Film trivia!

[Adamski]

Fact: To research the role of Cap'n Jack Sparrow, actor Johnny Depp spent 7 months as an animatronic robot on the original 'Pirates Of The Carribean' ride.

Also, something to do with Casablanca and cardboard midgets.

[Esseb]

Since this thread brought up the subject of both Casablanca and LotR I got reminded of this small gem: http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/movie.htm.

[Steven Edward]

Right! Fact or fiction!

In the scene where Terminator enters the bar naked in T2, Ahnold was actually wearing a pair of loud boxer shorts that nearly cracked uo everybody on the set.

OR

Mark Hamill cries "CARRRRIEEEEE!" at the end of Star Wars.

[LGM]

Esseb: The link on that site won't work

[MrColossal]

that's ok, it's stupid

[LGM]

Ah. Right.. It looks like it's a bunch of movies tied together, juding from the credits.. Meh.. Oh well.

[[Cameron]]

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.

In episode 2 when Fett escaped on the ship he knocks his head. They made it a trait of his to explain the trooper walking into the door.

And the Indy one. Ford had to go to the toilet so he did that instead of a large fight scene.

[Mr_Frisby]

In the movie Aliens the young girl Newt says 'They mostly come out at night, mostly'. Most people think this is refering to the aliens but it does in actual fact refer to Captain Mostly who was stalking the young lass at the time.

[..]

Soory if these have been posted before, but I haven't had time to read all the posts Also... Some of these are mistakes.. but bloody funny ones.

In the original theatrical release of Fellowship of the Ring when Frodo and Sam are walking through the cornfield a car drives past in the background. This is a famous mistake and was clumsily edited in the DVD release and you can still kind of see where its been patched up.

In a pan over Edoras in one of the films its been reversed. Ok, but you can see the smoke going into the chimney and flags fluttering odly.

In X Men 1 Iceman is talking to rogue you can see his breath in the air. Fans thought this was a nice touch as it reflects his mutant powers. The director later admitted that this was actually just due to it being a cold day on set and not noticed till people started telling him about it.

JK Rowling was asked to play Harry Potter's mother.

Richard Gere would hardly have had a career if it wasn't for John Travolta turning down roles. He turned down the roles in (i think) 3 films were Richard Gere got the parts in his place. These roles made his career. The most recent of these was Chicago.

[Redwall]

And the Indy one. Ford had to go to the toilet so he did that instead of a large fight scene.

LIAR! My explanation is the TRU7H!

In Minority Report, the statue of the precogs actually represents the alien genitals that were used to produce the precogs. And the Pre-Crime symbol reflects Steven Speilberg's belief in world peace through world government.

[Las Naranjas]

Similarly, all documents in AI and Saving Private Ryan are copies of The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion.

[DGMacphee]

And the ring they give Oscar Schindler at the end of Schindler's List is actually the Ring of Power.

[Barcik]

A log of wood was originally considered for the role of Kevin Lomax in the Devil's Advocate.
Jeff Bridges was originally considered for the role in Monster.
Everybody except the banits in Time Bandits were played by giants.
The time it took to film the stargate scene in 2001 was shorter than its screentime.
In the Dream Team, Micheal Keaton plays Jack Nicholson.

[Ali]

A log of wood was originally considered for the role of Kevin Lomax in the Devil's Advocate.

Keanu reeves would hardly have had a career if it wasn't for that log of wood turning down roles.

[Flippy_D]

In the future, everyone is black. Will Smith was the primary choice for the role of Neo by the W bros.

[TheYak]

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

Actually, I believe that line is in there as part of his longer speech (i.e. the tell everybody blah, blah part), another part has him simply saying Soylent Green is people, but when he's lost what's left of his annoyingly thick little mind he screams, "Soylent Green is made from people!"

[Steven Edward]

In the film "Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones" the plot was created entirely with CGI.

[Haddas]

The oracle in the Matrix films can't bake at all. All her cookies taste "like shit" according to the crew-members who got to taste them.

[geomis]

hey if its an oracle wouldnt she know that they are crap and not bother to make them in the first place?

[PaulSC]

When Morgan Freeman filmed his role in The Shawshank Redemption, he was in fact only seven years old. Fact!