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Gettysburg (1993) included over 13,000 volunteer Civil War re-enactors who paid their own way and used their own uniforms and equipment.
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Ghost Busters (1984) was the highest-grossing comedy of all time until Home Alone (1990).
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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) was based on the real life story of two man-eater lions. The skins of these two lions is kept on display in the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
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The wounds on Russell Crowe's (Maximus) face after the opening battle scene in Gladiator (2000) are real. They were caused when his horse was startled and backed him into tree branches.
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In Gladiator (2000), Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) fights Maximus (Russell Crowe) in the Roman Colosseum. The real-life Commodus was in fact the only Roman Emperor in history to fight as a gladiator in the arena.
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Ernest Borgnine was the studio's original choice for playing the role of Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) in The Godfather (1972), but director Francis Coppola wanted either Brando or Laurence Olivier.
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Not only did Marlon Brando win the Best Actor oscar for playing the role of Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but Robert De Niro also won the Best Supporting Actor oscar for playing the same character in The Godfather: Part II (1974). As of 2007, this is the only case of two actors winning separate oscars for playing the same character.
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The Godfather: Part II (1974) was the first movie sequel to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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The original plans for Godzilla (1998) called for two sequels to be made, but the plans were later scrapped due to the film not being as successful as expected.
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Toho Co. Ltd. is the Japanese film studio that owns the rights to the Godzilla franchise and agreed to allow Tristar to make Godzilla (1998) only if the U.S. studio followed a set of guidelines to make sure it properly captured the spirit of Godzilla. However, most of those guidelines ended up being ignored.
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Goldfinger's (Gert Frobe) 3D map of Fort Knox which appears in Goldfinger (1964) is on permanent exhibit at Fort Knox.
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Although much of Goldfinger (1964) supposedly takes place in the United States, Sean Connery (James Bond) never came to the U.S. during any of the filming.
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Gary Cooper turned down the chance to play the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939). He said, "'Gone With The Wind' is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history." Clark Gable played the role.
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Gone with the Wind (1939) was the first color film to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
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For her role as Mammy, in Gone with the Wind (1939), Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to be nominated for, and win, an Oscar (specifically: Best Actress in a Supporting Role). However, due to racial segregation issues at the time, Hattie was unable to attend the world premiere in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Clark Gable's famous Rhett Butler line of "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.", almost didn't appear in Gone with the Wind (1939). The Motion Picture Association board amended the Hollywood Production Code (which determined what could be shown and said on screen), to insure that the line would be in compliance with the code.
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There is no dialog in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) for the first 10 1/2 minutes of the movie.
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The bridge that is blown up in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) had to be rebuilt and blown up twice for the movie. Due to a mix-up, it was blown up too early the first time and the film crew was not ready, which meant no cameras were running to capture the explosion.
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With the exception of the one-armed man and the sheriff, the three main actors Clint Eastwood (Blondie), Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes) and Eli Wallach (Tuco), are the only ones who actually speak English in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966). All the other actors are actually speaking their native language (mostly Italian and Spanish) and had their dialog later dubbed into English.
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Although Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford starred together in Grand Hotel (1932), they never appear in the same frame. This was intentionally done to make certain that neither one might upstage the other.
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Josef Stalin banned The Grapes of Wrath (1940) in the Soviet Union because of its implication that even the poorest Americans could afford to own a car.
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The Great Dictator (1940), which was Charlie Chaplin's lampooning of Hitler and the Nazi party, was banned in all German occupied Countries. However, presumably out of curiosity, Adolf Hitler personally reviewed it - twice.
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Telly Savalas's famous bald look was started when he shaved his head for playing the role of Pontius Pilate in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). He has kept his head shaved ever since.
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George Armitage, the director of Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), wanted to film the high school scenes at Grosse Pointe South High School. However, the school board felt that it would be inappropriate to show someone graduating from their school system to become a hit man.
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Groundhog Day (1993) was not filmed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (which is in fact famous for its annual groundhog day), but in Woodstock, Illinois.
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Although Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) is all about two college students trying to satisfy their craving for White Castle "sliders", Kal Penn (Kumar) is a vegetarian, so the White Castle burgers he eats in the film are actually special made vegetable burgers.
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In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) when Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) enters Professor Dumbledore's (Richard Harris) study, a portrait of Gandalf the Grey, from The Lord of the Rings movies, is among the paintings of great wizards.
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Hello, Dolly! (1969) evolved out of an attempt by Twentieth Century-Fox to duplicate the studio's great success with The Sound of Music (1965).
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Doug Bradley's character "Pinhead" in Hellraiser (1987) and all of its sequels was not given that name in the original movie. Pinhead was a nickname that was popularized by fans after the movie's release and and which was then made the character's official name.
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During breaks in the filming of Help! (1965), Paul McCartney was constantly working on a new song he was calling "Scrambled Eggs". The tune eventually developed into one of the Beatles' best known songs, "Yesterday".
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The original 45-speed single record release of the Beatles', "Ticket To Ride", was labeled as being from the film, "Eight Arms To Hold You", which was the name originally planned for the film Help! (1965).
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The Hindu god Kali, that is worshipped by the bad guys in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), is the same Hindu god worshipped by the bad guys in the Beatles' film Help! (1965).
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The story in High Noon (1952) takes place all in one day between the times of 10:35 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. (100 minutes). Since the film is 85 minutes long, the movie practically takes place in "real time".
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The gas station set in The Hills Have Eyes (2006) was built on location in Morocco and looked so authentic that people were constantly stopping in to try and buy gas.
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The producers of Hollow Man (2000) had to buy the rights to Dan Simmons' novel "The Hollow Man" in order to give the movie its title. However, while the movie is about an invisible man, the book is about telepathy and was not used in any way as a basis for the movie.
