Film trivia!

[LGM]

I think it's really easy to tell.. :-p but maybe that's just me.

Or maybe we could turn it into a game.. And see who can guess..


Like that "Fact or Fiction?" show

[LordHart]

Amazingly, my Jaws one is real... or is it? :

[Timosity]

After filming the sequel to "Point Break"  they thought they had something really original so they renamed it "The fast and the furious"

[Peter Thomas]

fake trivia is enjoyable to read when it is something that COULD be believable, as opposed to:

The Little Mermaid was originally titled 'The Fat, Ass-Slapping Wonder Woman of the Water with jiant chest-jugs and no lower genitals'.

When it's like this, I read it and go, "well...actually....no."

[Ali]

Just to confuse matters more...

One of these trivial statements is a fact and the other is fiction:

The monkey sequence at the start of '2001: a Space Odyssey' was filmed in London using one-way mirrors.

HAL's name was intended as a clever joke based on IBM.

Can you work out which is which?

[Dart]

Don't know if this is true or not, but may I present to you....

Genitalia on Disney's "The Little Mermaid" Video Cover:

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/mermaid.htm

[Migs]

I believe theres a scene in Braveheart where one of the leads is wearing a wrist watch.

Also, if you look very carefully in the opening scenes of Braveheart where they're showing the landscape of Scotland, you can see some backpackers climbing one of the mountains.

[Barcik]

[Fuzzpilz]

The monkey sequence at the start of '2001: a Space Odyssey' was filmed in London using one-way mirrors.

HAL's name was intended as a clever joke based on IBM.

Can you work out which is which?

Must be the former, since the latter is almost certainly incorrect. (though many people do believe it to be true, mistakenly)

[Barcik]

Yeah, I heard Kubrick only found out about the 'connection' to IBM later.

[CoffeeBob]

There is one thing that my brother noticed in Star Wars, was that when some storm troopers are walking into the control room. As the door opens, one of the st's knocks his head into the door.

[bspeers1000]

The Japanese anime film "Ghost in the Shell" was based on a little-known unpublished Disney film called "Team Somebody."  It's a well known fact that many of Japan's animators have gone back and forth between their homeland and more lucrative work in American films such as Mu Lan or Excell Saga.  It was of course a lot lighter in content, but the overall sequences are almost indistinguishable.  In fact there's a scene towards the middle of "Ghost" in which one of the cross-over animators purportedly left in a bit of Mickey Mouse's shadow in the top-left corner, either by accident or as an in-joke.

Almost all the cast of "The Matrix" died before or during the shooting of the Matrix 2 and 3 (Reloaded, Revolutions).  The plot was going to be really awesome, involving a third level to the matrix, and a socialist-style uprising in the "real" world (thanks to Neo) before the deaths.  The deaths basically convinced the creaters to "just toss any old anime-inspired crap" into the plot to end the thing, after days of failed re-writes for the fill-in actors.

"All the President's Men" originally starred a number of real CIA agents, as sort of a "tip-the-hat" to the office of the president, but they had to be cut out of the picture when the original lead, Gary Oldman, disappeared.  No one really suspected the CIA guys for the disappearance, but Gary's family was furious and threatened to sue, so the CIA agents were cut out of the movie.  The film had been aiming to get an official "gold star" approval from the Oval Office (something films like "Independence Day" and "Airforce One" had gotten before), but this incident cut them out of the ceremony.

Kill Bill originally featured a hilarious and highly political speech by Tarantino in disguise, calling for a repeal of the Patriot Act and related "bills" with Uma Thurman slashing through paperwork.  It was cut because it just didn't seem to fit with the "serious, logical tone of the rest of the movie"

In his latest collection of memoirs, Spielburg admits that the original ET was just a chance to see a young Drew Berry Moore to stroke an enormous prosthetic penis, and to see teenagers chased by angry men with guns.  The rest of the plot was "just kinda thrown together."

[Redwall]

The monkey sequence at the start of '2001: a Space Odyssey' was filmed in London using one-way mirrors.

HAL's name was intended as a clever joke based on IBM.

Can you work out which is which?

Must be the former, since the latter is almost certainly incorrect. (though many people do believe it to be true, mistakenly)

Yeah, HAL is Heuristic Algorithmic...

[Las Naranjas]

In Casablanca, due to budgetry constraints, the plane at the end was a miniature made of cardboard, requiring that the flight crew be played by midgits to remain in scale, and also requiring the advanced technique of covering everything in fog, later used by Dr Who.

[Esseb]

Which Ali already mentioned. I don't think it was so much budgetary constraints that forced the use of midgets to play the flight crew rather than the director deciding the background felt empty with just the plane which was already built.

YakSpit, I thought the line was "Soylent Green is made out of people".

[Las Naranjas]

I knew I should have mentioned it when this thread was 3 posts long.

[MrColossal]

apparently at the end of Casablanca they didn't have enough money for a full sized plane so they had midgets build one for them. Since midgets are half men they were able to pay them half the wages and save money... One of the midgets went on to find fame in being the munchkin from Wizard of Oz that hanged himself [after being eaten by a very obvious bird]

[Las Naranjas]

In Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory they couldn't afford real midgits, so the oompa loompas were all normal men on enlarged sets.

[Ghormak]

In the Lord Of The Rings movies, Gimli, even though he was playing the dwarf, was ironically the only character to be completely computer animated.

[DGMacphee]

In Casablanca, Humphry Bogart is actually a midget.