Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[bhskittykatt]

The Lady Washington has been featured as The Interceptor from Pirates of the Caribbean, the Enterprise at the beginning of Star Trek: Generation, as the Jolly Roger on the series Once Upon a Time, and as herself in Macklemore's "Can't Hold Us" music video. In the first three, she is shown with a steering wheel. You guys, the steering wheel is a lie! The Lady Washington is steered with a tiller, which is basically a really big pole that controls the rudder. The steering wheel is simply a prop that they pull out for the purpose of filming.

The Lady Washington has a sister ship: The Hawaiian Chieftain. The Hawaiian Chieftain actually does have a functional steering wheel. The two ships sail together, offering tours and mock sea battles. The quickest way to annoy one of The Hawaiian Chieftain's crew is to ask them "So, what movies has your ship been in?"

[celticgrl]

In L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s slippers were silver. They were changed to “ruby” in order to take advantage of the Technicolor wow factor. Multiple sets were created for the film. A pair of the ruby slippers were stolen in 2005, but several others remain under lock and key.


The shabby coat that Frank Morgan’s Professor Marvel/The Wizard wore was a thrift store find. It was discovered later that it used to belong to Oz author, L. Frank Baum (his name was sewn into the garment). Baum’s widow and tailor confirmed the find.

[KhirasHY]

Movie trivia edition!

In Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million for his performances (just over half the budget). He was initially also going to play the role that went to Slim Pickens (of the man who rode the bomb), but was injured on set and could not do so.

Additionally, many of the Dr. Strangelove cast members were not aware the movie was a black comedy, and would not have agreed to be in the film had they known. Kubrick tricked them by doing "serious takes" of each scene, then doing a "goofy take" to lighten up spirits from the dark subject matter. When George C Scott saw the movie in complete form, and saw which takes were used, he stormed out of the theater and refused to speak of the movie ever again.

In order to properly look like a drugged up felon, Charlie Sheen stayed awake for 48 hours prior to filming his scenes in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. If only he'd waited a couple decades...

In the movie Alien, when the creature bursts out of John Hurt's chest/stomach, the other actors were not informed this was going to happen to catch their actual shocked reactions on film at the surprise.

While under contract as the James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan was contractually prohibited from wearing a tuxedo in any other film.

The line-up scene in The Usual Suspects was originally meant to be serious, but things kept going wrong. Benicio del Toro kept farting during the scene, causing everyone to laugh repeatedly. Additionally, each actor completely ad libbed the line "Give me the keys you mother fucker", which only made everyone laugh harder. Benicio del Toro had the idea during the line-up to speak almost unintelligibly, and when the officer in charge says "In English, please", that is actually the director telling him to repeat the line. After filming, the take looked so natural, they decided to keep it.

The original, raw footage from Apocalypse Now included over 230 hours of footage, over 1,250,000 feet of film. Naturally, this was edited down slightly for the actual movie.

[fireheart]

In L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s slippers were silver. They were changed to “ruby” in order to take advantage of the Technicolor wow factor. Multiple sets were created for the film. A pair of the ruby slippers were stolen in 2005, but several others remain under lock and key.


The shabby coat that Frank Morgan’s Professor Marvel/The Wizard wore was a thrift store find. It was discovered later that it used to belong to Oz author, L. Frank Baum (his name was sewn into the garment). Baum’s widow and tailor confirmed the find.

Apparently they gave the coat to his widow afterwards as well.

As for "method acting", in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film, the reactions of the cast when they walk into the "chocolate room" are genuine. They were forbidden to look upon the set to ensure that their reactions were priceless. Apparently the Oompa-Loompa reactions were the same.

Another "you don't know this moment's going to happen" part came during the scene when Wonka goes off at Charlie. He hadn't told him in advance what was going to happen and as a result, Charlie's reaction is genuine. He even kept his distance off-screen to enhance the effect.

