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Posted: 6/12/2022 3:11:15 PM EDT
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 Drunk Dude throws can at John Malkovich on set |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 3:12:07 PM EDT
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Jame Gumm
 went on to bigger and better things.  in Moby Dick, slicing up whales instead of girls. |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 3:15:21 PM EDT
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Alex Baldwin's prop six shooter has killed more people than every "assult" weapon I have ever owned. Fact.
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Posted: 6/12/2022 3:16:54 PM EDT
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Vince Vaughn unloaded the professional hunters guide gun in Jurassic Park and cost a lot of people their lives.
They never would have ran into the Raptor fields otherwise. |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 3:23:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Jame Gumm https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bfi.org.uk%2Fsites%2Fbfi.org.uk%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Ffull%2Fpublic%2Fimage%2Fsilence-of-the-lambs-the-1991-009-buffalo-bill-medium-close-up.jpg%3Fitok%3D6bRYSql0&f=1&nofb=1 went on to bigger and better things. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.interfilmes.com%2FFILMES%2F22200%2F22228%2Ffotocena5.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 in Moby Dick, slicing up whales instead of girls. he played a great role in the tv series "Monk" |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 3:33:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Jame Gumm https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bfi.org.uk%2Fsites%2Fbfi.org.uk%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Ffull%2Fpublic%2Fimage%2Fsilence-of-the-lambs-the-1991-009-buffalo-bill-medium-close-up.jpg%3Fitok%3D6bRYSql0&f=1&nofb=1 went on to bigger and better things. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.interfilmes.com%2FFILMES%2F22200%2F22228%2Ffotocena5.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 in Moby Dick, slicing up whales instead of girls. 
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Posted: 6/12/2022 3:45:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" DR. Dean R Brooks played the role of "DR. Spivey" the Superintendent of the state hospital. In real life DR. Brooks WAS the Superintendent of the state hospital. During the filming DR. Brooks noticed that one of the actors (William Redfield/ "Harding") was exhibiting some strange symptoms and asked to examine him. He diagnosed him with Luekemia and Redfield died the following year. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/11800/721full-one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-s-2415729.JPG Oh wow. I did not know that. Interesting and sad. 
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Posted: 6/12/2022 4:02:06 PM EDT
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Sheriff Longmires office front door remains as a permanent feature to this day !
The hotel from No Country for Old Men is on the opposite corner. One of the prison guards in the riot scene in Assassins Creed is an Arfcom member. |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 4:06:12 PM EDT
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In the original Top Gun, Charlie's "older man" date at the officer's club is the real-life "Viper", Pete Pettigrew. He is a retired Navy pilot and TOP GUN instructor, and shot down a MiG during the Vietnam War. He served as the technical consultant on the film.
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Posted: 6/12/2022 4:12:04 PM EDT
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Martin Sheen’s freak out at the beginning of Apocalypse Now was real. It was his birthday and he was drunk and tripping balls on hallucinogenic mushrooms. Coppola saw it coming and brought out the cameras.
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Posted: 6/12/2022 4:27:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: William Powell was not "The Thin Man". |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 5:26:22 PM EDT
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This is a cool watch if you have the time..
 Smell The Napalm: The Story Behind This Incredible Scene | Ep11 | Making Apocalypse Now |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 5:37:42 PM EDT
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No country for old men gas station where Chigur does the coin flip is the same gas station where the Wolverines ambush the Soviet tank crew in Red Dawn.
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Posted: 6/12/2022 5:50:56 PM EDT
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In the movie “Finding Nemo” the great white shark “Bruce” was named after the animatronic shark from the movie “Jaws”. The crew on Jaws nicknamed the robo shark Bruce.
The antagonist airplane “Ripslinger” in the movie “Planes” is a reference to Technical Sergeant Harold Ripslinger (Flight Engineer) who died, along with the rest of the crew of The “Lady Be Good” B-24 that crashed in the Lybian desert. Most of the crew survived the bailout and walked over 50 miles through the desert hoping for rescue. |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 6:02:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Don’t think that was the old C&S building. Not even close. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I saw the stuntman go out of the side of the old C&S building when they filmed Sharkey’s Machine………that building was turned into a hotel and has been a few other things Don’t think that was the old C&S building. Not even close. the "C&S" thing was actually a joke about the building.............. some people referred to it as that because it looked "crooked as shit" and appeared to lean depending on the perspective, even though it was a pretty nice building, being the Westin..............the real C&S building looked like a salt shaker. I was a kid when we saw the stuntman come out the side, My father went downtown for business and we got to watch it in real time |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 6:07:24 PM EDT
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Dr. Strangelove was James Earl Jone's first movie. He was crew on the B-52. Stanley Kubrick was such a perfectionist that he insisted the B-52 cockpit look accurate. This was still a classified aircraft at the time so they based it on exterior photographs and similarities to existing bombers. They were so accurate the military investigated this as what they thought was espionage.
