That the best you can do (Laugh) >> Remember when we dropped some Avengers
things on y'all during superheros week?
Well with Avengers: Age of Ultron right around the corner it's the perfect time to
up the ante, and do an all Avengers episode.
Things, assemble!
Here are seven things you didn't know about The Avengers, probably.
>> Now might be a really good time for you to get angry.
>> I'm always angry.
>> Sorry Eric Bana and Edward Norton, but Mike Ruffalo is our Hulk now.
And he's a freaking awesome Hulk.
But what you may not know is, Ruffalo still isn't hulking it all on his own.
There's some Lou Ferrigno in there, too.
(Sound) >> See, Lou Ferrigno is famous for
playing the Hulk since the 70s.
In addition to his cameos as a Security guard in the last two Hulk movies,
Ferrigno is still getting green on the big screen to this day.
Providing the voice for Hulk in 2008's The Incredible Hulk.
>> Hulk smash!
>> As well as in The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
>> Puny god.
>> Yeah. But I can totally hear it.
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Even before it went on to make all the money ever in all the land, The Avengers
filmmakers knew the project was a huge deal and would require a lot of secrecy.
So they had to rely on code names during production of both films to keep all
the lookie loos from spying, even though it totally didn't work.
The first film's code name was Group Hug, get it?
Yeah, you get it.
Meanwhile, the sequel used the alias After Party.
(Laugh) After Party.
Good one, moving on.
(Noise) >> There are no strings on me.
>> Even if you didn't read the comics,
we should all have an idea of who Ultron is by now.
After all,
the first trailer got a record breaking 34 million views in its first 24 hours.
Dethroning Iron Man 3 which had previously held the record.
But don't feel too badly if you hadn't heard of Ultron before Avengers two.
Turns out Thor and Agent Hill had no idea who Ultron was either.
That's right, Chris Hemsworth and
Cobie Smulders both admitted that they hadn't ever heard of him.
Obviously, fanboys and girls already know all about Ultron and
that he was created by Dr. Hank Pym, aka Ant Man.
At least he was in the comics.
But as we all know, Hank Pym is too busy teaching Scott Lang how to be
Ant Man later this summer to have any time for inventing evil automatons.
So in Age of Ultron,
the titular robot is actually a project that was developed by Tony Stark.
If you guys would be into seeing more ways the Avengers movies or, really,
any superhero movies have altered comic mythology, let us know.
We'll see if we can talk the What's the Difference guys into doing an episode on
that very topic.
>> Spoiler alert, things are different!
>> Well, I guess we don't have to anymore.
Next thing.
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>> Let's jump back to the first movie.
Remember how the character eyes get all glowy when they're possessed?
Well during filming, the actors didn't know that the filmmakers were going to be
screwing with their eyeball at all.
As a matter of fact, neither did the filmmakers.
When The Avengers was in post, director Joss Whedon felt that it wasn't
clear enough that Hawkeye and Selvig were under mind control.
So they added the whole disco eyeballs effect really late in the game.
Definitely a good call because without the effect,
you might think they just randomly decided to be evil dicks.
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Sometimes things go wrong when you're making a movie, and
sometimes they go wrong in the best possible way, like with this car.
(Sound) See the car was supposed to flip all the way over.
But on the first try it stayed on it's nose like we see here and
then fell backward.
Joss Whedon happened to like the mistake, so
when the car did flip over on the second take, he decided to combine the two takes.
Leaving us with a really unique and memorable stunt, so thank you, Joss.
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Remember this scene with Tony Stark in the lab?
Well I bet you didn't know that Captain America is in this scene, or
as least he was.
When they shot this,
Cap was standing right there where the platform is on the right.
After shooting, Joss Whedon decided he wanted to have Cap enter the scene later.
So they removed him digitally and then had him enter later on in the scene.
>> Of the people in this room, which one is, A, wearing a spangly outfit and, B,
not of use?
>> It's a bit unsettling to know that they can remove a whole person from a scene
after the fact and have it essentially be undetectable.
Then again, that hole in the wall behind RDJ right there isn't practical either.
And for this shot, even though they did it in a real field,
they still replaced the real field with a digital one later.
I guess that's just how you roll when have a crazy massive effects budget.
Also boom and boom!
Two bonus things you didn't know.
(Sound) >> I recognize the council has made
a decision, but given that it's a stupid ass decision I've elected to ignore it.
>> Let's wrap this up with a thing about one of the very last shots of the film in
the Helicarrier.
You probably didn't notice that the design of the Helicarrier is actually an eagle,
which is of course the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo, it's a shiegle.
The consoles make up the wings of the eagle, and now that I’ve pointed this out
to you, the eagle’s head right there is pretty obvious.
See, it’s totally an eagle.
And now you’ll never unsee the eagle everytime you watch The Avengers.
All right, that’s it for this episode.
But let us know if you’re pumped for Age of Ultron and
have had your advance tickets for weeks like we have.
Or if you’re some weirdo who somehow is not at all excited and only showed up to
troll the comments section, you can let us know that too I guess.
Thanks for watching and be sure to check out cinefix.com and subscribe for
more truish things about movies and sometimes sneaky eagles.
Right here on Things You Didn't Know.
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