- In honor of today's video, which is all about movies,
I will be wearing my Lord of the Rings one ring replica
and I don't care what you say.
It's not nerdy, it's cool, Mom!
Also, I just realized I look like I'm wearing
something out of The Shi'ar and I'm only 5'6".
So, yes I'm a hobbit.
But really, there's nothing like chillin'
and watching a good film, but did you know
that some of the most famous movies ever made
that are well known by pretty much everyone
actually have huge secrets that you didn't know about?
(popping)
Here are 10 Famous Films that have Crazy Secrets.
Number 10 is Psycho.
Mother says she loves me.
(eerie music)
Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece, Psycho,
has some surprising secrets.
Hitchcock actually made a point of making
cameo appearances in most of his films and in Psycho,
he can be seen through a window wearing a cowboy hat
for whatever reason.
Another strange act is that the reason the entire film
was shot in black and white, even when colored films
were the norm at the time, is that Hitchcock believed
that the famous shower murder scene
would've been too traumatic to watch in color.
In that scene, there are an astonishing 78 camera shots
which create the illusion of Janet Lay being stabbed
in the shower.
Also, side note, this movie was the exact reason
that I couldn't close my eyes in the shower.
I didn't care if I got soap in it.
I was like, I'm not getting murdered!
And Psycho was also the first film in American cinema
history to both show a toilet on screen
and include the sound of it flushing.
What can I say?
People were prudes back in 1960.
Number nine is Poltergeist.
(cheery music)
Poltergeist was released in 1982 and it has
some weird facts attached to it.
First of all, although the film is credited as being
directed by Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Toby Hooper,
many allege that Steven Spielberg secretly
directed the movie.
The story goes that Spielberg was forbidden
by Universal Studios from directing another movie
while working on E.T.
You remember E.T.
He likes to go home.
To get around this, he hired Hooper
to technically direct the movie,
but many of the cast members claim Spielberg
was there every day pulling the strings.
But that wasn't the weirdest part.
Perhaps the strangest secret of Poltergeist
is that during a swimming pool scene
where actors were asked to swim with dead bodies
all around them that they weren't informed
that the bodies weren't dummies.
They were actually real bodies.
Turns out bodies are cheaper than you might think.
Keep that in mind for your next pool party! Yep!
Number eight is The Departed.
Martin Scorsese's The Departed is a well loved film,
but one with a lot of secrets.
For example, some directors like to place symbols
throughout their movies.
Well, in The Departed, Scorsese placed an X
somewhere on screen or in the background to suggest
that a character was either about to die
or would be killed at some point in the film.
Another bizarre fact is that Jack Nicholson believed
that his co-star, Leonardo Dicaprio, wasn't showing
enough fear on screen.
So, to remedy this, Nicholson turned up onset one day
deshoveled, carrying a bottle of whiskey and some matches.
Here's Johnny!
As he muttered to himself acting strange,
he poured the whiskey on the table, lit a fire,
and then pulled a gun on Dicaprio.
In Leo's own words, that changed the dynamic of the scene.
Yeah, that's putting it mildly Leo.
Number seven is The Conqueror.
(playful music)
The Conqueror was a film about Genghis Khan
played by John Wayne in one of the strangest
casting decisions ever.
But that's not all that's weird about this film.
Made in 1956 by RKO Pictures, The Conqueror was nicknamed
an RKO radioactive picture because of a tragedy
which happened during filming.
One of the locations chosen for the film
was a nuclear test site in the Nevada desert.
Well, nothing like showing up onset with two arms
and leaving with four.
Once the location was finished, Howard Hughes,
the man who funded The Conqueror,
then had 60 tons of the radioactive soil
transported to Hollywood to make the sets used there
look consistent.
Hey there, uh, excuse me Mr. Hughes.
Hi there, Matt Santoro, I make videos on YouTube,
bald guy.
Uh, listen, you could've just used any sand
instead of the radioactive stuff.
What's the matter for you?
By 1980, 91 of the crew had developed cancer
with 46 of them dying, including John Wayne himself.
Racked with guilt, Hughes spent $12 million
on every existing copy of the movie
to stop it from being shown for years.
Number six is The Blob.
Being a blob is a good life.
The Blob is a famous science fiction B movie
from 1958, but the little known story behind it
is way more fascinating.
Back in 1950, in Philadelphia, two police officers
were on patrol on September 26th.
They claimed to see an object float down from the sky.
Now, this was not a usual event,
so the officers searched for the object
and what they allegedly found is
the stuff of um, nightmares.
Apparently, they discovered a huge, gelatinous purple blob
that was 1.83 meters in diameter.
