- Movies, we all love to watch them,
but did you know that some scenes
from your favorite movie may not
have been in the original script,
or may have been a mistake altogether?
Well, if you never thought about these things,
keep watching, because I'm about
to give you 40 fascinating movie facts.
The MPAA would not allow Meet the Fockers
to use the word Fockers in their title,
unless they could prove that there
was a family somewhere in America with the name Focker.
The word zombie is never once used
in the movie Night of the Living Dead.
Iron Man's computer Jarvis is an acronym that
stands for "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System."
Remember that scene in Independence Day
when Will Smith is dragging the unconscious
alien through the desert, and he yells that famous line,
- [Voiceover] And what the hell is that smell?
- Well, that was an unscripted reaction to the
smell of rotting, dead shrimp in a nearby lake.
Tom Hanks was not the original
choice to play the voice of Woody in Toy Story.
Billy Crystal was the first choice,
but he turned down the role because
he wasn't convinced that Toy Story
was going to be successful.
Well, we all make mistakes.
Christopher Lee, the actor who played
Saurman in Lord of the Rings, is the
only cast or crew member that has
ever actually met J.R.R. Tolkien.
While playing around on the set
of The Hunger Games, actress Jennifer Lawrence
accidentally kicked costar Josh Hutcherson
in the head, knocking him out and giving him a concussion.
Lou Ferrigno has either played
or voiced The Incredible Hulk in
every live action version of the character since 1978.
In The Lion King, Timon and Pumbaa
had additional verses for the song
"Can You Feel the Love Tonight,"
but they were cut out by the director,
because he realized they completely
threw off the flow of the song.
The additional verses are available
on YouTube, and if you want to hear them,
just click the annotation on that picture.
Darth Vader only had 12 minutes
of screen time in the original Star Wars movie.
(in Darth Vader voice) I find your
lack of screen time disturbing.
In The Dark Knight scene where the
Joker crashes the party, actor
Michael Caine who plays Alfred,
had lines to say, but completely
forgot to say them, because it was the
first time that he saw Heath Ledger in costume.
O.J. Simpson was originally considered
to play the part of The Terminator,
but James Cameron thought he was too nice
to be taken seriously as a cold-blooded killer.
Yep.
If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit.
Sean Connery has worn a toupée through
every one of his performances as James Bond.
I guess there's hope for me.
In the Home Alone scene where Harry
bites Kevin's finger, Joe Pesci
actually bit Macaulay Culkin's finger,
leaving a scar that he has to this day.
Henry Jones Sr. plays a convincingly older father
to Indiana Jones in the movie franchise,
but in real life, Sean Connery
is only 12 years older than Harrison Ford.
The famous mask worn by Michael Myers
in the Halloween movies is really
just a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
In almost every scene showing Captain Barbosa
in Pirates of the Caribbean,
he's standing to the left of the main actors.
This is because audiences tend
to naturally look left to right,
and actor Geoffrey Rush, who plays Barbosa,
wanted the attention off him when standing
next to the more attractive actors, such as Keira Knightley.
Apparently Barbosa has a bit of a low self-esteem.
Har har har.
When playing Princess Leia in Star Wars,
actress Carrie Fisher never once
wore a bra in any of her scenes.
This is because George Lucas believed
that there would be no bras in space,
and it would be more realistic.
Sure George, that's why.
In Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,
R2-D2 and C-3PO appear in the heiroglyphs
in the arch chamber, which is pretty cool
considering Lucasfilm produced both
Star Wars and the Indiana Jones franchise.
During filming of the movie Fight Club,
Brad Pitt chipped his tooth, but
decided not to get it fixed until
the movie was done filming, because
it seemed more authentic for his character.
In the movie The Big Lebowski, the word "dude,"
is used approximately 161 times.
Dude.
In the movie Braveheart, reserves
from the Irish army were called in
as extras for the battle scenes.
In Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest,
the kissing scene between Jack Sparrow
and Elizabeth Swan was intentionally
cut out of Orlando Bloom's script, in order
to capture an authentic surprised reaction from him.
In the original Star Wars, there's a scene
where the clone troopers are walking
into the control room, and one of them
bangs their head on the door on the way in.
This mistake was missed in editing,
and made it into the final version of the movie.
Over the entire course of production
of Transformers Dark of the Moon,
532 cars were destroyed.
That's a lot of cars, pass one my way, man.
Damn.
Richard Gere was originally considered
to play the role of John McClain in the movie Die Hard.
But they chose not to, because he
has a gerbil in his ass, damn,
I made that last part up.
Casino Royale was the first ever
James Bond movie to be approved
by Chinese censors to be shown in it's entirety.
E.T.'s voice was performed by 67 year old
actress Pat Welsh in the movie E.T. The Extraterrestrial.
E.T. is old?
The first ever animated film nominated
for an Oscar was Beauty and the Beast in 1991.
India's movie industry Bollywood is the
largest in the world, producing over 800 movies a year.
Hollywood only produces about half that.
In the famous shower scene in the movie Psycho,
the blood you see going down the
drain is actually chocolate syrup.
The spider used in the 2002 movie Spiderman
wasn't really a black widow spider,
it was a steatoda spider that was
given anesthesia, knocked out, and painted blue and red.
The story of Mulan was told in China
for over 1500 years before Disney
decided to make it into an animated movie.
The famous ruby red slippers from
the movie Wizard of Oz were autioned
off for $660,000 in the year 2000.
The sketch of Rose in the movie Titanic
was drawn by director James Cameron.
The hands that you see drawing Rose
are Cameron's, and all sketches
in Jack's book were done by him as well.
In the movie Toy Story, the carpet design
in Sid's hallway is the same as that
in the horror movie The Shining.
That's creepy.
Ripley in the movie Alien was originally
intended to be male, but it was
changed to female because audiences
at the time would not have expected
the lone survivor to be female.
The horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street
was loosely based on a real life event.
Sleep tight!
The famous coconut scene from the movie
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
was done out of necessity because
the production team could not afford horses.
All of the scenes in The Matrix
that take place in The Matrix were tinted
green to give the effect that you
were watching it on a computer screen.
And that's it, I hope you guys
enjoyed this video, I highly recommend
that you google movie facts and trivia,
because there's a lot of stuff
that happens by accident and behind the scenes.
And other than that, I will see you
next Saturday with a brand new video.
Peace.
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shocked how many of your favorite
scenes actually happen either by
accident, or weren't in the original script,
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