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[luciazephyr]

[01] — Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] — Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] — Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.

• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Val Kilmer walked around in a $500 pair of Louis Vuitton driving shoes and wore nail varnish while experimenting with several variations of speech patterns for the role. Kilmer also noted this was done much to his son Jack's chagrin.



• Grindhouse - The jukebox featured in 'Death Proof' (named AMi, pronounced "Amy"), is Quentin Tarantino's own. It was trucked to Austin to be used in the film in its very own rig. The list of songs on it was also hand-written by Tarantino.



• Stranger Than Fiction - While filming, Will Ferrell had an earpiece that fed him Emma Thompson's narrative lines in order to assist the other actors react more naturally to Ferrell's seemingly non-sequitur lines.



• Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks got into only one fight during the movie's production, but it was a big one with Mel throwing a huge temper tantrum, yelling and raging and eventually storming out of the studio. Shortly thereafter, Gene received a phone call from Mel, saying, "Who was that lunatic yelling and screaming on the set today? You should fire that bum!"



• The Shawshank Redemption - The American Humane Association monitored the filming of scenes involving Brooks' crow. During the scene where he fed it a maggot, the AHA objected on the grounds that it was cruel to the maggot, and required that they use a maggot that had died from natural causes. One was found, and the scene was filmed.



• Galaxy Quest - Despite frequent whining about his character "Crewman Number Six" being expendable and going to die, Guy Fleegman is the only crew member not to be shot or killed by Sarris during the end shootout.



• Oceans Eleven - Terry Benedict is heard on the phone refusing the request of a "Mr.Levin" to attend the prizefight ringside, saying he should instead watch it on cable TV as "surely he must have HBO." In real life, Gerald Levin is chairman of Time-Warner, of which HBO is a subsidiary, as is Warner Brothers, the film's distributor.



• To Kill a Mockingbird - The first scene that Gregory Peck shot showed him returning home from his character's law office while his children ran to greet him. Harper Lee was a guest on the set that day, and Peck noticed her crying after the scene was filmed. "Why are you crying?" Peck asked. Peck had looked just like her late father, the model for Atticus, Lee explained; Peck even had a little round pot belly like her father's. "That's not a pot belly, Harper," Peck told her, "That's great acting."



• 2001: A Space Odyssey - The first line of dialogue is spoken by a stewardess, 25 minutes and 38 seconds into the film. (Also: There is no dialogue in the first 25 minutes of the movie, nor in thelast 23 minutes (excluding end credits). With these two lengthy sections and other shorter ones, there are around 88 dialogue-free minutes in the movie.)



• The Usual Suspects - The cop's reaction to Benicio Del Toro during the line-up ("In English please") was unscripted and unrehearsed, as was Del Toro's rather strong reaction. The cop, incidentally, is played by screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie. In one scene, Hockney says in response to Fenster, "What did he just say?" That was Kevin Pollak the actor speaking, not his character; he actually did not understand what Benicio Del Toro said.

-Luce

Comments

[canis-takahari.livejournal.com]

Man, Gregory Peck was a classy dude.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

"That's not a pot belly, Harper," Peck told her, "That's great acting."
This trivia makes me ache just a little. I mean, damn.