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Posted: 6/12/2022 7:23:18 PM EDT
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In Jaws they used a midget in a scaled down shark cage in the shoots with real sharks to make the shark look bigger.
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Posted: 6/12/2022 9:43:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Dr. Strangelove was James Earl Jone's first movie. He was crew on the B-52. Stanley Kubrick was such a perfectionist that he insisted the B-52 cockpit look accurate. This was still a classified aircraft at the time so they based it on exterior photographs and similarities to existing bombers. They were so accurate the military investigated this as what they thought was espionage. Major Kong said "A fella could have a purty good time with this stuff in Vegas." But the line originally said "Dallas;" watch his lips. Between the film's wrap and its release, KFK was assinated in Dallas, and they re-dubbed the line out of sensitivity to the event. |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 9:54:17 PM EDT
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In "The Fifth Element, " Zorg sets down one of his weapons just before he gets blown up. The gunsight has an active LED screen in it!
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Posted: 6/12/2022 10:06:51 PM EDT
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Live tracer ammunition, fired just above the heads of the actors from MG-34's and 42's was used in the film " Come and See"
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Posted: 6/12/2022 10:14:38 PM EDT
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"Charge Of The Light Brigade" used trip wires to trip the horses. Scores of horses were euthanized due to injuries. Errol Flynn was a very close friend of the director, Michael Curtiz, but got in a huge fight with him over the killing of the horses.
Every time you see the "There were no animals harmed in the making of this film...." it's because of Errol Flynn and the slaughter of the horses in "Charge Of The Light Brigade". |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 10:15:57 PM EDT
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Due to a shortage of .577/450 blanks, a number of Long Lee Enfields are used as stand-ins for Martinis in the movie Zulu, stripped of their magazines and with a socket bayonet fitted.
 Attached FileMost of the rifles in this photo are Long Lees. |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 10:22:58 PM EDT
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In the movie Evil Dead, Ash's Oldsmobile was actually Sam Rami's car. It makes cameo appearances in the background of many other Sam Rami films.
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Posted: 6/12/2022 10:27:03 PM EDT
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While filming the convenience store robbery scene in "Raising Arizona", Holly Hunter kept stalling the car. She was heckled repeatedly by a group of drunken by standers. The heckling only stopped when they were threatened with arrest by a Phoenix PD officer. I was one of the by standers.
 The pay phones in that scene were the ones I used to call home on. Our apartment building backed up to the store.Lots of wild stories from my time in AZ. Some to this day may not be safe to tell wrt statute of limitations. |
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Posted: 6/12/2022 10:55:59 PM EDT
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Edward McDonald was the US Attorney that explained the witness protection program to Henry and Karen Hill. He played himself in the movie Goodfellas.
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Posted: 6/12/2022 11:03:35 PM EDT
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There's no mountains visible from Galveston, TX. Contrary to a Sam Elliott movie about the civil war shows.
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Posted: 6/12/2022 11:06:56 PM EDT
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In "When Trumpets Fade", a lot of the US and German soldiers were actual US soldiers deployed for SFOR support in Bosnia. I almost got to go be an extra, but was instead directed to Gun Truck support for a VIP mission to Tuzla main, because I had all routes memorized.
Bastards. |
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Posted: 6/13/2022 7:00:13 AM EDT
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The actor who played Gene Hackman's captain in The Freench Connection, was Eddie Egan.
