Cool Things About Films That You Might Not Know

Paully D

I just seen this on another forum so I thought I'd post it here. Feel free to add your own too

In every Pixar film, they always reference their next release. For example:


Nemo in Monsters Inc:



The dog from Up! in Ratatouille:



Lotso from Toy Story 3 in Up!:



The main car in Cars 2 in Toy Story 3:

callaway92

haha that is class!

Skerries

on the same note Disney reused a lot of their animation in other films

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjmaOj3_sKk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKER9K9QozA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJGjZsrk0YI

D1976

Not too sure if it is cool, but i found out only recently that the pirate killed by Captain Hook in the film Hook was actually Glen Close

DrumSteve

D1976 wrote: »

Not too sure if it is cool, but i found out only recently that the pirate killed by Captain Hook in the film Hook was actually Glen Close

She's a very handsome lady.

MayoForSam

Same carpet pattern in 'Toy Story' and 'The Shining' - creepy, huh? (Toy Story director is a big fan of Kubrick's horror magnum opus).

mrsmiawallace6

The sword used by Miho in Sin City are the swords from Kill Bill.Both great movies.

They had been in Tarantino's garage lol

tricky D

Easter Eggs

The King of Moo wrote: »

http://www.cracked.com/article_19210_7-insane-easter-eggs-hidden-in-movies-tv-shows.html

Some of these you might already know about, like the music in Inception, but the stuff in Apocalypto is absolutely insane!! :eek:

Anyone know any other good examples of these?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72415478#post72415478

mrsmiawallace6

i dont know how to put a pic into post

Penn

Director Kevin Smith does a weekly podcast called 'Hollywood Babble-On where they've started a new segment called "**** that should not be" about things people find in movies.

The Last Samurai - Horse kicks extra in the nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-AO3Zoce-8

Back to the Future - Kid points to his crotch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeO-MK0xUP4

Indiana Jones - Belloq eats a fly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CETbG6HoTs

There's more I'll try get later

Tea_Bag

Great thread. Subbing.

Mickeroo

The one thing that pops into my mind is Sam Raimi's Oldsmobile, it's appeared in all his movies from Evil Dead to Drag Me to Hell, apart from The Quick and the Dead, for obvious reasons.



I'm sure most people who post on here were aware of that though of course! Either way here's a link pointing out each appearance in all the movies: http://www.ugo.com/movies/sam-rami-car

bnt

In Miller's Crossing (Coen Bros.) there's a scene in which Tom (Gabriel Byrne) walks in to the Ladies' room in search of Verna (Marcia Gay Harden). All the ladies run out, shocked - especially the matron in charge:


If she looks familiar, well... it's Albert Finney in drag. :pac:

mike65

That John Wayne played Genghis Khan (straight!) opposite Susan Hayward. Its possibly the maddest piece of major movie casting ever achieved.

Oh and Joe Dante has a brilliant website called Trailers From Hell, well worth a few minutes every day.

krudler

in Heat, the theme of "dont get attached to something you are not willing to walk on in 30 seconds flat when you feel the heat around the corner" is De Niro's characters mantra, thats exactly how much screen time it takes for him to back away from and leave Amy Brenneman's character in the climactic scene before the showdown with Pacino.

Jako8

Mickeroo wrote: »

The one thing that pops into my mind is Sam Raimi's Oldsmobile, it's appeared in all his movies from Evil Dead to Drag Me to Hell, apart from The Quick and the Dead, for obvious reasons.

I'm sure most people who post on here were aware of that though of course! Either way here's a link pointing out each appearance in all the movies: http://www.ugo.com/movies/sam-rami-car

I think I read that it's actually under a wagon in The Quick and the Dead.

Mickeroo

Jako8 wrote: »

I think I read that it's actually under a wagon in The Quick and the Dead.

Good work sir!

From wikipedia:

Raimi has included a 1973 yellow Oldsmobile Delta 88 automobile (nicknamed "The Classic") in every film including The Quick and the Dead ("Somewhere...somewhere hidden. Only I know. I'll never tell"). Bruce Campbell, at Comic-con 2005, revealed that a special covered wagon frame had covered the vehicle to maintain the motif of the film.

Nolanger

The Marlon Brando film Mutiny on the Bounty used the da-da shark music years before Jaws.