On top of that, when the crew were setting up Wonka's office and cutting things in half, someone accidentally cut through a coffee cup that WASN'T being used in the film and didn't realise his mistake until coffee started spilling out of it. They also wanted to cut through the light bulb, but couldn't figure out a way to do this safely.

ETA: More Wizard of Oz Trivia!

-Apparently the snow used in the poppy scene was actually asbestos
-Judy Garland had to wear a very tight corset around her chest to indicate that she was younger...
-The Lion apparently could not eat regular food once his prosthetics were put on, so instead he'd eat lunch and have the prosthetics redone afterwards.
-In the scene where the witch leaves munchkinland, the smoke came before the actress could leave. When they reshot the scene however, the actress actually caught fire! (her makeup had copper in it)
-If you look closely at the scene where Dorothy sees Miss Gulch transform into a witch (during the tornado scene), her shoes end up changing into the red ones. The inside joke is that she's meant to be the Wicked Witch of the East (ie the one that they start singing "Ding dong the witch is dead" over)
-ALL of the Munchkin voices were dubbed, due to many of the actors not understanding English and/or singing well. The exceptions are hte girls that hand flowers to Dorothy. (admittedly, I do believe it is quite hard to dance en pointe and sing "the lullaby league" at the same time)

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celticgirl: wow, what an amazing coincidence. Life's bizarre.

fireheart, thanks. It's such an interesting movie in so many ways. Since you're apparently up on such things, is it true that Buddy Epsen had to quit the Tin Man role because of the make-up?

[fireheart]

fireheart, thanks. It's such an interesting movie in so many ways. Since you're apparently up on such things, is it true that Buddy Epsen had to quit the Tin Man role because of the make-up?

Sort of. At the time, the makeup used was a powder instead of a paste. He accidentally inhaled some and it caused an allergic reaction, resulting in his hospitalisation. When they recast the role, it was changed to a paste and Jack Haley had no issues apart from accidentally getting some in his eye.

[Tyg3rW01f]

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[KhirasHY]

MORE movie trivia!

In The Matrix: Reloaded, during the highway chase scene, the license plate on Trinity's car says DA203. If you look in Daniel 2:3, which says "he said to them, 'I have had a dream that troubles me and I want to know what it means.'" This is possibly making reference to Neo's dream, because he went to the oracle partly to figure out what his dream about Trinity meant. The biblical text is speaking about King Nebuchadnezzar's searching for the meaning of his dream. In Verse 3, the Nebuchadnezzar says, "I have dreamed a dream." In Verse 5, when asked to explain his dream, he says, "The thing is gone from me" (all this is from the classic King James Version). Near the end of the movie as the Nebuchadnezzar explodes as a result of the sentinels' bomb, Morpheus says "I have dreamed a dream, and now that dream has gone from me."

In X-Men 2, the entire computer list that Mystique is looking at on Stryker's computer are mutants from the Marvel universe: Guthrie (2) are brother and sister Sam and Paige, Cannonball and Husk, Keniucho Harada is The Silver Samurai; Garrison Kane is Kane from the Weapon X program; Remy LeBeau is Gambit; Eric Lansherr is Magneto, though it is supposed to be spelt Erik Lehnsherr; Artie Maddicks is Big Eyes; Jamie Madrox is Multiple Man; Xi'an Coy Mahn is Karma; Maximoff (2) are the brother and sister Pietro and Wanda, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch of the Avengers, both are the children of Magneto; Kevin McTaggart is Proteus, Son of Moira McTaggart; Danielle Moonstar is Mirage, Psyche; Ororo Munroe is obviously Storm; Franklin Richards (You only see the "Lin Richards" ), the son of Reed Richards (Mr Fantastic) and the Invisible Woman (Sue Richards).

The movie Psycho is the first ever film which showed a toilet flush.

The slow motion sound effect used in the movie Dredd was inspired by a Justin Bieber song, slowed down by 800%.

In Saving Private Ryan, all the main actors besides Matt Damon were forced to undergo a brutal week long fitness camp for their roles as soldiers. Damon was exempt from it in order to generate genuine resentment towards him and his character.

