[QUOTE=mak13two;31047330]He also hated the guy who played R2D2, Kenny Baker and often made fun of his size.[/QUOTE]
Wow, what a prick.
[QUOTE=Colliseemoe;30956747]The scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark in which Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman doing all of the crazy sword tricks actually wasn't in the original script. Harrison Ford suggested it because he was too sick to do the originally scripted stunts and Speilberg accepted.
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Wasn't that because, like half the fucking crew, he caught dysentery and he needed to go kinda bad while filming that?
After the release of [B]Cannibal Holocaust[/B], director Ruggero Deodato was actually accused of making a snuff movie because of the girl impalement scene and the fact that the 4 actors who portrayed the camera crew didn't appear in any other media, such as commercials. This later turned out to be the result of the actors signing a contract saying that they wouldn't appear in any interviews, commercials or any other movies for a year, a contract which was later voided to prevent Deodato from having to serve life in prison. As for the impalement, Deodato arranged a meet up between him, the actress and representatives from the Italian court to show them that she was still alive and even perform the impalement there.
Cameron Diaz, Sylvester Stalone and Jackie Chan did porn before they became professional actors.
[QUOTE=darcy010;31048489]Cameron Diaz, Sylvester Stalone and Jackie Chan did porn before they became professional actors.[/QUOTE]
really? i know stallone did. but chan, seriously?
[QUOTE=darcy010;31048489]Cameron Diaz, Sylvester Stalone and Jackie Chan did porn before they became professional actors.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.cracked.com/article_14898_from-jackie-chan-to-carrie-fisher-10-most-unlikely-celeb-porn-stars.html"]http://www.cracked.com/article_14898_from-jackie-chan-to-carrie-fisher-10-most-unlikely-celeb-porn-stars.html
[/URL]aw man
[B]Lost In Translation
[/B][B]-[/B]Bill Murray's favourite film of his own.
-Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola's father, urged her to shoot the movie in High Definition Video because "it's the future", but she chose film because "film feels more romantic".
-Filmed in 27 days.
[B]Superbad
[/B]-Writers Seth Rogan and Even Goldberg started this script when they were just 13 years old citing the reason as being "we just wanted to see if we could write a movie."
-The penis drawings featured in the film are done by David Goldberg, Evan Goldberg's brother. There were close to a thousand produced, but only a handful were featured in the movie and closing credits.
-The pivotal penis drawings were a 'bone' of contention with the MPAA, particularly the scene with young Becky holding an image of one of them. Producer Judd Apatow elaborated it was the subject of much legal wrangling, including how erect they could be, if veins could be shown etc. The actress playing young Becky, Laura Marano, however has a different picture to hold before we cut to the actual drawing. You can even see from the reverse that the drawing she holds appears completely different.
[B]The Social Network
[/B]-Every shirt and fleece that Mark wears in the film is something that the real Mark Zuckerberg has worn.
-Because director David Fincher was unable to find any suitable identical twin actors to play real-life identical twins Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, two unrelated actors were hired to play each brother - Armie Hammer as Cameron and Josh Pence as Tyler. Fincher thought that Hammer looked the most like the real brothers, so for some scenes, the visual effects team photographed Hammer speaking Tyler's lines and created a computer-generated model of his face to paste over Pence's. Traditional split-screen work, with Hammer's separate performances as each brother stitched together in the same frame, was also used.
Because Star Wars was such a hit, when it came time to film [b]Return of the Jedi[/b], most companies began charging more money for their services. To avoid the extra charges, the film was then covered up as "Blue Harvest." This cover was blown when Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford all showed up on set.
Also
Originally Owen Wilson was going to be cast as the main character in Tropic Thunder. However, during/right before the shooting of the film, he tried to off himself. A few days later he withdrew from the film, and started taking depression treatment.
[QUOTE=Everen;31053758]Also
Originally Owen Wilson was going to be cast as the main character in Tropic Thunder. However, during/right before the shooting of the film, he tried to off himself. A few days later he withdrew from the film, and started taking depression treatment.[/QUOTE]
While that's terrible the film would have just been awful had he been in it.
There's like nothing good that he touches.
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He was the lead in the only bad Pixar movies.
How do you even make a pixar movie bad?
[QUOTE=Nikota;31054430]While that's terrible the film would have just been awful had he been in it.
There's like nothing good that he touches.
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He was the lead in the only bad Pixar movies.