Oliver Stone wrote a dummy script for Salvador making the army look good and gave it to the government. The government then obliged him by letting him use the Salvadorian army for free. Needless to say Stone was long gone by the time the movie was released!

32yg

haha very cool

syklops

Not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but Stan Lee, creator of Spider-man and X-Men, Fantastic Four and the Hulk et al, cameos in all their movies. There is a montage below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0NsKFJ6gE

Jako8

Michael Myers' mask is a William Shatner mask dyed white.

Mr. Denton

FYI there's tonnes of Pixar overlap if you go looking for it. In the majority of cases it's merely a cost-saving exercise.

karma_

Always liked this one from Shaun of the Dead. Ed makes a plan for the following day and basically summarises the entire sequence of events that will transpire.

ChunkyLover_53

There was an old war film on BBC 1 today called 'The Story of GI Joe'

I'd never seen it before and thought it looked pretty realistic for being made in 1945

I checked it out on IMDB and most of the extras were actual serving GI's who were in transit from Europe to Japan after the fall of Germany, a lot of the extras died taking the island of Okinawa from Japan. Including the main protaginist of the film, reporter Ernie Pyle who advised the director on set. He never got to see the finished version.

Hank_Jones

The kid from Dick Tracy and Hook, aka Charlie Korsmo:

was offered the role of John Connor in Terminator 2, but turned it down due to his commitments to What About Bob.

jaykhunter

I bet u guys know but some might not....



Scene from Back to the Future 2... who's that kid next to Marty?




It's Elijah Wood!

120_Minutes

All the clocks in pulp fiction show 4.20 allegedly.

Mickeroo

The number 82 pops up all over the place in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.

One example:

Mr. Denton

Mickeroo wrote: »

The number 82 pops up all over the place in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.

One example:

"And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:"
- Exodus 8:2

The King of Moo

tricky D wrote: »

Easter Eggs

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72415478#post72415478

I was too lazy to post pictures though .


Some more I can think of without going to imdb to remind myself:

Robert Duvall has a brief, one-second or so dialogue-free cameo as a priest on a swing in the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers:



The song New York, New York was written for the 1977 Martin Scorsese flop of the same name, with Liza Minnelli singing it, long before Frank Sinatra made it famous, even though most people think it's a much older song.

The main characters in Splice are called Clive and Elsa, in homage to Bride of Frankenstein. Colin Clive played Dr. Frankenstein in the film (and in the original) and Elsa Lanchester played both the bride and Mary Shelley in the film's prologue.

Bela Lugosi never wore fangs in the classic 1931 Dracula.

The main female character in Rebecca is never given a first name, only ever being referred to as "Mrs. De Winter," like in the original novel.

Risteard Cooper from Apres Match (Bill O'Herlihy among others) appears in one shot as a cop and has one line of dialogue in Batman Begins.

In the scene near the beginning of Alien when some of the characters are exploring the alien ship, children inside miniature spacesuits play the characters in order to make the set look bigger. J.J Abrams did something similar in a scene that was eventually cut from Star Trek.

mikom

Jako8 wrote: »

Michael Myers' mask is a William Shatner mask dyed white.

Michael Myers' mask is a William Shatner mask turned inside out.

Jako8

mikom wrote: »

Michael Myers' mask is a William Shatner mask turned inside out.

Ah is that it? My bad.

120_Minutes

The phrase "see you next wednesday" appears somewhere in almost every john landis film.

in star wars IV chewbacca hits off a pair of tiny silver dice hanging in the mellinium falcons cockpit.

one scene of eric stoltz as marty mcfly remains in back to the future: marty jumping into the delorean to escape the lybians.

in indiana jones and the temple of doom, the nightclub is called club obi wan.

indough

mikom wrote: »

Michael Myers' mask is a William Shatner mask turned inside out.

not sure thats true. i watched a documentary on the making of the film a few days ago and the people involved said it was indeed spray painted white (along with a couple of other modifications to the hair and the eye holes), but they didnt mention anything about it being turned inside out.

mikom

indough wrote: »

not sure thats true. i watched a documentary on the making of the film a few days ago and the people involved said it was indeed spray painted white (along with a couple of other modifications to the hair and the eye holes), but they didnt mention anything about it being turned inside out.