Gene Wilder only accepted the role as Willy Wonka on the condition that during his entrance in the movie, he would be walking with a cane and a limp, then somersault and bounce back up. Asked why, Wilder said: “Because from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”

The scene in The Breakfast Club in which all the characters sit in a circle on the floor of the library and tell stories about why they were in detention was not scripted. Hughes told them all to ad lib.

In Liar Liar, when Fletcher literally beats himself up in the restroom, no sound effects were used; those are really the sounds of Jim Carrey’s head slamming into the urinal, floor and walls.

In A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson repeated his famous courtroom monologue as Col. Jessep off-camera several times so director Rob Reiner could film the reactions of other actors from various angles. Nicholson’s memorable on-camera performance was filmed last, but according to Reiner and the other cast members, Nicholson gave it his all every take as if he was on camera.

Word use in The Big Lebowski: "Man" is said 147 times, "Dude" is used 161 times (160 spoken and once written), "fuck" and its derivatives are used 292 times, mention of The Dude's rug being pissed on are made 17 times, while "it really tied the room together" is said 5 times.

Also in The Big Lebowski (spoilers here for Miller's Crossing and Fargo as well), the movie concludes a three-film running gag by the Coen Brothers of killing Steve Buschemi's characters, but making sure his remains were smaller and smaller each time. In Miller's Crossing, Steve remained rather whole; in Fargo, only his leg and shredded chunks from the wood chipper are left. In Big Lebowski, he is finally reduced to ash and thrown all over Jeff Bridges. The directors joked that, if they did it a fourth time, he would simply have to be vaporized.

[Tyg3rW01f]

the "two" town sets in Saving Private Ryan are actually the EXACT SAME SET... viewed in opposite directions!

Rohan and the village in 13th Warrior share the same main building.

Ed White, the late commander of Apollo 1, is the same astronaut who blew his hatch early in the Gemini/Mercury debacle.

[dalesys]

Ed White, the late commander of Apollo 1...

Ooopsie!

Gus Grissom! Liberty Bell 7.

[crazylegs]

A paramedic in the UK can give more IV morphine (20mg) per patient in a single dose, than a Dr can in Ukraine can give one patient per day (7mg).

[KhirasHY]

If a goldfish is kept in low light with no sunlight contact, it will lose its pigment.

Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

Dolphins sleep with half their brain at a time, and with one eye closed.

The record for longest living reptile is held by a Mexican Beaded Lizard, 33 years and 11 months.

And since I'm a rat fanboy:

In two years, a single pairing of one male and one female rat can potentially have as many as one million descendants.

Rats can last longer without water than camels can.

A rat can swim for a very long time; rats have been spotted staying afloat for up to three days at a time.

Rats were once worshiped in ancient Egypt and the Mayan civilizations. Additionally, India's Temple of Deshnoke is sometimes called The Temple of Rats, with over 20,000 rats living there. Tradition states that killing one of those rats requires you to replace it with a golden rat statue. In ancient Rome, rats were considered good luck, while in China the rat is one of the twelve zodiac signs. The next Year of the Rat is January 25 2020 to February 11 2021.

Domesticated pet rats are considered among the most loyal and intelligent pets, and tend to be clean as well. Domestic rats will live between 2-4 years depending on diet, and most breeders will only sell them in pairs or triplets, as lone rats have low survival rates. A rat requires almost constant attention and touching to be healthy, so a pair of rats will keep each other alive.

[Teysa]

Hmm, remind me not to wear blue when I go back to Alaska next summer.

[KhirasHY]

Don't wear blue when you go to Alaska ne-*BANG*

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[protege]

Old Speckled Hen actually takes its name from the "Owld Speckled Un" which was a works hack used to transport workers. Apparently, the vehicle got a bit too close to the paint shop, leaving it with a distinctive speckled finish. The beer itself was first brewed in 1979, to commemorate 50 years of car manufacture at the Abingdon plant...having moved there from Oxford in '29. It's been tied to the marque ever since.