29 Committed Bits of Movie Trivia That Lost Over 60 Facts for Their Role in This List

If this list doesn’t land these facts their Oscar, we don’t know what will
29 Committed Bits of Movie Trivia That Lost Over 60 Facts for Their Role in This List

While watching an actor in a movie role, we don’t often think about their preparation. Unless, of course, there’s some drastic body transformation or highly impressive fight scene that a stunt double didn’t have to sub in for. 

Those are the kind of facts we want to showcase today. The ones that went through hell and back to bring us their little behind-the-scenes movie tidbit. Like, did you know that the paint for the shark in Jaws had to be shipped in from across the country? Now that’s commitment!

Avengers: Endgame

On the shoot for the Avengers: Endgame funeral scene, Gwyneth Paltrow kept asking why Samuel L. Jackson was there. The other actors had to say things like What are you talking about? He's Nick Fury! and remind her she's been in movies with him. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

On every Star Trek movie from II to VI, they burned down the sets after filming. Each time, they didn't think there'd be a sequel, so there was no point in storing the sets. CRACKED.COM

Love & Basketball

LOVE & BASKETBALL The scenes that were set in Barcelona were actually shot there, thanks to Tyra Banks. Virgin Atlantic said they would pay for all the flight tickets to film in Spain if Tyra Banks wore one of their uniforms in the movie. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Tomb Raider

CRACKED.COM ANGELINA JOLIE throws knives to relax. Tomb Raider was good for one person: Angelina Jolie. That's where she became a practiced knife- thrower. She uses it as stress relief, which is great for her and horrifying for anyone near her.

The Lord of the Rings

VIGGO MORTENSEN can swing a sword with the best of them. Aragon's swordsmanship wasn't movie magic; Bob Anderson - a trainer and Darth Vader's lightsaber stunt double - called Mortensen the most talented swordsman he had ever trained. CRACKED.COM

Tom Cruise

TOM CRUISE is a gun teacher (sort of). Cruise's handling of guns in Collateral is so good, it's shown in firearm classes. CRACKED.COM

Catwoman

MICHELLE PFEIFFER could crack a whip better than her stuntwoman. Catwoman: leather, whip, claws. While Michele feiffer already seemed great at the first and didn't get great at the latter, her whip skills in Batman Returns were nothing to meow about. She turned out to be better with the whip than the stunt actor. CRACKED.COM

Cary Elwes

CRACKED.COM CARY ELWES was too good with a sword. To prepare for filming the fight in Princess Bride, Elwes trained for months whenever filming didn't need him, and ended up being so good his main duel was over too quickly. Fencing academies now show his duel with Inigo Montoya in classes.

Keanu Reeves

KEANU REEVES can really shoot. At a certain point after John Wick, Speed, Point Blank, The Matrix, The Bad Matrix Sequels, probably not My Own Private Idaho, Keanu learned to become a professional-level shooter. CRACKED.COM

Wonder Woman

CRACKED.COM WONDER WOMAN's theme was inspired by Led Zeppelin. LED-ZEPPELIN According to Hans Zimmer's collaborator Thomas Holkenborg (a.k.a Junkie XL), both he and Zimmer are fans of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song, and Wonder Woman's powerful theme in the DCEU is their tribute to it.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Movie: Scott Pilgrim VS. The World Inspiration: Naruto Director Edgar Wright chose the manga look: In Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat, there will be a 'killer move,' but in Naruto you've got that real manga style, so when somebody gets hit with a 'killer move,' the background will drop out and a huge graphic will be superimposed behind them. Killer, bro. CRACKED.COM

The Dark Knight

The 1953 western Shane played a big role in shaping The Dark Knight. The reason? The evil, in particular, in that film was so evil. There had never been anything quite like it, explained Christopher Nolan. CRACKED.COM

Tim Burton

Apes freak out TIM BURTON and he tried to capture what makes them so disturbing to him when he made Planet of the Apes. They scare me, he said. They may smile at you and look cute but beneath the surface is a darker behavior. CRACKED.COM