I was going by what Shatner said once on the the Howard Stern Show, but then again William is known to flights of fancy.

weemcd

X's appear onscreen throughout The Departed, to signify impending doom (mainly character deaths). The same concept was used in the 1932 version of Scarface, I did not know about the Scarface bit, until today.

Skerries

yeah i think it was just a straight forward Shatner mask but it was so bad that you wouldn't know unless you were told

Sad Professor

An interesting video analysis of the set design in The Shining. The film contains numerous physical and spatial inconsistencies. Doors that are too close together, hallways that go nowhere, etc. Kubrick designed the Overlook Hotel to be a dream-like labyrinth so as to subconsciously disorientate the audience.

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUIxXCCFWw

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfJ8rK7eJeQ

krudler

Sad Professor wrote: »

An interesting video analysis of the set design in The Shining. The film contains numerous physical and spatial inconsistencies. Doors that are too close together, hallways that go nowhere, etc. Kubrick designed the Overlook Hotel to be a dream-like labyrinth so as to subconsciously disorientate the audience.

Whys Ringo Starr narrating that :pac:

Sidney Lumet did something similar in 12 Angry Men by moving the walls of the set closer together bit by bit to make it look smaller and more claustrophobic as the film goes on.

Mr. Denton

Sad Professor wrote: »

An interesting video analysis of the set design in The Shining. The film contains numerous physical and spatial inconsistencies. Doors that are too close together, hallways that go nowhere, etc. Kubrick designed the Overlook Hotel to be a dream-like labyrinth so as to subconsciously disorientate the audience.

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUIxXCCFWw

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfJ8rK7eJeQ

Did Kubrick acknowledge all this?

Interesting clip. Big Kubrick fan here but it's funny how if any other director makes a goof then it's simply a goof, but if Kubrick does it then it was all by design and meant to mean something.

Also the guy could be finding errors where there simply may not be ones? Regarding the big pane windows 2:20 and the people walking into the hall, couldn't there concievably have been a corridor/door from outside to inside at that point? Same with the stairway at 6:20. I once had a bedroom that had a stairway running down underneath the room like is possible in that shot. Granted it's unlikely but not conclusive either way from that tricycle shot.

Some of the architectural errors in it defo have no physical explanation but I do think the guy is trying to find errors even where there are none (or might be none). Either way it was a good analysis to watch. Maybe the rooms ARE moving around the hotel itself (like in something like 'Cube' for example) or maybe it's just a trade off by the director (it might have cost too much money to build the thing 'right'.). It wouldn't be the first time. For instance the interior of the Millenium Falcon in the Star Wars movies doesn't match the exteriors in terms scale. Now that isn't meant to disorientate the viewer or mean anything. It's simply a trade off in production. I think Kubrick also had a playful attitude and it'd be just his style to publicly make something out of a production constraint that might actually might privately have frustrated him immensely.

Damn want to stick on the Shining DVD now!

Sad Professor

Mr. Denton wrote: »

Did Kubrick acknowledge all this?

It's not the type of thing Kubrick would have acknowledged. But he was far too meticulous for it not to be deliberate. Look at the last paragraph in this interview in which in talks about the set design. He speaks about making it very real. There's no way that he or the set designer wouldn't have noticed that the doors were too close together. Kubrick does a lot of stuff in the film to disorientate the audience. For example, he "crosses the line" in the Grady/bathroom scene, breaking the 180 degree rule which is probably the first thing most filmmakers learn never to do.

Oh and I was flicking through my copy of the Kubrick Archives book and came across this cool self-portrait of Kubrick with his daughter on the set of The Shining.

weemcd

@Sad Professor thanks for posting that, at the begining I was dismissing everything listed in the video as limited set space and bad continuity, but there is definatly something to it. Everything in the layout of that hotel and it's grounds is meant to make you feel trapped and confused. Very disorientating, the maze explanation was best, if Kubrick did change layouts to fúck with the crew, he has went up in my estimation. . . I can't confess to being a huge fan, I think eyes wide shut, for the first half of the film is one of the worst films I've ever seen, then half way through it changes and I was engrossed, and absolutely brilliant. I've watched the Shining before, but it will probably require another look after this.

