49 Little Bits Of Movie Trivia That'll Totally Blow Your Mind
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1. The 1997 movie Titanic cost more to make than the actual ship that sank. The movie cost $200 million. The actual costs to construct the ship between 1910 to 1912 were $7.5 million and when you adjust that amount for inflation, it would come out to around $125 million in 1997 dollars.
2. In order to prevent anybody spoiling the ending of the movie, Alfred Hitchcock attempted to purchase every copy of the 1959 Robert Bloch book Psycho was based on.
3. The Hannibal Lechter role that Anthony Hopkins made famous was originally supposed to be played by Gene Hackman. How weird would that be?
4. James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair played King Jaffe Joffer and Queen Aoleon (aka mom and dad) in Coming to America and also voiced the mother and the father characters in The Lion King (aka Mufasa and Sarabi).
5. The samurai scene in Kill Bill where The Bride fights against the Crazy 88 was so bloody that the MPAA wanted director Quentin Tarantino to cut it in order to maintain an "R" rating. To get around it, he altered the colors in the scene to black and white.
6. All the journals featured in Seven were hand-written and took two months to complete. CREEPY.
7. Also Brad Pitt broke his arm during filming and the injury had to be written into the script.
8. Well this is gross: Robert Downey Jr. was allegedly so mad at director David Fincher for the long hours on set while filming Zodiac that he he would leave jars of pee around the set in protest.
9. Lol, Ryan Gosling was cast in The Notebook because the director wanted someone who was unattractive.
10. In order to create Smaug's lair in The Hobbit, the film's crew used up ALL THE GOLD PAINT IN NEW ZEALAND. That's a lot of gold paint.