The main aim of any given movie is to encapsulate its audience.
As a general rule, that's the job of the actors, so the audience's eyes are generally focused
on them.
Whether it's through breathtaking action, hilarity, sheer emotionally-inspiring brilliance
or otherwise, an actor's performance is designed to keep an audience fixated.Sometimes that
can mean missing interesting, weird and wonderful things that might be going on in the background;
Extras behaving strangely, bizarre cameos, strange objects or things that simply shouldn't
be there have all been seen in the background of movies.
This video will take a look at some great examples of those things.
Here are the ten weirdest things found in the background of famous movies scenes.
Ron Jeremy in Ghostbusters Set in New York City, 1984's Ghostbusters
saw the titular team - played by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson
respectively - defending the Big Apple from a wave of supernatural beings and activity.
Towards the end of the movie, after their ghost containment unit had exploded, a crowd
of people gathered to witness the resulting devastation.
That crowd was mostly made up of generic acting extras, but if you look close enough, you'll
actually see that a legend of the pornographic industry was among them.
None other than Ron Jeremy himself - sporting his iconic trademark moustache - can be seen
to the left of the screen in one particular shot.
A Man Throwing a Dog in the Ocean in Mr. Nanny Hulk Hogan in movies... that's something we'd
all rather forget, right?
Well, sadly, it definitely happened, as the early 1990s saw the wrestling superstar failing
emphatically in his attempts to become the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. 1993's Mr. Nanny
was atrocious, but the weirdest thing in the movie happened very randomly in the background.
As Hogan's character was riding on his motorcyle near the ocean, a random guy can be briefly
seen throwing his dog into the water behind him.
It's a good job Hogan didn't notice this bizarre act by the man in question, as it might have
resulted in Hulkamania running wild all over him, brothers!
The Gross Restaurant Name in Anchorman In the hilarious Anchorman: The Legend of
Ron Burgundy, Christina Applegate's Veronica Corningstone - Burgundy's rival, lover and
eventual co-anchor - visits a Mexican restaurant with a group of her female co-workers.
Prior to the scene in question, the sign for the restaurant is shown on screen.
Its name is “Escupimos en su Alimento”, which means absolutely nothing to the movie's
predominantly English-speaking audience.
However, when the name is translated into English, it actually means “We spit in your
food.”
Nice, huh?
Tyler Durden's Facebook Page in The Social Network
In David Fincher's brilliant The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg was played by Jesse Eisenberg.
In one particular scene in the movie, Eisenberg's Zuckerberg is seeing working on Facebook at
his computer.
For a brief moment, he could be seen on the profile of a certain Tyler Durden, as the
words "Tyler Durden's Photos" were clearly visible on screen.
Tyler Durden was, of course, the iconic main character in Fight Club - a movie that was
also helmed by Fincher earlier in his career.
The Kid Needing to Pee in Back to the Future Part III
At the end of Back to the Future Part III, when Christopher Lloyd's Emmett Brown returns
from his time-travelling exploits to visit Marty McFly in the present day, he reveals
that he and Clara had produced two children - Jules and Verne.
While Emmett and Marty are chatting, in the background, the child playing Verne can be
seen making a "come on" gesture whilst pointing at his crotch.
One theory regarding this is that he was indicating that he needed to use the bathroom, while
another suggests he was mimicking a gesture being made off-camera by a member of the movie's
crew.
Either way, it's a little bit creepy.
An Extra Falls to the Floor For No Reason in The Dark Knight Rises
As a general rule, the fight choreography in all three of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight
Trilogy movies was pretty amazing, but a particular scene in The Dark Knight Rises had a very
farcical moment in it.
There's a scene on a rooftop in which Christian Bale's Batman and Anne Hathaway's Catwoman
are fighting Bane's henchman and, in the background, you can see one the extras portraying one
of the henchman in a combat pose.
Then, out of nowhere, without anyone actually touching him, he falls to the ground as if
he'd been nailed by the Dark Knight.
Nice work, Mr. Extra
A Man in a Cowboy Hat in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
In the final scene of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, after reclaiming
the Black Pearl itself, Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow orders his merry band of pirates
to get to work on the deck.
As they start to spread out in order to get on with their respective duties, a very out-of-place
man can be seen in the background wearing a white T-shirt and a cowboy hat, staring
out into the ocean.
Basically, a crew member had managed to accidentally place himself in shot and nobody noticed it
during the post-production process.
Shiver me timbers!
Pac-Man in Tron The very nature of Tron meant that it was
begging to be packed with video game references and Easter eggs - and there were indeed several.
The most prominent allusion to any video game, however, is definitely Pac-Man.
When one of the movie's antagonists, Sark, is on the bridge of his command ship surveying
a map of the system, a tiny Pac-Man can be seen working his way around the map.
Moreover, if you listen carefully enough, you can even hear the sound effects from the
game - namely the noise Pac-Man himself makes as he makes his way around his maze-like levels.
R2-D2 in Star Trek Into Darkness Star Trek and Star Wars have long been seen
as the two mightiest science-fiction franchises in Hollywood and, as a result, there's something
of a rivalry between the two franchises and their fans.
However, in Star Trek Into Darkness, there's actually something of a minor crossover between
the two.
In the middle of the Vengeance's attack on the U.S.S.
Enterprise in the movie, when part of the iconic starship was badly damaged, Star Wars
character R2-D2 can be seen being sucked out of it and propelled into space.
Of course, J.J.
Abrams was on directorial duties for this movie - and he would later go on to direct
Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Given that he's a fan of both franchises, that probably explains this.
Captain America's Shield in Iron Man
Thinking about it now, seeing Captain America's shield in any Marvel Cinematic Universe movie
wouldn't be much of a surprise.
However, when a prototype of it first appeared on Tony Stark’s work bench in the first
Iron Man movie back in 2008, it was nothing short of mind-blowing for comic book fans.
At that time, shared comic book movie universes didn't even exist and a Captain America movie
wasn’t even on the cards, so it was really quite a surprise to see it.
Of course, since then, the prototype appeared even more prominently in Iron Man 2 and Captain
America has had three of his own movies, as well as appearing in two Avengers ensemble
offerings, but that doesn't alter the fact that it was strange seeing it at the the time.
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