He and Sonny Grosso were the two cops who busted a heroin smuggling operation, the largest heroin seizure at the time. |
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Posted: 6/13/2022 7:21:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Escape From New York was filmed in East St. Louis because it already looks like that. Saved money not building a set. Is that true? I've been in East St. Louis late at night, so I shouldn't even question you. |
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Posted: 6/13/2022 7:24:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One of the modern US cinema's greatest stuntmen and stunt innovators, Dar Robinson only appeared in a relatively small number of films compared to other stuntmen (before losing his life in an off-set motorcycle accident); however, he set new benchmarks in stunt performances. Robinson first appeared onscreen doubling for Steve McQueen jumping into the sea off a clifftop in Papillon (1973), and the following year leapt into the sea again on a motorbike doubling for crooked cop David Soul in Magnum Force (1973). Robinson also doubled for Henry Silva in the dramatic conclusion to Sharky's Machine (1981) where Silva's hitman character is blasted by cop Burt Reynolds through a plate glass window and falls to his death from an Atlanta, Georgia, skyscraper. In reality, Robinson took the dive out the window and landed an on an airbag many floors below to break his fall! Dar was a high-fall specialist and one of his most amazing stunts was doubling for Christopher Plummer at the conclusion of Highpoint (1982) where the villain falls from the 1,170-foot-high CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. Once again, Dar took the plunge with a concealed parachute, which he opened at the absolute last moment, and he earned $150,000 for his work. Robinson also appeared in several minor acting roles onscreen; however, in 1987, Burt Reynolds backed his faith in Dar by casting him as the sadistic albino villain "Moke" in the crime thriller Stick (1985). Not only did Dar act in front of the camera but he also designed and performed the incredible stunt where "Moke" falls to his death from a very high balcony, seemingly straight onto the pavement below. In actual fact, Dar was rigged to a complex wire rig that "deccelerated" his fall, and made the use of an airbag unnecessary Balls of steel. I watched a documentary on stuntmen that detailed the highlighted fall. Friggin' amazing. |
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Posted: 6/13/2022 7:28:57 AM EDT
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The door gunner in 'Full Metal Jacket,' was played by Tim Colceri. He was originally cast to play Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, but Kubrick was so impressed by R. Lee Ermey that he gave him Hartman's role.
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Posted: 6/13/2022 8:02:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gil Hill, a real-life Detroit police officer portrayed Eddie Murphy’s tell it like it is boss Inspector Douglas Todd in Beverly Hills Cop. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/26697/inspector-douglas-todd-1401294-normal_jp-2415794.JPG  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEX77SsKenUWho was corrupt as fuck along wth the rest of Detroit. |
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Posted: 6/13/2022 8:55:12 AM EDT
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In Gtumpy Old Men, John and Max argue about fishing. Max says "Like that 40 pound muskie you're always yakking about. It's a shame nobody ever sees these monsters!"
Sonebody saw it. When John visits his dad at the ice shanty there is a picture on the door of John holding a muskie that could easily be 40+ pounds. |
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Posted: 6/13/2022 8:56:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Vince Vaughn unloaded the professional hunters guide gun in Jurassic Park and cost a lot of people their lives. They never would have ran into the Raptor fields otherwise. I just want to know hiw he did it with no damage to the bullets he took. I know I always take my trusty large caliber bullet puller out into the bush. |
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Posted: 6/13/2022 9:01:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In Jaws they used a midget in a scaled down shark cage in the shoots with real sharks to make the shark look bigger. In the panic scene over the fake shark fin, one of the boys with the fin grew up to become police chief where the movie was filmed. And while it's uncredited, if you pay attention, John Ritter flips over the yellow raft in that panic. |
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Posted: 6/13/2022 9:02:12 AM EDT
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In the Jason Statham movie "Safe", there is a fight scene that takes place on a NYC subway train. It was actually filmed on my jobsite in a SEPTA train yard in Philadephia using a green screen due to the cost of filming in NYC. As a side note, Statham is very, short and his stunt double could be his identical twin.
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Posted: 6/13/2022 9:20:16 AM EDT
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Full Metal Jacket.
Parris Island was actually Bassingbourn Barracks ( Queens Regt ) UK. The assault course was built for the movie and gifted to the British Army after the filming was complete. |
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Posted: 6/13/2022 9:22:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In the panic scene over the fake shark fin, one of the boys with the fin grew up to become police chief where the movie was filmed. And while it's uncredited, if you pay attention, John Ritter flips over the yellow raft in that panic. YOU'RE going to need a bigger boat |
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Posted: 6/16/2022 6:40:43 PM EDT
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In The Fellowship of The Ring, the Uruk Hai Lurtz was supposed to throw the dagger several feet off to the side, away from Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn). Then special effects and camera angles would be used to make it appear that the dagger was thrown directly at Viggo Mortensen.
