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I am HUGE on movie trivia. I thought it'd be fun to start a seemingly endless thread where people chip in their movie facts, just like with the video game trivia thread.


Today I learned that The Wizard of Oz is most likely the most referenced film of all time so far. You can find out through IMDB by looking up which film has the highest number of references. Wizard of Oz so far has 502 references (References can mean anything from plot points to quotes). It makes sense once you think about it. "We're not in Kansas anymore" has been said like a hundred times, as well as "Lions and tigers and bears oh my!" Etc, etc.

Andrew Robinson's final line in Hellraiser was scripted to be "**** you." He ad-libbed "Jesus wept" because he thought it would sound cooler.

And he was right.

Pierce Brosnan was both the lightest and heaviest actor to play James Bond. In Goldeneye he was 164 pounds and in Die Another Day he was 211 pounds.

The Wizard of Oz was filmed with motion picture cameras.
Pulp Fiction can be found in the P section of most movie databases.
Jackie Chan's Police Story has police in it.
Brad Pitt has appeared in several movies.
The genre "martial arts films" was named for the fact that these movies have martial arts in them.
300 and 2046 are both examples of films whose titles are numbers.

The roars of the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park films were typically generated by combining recordings of multiple living animals.

The Tyrannosaurus roar combined dog, penguin, tiger, alligator, and elephant sounds.

The sounds made by the Dilophosaurus were a combination of the sounds of howler monkeys, hawks, rattlesnakes, and swans.

The main cry of the Velicoraptors was a combination of the sounds of elephant seal pups, dolphins and walruses.

The sounds made by the Brachiosaurs were a combination of whale and donkey sounds.

The Triceratops' heavy breathing was a combination of cow sounds and sound technician Gary Rydstrom breathing into a cardboard tube.

The Gallimimus cries were horse squeals.

Just to keep this alive and get in the spirit of Halloween. . .

The horror classic, The Omen, had several bizarre occurrences during production. As the movie began production, Gregory Peck's son Jonathan committed suicide. Scriptwriter David Seltzer was on a plane struck by lightning. The same exact thing happened a couple weeks later in another plane ridden by executive producer Mace Neufeld. Gregory Peck narrowly missed death a la Final Destination by cancelling a flight that later crashed and killed everyone. The freakiest story to ever come out of producing The Omen came from set designer John Richardson. He got into a car accident with his girlfriend - she was beheaded and it was on Friday the 13th. John had just finished working on a scene in the movie which had a character decapitated. When he fully came to from the crash, he saw a sign for a bicycle track for the next town and remaining kilometers, which read "Ommen 66.6 KM"

In Taxi Driver, during The infamous "you talkin' to me?" scene, Robert DeNiro is actually just talking to his own reflection in the mirror and not another person.

Gandalf (Ian McKellen) bonking his head on the ceiling of Bilbo's house early on in The Fellowship of the Ring was unscripted and an accident.

Now for some actual trivia:

Though credited to Patrick Yau, the majority of The Longest Nite was actually directed by Johnnie To.

Christopher Doyle is widely credited for the cinematography of the majority of Wong Kar-Wai's films. While he is very deserving of all the praise he receives, the first parts of Chungking Express were shot by Andrew Lau. Doyle left both In the Mood for Love and 2046 part way through production; the former was finished by Mark Lee Ping-bing, the latter by Kwan Pung-Leung.
(I'm such a cinematography geek that when watching In the Mood for Love there are several shots in which I can immediately tell which were shot by Doyle and which were shot by Lee due to having seen so much of their work)

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The chanting in the celebration music that plays at the end of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is an upbeat version of the chanting in the Emperor's theme.

Johnny improvised the catch-phrase of Jack Sparrow, "Savvy?" and also the various references to "eunuch" in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

[QUOTE="Valisnowmander, post: 1503933, member: 30663"]Bump.

The chanting in the celebration music that plays at the end of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is an upbeat version of the chanting in the Emperor's theme.[/QUOTE]

All my movie soundtrack knowledge and I still did not catch this.

Every character in the Walrus and the Carpenter sequence in Disney's Alice in Wonderland was voiced by J. Pat O'Malley.

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Apparently Bill Murray makes a small cameo in Dumb and Dumber To. This isn't the first time he's made an unexpected cameo:

-In The Darjeeling Limited, Bill Murray has a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo in the beginning as a businessman chasing a train.
-Bill Murray had a brief appearance as an agent hiding in a tree in the 2008 spy comedy Get Smart.
-Not many people realize this, but Bill Murray has a small but pivotal cameo in the film Zombieland as himself.
-While this may have slipped some viewers' eyes, if you listen closely enough, Bill Murray voices a badger in an almost hidden role in The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
-Playing very much against type, Bill Murray appears in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes as a waiter with a similar name to his own, Bill Groundhog Day Ghostbustin' Ass Murray.
-Bill Murray slips in almost incognito at the end of Space Jam as an unlikely basketball hero.
-It didn't hit most viewers until after the movie was finished, but Wes Anderson snuck a cameo for Bill into his film Rushmore as a multi-millionaire business owner.
-Last but not least, Bill Murray made a small but memorable cameo as a weather reporter stuck in a time loop in the film Groundhog Day.

^In Get Smart, he's actually playing a character from the original show: Agent 13, who was always found hiding in unusual places.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

Time to bring this back.

I learned from a friend that Marlon Brando never bothered to learn his lines in The Godfather. So for most of the actual film, he's looking off-screen at cue cards.

Dave Toschi was the inspector who tried to find the infamous Zodiac Killer.

He inspired the character Frank Bullitt in the movie Bullitt. The producers wanted to make a sequel but Steve McQueen said no. Eventually, the sequel got made into a new series - Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry was inspired by Dave Toschi trying to find the Zodiac Killer, and the first Dirty Harry movie is a fictionalized take on the hunt for the Zodiac Killer.

Later in 2007, the movie Zodiac was made. Mark Ruffalo portrayed Dave Toschi. In the film, Dave goes to a movie theater to see Dirty Harry. Toschi is still alive of course and has seen Zodiac, since he was an adviser on the film. This means he went to a theater to see an actor portraying him and going to a movie theater to see a different actor portray him.

Dan Aykroyd had a cameo in Space Ja-... wait...

^^^He did the same thing in 'Superman', if I remember correctly, to much less-impressive effect.

...boy. Marlon Brando had some weird ideas. I mean, the man was talented, God only knows he was, but there are times when method isn't best, and 'calm, composed character' is one of them. Scary tumultuous character like Don Corleone? Sure. Not Jor-El. Come on, dude. You sound half-asleep.

[QUOTE="Booyakasha, post: 1524622, member: 17381"]^^^He did the same thing in 'Superman', if I remember correctly, to much less-impressive effect.

...boy. Marlon Brando had some weird ideas. I mean, the man was talented, God only knows he was, but there are times when method isn't best, and 'calm, composed character' is one of them. Scary tumultuous character like Don Corleone? Sure. Not Jor-El. Come on, dude. You sound half-asleep.[/QUOTE]

From what I've read, Brando was pretty difficult. He purposely got fat as he got older because he didn't want to be recognized as a sex symbol when he was in A Streetcar Named Desire and whatknot. He pretty much gave a big "f*ck you" to all the screaming fangirls and just sat and ate to make them shut up. He was notoriously difficult to work with - just one of those actors I suppose.