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The concept for Home Alone (1990) evolved from a scene in Uncle Buck (1989) where Macaulay Culkin plays a boy questioning a would-be-babysitter through a letterbox.
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Hoosiers (1986) was renamed "Best Shot" for its European release since most Europeans would not have any idea of what a Hoosier was.

Steve Hollar, who played the role of Rade Butcher in Hoosiers (1986), was actually a DePauw University basketball player during the making of the film. After the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) learned he was in the film, it was ruled that he was acting rather than playing and he was given a three-game suspension and fined 5 percent of his acting fee.
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For the scene in Hoosiers (1986) where Dennis Hopper (Shooter) staggers onto the court drunk during the middle of the game, Hopper spun himself around in a circle for ten seconds immediately prior to the filming of the scene so he would stagger onto the court and appear drunk.
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When Spooner (Will Smith) opens the door at the beginning of I, Robot (2004), the robot standing on his doorstep has the number 42 painted on his head. This is a reference to the answer to the question of "life, the universe and everything" in Dougles Adams' books, The Hitchhiker's Quide to the Galaxy.
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Fashion designer Edna (voice of Brad Bird), in The Incredibles (2004) is based on Edith Head, who was a Hollywood costume designer on hundreds of movies for over fifty years.
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In Independence Day (1996), the visual effect of the giant alien main weapon exploding near the end of the movie is actually the same footage shown of the Empire State building exploding, only turned upside down.
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Independence Day (1996) holds the record for the most miniature models to appear in any one film. In fact, it is thought that more minatures were used for this film than in any other two movies combined.
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Robert Montgomery turned down the lead role in It Happened One Night (1934), saying it was the worst script he had ever read. Not only did the movie become a major box office success, but it also became the first film to ever win the Oscar "grand slam" (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay).
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When It's a Wonderful Life (1946) was released, it drew fierce criticism for its political statements about post-WWII society and the FBI labeled it a "subversive" movie.
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Amity Island in Jaws (1975) was actually Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, with locals used as extras.
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The mechanical shark in Jaws (1975) was broken during much of the filming of the movie and couldn't be used for certain shots. As a result, in many cases Steven Spielberg filmed from the shark's point of view and used the camera as the "shark".
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In Jurassic Park (1993), the glass of water seen sitting on the dashboard of the Ford Explorer was made to ripple using a guitar string that was attached to the underside of the dashboard. (Fact)
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Ariana Richards' audition for the part of the young girl, Lex Murphy in Jurassic Park (1993), consisted of standing in front of a camera and screaming as hard as she could.
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When the T-rex is chasing the jeep in Jurassic Park (1993), the T-rex is briefly shown very large and close in the driver-side mirror. Lettering on the mirror reads: "Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear." Although this was clearly done on purpose, in reality, this warning is only placed on the passenger-side mirror.
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The wide view of the archaeological dig site in the beginning of Jurassic Park III (2001) is actual footage of paleontologist Dr. Jack Horner's dig site. The character of Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) is based on Dr. Jack Horner.
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The scene rehearsed on the boat by Anne (Naomi Watts) and Bruce (Kyle Chandler) in King Kong (2005) is a scene from the original King Kong (1933).
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Peter Jackson was paid $20 million to direct King Kong (2005), which is the most ever paid to a director before a film was even released.
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The Last King of Scotland (2006) was the first Hollywood movie filmed in Uganda since The African Queen (1951).
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) does not contain any female speaking parts in its entire 216 minute length.
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Peter O'Toole, who played Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), claims he never watched the completed movie until almost two decades after its release.
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Author John O'Brien, on whose novel Leaving Las Vegas (1995) is based, committed suicide two weeks after the movie started production. The film is about a depressed man trying to drink himself to death.
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Jim Carrey has said that the gag of chasing his son (Justin Cooper) as "The Claw" in Liar Liar (1997) was something his father used to do to him when he was growing up and which he added to the movie.
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Former Beatle George Harrison reportedly decided to fund the production of Life of Brian (1979) because he was concerned it might be the only way another Monty Python film would ever be made.
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Alfred Hitchcock was known for making a cameo appearance in all of his films. Due to the limited surroundings in Lifeboat (1944), he appears in "before" and "after" pictures in a newspaper advertisement which can be clearly seen when one of the characters holds up the paper.
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The Long Riders (1980), which is about the James-Younger outlaw gang, starred four sets of actual brothers playing the parts of four sets of outlaw brothers: the Carradines as the Youngers, the Keach brothers as the James brothers , the Quaids as the Miller brothers and the Guest brothers as the Fords.
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), New Zealand's army was originally cast as extras for the large battle scenes in the film, but was forced to back out when the army was assigned as peacekeepers in East Timor.
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John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli the dwarf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, also provided the voice of Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
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Director Peter Jackson is arachnophobic and the design of the giant spider Shelob, in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), was based on the types of spiders he feared the most.
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Elijah Wood (Frodo) and Sean Astin (Sam) spent most of their scenes acting to an orange ping pong ball which was turned into Gollum in post-production. (Fact)
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) broke two of his toes while kicking the steel helmet by the orc pyre. Mortensen continued acting despite the injury and that take is the one that actually appears in the movie. His display of pain was actually for the pain in his foot rather than remorse for the perceived fate of his two hobbit friends. (Fact)
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All of the principle cast in Lost in Space (1998) was signed up for a three picture option. Unfortunately for the everyone's plans, the movie lost money at the box office and so no sequels were ever filmed.
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FOX television paid $80 million for the broadcast rights to The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) before it even premiered. With an estimated production cost of $73 million, this means the film earned a profit even before its release.
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At $90 million, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) broke the record for the biggest opening weekend ever and held that record until the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in November of 2001.
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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. Webmasters: place our "Movie Trivia of the Day" on your site

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