How do you even make a pixar movie bad?[/QUOTE]
Night at the Museum
Shanghai Noon/Shanghai Knights
Then again, opinions. I think he's a pretty good actor.
[QUOTE=Hap;31044279]Wasn't C3PO voiced by a different actor than the person who was actually in the suit? or maybe that was the C3PO-esque Dot Matrix from Spaceballs? or both, maybe.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure Anthony Daniels was both the voice and body of C3PO.
Maybe not in the later Star Wars films, but definitely in the first three.
Superman once killed an innocent civilian
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1yCh0hKiaI[/media]
To celebrate her last day on set of X-Men, Rebecca Romijn brought in a bottle of tequila, which she gave to her fellow cast/crew during a break in filming. Unfortunately, that day she happened to be filming the Wolverine/Mystique fight scene, and she threw up blue-colored vomit (from the chemicals in her make-up) all over Hugh Jackman.
I'm pretty sure this is well known, but Three actors died in a helicopter crash while filming the move 'The Twilight Zone.' The deaths were captured on film from different angles.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVBzrucNLY[/media]
I heard about that, but seeing the video is just... disturbing.
This sounds aweful and I'm unsure how to word it, so I'll use bullet points
- Cloverfield
- Scene being filmed on public street
- under 20 minutes rumors were spread around the internet with a video of the scene, the director was called the scenes "cheese" to hide what movie it was a part of.
[QUOTE=-Ben_Wolfe-;31059694]I heard about that, but seeing the video is just... disturbing.[/QUOTE]
I could never bring myself to watch it, one time I was about to but then I started shaking real bad :smith:
The U.S. box office grosses of all of Harrison Ford's films total about $3.18 billion, with worldwide grosses totaling approximately $5.65 billion. No other actor in history has box-office grosses as large as Ford's.
[QUOTE=OutOfExile2;30955531]Every person who played a criminal in Reservoir Dogs had been in jail before, including Tarantino[/QUOTE]
Eddie Bunker, the actor who played Mr. Blue, had actually robbed a few banks in his time. And at one point, was the youngest inmate at San Quentin prison, even wrote a memoir about his time there, along with a chain of successful thriller novels.
[QUOTE=fish puncher;31060410]The U.S. box office grosses of all of Harrison Ford's films total about $3.18 billion, with worldwide grosses totaling approximately $5.65 billion. No other actor in history has box-office grosses as large as Ford's.[/QUOTE]Samuel L Jackson?
Jeff has a favourite shirt and wears it in three movies.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/DONML.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Rong;31060551]Samuel L Jackson?
Jeff has a favourite shirt and wears it in three movies.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/DONML.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
wait, you mean bridges?
[QUOTE=Somerandommoose;31065600]wait, you mean bridges?[/QUOTE]
No, of course not
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[QUOTE=Alaskan Wolf;31059088]I'm pretty sure this is well known, but Three actors died in a helicopter crash while filming the move 'The Twilight Zone.' The deaths were captured on film from different angles.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVBzrucNLY[/media][/QUOTE]
Holy shit
And two of the three seem to be children.
Did you guys know that a Firefly ship model (known from Firefly and Serenity) can be seen in the pilot episode of Battlestar Galactica?
[FONT=arial][COLOR=#222222][QUOTE=Alaskan Wolf;31059088]I'm pretty sure this is well known, but Three actors died in a helicopter crash while filming the move 'The Twilight Zone.' The deaths were captured on film from different angles.
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[/FONT]aw man :(
[QUOTE=Alaskan Wolf;31059088]I'm pretty sure this is well known, but Three actors died in a helicopter crash while filming the move 'The Twilight Zone.' The deaths were captured on film from different angles.
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Okay, that was fucking hard to watch.
[QUOTE=mak13two;31047330]He also hated the guy who played R2D2, Kenny Baker and often made fun of his size.[/QUOTE]
Can you blame him for making fun of his size? He's 3 foot 8 inches
All of this is from the imdb page on the movie The Blair Witch Project.
The actors were requested to interview the townspeople, who often, unbeknownst to the actors, were planted by the directors. As a result, the expressions on the actors' faces were unrehearsed.
The working title was "The Black Hills Project."
The actors were given no more than a 35-page outline of the mythology behind the plot before shooting began. All lines were improvised and nearly all the events in the film were unknown to the three actors beforehand, and were often on-camera surprises to them all.