Godzilla vs Kong

Director Adam Wingard's cat apparently influenced Godzilla vs Kong. That's judging by an Instagram photo of his cat, which he captioned with There is a lot of her inspiration in my version of Godzilla and King Kong. CRACKED.COM

Bambi

The look of Bambi was inspired by Song dynasty artwork. An early Bambi sketch Chinese-American Disney artist Tyrus Wong drew on 11th-century art from the Song dynasty to create the backgrounds for the movie. CRACKED.COM

Midsommar

Midsommar is partly modelled on the 1981 breakup movie Modern Romance. Director Ari Aster was going through a bad breakup when they pitched Midsommar to him, and he wanted to make it partly a breakup movie. CRACKED.COM

The Exorcist

CRACKED.COM The Exorcist The lonely street lamp ominously shining on Father Merrin comes from René Magritte's series The Empire of Light, painted in 1953-54.

Knives Out

Knives Out's score was influenced by an old-school movie-- Lawrence of Arabia. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Knives RAN JOHNSON WHODUNNE Qut With that score, like a bunch of others, it feels like you can hear every instrument. It's not a blurry, washed-out sound. Every voice has its place, says composer Nathan Johnson. Which worked great for Knives Out. CRACKED.COM

Lost in Translation

Sofia Coppola got the idea for Lost in Translation when she saw a friend singing. The guy nicknamed Charlie Brown in the movie is a real-life friend of hers. When she saw him singing God Save the Queen at a karaoke bar, she said I have to put this in a movie. CRACKED.COM

The Plane Fight in Raiders of the Lost Ark

They used cayenne pepper for the plane fight in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Spielberg didn't want blood splashing around when Marion shoots the truckload of Nazis who arrive at the end, so he asked for a sort of mist, a dust feel. The only thing they could get for that on short notice was cayenne pepper, which meant everyone was coughing and sneezing. CRACKED.COM

Raiders of the Lost Ark

They had to remove 350 TV antennas to shoot Raiders of the Lost Ark. The antennas were around the houses around Sallah's home, and taking them down took one day. CRACKED.COM

The Raptor’s Voice in Jurassic Park

Sound designer Gary Rydstrom asked a friend to contribute to the raptor's voice in Jurassic Park. His friend showed up at the studio, and Rydstrom asked You make any weird sounds? The friend did make a sound with his throat, and Rydstrom spliced it with the sounds of African cranes, tortoises, horses to make the velociraptor's call. CRACKED.COM

Jurassic Park

The mosquito in Jurassic Park actually doesn't suck blood. That species, Toxorhynchites rutilus, is the only species that doesn't. CRACKED.COM

Harrison Ford

E.T. has a deleted Harrison Ford cameo. Ford played the high school's principal, scolding Elliot about the frog incident -- but Spielberg decided the scene was out of place and Ford's cameo felt like a distraction, so he cut it. CRACKED.COM

E.T.

E.T. started out as a horror film about aliens who kill. It was called Night Skies, and featured aliens who killed people by touching them with long fingers. Before shooting, Spielberg decided that was too dark and totally changed the tone. CRACKED.COM

Saving Private Ryan

Some of the unsubbed German dialogue in Saving Private Ryan is actually Czech. When two German soldiers surrender at Omaha beach and apparently speak German, they're actually saying in Czech Please don't shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn't kill anyone! I am Czech! CRACKED.COM

Tom Sizemore

Steven Spielberg had super-strict conditions for Tom Sizemore on Saving Private Ryan. If he had a positive drug test, even on the very last day, he'd be fired on the spot and his part would be re-shot. Sizemore stayed clean all 58 days of shooting. CRACKED.COM

John Williams

When John Williams shared his idea for the Jaws score, Spielberg laughed. AFI E It was just two notes, so Spielberg thought it was a joke. He played it until I stopped laughing. CRACKED.COM

Jaws

The paint for the Jaws shark had to be shipped across the country. It was special paint that would self-destruct three weeks after it was made, so they had to get regular shipments of it from California, in the same Universal Studios pouch that studio execs set their notes in. CRACKED.COM

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