I might as well post up another Cool Things About Films That You Might Not Know Fact:

In Talladega Nights, Ricky Bobby is known for his gratuitous use of sponsorship, frequently mentioning his sponsors products while he is being interviewed and should really be talking about his racing. You might put this down to the film company spinning a quick buck, tongue and cheek product placement. Ricky's main sponsor is Wonderbead, who he mentions throughout the film, however they did not pay to have any sponsorship in the film, along with Old Spice & Perrier (who sponsor the two other main characters cars.) Those companies got massive exposure in the film, at no cost, while I'm sure had they wanted to, the producers could have made a lot of extra cash, selling the ad space on the cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ShVILm840

I always thought this was quite cool, as I'd assumed these were all paid endorsements.

Mindkiller

Sad Professor wrote: »

An interesting video analysis of the set design in The Shining. The film contains numerous physical and spatial inconsistencies. Doors that are too close together, hallways that go nowhere, etc. Kubrick designed the Overlook Hotel to be a dream-like labyrinth so as to subconsciously disorientate the audience.

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUIxXCCFWw

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfJ8rK7eJeQ

Going to need a link for that Duke Nukem mod

Jet Black

jaykhunter

food for thought with the piece on the shining's spacial awareness. I have a question tho : Did anyone notice this while watching the film? Even some inkling of things not being right w/r/t the layout of the hotel? I sure didn't. So...is this kinda lost on those who don't break out blueprints of the hotel and do extensive research?

kippy

jaykhunter wrote: »

food for thought with the piece on the shining's spacial awareness. I have a question tho : Did anyone notice this while watching the film? Even some inkling of things not being right w/r/t the layout of the hotel? I sure didn't. So...is this kinda lost on those who don't break out blueprints of the hotel and do extensive research?

TBH it's more than likely just bad set design more than anything else........
Bad set design that doesn't really get exposed without a fair bit of research/investigation, so perhaps not so bad after all.
I never noticed it before.

Of course over the years it's probably been more arty to allow the thinking that it was by intention rather than by mistake that this is the case.

Sad Professor

jaykhunter wrote: »

food for thought with the piece on the shining's spacial awareness. I have a question tho : Did anyone notice this while watching the film? Even some inkling of things not being right w/r/t the layout of the hotel? I sure didn't. So...is this kinda lost on those who don't break out blueprints of the hotel and do extensive research?

A lot of things in a film work on a subconscious level. Most people would walk out of a film and they'd be able to tell you about the plot, story, characters and maybe some major visual details, while most other things like editing, set design, composition, sound and colour would have gone over their head. These things can be almost invisible to the audience but still make an impression on them whether they realise it or not. Kubrick was a photographer so he knew how to use little things like this to their full effect.

But to answer your question, I've probably watched The Shining upwards of 40 times, and I never noticed any of these spatial problems in the set design. But I ALWAYS felt there was something wrong about the layout of the hotel. It felt like a labyrinth. And as the video analysis shows, that's exactly what it was designed to be.

Nolanger

The first Hollywood colour film was called Becky Sharp. One actress in it was Pat Nixon, future wife of the American president.

The Hitchcock film Mr and Mrs Smith mentioned the word 'slacker' decades before it became a popular slang.

In the musical Finian's rainbow, Fred Astaire sings about Abercrombie and Fitch clothes!

In the Hollywood movie Hasty heart a character says 'Yanks know a bit about politics'. The Yank was played by Ronald Regan!

George Brent was a famous actor who appeared in lead roles in several Bette Davis movies. Before moving to Hollywood he was Michael Collins' driver.

The famous scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where Paul Newman stands on a bicycle was originally done by silent comic Harry Langdon.

The On the buses movies were Hammer films!

Most famous Hollywood epic movies were remakes of silent films.

duploelabs

In the film adaptation of Perfume, the colour blue doesn't appear until the very last scene

jaykhunter

Sad Professor wrote: »

I ALWAYS felt there was something wrong about the layout of the hotel. It felt like a labyrinth. And as the video analysis shows, that's exactly what it was designed to be.

Could that have been due to something a bit more obvious though? like that it's a massive hotel, in snowy isolation with only a few people running around; always turning corners, endless hallways and doors? Especially with the kid on his tricycle, following him at ground level. Maybe there's something in the rug pattern, contrasting colours and camera level/movements that add to the unsettling (mentally jarring) effect?

Or am I trying to bring everyone down to my level