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In Casablanca (1942) Rick (Humphrey Bogart) never says "Play it again, Sam." Dispite the fame of this reputed quote, what he actually says is: "You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!" (Fact)
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Humphrey Bogart (Rick) improvised the famous line, "Here's looking at you, kid", in Casablanca (1942), although he had used the same line in Midnight (1934).
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Casablanca (1942) holds the honor of having been named in 2006 as the best screenplay of all time by the Writers Guild of America.
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Casino Royale (2006) was the 21st James Bond movie, but the 1953 novel, Casino Royale, was the first James Bond novel ever written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming. (Fact)
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Casino Royale (2006) was the first official Bond movie to start without the famous gun barrel view in the opening credits. It was also the first official Bond film since The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) not to have a big action stunt sequence before the opening credits.
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Shelley Long has said that in auditioning for her role as Tala in Caveman (1981), she didn't speak any English, but instead responded to everything with grunts (The film did not have any actual dialogue).
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All of the Oompa-Loompa characters in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) were played by Deep Roy. The actor repeated the same actions many times and then the individual performances were digitally combined to make it appear as though there were many different actors.
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The role of Billy Flynn in Chicago (2002) was reportedly offered to John Travolta several times. Travolta has said since then that he deeply regrets turning down the role. Richard Gere was the actor who played the part.
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The original play of Chicago (2002) opened on Broadway in 1926 and closed in 1927 after 172 performances.
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In Child's Play (1988) and its sequels, Chucky's full name is Charles Lee Ray, which was taken from the names of infamous killers Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray.
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The China Syndrome (1979) is a story about a possible meltdown at a nuclear power plant. Ironically, it was released on March 16, 1979, which was only 12 days before the real life Three Mile Island nuclear incident of March 28th, 1979.
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The musical comedy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) was written by Ian Fleming, the creator of "James Bond".
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) is based on the first book published in a seven book series, although it is actually the second book of the series in terms of the series' chronological order of the story. (Fact)
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Anna Popplewell is afraid of mice, so all of her scenes involving mice in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), in which she plays Susan Pevensie, had to be filmed using her double.
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Although it is now considered one of the best movies ever made, Citizen Kane (1941) was a box office flop and was quickly placed in the RKO vaults. At the Academy Awards for 1941, the film was booed every time its name was announced for each of the nine nominations it had received.
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Citizen Kane (1941) largely revolves around reporters trying to learn the meaning of "Rosebud", which is the dying last word of Charles Kane (Orson Welles). And although "Rosebud" is one of the most famous lines in Hollywood, the movie has Kane die in his room alone. Consequently, nobody could have heard his last word.
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Cleopatra (1963) was the most expensive movie ever produced in real dollars. Its $44 million budget equates to $286.4 million in 2005 dollars. [Fact]
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Cliffhanger (1993) takes place in Colorado, but was filmed in Italy because the Environmental Protection Agency would not allow filming the movie in the U.S. out of concern for the damage that might be left by the film crew. However, the airborne transfer between planes stunt was filmed in the U.S. because such stunts are illegal in Europe.
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The Color Purple (1985) is tied with The Turning Point (1977) for being the movie with the most Oscar nominations (11) never to win a single one.
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The song "How Do I Live" in Con Air (1997) was nominated for both an Oscar for Best Original Song and a Razzie for Worst Original Song, but it did not win either award.
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Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Valeria (Sandahl Bergman) share numerous scenes throughout Conan the Barbarian (1982), yet Conan only speaks five words to her in the entire movie and that is when they first meet.
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Mel Gibson improvised the opening scenes in Conspiracy Theory (1997) where his character exexplains his conspiracy theories to a series of passengers in his taxi.
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Cube (1997) was filmed on a single 14'x14' set. The set was made to look like many different cubical rooms by simply changing the wall panels.
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During filming of The Da Vinci Code (2006), Lincoln Cathedral's bell "Great Tom" which rings every hour was silent for the first time since World War II while filming took place in the cathedral from August 15-19, 2005.
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Dances with Wolves (1990) was the highest grossing Western of all time with a domestic gross of $184 million and yet it was never number one in the box office charts.
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In Dances with Wolves (1990), the liver that Wind in His Hair (Rodney A. Grant) offers to Lieutenant John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) after the buffalo hunt is actually made of cranberry Jell-o.
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Director Sam Raimi had originally wanted to base Darkman (1990) on "The Shadow". However, he could not obtain the movie rights to the character and so had to create the character of "Darkman" instead.
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Author Harry Bates was paid $500 by 20th Century Fox for the rights to his short story "Farewell to the Master", which became the science-fiction classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
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Groucho Marx's character in A Day at the Races (1937) was originally intended to be called Dr. Quackenbush, which was considered too silly of a name to offend anyone. However, it was discovered that there were at least a dozen Doctors named Quackenbush in the U.S. at the time and so Grougho's character ended up being named Hackenbush.
