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I'll start. In the movie "Heat," when they do the big bank shootout along the street you can see the Westin hotel that John Malkovich's character fell off in the movie "In the Line of Fire."
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Quoted: I'll start. In the movie "Heat," when they do the big bank shootout along the street you can see the Westin hotel that John Malkovich's character fell off in the movie "In the Line of Fire." View Quote |
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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
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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. Attached File |
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Quoted: I'll start. In the movie "Heat," when they do the big bank shootout along the street you can see the Westin hotel that John Malkovich's character fell off in the movie "In the Line of Fire." View Quote The shootout was also filmed next to the US Bank tower which was blown up by aliens in Independence Day. |
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The “chicken fuckers” in Super Troopers were Kevin Heffernan’s (Farva’s) parents
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During the filming of First Blood in 1982, thieves stole the guns used in the movie.
The stolen guns included two M-60 machine guns, fourteen M-16s, and eleven AR-15 semi-automatic rifles. |
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The movie that Tony Scott originally wanted to make Top Gun as was going to be, "Apocalypse Now... set on an aircraft carrier."
But the studio very firmly told him no. So he made a movie that was, "rock stars flying fighter jets." |
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Val Kilmer played Elvis in True Romance, but the family refused to give Tony Scott permission to use his likeness in the film, so he’s credited as “Mentor”.
It didn’t stop him from having the main character (Christian Slater) admit he’d fuck Elvis, though. |
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The guy who played the commandant in The Great Escape had actually been a German soldier in WWII, on the eastern front. Somewhat ironically, he ended up a POW, but managed to escape and walked back to Germany.
Attached File Donald Pleasance (who plays one of the British POWs in the same movie) was also a British POW in real life, having been shot down in a Lancaster and held in Stalag Luft I. |
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Quoted: How in the bloody hell were they going to lift an aircraft carrier with a helicopter? View Quote How in the bloody hell did they intend to keep an aircraft carrier operational when cut off from its command structure and supply chain? I don't know what that movie would have looked like. But I must admit I kinda want to see something like that. Even though it would probably completely kill the old suspension of disbelief. I suppose the Battlestar Galactica side story, Razor is the closest thing to such a movie that was ever made. Battlestar Galactica: Razor | Obey The Command |
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The red Malibu convertible driven by John Travolta in Pulp Fiction was Quentin Tarantino’s own personal car. It was stolen during filming and wasn’t recovered until 19 years later in Oakland, CA.
The owner didn’t know it was stolen. The thieves had cloned another car’s VIN. He’d spent $40k restoring the car. Tarantino took the car back. The guy who restored it was SOL on his $40k. |
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Quoted: The red Malibu convertible driven by John Travolta in Pulp Fiction was Quentin Tarantino’s own personal car. It was stolen during filming and wasn’t recovered until 19 years later in Oakland, CA. The owner didn’t know it was stolen. The thieves had cloned another car’s VIN. He’d spent $40k restoring the car. Tarantino took the car back. The guy who restored it was SOL on his $40k. View Quote While filming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood they had the option of using the actual car used by the Manson family murderers to drive to the location of the first murders. Tarantino and the rest of the crew declined use of the car, saying that it was just too creepy. |
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Quoted: While filming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood they had the option of using the actual car used by the Manson family murderers to drive to the location of the first murders. Tarantino and the rest of the crew declined use of the car, saying that it was just too creepy. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The red Malibu convertible driven by John Travolta in Pulp Fiction was Quentin Tarantino’s own personal car. It was stolen during filming and wasn’t recovered until 19 years later in Oakland, CA. The owner didn’t know it was stolen. The thieves had cloned another car’s VIN. He’d spent $40k restoring the car. Tarantino took the car back. The guy who restored it was SOL on his $40k. While filming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood they had the option of using the actual car used by the Manson family murderers to drive to the location of the first murders. Tarantino and the rest of the crew declined use of the car, saying that it was just too creepy. Wow. I think they made the right decision. |
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It took me a while to realize the little girl from water world grew up to be napoleon’s girlfriend
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Kurt Russell destroyed a 150 year old Martin guitar by mistake when filming The Hateful Eight.
https://screenrant.com/kurt-russell-hateful-eight-guitar-destroyed-accident/ Oops! |
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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.
Attached File Gil Hill in his prime |
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Quoted: 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=TEX77SsKenU View Quote And was crooked |
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It's not interesting but it is a fact. The new Gerard Butler movie "Last seen alive" SUCKS. |
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In Star Trek IV(the whale one) when Chekov and Uhura were asking for directions to the navy base, all the extras were supposed to ignore them, a nice play on a Russian in the 80's asking about "nuclear wessels". One actress decided to adlib useless directions, everyone stayed in character and it made the final cut.
In Guardians of the Galaxy Quill drops the sphere with the Infinity Stone. That was an accident but felt so in character they left it in. If you want to watch a movie about accelerating a vehicle owned by Christopher Lloyd past normal speeds to travel back in time to fix the present, your choices are Back to the Future or Star Trek 4. When filming the 1928 Noah's Ark the director wanted real reactions from the extras in the flood scene so he didn't tell them 600,000 gallons of water were about to be released. 3 died, 1 leg amputated, numerous bones broken. John Wayne was one of the uninjured. |
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Escape From New York was filmed in East St. Louis because it already looks like that.
Saved money not building a set. |
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In the movie "Traffic', the scene where the guys crackhead daughter escapes rehab was filmed a 1/4 mile away from where I grew up. Drive by there often visiting family. Place is called Camp Joy. Went there on a school field trip when I was a grade schooler, they let us zip line between trees.
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The Mortuary scenes in "Taking Chance" were not filmed at the Dover facility, but on a replica set.
Also, the airport at PHL was not PHL but instead, Newark Liberty. |
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Quoted: In Star Trek IV(the whale one) when Chekov and Uhura were asking for directions to the navy base, all the extras were supposed to ignore them, a nice play on a Russian in the 80's asking about "nuclear wessels". One actress decided to adlib useless directions, everyone stayed in character and it made the final cut. View Quote Heh, wonder if she got a SAG card out of that. |
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There's a scene in Predator where Billy's rifle didn't have the shotgun mounted to it.
ETA pic Attached File |
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Quoted: During the filming of First Blood in 1982, thieves stole the guns used in the movie. The stolen guns included two M-60 machine guns, fourteen M-16s, and eleven AR-15 semi-automatic rifles. View Quote |
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The TV Show Justified with the story set in rural Eastern KY, was never actually shot/filmed in KY. At no time was the series filmed in KY. Another example of Hollywood exploiting the people of Appalachia with wild over the top stories, yet never actually doing anything to help those said people in any way.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was extremely low budget. Filming conditions were brutal. Real rotting animal bodies were commonly used in the Texas summer heat. At least 1 human skeleton was real because skeletons from the 3rd world were cheaper than fakes. Most actors wore the same clothes. Not copies of costumes, the same clothes day after day.
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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 |
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Quoted: Quoted: 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=TEX77SsKenU And was crooked That seems redundant. |
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