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  • "Did You Know?" -- The Movies!

    This might be fun.

    Name a movie, and something about it (either on or off-screen) that you didn't know, or that you think others may not know...

    For instance, in "Enter The Dragon" (Bruce Lee, 1973), during the fight with "Mr. Lee" (Bruce Lee) and O'Hara, Bruce Lee was accidentally cut by Bob Wall with one of the broken wine bottles, and when Bruce Lee kicks Bob Wall (O'Hara) into the spectators, and they fall over the chairs, one of the "spectators" suffers a broken arm.

    At least that's my understanding.
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  • #2
    In Apocalypse Now when Martin Sheen punches the mirror, he actually really got drunk, punched the mirror and sliced his hand up, to the film crew's dismay.

    There's a whole documentary about making that movie, and it was a crazy time.
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    • #3
      In "Midnight Cowboy", when Dustin Hoffman almost gets run over by a Taxi and screams the now famous, "I'm walkin', here!", it was unplanned and an ad-lib. He almost did get hit during that scene by a taxi driver.

      As was Joe Pesci's "I'm a clown to you?" rant in "Goodfellas".
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      • #4
        At the end of Die Hard, they really did let the bad guy fall from a great height. The actor himself (Alan Rickman) was not expecting this. The look of fear on his face was quite real.

        Well-known porn actor Ron Jeremy has an uncredited "blink and you'll miss it" cameo in Ghostbusters (1984).

        When filming the first only Highlander movie, actor Christopher Lambert had not yet acquired a working proficiency in speaking English (or ANY English at all, depending on whom you ask). In order to do his lines, he had a script where the lines were rendered phonetically in a way that a French speaker would understand it. This is the main cause of his odd accent. No idea about Ramirez's nonexistent Spanish accent


        In The Princess Bride, most of the swordfighting scenes (esp Westley vs Inigo) were not only done by the real actors (save for a few moves that only a pro stuntman could safely do), but they used real-world fighting techniques. At the big cliff-top fight, the methods of fighting were (almost?) all real ones, they just weren't necessesarily using that specific style when they named it.
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        • #5
          In "The Usual Suspects", during the scene where the lawyer Kobayashi (Pete Postlethwaite) explains to the crew specifically why they "owe" Keyser Soze, he tells Hockney (Kevin Pollak) that he stole a truck of gun parts that were to be re-routed and sold overseas. Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) and McManus (Stephen Baldwin) stop and look at Hockney and he goes "...what?"

          That's because the hijacking of that truck was the crime the five of them were brought in for at the beginning of the movie, and why they were all in the police line-up.
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          • #6
            Talking of the police lineup in "The Usual Suspects", it was originally supposed to be your standard, serious police lineup. The reason they all started laughing was that one of the actors had really bad wind. They started laughing and goofing around, and it looked so good they ended up keeping the takes in the final cut.
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            • #7
              Drax's line in Avengers: Infinity War, "I'll do you one better: WHY is Gamora?!" was ad-libbed by actor Dave Bautista.
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              • #8
                Didn't happen so often in movies (though I would assume it did in Aladdin; it would explain a lot) -- but, on Mork & Mindy, Robin Williams' scripts would often have numerous "lines" which read "Robin does something funny" in order to allow him to ad-lib to his heart's content; he often came up with funnier lines/antics than anything the writers could come up with!
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                "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
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                • #9
                  The thing about ad-libbing in cartoons is you may have to adjust the cartoon to fit...

                  I remember Mork & Mindy. The thing is, beneath the antics, that show always had heart.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Mental_Mouse View Post
                    I remember Mork & Mindy. The thing is, beneath the antics, that show always had heart.
                    This. I can't watch a comedy series unless there's real people underneath the humour; in "Only Fools & Horses" Del let himself be beat up by Boycie so that Rodney would get the £1,000 he was promised, and deliberately got trapped in a lift with Rodney when Cassandra had a miscarriage and Rodney was struggling so that Rodney would have no choice but to talk out his feelings. In "Mrs Brown's Boys" you know damn well that Mrs Brown would do anything for her kids, including putting aside Catholic teachings about homosexuality when she realised Rory was gay.

                    The thing is, some of the things that have happened to me and my family would have an audience going "oh, come on!" if it was ever filmed, so some of the situations that have cropped up in the above shows aren't that far-fetched to me (and I used to know someone very much like Del and Dermot, so that helped with the suspension of disbelief). Without the underlying affection between the characters, though, the shows would never have worked.
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                    • #11
                      Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Connelly almost lost a finger during the filming of "Phenomena" (aka. "Creepers", her first movie as the lead character).

                      At the end of the movie, she and Inga the chimpanzee drift away in a rowboat. Inga did not like the situation and lashed out, biting Connelly's hand. The footage in the film cuts away just before Inga's bite.

                      In an interview on the DVD release, co-star Daria Nicolodi says that the finger was bitten off and reattached, but other reports are that it was just really bad and required many stitches.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth EricKei View Post
                        At the end of Die Hard, they really did let the bad guy fall from a great height. The actor himself (Alan Rickman) was not expecting this. The look of fear on his face was quite real.
                        I have read that Rickman did indeed expect the fall; they told him all about it. But falling backwards is still pretty scary--and of course, he was Alan Rickman. (Sigh! He always looked so gorgeous with bits of scenery stuck in between his teeth!)
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                        • #13
                          Quoth Nunavut Pants View Post
                          I have read that Rickman did indeed expect the fall; they told him all about it. But falling backwards is still pretty scary--and of course, he was Alan Rickman. (Sigh! He always looked so gorgeous with bits of scenery stuck in between his teeth!)
                          Further correction-- Alan Rickman expected the fall.

                          He didn't expect it to happen when it did. The director said they'd drop him on the count of three. They dropped him at "two." Hence the expression on his face as he fell.
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                          • #14
                            Ah. I sit corrected. Partially. I can live with that
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                            "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                            "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                            "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                            "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                            "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
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                            • #15
                              Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post
                              Further correction-- Alan Rickman expected the fall.

                              He didn't expect it to happen when it did. The director said they'd drop him on the count of three. They dropped him at "two." Hence the expression on his face as he fell.
                              I heard that he had previously injured his back and knew it was going to really hurt.
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