Movie Trivia

1. 1.Animal House: The only physical damage made during the filming of National Lampoons Animal House was when John Belushi made a hole in the wall with a guitar. The actual Sigma Nu fraternity house which subbed for the fictitious Delta House never repaired it, and instead framed the hole in honor of the film.

2. 2.The working title for E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was A Boys Life.

3. 3.The word dude in The Big Lebowski is used approximately 161 times in the movie: 160 times spoken and once in text in the credits for Gutterballs the second dream sequence. The F-word or a variation of the F-word is used 292 times. The Dude says man 147 times in the moviethats nearly 1.5 times a minute.

4. 4. According to reports, during some of the Russian roulette scenes in the movie The Deer Hunter, a live round was put into the gun to heighten the actors tension per Robert De Niros suggestion. It was checked, however, to make sure the bullet was not in the chamber before the trigger was pulled.

5. 5.High Plains Drifter: In 1973s High Plains Drifter starring Clint Eastwood, one of the headstones in the graveyard bears the name Sergio Leone as a tribute.

6. 6. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

7. 7.Silence Of The Lambs: Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice to play Clarice Starling in the movie "Silence of the Lambs". She turned down the role because she found it too scary.

8. 8.During the making of the the movie "Fight Club" actor Brad Pitt chipped his tooth. However, he did not get his tooth capped until after the movie was done filming as he thought it would look better chipped for his character.

9. 9.Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That is the opposite of the norm.

10. 10.In the 1996 Film Scream the mask worn is based on the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch.

11. 11. The Bone Collector: Angelina Jolie has admitted she shot nude scenes for this movie but the director cut them feeling it distracted from the story.

12. 12.In When Harry Met Sally the script called for Meg Ryan to only discuss faking orgasms. She suggested the actual demonstration.

13. 13.The Big Lebowski: Norwegian posters and video cassettes carried the text "anbefales av norsk bowling forbund" recommended by the Norwegian Bowling Association.

14. 14.The Anchorman: The Mexican restaurant Veronica visits with the girls from the station is named "Escupimos en su Alimento". In Spanish, that means, "We spit in your food".

15. 15.The Anchorman: In the night club, Ron plays jazz flute in the style of Ian Anderson, lead singer and flautist of Jethro Tull. Ron blurts out "Hey Aqualung!" at the end of the song, a lyric from the Jethro Tull song "Aqualung", the title track of their 1971 album. In addition, the riff that he plays on the flute just before he does so is the main riff of the same song. Indeed, the scene is rife with Tull references, as the pose Ron strikes at the end of the song is also a clear imitation of the band's logo of a flautist turned sideways with one leg up.

16. 16.Apocalypse Now: While in pre-production, director Francis Ford Coppola consulted his friend and mentor Roger Corman for advice about shooting in the Phillipines. Corman's advice: "Don't go."

17. 17.Donnie Darko: Someone at the house party jumps on a trampoline, wearing a Ronald Reagan mask. This is taken from a photo of Hunter S. Thompson doing the same.

18. 18.Evil Dead 2: One of the books on the can that traps Ash's possessed hand is Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms".

19. 20.Full Metal Jacket: Advertisements for this film were censored in some parts of Canada due to the tagline "In Vietnam the wind doesn't blow, it sucks." At that time, Canadian censors had not yet decided whether the phrase "it sucks" or "this sucks" was obscene.

20. 19.Full Metal Jacket: Much, if not all, of R. Lee Ermey's dialogue during the Parris Island sequence was improvised.

21. 21.The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles per hour, beating its wings 7-9 times per second rather than 43. It's true: a 5 ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut, but furthermore, no swallow weighs 5 ounces. The barn swallow, which is what most English people mean when they say "swallow", weighs only 20 grams 23 of an ounce.

22. 22.Quentin Tarantino wrote the role of Jules specifically for Samuel L. Jackson, however it was almost given to Paul Calderon after a great audition. When Jackson heard this, he flew to Los Angeles and auditioned again to secure the role. Calderon ended up with a small role as Paul.

23. 23.The role of Vincent Vega was written for Michael Madsen, who played the character's brother, Vic Vega, in Reservoir Dogs, but he couldn't do the film due to scheduling conflicts with Wyatt Earp.

24. 24.Reservoir Dogs: The film contains 272 uses of the word "fuck".

25. 25.To avoid alienating the film's backers, producer Lawrence Bender had the tamer scenes shot first, so that the dailies would strengthen the backers' confidence before getting to the nasty, violent scenes.

26. 26.Taxi Driver: Various studios considered producing this film one suggested Neil Diamond for the lead role.

27. 27.The Shining: During the making of the movie, Stanley Kubrick would occasionally call Stephen King at 3:00 a.m. and ask him questions like "Do you believe in God?"

28. 28.Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the "little pigs" dialog towards the end of the film.

29. 29.A Clockwork Orange: Alex performing "Singing in the Rain" as he attacks the writer and his wife was not scripted.

30. 30.A Clockwork Orange: Korova Milk Bar is named after the Russian word for cow. Moloko written on the wall means milk.

31. 31.One of only two movies rated X on its original release the other being Midnight Cowboy to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

32. 32.Young Frankenstein: The cast and especially Mel Brooks had so much fun and were so upset when principal photography was almost completed, that Mel added scenes to continue shooting.