Mind-blowing movies facts you probably didn't know

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1. Sean Connery wore a wig in every single one* of his Bond performances.
2. Wookie suits are made from human hair.
3. Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid approximately $21,429 for every one of the seven hundred words he said in Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
4. Star Wars was originally prefixed by the definite article The.
5. The original raw footage of Apocalypse Now consisted of over a million feet of film, which is over two hundred hours’ worth.
6. Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho”.
7. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) was the first American film ever to show a flushing toilet.
8. For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid a million dollars, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
9. There is a sound effect called the Wilhelm Scream that has been used in over two hundred movies and television shows since 1951.
10. Django Unchained is the first time in sixteen years that Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t get top billing.
11. Samuel L. Jackson used the word motherfucker to overcome his stutter.
12. Jim Caviezel was struck by lightening while he was on the cross in Passion of the Christ.
13. Michael Myers' mask in Halloween is just a Captain Kirk mask altered slightly and painted white.
14. The director of Cannibal Holocaust had to prove in court that the actors were still alive and did not get killed during the movie
15. Courtney Love insists that the role of the drug dealer, Lance, in Pulp Fiction was offered to Kurt Cobain.
16. The carpet in The Shining and the second floor of Sid’s house in Toy Story are almost identical.
17. Ryan Gosling was cast as Noah in The Notebook because the director wanted someone “not handsome”.
18. Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn failed his driving test eight times.
19. Barbie in Toy Story is voiced by Jodi Benson, best known for her role as Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
20. Porn star Asia Carrera plays the flatmate of Tara Reid in Logjammin’, the film within the film in The Big Lebowski.
21. Sigourney Weaver actually did make that ‘impossible’ basketball shot in Aliens: Resurrection. (See videos, above.)
22. Fox passed on The Watchmen because they thought the script was “one of the most unintelligible pieces of shit" they had read in years.
23. The original cut of The Wolf of Wallstreet had over four hours worth of content, thus had to be cut further.
24. Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon agreed that, if they’re ever confused for one another, they will just go along with it.
25. Sam Raimi has a lucky car that is in all of his films, including his pre-automobile western, The Quick and the Dead.
26. Morgan Freeman’s line in Shawshank Redemption, “Maybe it’s ’cause I’m an Irish”, is not a joke. In the novel ‘Red’ really is Irish.
27. Viggo Mortensen had no intention of working on The Lord of the Rings until his son begged him to do it.
28. Pierce Brosnan was contractually forbidden from wearing a full tuxedo in any non-James Bond movie from 1995-2002.
29. The ornaments that Marv steps on in Home Alone are actually candy.
30. In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Charlie Sheen stayed awake for 48 hours to achieve a suitably wasted look for his cameo. (See video, above.)
31. Fantasia, made in 1940, was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
32. Sean Connery turned down roles in The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones 4, and Blade Runner.
33. Dan Aykroyd’s first script for Ghostbusters was set in the future, and Ghostbusters were completely normal, like paramedics and firemen.
34. Within three days, The Hunger Games became the highest grossing film for Lionsgate Movies.
35. In an alternate ending for Alien: Resurrection, Ripley finally makes it back to Earth.
36. To thank Robin Williams for his work on Aladdin, Disney sent him a late Pablo Picasso painting.
37. Darth Vader only has twelve minutes of screen time in the original Star Wars.
38. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Indiana Jones shoots the Arab swordsman, he was originally meant to fight him, but Harrison Ford was too ill to fight ‘properly.’
39. Saw was filmed in eighteen days.
40. Carrie Fisher never wore a bra with this costume:

41. The charcoal drawing of Kate Winslet in Titanic was actually drawn by James Cameron.

42. In Harry Potter, Alan Rickman was the only person, other than J.K. Rowling, to know Snape was defending Harry because he was in love with Lily Potter, to make his performance genuine.

43. When Edward Norton first fights Brad Pitt in Fight Club, he was asked to actually hit Pitt. Pitt's reaction is genuine and Norton was trying to stop himself from laughing during the scene.

