Sunday, June 5, 2011

SUNDAY TRIVIA - Inspired by the Movies

Did you know...

In the movie E.T. there is a scene where the young boy lures the extraterrestrial with some Reese's pieces. Originally Spielberg was going to use M&M's, but he could not get the rights. Reese's pieces were the replacement.

The Godfather was the first movie in over twenty years in which Marlon Brando was required to audition.

In Carrie, the slow motion scene at the end of the movie was filmed in reverse to simulate ghostlike movement effects. If watched vigilantly, cars can be seen driving backwards in the upper left hand corner of the screen.

Near the beginning of the movie Back To The Future there's a scene where they show all of the clocks at Doc's house. If you look closely there is one clock with a little man hanging from the minute hand.

Brooke Shields spent a lot of time during the filming of Blue Lagoon standing/walking in a trench beside Chris Atkins so that she wouldn't be taller than him in the scenes that they had together.

In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo is about to be frozen in carbon when Princess Leia says, 'I love you.' In the original script, Han Solo is supposed to say, 'I love you, too' but after a long day on the set, actor Harrison Ford became annoyed and snarkily remarked 'I know.' The line stuck.

"Halloween" was originally going to be titled "The Babysitter Murders".

In Tim Burton's 2001 version of 'Planet of the Apes', Charlton Heston made a cameo appearance, but this time as an ape. He played Zaius, General Thade's father.

Due to the amount of violent acts shown "Red Dawn" was the first movie to be handed the PG-13 rating.

The story of Mulan had been told in China for almost 1,500 years before Disney picked it up and made it into a movie.

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