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12 James Bond Facts You Never Knew
1. Ian Fleming wrote Bond an obituary for You Only Live Twice. From it, we learn that Bond’s parents were Andrew Bond, a Scottish man, and Monique Delacroix, a Swiss woman. Mr. Bond worked for a weapons company and traveled often with his family. Both parents died when Bond was 11. He lived with an aunt in England, studied at Eton and Fettes College in Edinburgh, graduated from high school at 17 and was recruited into the Royal Navy. “The world is not enough” is the Bond family motto.
2. Stuntman Bob Simmons is the figure who appears in the opening gun barrel sequence for the first three James Bond movies.
3. Richard Kiel, who played Jaws, could only keep his metal teeth in his mouth for about half a minute at a time, and the chain that he bit through at the Pyramids in The Spy Who Loved Me was made of licorice.
4. Ursula Andress’s voice was dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl due to her heavy accent. Van der Zyl dubbed many women’s voices from Dr. No in 1962 to Moonraker in 1979.
5. Fleming chose the name “James Bond” because he wanted to find a name “as mundane as possible.” Bond’s namesake is actually the ornithologist Dr. James Bond – lifted from a birdwatching book that Fleming had handy.
6. M’s house in Skyfall is the former home of John Barry, Bond composer.
7. Casino Royale’s car barrel roll stunt with the Aston Martin DBS broke the world record for the most barrel rolls assisted by a cannon – the car completed seven full rolls.
8. Daniel Craig was given 85 copies of Bond’s Tom Ford suit for the opening sequence of Skyfall.
9. Each scene that shows Roger Moore running in his seven Bond films was performed by a body double – Moore felt he looked awkward when running. Despite handling and being around many firearms on set, Moore suffers from Hoplophobia – a fear of firearms which dates back to a childhood accident where he was shot in the leg with an air rifle by his brother.
10. From Dr. No to Quantum of Solace, James Bond has killed 352 people and slept with 52 women.
11. George Lucas found inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones by watching Sean Connery’s portrayal of Bond. When Connery was cast in The Last Crusade, Lucas said: “Who else but Bond could have been worthy enough to play Indiana Jones’ dad!”
12. Sean Connery wore a toupee in each of his Bond films. While filming Diamonds Are Forever, actor Joe Robinson accidentally pulled off the toupee during a fight scene.
8 Twilight Movie Facts
Robert Pattinson moved to Oregon a few weeks before filming and didn’t talk to anyone to try and feel as isolated as Edward Cullen.
When Bella and Edward and lying in the meadow, the sun coming through the trees makes a heart between them.
Even though there is a song by Radiohead in the movie, it never made it to the official soundtrack album.
In the hospital scene, Bella and her mother are talking about the accident, TV in the background can be seen playing the previous scene.
With a $70.6 mil debut gross, the movie had the top debut ever for a film directed by one woman (as of 2008).
Kristen Stewart wore hair pieces so they didn’t have to waste time doing her hair, and therefore had more time to shoot.
The script was finished in 6 weeks.
Over 5,000 actors auditioned for the role of Edward
5 Iron Man Movie Facts
The Roadster that Tony Stark worked on is asctually owned by director Jon Favreau.
The sound used during a target lock in Iron Man’s heads up display is the sound of the laser cannon in the original Space Invaders game.
Most of the exterior scenes set in Afghanistan were filmed in Olancha Sand Dunes. The crew had to endure two days of 40-60mph winds.
The Iron Man Mark 1 armour weighed 90 pounds.
Nicolas Cage and Tom Cruise were interested in playing Iron Man. Cruise in particular was going to act in and produce the film.
The Avengers – 5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know
– Lou Ferrigno has stated in numerous interviews that he will be reprising his role as the Hulk this year in the new Avengers movie. Playing the voice, even the deep growls and snarls of the CGI Hulk. He is following this after also doing the voice for the CGI Hulk in the 2008 movie.
