Very often, the most interesting things remain behind the scenes or slip out of view in the flow of intense action on the screen.
The most interesting
The DeLorean time machine from the film Back to the Future was originally conceived as a refrigerator.
The idea was changed in the script for the safety of children who would climb into refrigerators to imitate the actors in the film.
Jim Carrey turned down an offer from Walt Disney Studios to play Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. It was he who the producers originally envisioned as the captain of the Black Pearl.
Christopher Lee (Saruman) is the only actor from the entire cast of The Lord of the Rings trilogy who had read all of Tolkien’s books before being cast in the role. The actor originally planned to play the gray wizard Gandalf.
Chewbacca’s appearance in Star Wars was copied from the appearance of director George Lucas’s beloved dog. The name Chewbacca itself was based on the Russian word for “dog.”
To make his character look more realistic, Arnold Schwarzenegger did not blink during the filming of The Terminator, as he believed that robots do not blink. He also wanted to dub his role in German himself. However, the distributors felt that his Austrian accent was too soft for the harsh Terminator.
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In the early 1990s, James Cameron himself was actively interested in the Spider-Man movie project. Charlie Sheen was supposed to play Peter Parker, and Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to play Doctor Octopus. But the project was never realized, as the rights to the film constantly passed from one studio to another.
In Sam Raimi’s film, which we saw, nothing remained of the ideas proposed by Cameron.
During the filming of the western Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio hit the table several times with all his might. The actor smashed a crystal glass with all his might but continued acting, ignoring the pain and blood dripping from his hand, so much was he immersed in the role. In the shot, this scene looks very natural, and it seems like just another idea from the director.
Steven Spielberg traditionally does not attend the filming of the final scenes of his films. This tradition began with the film Jaws: the director was convinced that the actors had conspired to throw him into the water after the “Cut!” command, and preferred to wait in the trailer.
Ian Fleming, author of the novel about a cool spy, was fond of bird watching and once read a book by an ornithologist named James Bond. He found the name very ordinary, unromantic, and perfectly suited for his hero. That is why in the film “Die Another Day,” James, disguised as an ornithologist, infiltrates Cuba with a book by the real Bond.
Alfred Hitchcock loved to appear in cameo roles in his films. In the film “The Ladykillers,” for example, he rides a bus next to the main character.
And once, when it was simply impossible to show the director in any shot (the film takes place in the ocean, where only the main character is sailing in a boat), Hitchcock came up with a brilliant move: a newspaper with a photo of the director “floated” in the frame not far from the boat.
In the comedy Bruce Almighty, God could be called by dialing 776-23-23. In Buffalo, where the film was set, the film company bought this number for the shoot. But in other cities, the owners of such numbers received hundreds of calls a day from viewers who wanted to talk to the Almighty..
Marlon Brando himself accidentally picked up the cat for his role in The Godfather on one of the streets near the film set.
The final credits of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire include the remark: “No dragons were harmed during the making of this film.”
A completely new studio was built on the coast of Mexico for the filming of Titanic. A 231-meter-long model of the ship was constructed in a huge pool, which was only 34 meters shorter than the real liner.
Filming was carried out from a 50-meter crane mounted on rails. The underwater footage in the film lasts only 12 minutes, but in order to get it, the filmmakers had to descend to a depth of 12 meters and spend several hours underwater.