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A number of real-life NASCAR drivers appeared in Days of Thunder (1990), including Greg Sacks who did most of Tom Cruise's stunt driving.
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Deep Impact (1998) was the first Hollywood feature film to star an African American (Morgan Freeman as President Tom Beck ) playing the role of the President of the United States.
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Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans while Deja Vu (2006) (1998) was in pre-production there. Ultimately, the movie was still filmed in New Orleans and new post-Katrina legislation even ended up providing financial incentives for the film being made in New Orleans.
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The Departed (2006) is the only other movie "remake" besides Ben-Hur (1959) to ever to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
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According to Director Martin Scorsese, The Departed (2006) "is the first movie I have ever done with a plot." (Fact)
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Die Another Day (2002) created some controversy in South Korea and some theaters there refused to show it due to the movie containing scenes of Americans giving orders to the South Korean military.
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The Nakatomi tower building used in Die Hard (1988) is the real-life headquarters of 20th Century Fox and the company charged itself rent for use of the building while filming.
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Although it is hard in retrospect to imagine any other actor playing the role of Inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971) and its sequels, the part was originally offered to Frank Sinatra, John Wayne and Paul Newman before it was finally offered to Clint Eastwood.
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Andrew Robinson, who played the Scorpio killer in Dirty Harry (1971) was actually a devout pacifist and reportedly terrified of guns.
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Author Alfred Uhry wrote the story of Driving Miss Daisy (1989) based on his own grandmother and her chauffeur.
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When asked why Duck Soup (1933) was given that particular name, Groucho Marx answered: "Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup the rest of your life."
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Although the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (1933) is today considered the best of the Marx Brothers' films and one of the best comedies ever made, it was not not particularly successful when it was first released.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) cost only around $10.5 million to produce and earned over $359 million in U.S. Box Office sales during its first year. (Fact)
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Although Easy Rider (1969) is one of the better known films of all time, Dennis Hopper (director/actor) and Peter Fonda (writer/actor) never did produce a complete script for the movie and made up large parts of the film as they proceeded.
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Erin Brockovich (2000), is based on the real-life story of a lady named Erin Brockovich. The real-life Erin Brockovich plays a minor part in the movie as Julia, the waitress. (Fact)
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For her role inErin Brockovich (2000), Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) became the first actress to break the $20 million salary level for starring in a Hollywood film.
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The parade scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) was not planned. The parade happened to take place near where the film crew was working and it was decided on the spot to include the parade in the film.
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To help promote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), a farce website for Lacuna Inc. (the memory erasing company in the film) was set up at www.lacunainc.com. This website still exists/existed in 2007. (Fact)
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With an estimated budget of $175 million, Evan Almighty (2007) is the most expensive Hollywood comedy movie ever made.
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) was based on the real life story of Anneliese Michel, who was a young Catholic woman from Germany that underwent an exorcism in 1976.
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After the release of The Exorcist (1973), Linda Blair (Regan Teresa MacNeil) received a number of death threats, which caused Warner Brothers to hire body guards to protect her for six months.
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Field of Dreams (1989) was the last theatrical movie that either Burt Lancaster or Anne Seymour ever appeared in.
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Fictional author Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) in Field of Dreams (1989) was based on real life authors W.P. Kinsella and J.D. Salinger. Kinsella wrote the novel that the movie was based on and the two authors actually made a trip to Chisolm, Minn. in 1975 to search for the real life Moonlight Graham (Burt Lancaster).
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In The Fifth Element(1997), the hero ,Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis), and the villain, Zorg (Gary Oldman), never meet or communicate in any form during the entire movie. Indeed, although they are aware of each other's existence, they are not aware of the actual part the other plays in determining the events in the film.
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Rob Brown landed the starring role as Jamal Wallace in Finding Forrester (2000) after auditioning to be an extra. At the time he had no expectations of becoming an actor and was reportedly only hoping to make enough to pay his $300 cell phone bill.
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Near the end of The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) when the plane lifts off, it is seen to disappear over a dune before rising into the sky. Stunt pilot Paul Mantz died when the plane actually crashed after disappearing behind the dune.
- Movie Trivia submitted by Greg Barnett

In Forrest Gump (1994), when Forrest's (Tom Hanks) microphone plug is pulled at the Vietnam rally in Washington and you can't hear him speaking, what he says (according to Hanks) is: "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that."
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The line "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.", from Forrest Gump (1994), was voted as the 40th best all-time movie quote by the American Film Institute.
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The park bench that Forrest (Tom Hanks) sits on while telling his story in Forrest Gump (1994), was in Savannah, Georgia's Chippewa Square. It is now kept at the Savannah History Museum in Savannah, Georgia.
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The well known line from Forrest Gump (1994), "My name is Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump," was actually ad libbed by Tom Hanks.
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Harrison Ford (Dr. Richard Walker) told director Roman Polanski that Frantic (1988) was a misleading name for the film and that it should be named "Moderately Disturbed", because the pace of the film was not frantic enough.
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