– In the scene where Bruce Banner is talking with Tony Stark alone, there is a glass screen dividing the two. When the camera is behind Banner, if you look very closely, Banner’s reflection on the screen is not his, but the Hulk’s.
– In the Avengers movie, Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) is often wearing a Black Sabbath shirt. Black Sabbath have a song called Iron Man.
– During the last fight scene in The Avengers, you will see a scene where people are running away from a building. Look on the building, that is the colantotte logo. If you don’t know, Colantotte is the company who made Tony Starks wristbands, which is an actual company.
– Almost at the end of the film when they are showing various news footage of the aftermath of the battle, Two old guys playing chess on on of the monitors , one of them talks to camera,which is Stan Lee creator of the marvel comics superheroes in the film.
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9 Creepy Movie Facts About The Omen
– On a plane from LA to London, Gregory Peck’s plane was struck by lightning over the Atlantic.
– Weeks later, executive producer Mace Neufeld also left LA. Lightning struck this plane too, to which Neufeld says: “It was the roughest five minutes I’ve ever had on an airliner.”
– While producer Harvey Bernhard was in Rome, lightning just missed him.
– Rottweilers hired for the film attacked their trainers.
– A hotel at which director Richard Donner was staying got bombed by the IRA; he was also struck by a car.
– Peck cancelled another flight, to Israel, the plane he would have chartered crashed…killing all on board.
– On day one of the shoot, several principal members of the crew survived a head-on car crash.
– In Holland, on Friday, August 13th 1976, designer John Richardson was travelling with a female companion, Liz Moore. The car crashed, and when Richardson came to, he saw something rather chilling. Liz was dead, with injuries bearing an uncanny resemblance to the ones he had prepared for David Warner. As he looked out of the window though, the sight chilled him even more when he noticed a sign which had the distance to a dutch town, reading: Ommen, 66.6 km.
– The day after filming was completed at the Longleat Safari Park, a zookeeper was killed in the lion area, thereby fueling the sense of a curse on the film.
Back To The Future – Did You Know These Facts?
Crispin Glover did not return for the Back To The Future sequels. George Mcfly was played by a different actor, Jeffrey Weissman, who wore prosthetics to make him look like Glover and old footage was reused.
Glover sued the company for this and won a settlement, which then in turn led to a new set of rules for the Screen Actors Guild in regard to illicit use of actors.
While filming with Eric Stoltz was taking place on Bushnell Avenue in South Pasadena (George McFly’s house), Fox had been working on Teen Wolf on the same street, and the actor recalled seeing the crew and saying that he wished he could be in a Spielberg movie someday.
The opening scene was shot at Universal stage 12. Producer Bob Gale (Used Cars, Back to the Future Part II/III) called the shot of all the clocks a “pain in the ass” because of the necessary intricate camera movement; they are an homage to (“or rip off of”) The Time Machine [1960]. The original script (written by Gale and Zemeckis) had the film climaxing at a nuclear test site in Mexico; in the opening, Marty was to have been watching a documentary about those events. The classroom set where it was to be shot was built, but after Fox was recast they realized the scene was not needed. (Additionally, Fox was only available half days and they were trying to cut the budget wherever possible.)
It was “an unusual choice” at the time to use the same actors to play young and old. They did a lot of make-up tests with lighting to make sure no one looked “too make-upy.” In the end a combination of latex and make-up was used. Lea Thompson (Lorraine) said, “You had to go in early, they’d lay glue and add on pieces…it takes hours and hours and smells bad. Then they paint.” Thompson played a practical joke on her mother (who was staying at Thompson’s home); the actress drove home in her aged make-up and caused her mother to “gasp.”
Getting the shots of the photo in the neck of Marty’s guitar was “impossible,” so Industrial Light and Magic built a giant guitar neck, blew up the photo and that’s how they got the shot. The plutonium box was “fairly accurate. The prop man had a guy come to show him how it would be stored and carried around.”