44. Heath Ledger almost broke Jake Gyllenhaal’s nose by grabbing his head and kissing him too hard in Brokeback Mountain.

45. The scene with Jenny on the ground outside her house in Forrest Gump is similar to the painting, Christina’s World.

46. Ridley Scott used The Who’s blue laser lighting to light the Alien egg chamber because they were in the next studio.

47. Pixar’s UP was the first ever animated film and 3D film to open the Cannes Film Festival.

48. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all eleven Academy Awards it was nominated for.

49. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) was reportedly one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite films: 

50. William Goldman’s original script title for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy. The names were reversed when Paul Newman took on the role of Butch.

51. In When Harry Met Sally, Meg Ryan laughed at the Pecan Pie improv and looked at the director, who told her to keep going.

52. Peter O’Toole was nominated for eight performance Oscars and didn’t win a single one.

53. When filming My Left Foot, Daniel Day-Lewis had to be lifted around the set and spoon-fed, as he would never leave his wheelchair.

54. David Patrick Kelly’s infamous Warriors, come out to play line in The Warriors (1979) was completely improvised.

55. Sharlto Copley had not acted professionally before District 9, and had no intention of pursuing acting.

56. Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron’s Avatar (each 1/24 of a second) took an average of 47 hours to render.

57. Spirited Away is the only non-Western animated film to win an Academy Award for best animated feature.

58. 28 Days Later was filmed on a Canon XL-1 DV camera using mini-DV tapes instead of 35mm film.

59. Nigger is said exactly 113 times in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

60. Paranormal Activity cost $15,000 to make and has grossed $210 million so far.

61. Danny Dyer has only ever starred in British-made films.

62. The ‘bong’ musical cue in Inception is actually the song Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien by Edith Piaf, slowed down.

63. The Shawshank Redemption was the fifty-first highest grossing film in 1994, way behind Street Fighter.

64. Michael Fassbender is to produce and star in an Assassin’s Creed movie.

65. After a slew of drug related offences, Robert Downey Jr. was a semi-blacklisted celebrity until Kiss Kiss Bang Bang reignited his career

66. Quentin Tarentino was originally going to use the song Wise Man by Frank Ocean in Django Unchained, but chose not to

67. The childish snickering during The Usual Suspects iconic line-up was genuine, caused by Benicio Del Toro’s persistent flatulence.

68. Hasbro denied Pixar the use of GI Joe in Toy Story when found that the GI Joe doll was going to be blown up by Sid.

69. C.S. Lewis reviewed The Hobbit in 1937, saying: ” The Hobbit may well prove a classic.”

70. The floating pen in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey wasn’t done with CGI, but camera trickery using glass and tape.

71. Orson Welles voiced Unicron in The Transformers Movie in 1986, his penultimate film role.

72. Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad played a minor role in Steven Spielberg's 1998 film, Saving Private Ryan.

73. Bender from Futurama was named after John Bender from The Breakfast Club.

74. Ron Jeremy, the porn star, was an extra in Ghostbusters.

75. In 2002, Steven Spielberg finally finished college after a 33-year hiatus. He turned in Schindler’s List for his student film requirement.

76. On the set of one of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Johnny Depp spent £40,000 on five hundred coats for the cast and crew.

77. On the set of 1982′s The Thing, the entire cast and crew was male.

78. On the first day of filming the exorcism sequence in The Exorcist, Linda Blair’s delivery of her foul-mouthed dialogue so disturbed the gentlemanly Max von Sydow that he forgot his lines.

79. In Iron Man/Avengers, J.A.R.V.I.S. is an acronym for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System. 

80. Peter Ostrum (photo, at right), Charlie in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never acted in another movie after that, and is now a veterinarian.

81. In Saving Private Ryan, all of the main cast were given basic military training except Matt Damon, in the hope that the cast would build a resentment towards him necessary for the role.

82. The Russians made a movie version of The Hobbit in 1985; it’s available on YouTube.

Rico says that Connery took off the wig in his last Bond movie, Never Say Never Again, but Rico won't watch the Russian version of The Hobbit, either...