The dagger slipped out of the orc actor's hands, flying directly at Viggo. Viggo deflected the dagger with his sword for real.  |
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Posted: 6/16/2022 8:33:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In The Fellowship of The Ring, the Uruk Hai Lurtz was supposed to throw the dagger several feet off to the side, away from Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn). Then special effects and camera angles would be used to make it appear that the dagger was thrown directly at Viggo Mortensen. The dagger slipped out of the orc actor's hands, flying directly at Viggo. Viggo deflected the dagger with his sword for real. https://i.makeagif.com/media/3-04-2014/vsWZ0Y.gif Yep. Did a lot of filming with a broken toe*, too. VM is a badass. *When he comes upon the funeral pyre of Orcs, suspecting that Merry and Pippin were dead, he kicks an Orkish helmet. Broke his toe at that point; the anguish immediately afterward was real. 0:40.  The Lord of the Rings - The Fate of Merry and Pippin (HD) |
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Posted: 6/16/2022 10:56:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. Did a lot of filming with a broken toe*, too. VM is a badass. *When he comes upon the funeral pyre of Orcs, suspecting that Merry and Pippin were dead, he kicks an Orkish helmet. Broke his toe at that point; the anguish immediately afterward was real. 0:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOqyK8BCD4UQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: In The Fellowship of The Ring, the Uruk Hai Lurtz was supposed to throw the dagger several feet off to the side, away from Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn). Then special effects and camera angles would be used to make it appear that the dagger was thrown directly at Viggo Mortensen. The dagger slipped out of the orc actor's hands, flying directly at Viggo. Viggo deflected the dagger with his sword for real. https://i.makeagif.com/media/3-04-2014/vsWZ0Y.gif Yep. Did a lot of filming with a broken toe*, too. VM is a badass. *When he comes upon the funeral pyre of Orcs, suspecting that Merry and Pippin were dead, he kicks an Orkish helmet. Broke his toe at that point; the anguish immediately afterward was real. 0:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOqyK8BCD4UI still have a hard time believing that John Rhys-Davies played Gimli.  Attached File Attached FileTalk about some magic with forced perspective...
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Posted: 6/16/2022 11:14:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I still have a hard time believing that John Rhys-Davies played Gimli. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/72701/OIP__49__jpeg-2420777.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/72701/OIP__48__jpeg-2420779.JPG Talk about some magic with forced perspective... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: In The Fellowship of The Ring, the Uruk Hai Lurtz was supposed to throw the dagger several feet off to the side, away from Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn). Then special effects and camera angles would be used to make it appear that the dagger was thrown directly at Viggo Mortensen. The dagger slipped out of the orc actor's hands, flying directly at Viggo. Viggo deflected the dagger with his sword for real. https://i.makeagif.com/media/3-04-2014/vsWZ0Y.gif Yep. Did a lot of filming with a broken toe*, too. VM is a badass. *When he comes upon the funeral pyre of Orcs, suspecting that Merry and Pippin were dead, he kicks an Orkish helmet. Broke his toe at that point; the anguish immediately afterward was real. 0:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOqyK8BCD4UI still have a hard time believing that John Rhys-Davies played Gimli. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/72701/OIP__49__jpeg-2420777.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/72701/OIP__48__jpeg-2420779.JPG Talk about some magic with forced perspective... His height actually worked well for filming. He was proportionally the correct height relative to the hobbit actors so they could shoot both in one forced perspective. |
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Posted: 6/16/2022 11:32:55 PM EDT
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Not a movie but in Season 5 of The Wire Herc writes down Marlo's phone number for Lester on a notepad so they can illegally get up on a wire. In doing so he carefully peels a sheet off BEFORE writing the number down so no imprint is left on the remaining pad of paper.
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Posted: 6/17/2022 12:46:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not a movie but in Season 5 of The Wire Herc writes down Marlo's phone number for Lester on a notepad so they can illegally get up on a wire. In doing so he carefully peels a sheet off BEFORE writing the number down so no imprint is left on the remaining pad of paper. |
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Posted: 6/17/2022 1:02:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In Jaws they used a midget in a scaled down shark cage in the shoots with real sharks to make the shark look bigger. A live shark then got tangled up in the rigging of the scaled down cage and beat it to pieces trying to free itself. This footage is used in the movie. The cage was empty at the time, so they filmed a scene of Hooper escaping the cage before it is destroyed. I believe I once heard Spielberg or someone else involved in the movie say that they planned on killing off Hooper like in the novel, but with that scene rewritten he was allowed to live. |
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Posted: 6/17/2022 1:24:40 AM EDT
[#46]
Julia Roberts caught aphids from Richard Gere during the filming of Pretty Woman.
Which she then gave to Dennis Hopper in the film Hook. |
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Posted: 6/17/2022 1:43:00 AM EDT
[#47]
Young Guns was filmed, partially, in my back yard.
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Posted: 6/17/2022 1:48:35 AM EDT
[#48]
Peter "Two Quarts" North did not in fact ejaculate two quarts of semen in a single load.
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Posted: 6/17/2022 1:52:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is that true? I've been in East St. Louis late at night, so I shouldn't even question you. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Escape From New York was filmed in East St. Louis because it already looks like that. Saved money not building a set. Is that true? I've been in East St. Louis late at night, so I shouldn't even question you. |
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Posted: 6/17/2022 1:55:01 AM EDT
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Walt Disney wouldn't let Annette Funicello wear a true bikini in the 1963 movie Beach Party.
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