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Home Alone – Buzz’s Girlfriend (from Crankii Badger)
Kevin McCallister and his older brother Buzz don't exactly get along, but the bully does
get burned by one of the movie's most lasting jokes – well actually, it's his girlfriend
who takes most of the hit.
Since the joke about Buzz's girlfriend hinges on the reveal that she is laughably ugly,
the director couldn't bring himself to subject an innocent young actress to that straightforward
an insult.
Instead, he put a boy in a wig for the photo, meaning the joke could work, but nobody's
feelings were hurt in the process.
Scream – The Birth of Ghost Face (from River The Don)
Some horror icons are painstakingly created, and others are just complete luck.
When Wes Craven decided to reinvent the modern slasher movie with Scream, the actual script
never described what kind of mask the killer was wearing.
It was only when scouting for locations that a producer stumbled on the now-famous mask.
When Craven contacted the Fun World company for the right to use their "peanut-eyed ghost"
mask in the movie, the company knew they had the upper hand, and drove a hard bargain.
The crew then designed their own version of the mask - different enough to not get sued
- and the company accepted the offer, and the free publicity that came with it.
The "Ghostface" mask became iconic, but the altered version still made the cut, visible
in the movie's opening sequence.
Dr. No – Itsy Bitsy Spider (from Aidan Butler)
Just because a movie's hero is a fearless badass, that doesn't mean the actor playing
him had to be, too.
For plenty of James Bond fans, Sean Connery will always be the best version of the suave,
womanizing secret agent.
But in his debut, the actor's fear of spiders became a serious hurdle.
When the story planned for James to be threatened by a deadly tarantula in his bed, Connery
couldn't let the spider actually crawl up his arm, so the filmmakers cheated, putting
a pane of glass between the two.
It was easy to see the spider wasn't actually on the actor, so in the end, a stuntman was
used.
It wasn't just Connery who had a thing about spiders though - the stuntman said it was
the scariest scene he ever had to film.
Frozen – Reindeer Games (from Mari Roald Meldal)
Sven the reindeer may be just a supporting player in Disney's megahit, but he still got
plenty of laughs.
The animators took his character seriously, examining real reindeer in their research
trip to Norway, the inspiration for the fictional kingdom of Arandale.
They even had a small reindeer brought into their office to capture its personality, but
soon realized it didn't really have one.
In the end, they relied on Pixar legend John Lasseter's dog for inspiration, and the canine
habits are easy to see in the finished film.
The Godfather – Second Chance (from Emsal Yaclin)
It's hard to imagine the story of the Corleone family was every going to be any different
than the timeless masterpiece audiences eventually got, but the movie almost featured a pair
of award winning icons before either had proved their true talents.
Before James Caan had landed the role of Sonny Corleone, the handsome son of Marlon Brando's
Don, actor Robert De Niro was pursuing the part.
It's a shame to think both Pacino and De Niro could have played brothers in one of cinema's
most revered dramas, but Francis Ford Coppola made it up to De Niro by casting him in the
sequel, as a young Vito Corleone back home in Sicily.
*That* role would land him an Oscar, the first ever given for a role spoken mostly in a foreign
language.
Star Wars – Trusty Old Ford (from Caitlin Mcewan)
As one of the most successful movie stars in history, Harrison Ford has become synonymous
with not one, but TWO iconic movie franchises.
But his rise to fame started with Star Wars - a role that he was never meant to even be
considered for.
After Ford won over George Lucas for a role in American graffiti, the director failed
to see his star potential - but the producers and casting agents around him didn't.
Lucas had no intention of casting Ford as the smug smuggler Han Solo, but agreed to
let him read the part in auditions for the other roles.
After countless hours, and other star actors struggled to deliver, Lucas finally realized
Ford had the character all figured out.
He cast the actor, and the rest is history.
Die Hard With a Vengeance – McClane Says (from Travis Allday)
Before Bruce Willis was jumping on jet fighters or launching cars into helicopters, he was
solving riddles across New York city.
The third Die Hard movie ended with a memorable bang, but did you know that wasn't actually
the original ending?
That's right, Die Hard With a Vengeance originally had a darker, more badass ending that actually
sent John McClane off into the sunset on a happy note.
After tracking Hans Gruber back to Germany, John turns the tables, ambushing his enemy
with riddles of his own, playing Russian roulette with a rocket launcher.
McClane - who had given up drinking and smoking after almost being killed - comes out on top,
and leaving the expired Gruber to spend Christmas with his family.
Star Wars – What’s in a Name? (from Gamer of Darkness)
George Lucas tends to get all the credit for dreaming up the Empire, Rebel Alliance, and
the droids of a galaxy far, far away – but some of the planets owe their names to places
in our very own world.
Lucas hadn’t quite decided on a name for Luke Skywalker’s planet when his first script
was completed, since so much of the action takes place on other worlds.
But in the end, decided that the name of a town in Tunisia was a perfect fit.
“Tataouine” or “Tatween” wasn’t actually home to any of the movie’s locations,
but considering what an achievement it was to make it out of the desert with the film
still on track, maybe the director thought the name would be a good luck charm.
Harry Potter – It Wasn’t Butterbeer (from The Sweggy Dinosaur)
There’s no pressure like that of a Hollywood movie star, and for young actors, it’s only
more intense.
As the star of the Harry Potter series, actor Daniel Radcliffe faced more pressure than
most people could grasp – and has since admitted that he used alcohol to help him
cope.
The actor has since steered clear of drinking entirely, and claims he never actually drank
on the set of the movies.
But coming into work drunk means Radcliffe can point out scenes in the Harry Potter movies
where he is simply “dead behind the eyes.”
Since he refuses to say which movies or scenes, fans can only guess.
Back to the Future – Method Acting (from soccerjocks07)
Marty McFly is usually prepared for anything, even if he’s dropping into a brand new decade
– or century.
But when Marty first winds up in 1885 in Back to the Future Part 3, he needs Doc Brown to
save him from a guaranteed hanging at the hands of Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen.
As it turns out, actor Michael j.
Fox needed some rescuing, too.
To film the scene, Fox had agreed to have a real rope tied around his neck, and shown
how to keep himself safe by holding it slack.
When the procedure slipped his mind during one take, the rope really did cut off his
air supply.
The crew and cast simply thought he had found a way to play a strangled man even better…
until he passed out, at which point co-star Christopher Lloyd severed the rope with a
single gunshot…
We hope.
Probably not though.
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