THE MAN OF STEEL
At no point in
The Man of Steel does Superman drink an entire bottle of Sprite.
Lois Lane is a
human woman, not a lizard of any kind.
At the end of
the movie, when Superman is break dancing, you can see a man wearing an Ed
Hardy shirt in the crowd, watching.
BLADE RUNNER
The title Blade
Runner comes from a deleted section of the movie where Harrison Ford gets a job
delivering straight razors to local barbershops. One of the barbers was played
by a young Donald Trump, who at that time was still pursuing an acting career
and had not settled into his now famous performance piece depicting the worst
humanity has to offer.
While popular
legend has it that Rutger Hauer improvised his entire dying soliloquy, in
reality he’d been reciting that speech to the pizza delivery boy trapped in his
basement for years.
Although Blade
Runner is widely considered a classic, it is actually kind of boring.
Men In Black 4
This is not a
movie, there have only been three Men In Black movies.
CASABLANCA
Bogart and Peter
Lorre feuded throughout filming due to Lorre’s insistence on having his pet
Turkey, Styles, on set at all times. Bogart found this so annoying that he made
a point of dying 7 years earlier than Lorre, so he could get to heaven first
and ‘make sure there was a strict no bird policy.’
While ‘Here’s
looking at you, kid,’ is one of the most famous lines of dialogue in movie
history, Bogart never actually says it. What he actually says is ‘Let’s smooch,
dum-dum.’
Paul Henreid was
under contract to MGM at the time of filming and only permitted to appear after
tense negotiations between studios. Ultimately, he was delivered to the set in
a large trunk each day and was forced to return to the trunk, which was guarded
by armed security personnel, between takes.
LOVE, ACTUALLY
Alternate
Ending: In the final moments of the film, Daniel (Liam Neeson) is visited by a
full-grown version of his step-son Sam, claiming to have returned from the
future to warn him that he must never, never have a biological child. Before
Sam can explain he is shot and killed by an unseen Sniper.
Weeks before its
theatrical release, the producers scrambled to remove an entire storyline that
had Matt Dillon playing a racist cop from the movie. This footage was later
edited into the Academy Award winning film Crash after test audiences found
that films running time anemic.
Before settling
for Alan Rickman, the role of Harry was offered to Norman Mailer.
DIE HARD
While the final
film differs greatly from the novel, Die Hard was initially conceived as an
adaptation of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.
Bruce Willis
came up with the idea that his character should go barefoot throughout the
movie to get around the embarrassing fact that Willis, at that time, did not
know how to tie his own shoes.
Director John
McTiernan was such a huge fan of The Smurfs that he hid eleven tiny Smurf dolls
in various scenes of the movie and has pledged to reward the first viewer to
take note of each with a vast fortune. To date, only eight of the Smurf’s have
been located.
V for Vendetta
The protagonist
of V for Vendetta is based on Guy Fawkes, and imagery from the film has been
embraced by the Occupy movement. Guy Fawkes is famous for hatching a plot to
murder real human beings he did not agree with.
While many
believe that Natalie Portman’s character intentionally quotes author James
Thurber with her line, “Let me check on that,” the connection to Thurber’s work
was purely unintentional, the result of the sheer volume of prose created by
Thurber and the popularity of that common phrase.
V for Vendetta,
a movie that espouses the value of anarchy, was produced by Warner Brothers,
part of one of the largest corporations in the world. The movie was profitable,
and much of its profit has been spent on things that its many fans frequently
decry on Facebook.
Once in a
bookstore I overheard someone referring to V for Vendetta say “It’s really more
of a film than a movie,” and I successfully restrained myself from shouting at
or shoving this person.
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