Some theatergoers experienced nausea from the handheld camera movements and actually had to leave to vomit. In some Toronto theatres, ushers asked patrons who where prone to motion sickness to sit in the aisle seat and to try not to "throw up on other people."
The production company Haxan Films borrowed its named from Benjamin Christensen's witchcraft documentary, Häxan, a source of inspiration for the film. Häxan is the Swedish word for witch.
The house that Heather is in during the opening shot is owned by Lonnie Glerum, the film's key production assistant. He is also operating the camera during the opening shot.
One of the video cameras used by the actors was bought at Circuit City. After filming was completed, the producers returned the camera for a refund, making their budget money go even further.
When Joshua Leonard and Heather Donahue pick up Michael C. Williams, they were originally listening to the song "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" by The Animals on the radio. However, Haxan Films couldn't get the rights to keep it in the film.
The 16-millimeter camera was broken during filming; Joshua Leonard (who had the camera in his pack) rolled down a hill, causing the lens to pop off the camera.
This film was in the Guinness Book Of World Records for "Top Budget:Box Office Ratio" (for a mainstream feature film). The film cost $22,000 to make and made back $240.5 million, a ratio of $1 spent for every $10,931 made.
The sign for Burkittsville at the beginning of the movie has been stolen three times, and was stolen opening night of the movie.
The waitress asking about Blair High School is played by Sandra Sánchez, the sister of director Eduardo Sánchez.
The three leads believed the Blair Witch was a real legend during filming, though of course they knew the film was going to be fake. Only after the film's release did they discover that the entire mythology was made up by the film's creators.
Held the record for the highest-grossing independent movie of all time until October 2002, when it was surpassed by My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
This film uses the word "fuck" 154 times.
The filmmakers placed flyers around Cannes for the film festival that were "Missing" posters, stating that the cast was missing. All the flyers were taken down by the next day. It turns out that a television executive had been kidnapped just prior, and they were taken down out of respect. The executive was since recovered safely.
It took a mere 8 days to shoot this film.
Apparently, Heather Donahue brought a knife into the forest while filming was taking place because she didn't like the idea of sleeping with two guys.
To promote discord between actors, the directors deliberately gave them less food each day of shooting.
In a scene where the main actors are sleeping in a tent at night, the tent suddenly shakes violently and they all get scared. This was unscripted and the director shook the tent; they were really scared.
The first cut of the movie to be screened was 2.5 hours in length.
The crackling sounds in the woods were made by the director and friends walking up to the camp's perimeter, breaking sticks, and then tossing them in various directions.
Rock band HIM shot parts of their music video for the song 'And love said no...' directly outside the house seen at the end of the movie
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When the movie was released the town of Burkittsville, in the hopes of making at least some profit from the film, did its own marketing. During the annual summer carnival the local Ruritan Club featured the "Bur-Witch" sandwich - country fried ham and a fried egg on top of a cheeseburger, nestled in a sesame seed bun, and doused with horseradish. The sandwich was the most popular selling item on the menu two years in a row.
In the movie, Heather and Mike share a somewhat antagonistic attitude towards each other. In the commentary, the directors revealed it was Heather and Joshua who were arguing most of the time (and more heatedly). Almost all of the footage of their arguments was taken from the final cut after the filmmakers decided it seemed like both men were "ganging up" on Heather.
The 1999-2000 hunting season suffered badly due to this film. The movie was so popular that fans all over the country were hiking into the wilderness to shoot their own Blair Witch-style documentaries. As a result they kept most of the wildlife scared away from hunting areas.
Numerous fans were so convinced of the Blair Witch's existence that they flocked to Maryland in hopes of discovering the legend. They apparently didn't read the closing credits of the film.
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The first title for the movie was The Blair Witch Tapes.
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The runic lettering in the old house are a mixture of two different alphabets, Hebraic and Futhark. Hebraic runes went on to become Ancient Hebrew. Futhark runes are proto-European, dating from the first millennium B.C.
It should be noted that many of the Futhark runes seen in the old house are reversed, which has a special meaning. A reversed rune implies a dark or negative fate for the person who reads them.
The movie inspired a short-lived series of young-adult horror novels, written under the name "Cade Merrill" who claimed to have been Heather's cousin and a longtime Burkittsville resident.
The directors put up posters at a local college in an attempt to recruit students to help work on this low budget production. Only one person responded to the recruitment ad, and this was Patricia DeCou, who not only portrayed Mary Brown, but also helped with the art department.