People “always ask the significance of the DeLorean needing to reach 88 mph,” but there is none.
The character name of Doc, Emmett Lathrop Brown, contains some secret clues. Emmett is a phoenetic representation of “time” spelled backwards, and Lathrop, is, basically, portal in reverse.
The bearded band in the Wild West of Back to the Future 3 was ZZ Top. In the film, they play their song “Doubleback”, which they contributed to the soundtrack.
There’s a scene in Part 3, in which “Mad Dog” Tanner hangs Marty. In fact, Fox got caught up in the rope and was rendered unconscious for a time.
In Part 2, Biff finds a sports almanac in the future, which says the 1997 World Series was won by a team in Florida. At the time, there was no team in Florida, but in 1997, the Florida Marlins entered the Major Leagues.
Some Movie Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
Midnight Cowboy was the first non-pornographic movie to receive a X rating
In “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” R2-D2 can be seen hanging from the bottom of the Mother-Ship
The first movie to gross over $100 million was “Jaws”
The producers of the movie “Gone With The Wind” were fined 5,000 dollars for allowing the word “damn” to be heard within the movie’s dialogue
The original title for Ghostbusters (1984) was “Ghost Smashers”
Extras in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ were authentic mental patients
20 Movie Facts You Didn’t Know
1. The original title for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy. The names reversed when Paul Newman took on the role of Butch.
2. Dan Akroyd’s original script for Ghostbusters was set in a future where Ghostbusters were everyday figures of society like paramedics and firemen.
3. Tom Cruise is Patrick Bateman’s neighbour in the novel of American Psycho. Christian Bale actually based elements of his performance as Patrick Bateman on Tom Cruise after seeing an interview with the diminutive star. According to the director, Mary Harron, Bale said he saw “this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes”.
4. Stanley Kubrick would reportedly call Stephen King at 3am to ask him questions about The Shining. According to King, one famous exchange had the director ask the author, “Do you believe in God?”. When he replied in the affirmative Kubrick yelled “I knew it!” and slammed the phone down.
5. Author Peter Benchley plays the role of a TV reporter in Jaws. Benchley was reportedly thrown off set after continually arguing with Spielberg about the film’s ending.
6. Ronald Reagan was originally announced as the lead for Casablanca. The proclamation turned out to simply be a ruse to keep the actor’s name in the press.
7. The many parts turned down by Sean Connery include roles in The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, Indy IV and Blade Runner.
8. Alan Rickman was dropped a second early to get his true reaction to falling from the Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard.
9. The sirens heard in the casino scene in Swingers were police on their way to stop the film makers who were shooting without a permit.
10. Pulp members Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway were four of The Weird Sisters in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Jason Buckle (All Seeing I) and Steven Claydon (Add n to (x)) completed the line up.
11. Franz Ferdinand were the original choice to play the band at the Hogwarts Yule Ball.
12. Enya was James Cameron’s first choice to compose the music for Titanic.
13. The arty charcoal pic of Kate Winslet’s breasts in Titanic? Drawn by one James Cameron.
14. Alred Hitchcock’s Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing.
15. Executive producer of Toy Story and Chief Pixar shareholder Steve Jobs picked Bob Dylan as his first choice to write and perform the soundtrack to the film over Randy Newman.
16. David Fincher asked a stuntman to fall down the stairs 12 times in Fight Club for the fight between Norton and Pitt. He used the first take.
17. Bill Murray would have been Batman. Until Tim Burton came on board Murray was top of the list. Maybe Bill will get a go at the role at some point.
18. Tom Cruise, John Cusack, Jim Carrey and Johnny Depp were all considered for playing the role of Ferris Bueller.
19. In Jurassic Park, when the T-Rex breaks into the car, the children’s screams are real, as it wasn’t supposed to break the glass.
20. Robert Ludlum, the creator of the Jason Bourne series, died while the first Bourne film was in post-production.
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