Basically me after an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Inside of it, strange crystal-like formations
could be seen through it's semi-transparent skin.
One of the officers touched the blob
to see what it was and well,
he wasn't eaten alive like in the film.
In fact, the blob just dissolved into nothingness,
but it was the basis for the classic movie.
It just didn't eat everyone who tried to take over
the world, it was a good blob.
Number five is Alien.
(growling)
That's why I'll never be in movies.
In 1979, Ridley Scott directed Alien
and it has a few lesser-known facts associated with it.
In the scene where John Hertz character
first descends into the alien's ship
and passes through the smokey light beam
which reacts when touched, the crew actually
borrowed lighting equipment from the band, The Who,
to pull off this effect.
But that isn't the only bizarre effect in the movie.
The face hugger creature, during the autopsy scene,
was made out of oysters and other seafood put together
by Ridley Scott himself
so that it would look the most organic.
They're horrific!
It's just a clam.
But perhaps most bizarre of all, the full-sized
alien creature has translucent skin on its head.
Although it's difficult to see in the film,
there's actually a visible skull inside of it.
The designer apparently used a real human skull
when making it.
Oh, because authenticity is important, I guess.
That's disturbing.
Number four is Rocky IV.
Speaking of authenticity, Sylvester Stallone went
above and beyond during the making of Rocky IV.
In this century and to the iconic boxing film series,
the Italian stallion, Rocky Balboa,
traveled all the way to the Soviet Union
to fight Ivan Drago.
Then, of course, being the man who killed his best friend.
Sylvester Stallone wanted the fight to look real.
So he and Dolph Lundgren, who played Ivan,
agreed to legitimately spar for a few shots.
Throwing real punches, both actors were in great shape.
But when Lundgren punched Stallone in the chest,
he slammed his heart against his chest bone.
Uh yeah, you wanna go?
(humming)
This caused Stallone's heart to swell
and landed him in intensive care for
eight days before recovering.
Hey yo, that's a heavy price to pay for a heart, ya know?
But the fight looked good, eh?
Number three is Batman Returns.
Batman Returns was criticized for being too dark
for younger audiences back in 1992 when it was released.
But its problems started way even before that.
In possibly one of the most bizarre moments
in casting history, Sean Young, the famous actress
from the films such as Blade Runner, Dune, and Ace Ventura,
went on a mission to land the role of Catwoman.
But rather than going the old-fashioned route,
you know, of asking your agent to let Tim Burton,
the Director know that she was interested in the role,
she dressed up in a homemade Catwoman costume
and turned up in character on Joan Rivers talk show.
Yeah ya know, just always really liked acting.
But when that didn't work, she found out where
Tim Burton was having a meeting and burst in,
leapt onto the table and began doing
her best cat impression.
Michelle Pfeiffer got the part.
Number two is Halloween.
(eerie music)
Hey, it's a whole lot of bald.
Halloween helped start the slasher movie craze,
but the film had one bizarre secret
which was central to its success.
In the movie, an escaped psychopath known as Michael Myers,
stalked Jamie Lee Curtis and others on Halloween
to chilling effect and Myers' mask is one of the most
iconic parts of the movie.
Yet, it has less than a creepy origin.
The mask is actually a William Shatner mask
from Star Trek.
Scotty, beam me up.
I've gotta go slash some hoes.
It was actually bought for just a few dollars.
Halloween was made on such a small budget
that they couldn't make these masks from scratch.
So, James T. Kirk just had to do.
The mask was then bleached and altered slightly
to become a terrifying visage of Michael Myers
appearing in eight films so far.
Scotty, that's a lot of mileage for a Shatner mask.
Now excuse me while I go make love to an alien.
And number one is The Wizard of Oz.
The Wizard of Oz is one of the most iconic films
ever made, but it has a few secrets up its sleeve,
most notably revolving around a dog actor.
In the film, Judy Garland's character has a dog named Toto.
The film's producer, Mervyn LeRoy,
wanted to dress an actor up in a dog costume
and have them play the part.
Well, thankfully, that decision wasn't made
and a female dog called Terry got the part.
It was decided that Terry should be paid
$125 a week for working on the film.
That was a lot of money back in 1939
and also, why you paying a dog money?
It's a dog.
It was also decided that the actors who played
the munchkins of Oz should be paid only $50 each.
Is that a short joke?
Half the pay for half the size?
Rude.
Despite having speaking and singing roles,
producers thought Terry's talents of barking
and running around were worth more.
Okay, I'm not being dog-ist here
but if I was there, I would've organized a munchkin strike
'cause I would've been among them.
Like I said, I'm 5'6".
Munchkin or hobbit, that's all I've got.
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