The 16mm Camera used to film the documentary and the black and white scenes in the film was sold on ebay following the completion of the film.
Although having been given a brief crash course on using the 16mm camera, Joshua Leonard struggled to focus using it for the first few days of filming. This is why the interview with Mary Brown is of such poor focus and incredibly grainy.
Although Heather, Mike and Josh had to pitch and take down the tent they slept in, they did not have to carry it from location to location for them as this was done for them by the movie crew who would do so out of sight.
Heather, Mike and Josh were under strict instructions to follow trails and directions given to them by the movie crew to ensure they would reach each designated site to camp in for the night.
The directors kept in touch with Heather, Mike and Josh with walkie-talkies to ensure the three would not become lost during their trek. Reportedly, they got lost at least three times.
The reactions from Heather, Mike and Josh when they discover they have walked south all day and ended up in the same spot are real; they were genuinely upset that they had walked all day for nothing.
Heather Donahue mentioned to Fangoria Magazine that her first question she asked the director upon arriving on the set was if he was planning on making a snuff film.
Heather Donahue also told Fangoria Magazine that the final scene was so terrifying for her she kept hyperventilating and crying long after the shoot was over.
The film premiered in the midnight movie section at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.\
Heather Donahue admitted there was a considerable backlash against her because of her association with The Blair Witch Project. It led to her having threatening encounters and difficulty finding other employment.
It took 8 days to shoot the film but 8 months to edit it.
After pitching the idea to the studio Sanchez and Myrick had to wait a further three months just to get the go-ahead. It was especially frustrating because they were strapped for cash at the time.
After 13 minutes there are no other characters seen in the remainder of the film. Just Heather, Mike and Josh.
The two fishermen were father and son in law. Sanchez and Myrick toyed with the idea that one of them was playing a prank on the kids, like something out of Scooby Doo, Where Are You!. They didn't follow through with it because it seemed a cheesy reason for all the spooky goings on.
Sanchez and Myrick wanted Heather to have a sort of Captain Ahab quality (obsessively documenting everything). Heather Donahue had that. Mike's function in the film is to say the things the audience is probably thinking. And Josh (for a time) is the team peacemaker.
Despite the fact they never get out of the woods, civilization was rarely far away in reality. Sometimes it was just a few yards away, slightly off camera.
Sanchez and Myrick admitted they had to tone down some of the outbursts from Heather, Mike and Josh. They instead allowed them to accumulate in smaller doses.
The nighttime shot of Heather running through the woods (a prominent image in the trailers) had to be filmed twice because of logistical problems.
The slime on Josh's backpack was actually KY jelly.
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Josh's shouts in the final scene were pre-recorded and played through speakers hidden away in the woods.
Despite the R-rating, no nudity is shown in the film.
Before the film was released, the three main actors were listed as "missing, presumed dead" on the IMDb.
Heather Donahue's discovery of Joshua Leonard's teeth, blood and hair wrapped in a bundle of twigs bears a striking similarity to Washington Irving's story "The Devil and Tom Walker". Tom's wife goes to find the devil in the swamp, and never returns home. When Tom goes to find her, he discovers her apron with her heart and liver inside. However, it also reflects a scene in the silent documentary "Haxan" where a severed hand is carried by a witch hidden in a bundle of twigs.
Other endings shot in post-production that were scrapped included Mike being hanged, another had him bound to the wall with twigs in the manner of a stick figure. Stick figures themselves were experimented with as decorations in the final scene.
One of the original script ideas was for a giant-size version of the stick figure to chase the students through the woods. This was rejected in favor of an enemy that was malevolent, but never seen.
The ruins of the old house where the backpack was found was Rustin Parr's house.
This film was one of the most pirated films of 1999 because of limited release due to its independent status. The pirated version was an unfinished leaked work-print with several plot holes and most of the initial interviews missing leading to audience confusion at final scene of the film.
Off camera, Heather took one of the stick figures. It is later seen in pieces after they are chased from their campsite by unseen forces and is even mentioned by Josh in a later scene.
When Heather screams "What the **** is that?!" she is seeing one of the movie crew standing on a hill dressed in white with a ski-mask on. Mike was holding the camera as ran behind her and didn't manage to catch the image on film.
The actor who played the Malibu Police Chief in The Big Lebowski also played the Sheriff character in True Grit.
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