concern and apprehension on the faces of the cast members are real, just more related to making it to the end of the scene than to the invisible killer alien.
[QUOTE=OutOfExile2;30959278]He also declined playing Neo in The Matrix for I believe the same reason[/QUOTE]
Will Smith was also cast to be Neo, but he declined the offer too.
[QUOTE=cqbcat;31923549]Will Smith was also cast to be Neo, but he declined the offer too.[/QUOTE]
That would have been...interesting.
[QUOTE=scotland1;31925483]That would have been...interesting.[/QUOTE]
The machines turn you into this: *shows battery*
"AW HELL NAW!"
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];31458895']And it also means that none of them really exist. St. Elsewhere ended their show by explaining that the entire show,a ll the characters, all the world in the show, and by extension all the worlds that are connected to it, were the hallucination of an autistic boy. Y'know?[/QUOTE]
It's funny, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall#The_Tommy_Westphall_Universe_Hypothesis]there's a Wikipedia page pretty much dedicated to this[/url] and I found this pretty funny.
[quote]In a 2003 article published on BBC News Online, St. Elsewhere writer Tom Fontana was quoted as saying, "Someone did the math once... and something like 90 percent of all television took place in Tommy Westphall's mind. God love him."[/quote]
Also, on a related note, this "Tommy Westphall universe," that you posted earlier, is in itself within the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wold_Newton_family]Wold Newton universe.[/url] The Wold Newton universe is named for the city in England a "radioactive meteorite" supposedly fell, according to works by Philip José Farmer and his "fictional biographies." Works that are included in this universe, from what I've read, includes (but is not in any way shape or form limited to) James Bond, Doctor Who, Wizard of Oz, King Kong, Ghostbusters, Frankenstein, The Hardy Boys, The C'thulhu Mythos, Tomb Raider, Batman, Mission Impossible, Conan the Barbarian, Star Trek, Godzilla, The X-Files, and probably many others, plus every work that ever had a crossover with any of those works, including [i]every single show in that diagram you posted earlier[/i]. It's mind-numbing, to say the least, and gives you a perspective on the kind of thing the people who wrote these thing wrote themselves into.
I [url=http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Char.htm]found a site[/url] that detailed a lot (but definitely not all) of the works that are connected into this universe. I definitely recommend skimming through it; it's pretty interesting.
Apparently, Mark-Paul Gosselaar (or whatever he's called, from Saved By the Bell), wrote his own IMDB page and wikipedia page.
[QUOTE=MisterSjeiks;32183005]Apparently, Mark-Paul Gosselaar (or whatever he's called, from Saved By the Bell), wrote his own IMDB page and wikipedia page.[/QUOTE]
He must have been bored.
From his wikipedia page,
[quote]This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources.[/quote]
HE IS THE SOURCE
[QUOTE=imMonkeyGOD;32188618]He must have been bored.
From his wikipedia page,
HE IS THE SOURCE[/QUOTE]
I could write up my own wiki article saying that I cured cancer and have a 3 foot long dick but that doesn't mean it's true
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;31164093]While filming [b]28 Days Later[/b] some scenes required shots of long, empty roads. This involved closing certain roads in England for the filming. Poilce would close the roads at 4am and filming would begin immediately. It would last for one hour, and at that time the police would reopen the roads. As well as having to deal with traffic, the producers also had to ask clubbers to find alternative routes home. In terms of the traffic, the producers correctly predicted that asking drivers to either wait for up to an hour or find another way might cause some considerable consternation. It worked.[/QUOTE]
They also could do it because of the recent events (i.e. 11/9)
Peeves the Poltergeist is the only character to appear in all 7 Harry Potter books but none of the movies
During the filming of 'Platoon', an actor was advised not to drink the water from the river otherwise they would risk malaria. [b]William Defoe[/b] got thirsty and decided to drink out of a river during filming; not knowing that there was a dead pig up stream. He got sick for a day, but not from malaria.
The U.S. Department of Defense declined to cooperate with the filming [b]Platoon[/b]. So instead they relied on the Filipino Armed Forces to loan them weapons
Oliver Stone wrote this film (Scarface) while fighting a cocaine addiction.
Also on Scarface: Steven Bauer is the only actual Cuban in the principal cast. Among the other principal cast members who portray Cubans, Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Robert Loggia are Italian-American; Miriam Colon is Puerto Rican, and F. Murray Abraham (whose character is of unspecified Hispanic or Latino descent) is Assyrian and Italian-American.
The international corporation set up by Saddam Hussein to launder money from his various enterprises was called Montana Management after the Scarface main character.
The machines in the lab in [b]Young Frankenstein[/b] where from the original Frankenstein film. The props where found being sold at a garage sale.
In the movie [B]Dracula[/B], Bela Lugosi never blinks.
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