I’m serious, this video really is just 50 useless pieces of movie trivia.
There’s no hidden message or deeper analysis here.
Or is there?
Well, only one way to find out.
This orc in The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King was modelled off Harvey Weinstein.
The bartender in The Gentleman pulls a pint of Gritchie pale ale, a reference to director
Guy Ritchie.
The coordinates for the enemy airbase in Top Gun Maverick are those of Point Nemo, the
point in the ocean furthest from any landmass.
These two people in Goodfellas are actually the parents of director Martin Scorsese.
This headline in the newspaper Brendon Gleeson’s character reads in Paddington 2 is a reference
to the opening line of Elvis’s song Jailhouse Rock.
The Millennium Falcon can be seen parked at the diner in Spaceballs.
Chad Stahelski, the director of the John Wick movies, was Keanu Reeves' stunt double in
The Matrix.
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the characters in this painting are caught
getting frisky.
In this scene from The Two Towers, the Gimli is being played by his scale double, Brett
Beadie.
In Austin Powers Goldmember, Mini Me is wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey because its Mike
Myer’s favourite hockey team.
This woman in Full Metal Jacket is the daughter of director Stanley Kubrick.
One of his other daughters appears in Eyes Wide Shut while this kid is Kubrick’s grandson.
In the gunbarrel sequences of the first three James Bond movies, James Bond is actually
being played by stuntman Bob Simmons not by Sean Connery.
The ending of the Lilo and Stitch movie was reanimated after 9/11, which happened only
a few months before it was due to be released.
Em’s slide on her motorcycle in Nope is a reference to an animae tradition called
the Akira slide.
In Terminator 2, the actor Robert Patrick was specially trained to fire a gun without
blinking.
The school in Spiderman Homecoming was founded in 1962, the same year Spiderman comics were
released.
This scene from The Two Towers took 5 takes to get right.
The bartender in Tron: Legacy is Steven Lisberger, the director of the original film.
In American Psycho, Paul Allen’s business card uses the same font as the opening titles.
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright appear as these zombies in Land of the Dead because the director
was such a fan of Shaun of the Dead.
Jo switching her writing hands in the 2019 Little Woman adaptation is a nod to the novel’s
author being ambidextrous.
While the news reporters are speaking in Hellboy 2, the ticker tape talks about Blade II, which
was also directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Sam Raimi included a poster of Wes Craven’s movie The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead.
Wes Craven then included The Evil Dead on the TV in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
The mask being worn by the Joker in the Dark Knight is modelled off one seen in an episode
of the original Batman TV series.
In the Hateful Eight, Kurt Russel is seen smashing an authentic 150-year old guitar
worth $40,000.
Music time’s over.
No no no!
Whoa!
He was supposed to smash a replica prop – this is why Jennifer Jason Leigh is so surprised.
The dead girls in Us are positioned in the same way as the murdered twins in the Shining.
In the Matrix, this is an actual BDSM club in Sydney and the extras are wearing their
own clothes.
In Interstellar, this 500 acre cornfield was grown specifically for the movie, then sold
for a profit by Christopher Nolan.
None of the people Rocky is running past are extras – they’re just locals who happened
to be in shot.
The person throwing him an orange wasn’t scripted at all.
The worst toilet in Scotland that we see in Trainspotting actually smelled quite good
because the shit was made of chocolate.
This window in Avatar is shaped like the American flag, and the square even reads 50 where the
stars should go.
In Troy, neither Eric Bana nor Brad Pitt used a stunt double for their duel.
But they agreed to pay each other for every accidental hit.
In this scene from The Two Towers, Aragorn is wearing the gauntlets of Boromir, who died
in the first film.
The famous sketch of Rose in Titanic was actually drawn by James Cameron himself.
He’s left handed so the shot was flipped to match Leonardo DiCaprio in the wide shots.
When Hades says “guys, relax, its only half time” in Hercules, it’s the exact halfway
point of the movie’s runtime.
In Event Horizon, Sam Neill asked that the Union Jack in the Australian flag be replaced
with the aboriginal flag, which is how he hopes it will look by 2047 when the movie
is set.
The cats on Deadpool’s T-shirt in Deadpool 2 belong to Taylor Swift, and they had to
get permission from her to use their images.
This man is the real life Chris Gardner that Will Smith plays in The Pursuit of Happiness.
This is the real Erin Brockovich.
I'm sure there's another piece of movie trivia for this shot in The Two Towers
but I can't for the life of me remember what it is.
In Liar Liar, Jim Carrey cameos in his own movie, appearing in the background as his
Fire Marshall Bill character from the show In Living Colour.
Scrooge falling over in this scene is not intentional – Bill Murray slipped on the
water he had just thrown on the waiter.
This blood splatter in Children of Men wasn’t supposed to happen, but the director yelling
cut was drowned out by all the noise so they carried on filming.
The blood had to be digitally erased from the shot in a way that makes it look like
its slowly evaporating.
This scene in La La Land was filmed with a single camera in a single take.
This girl on the bus in Forrest Gump is Tom Hanks’ daughter.
To hide the twist in the Empire Strikes Back, the scripted line said on set was “you don’t
know the truth.
Obi-Wan killed your father.”
Mark Hamill was the only cast member who knew the real line during filming.
So when that happened during the screening, Harrison turned to me and said “Hey kid.
You didn’t fucking tell me that.”
Laurence Fishburne lied about his age in order to star in Apocalypse Now – he was only
14 when production began.
This entire sequence in Elf was shot in New York City on the last day of filming and everyone
Will Ferrell interacts with are just random people.
It’s so annoying that I’ve forgotten the other piece of movie trivia about this shot!
It’s so frustrating it makes me want to scream in pain!