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- Tears of the Sun and Training Day were
directed by the same person. They also have
the same sunrise opening at the beginning
only in Tears of the SUn it's been sped up.
(Source: Watching the Movie) - IH8HIPPIES
- Super Shredder at the end was played a different
actor and no he wasn't on stilts. He was played
by the 6"plus wrestling giant Kevin Nash.
Picture: http://www.wrestleology.com/images/wwf/nash.jpg.
(Source: http://www.4w-wrestling.com/info/interestingfacts.shtml)
- TAZ
- The scenes that took place in the terminal
were filmed inside an airplane hangar and
they had to build an entire airport terminal.
(Source: Behind the scenes) - Tazz
- The costume designer who did the costumes
for the foreigners entering America was done
by the same woman who did the costumes for
Catch Me If You Can (another Tom Hanks movie
directed by Spielberg). (Source: Behind the
scenes) - Tazz
- Those black/silver Nike sneakers Reese stole
while hiding from the police in an closed
and dark mall are real shoes. It was called
"Nike Vandal" and was released on
the same year that The Terminator was released,
which was 1984. - Max Gardner
- The cover for The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre 2 is a copy off of the cover
of The Breakfast Club. Every one is
in the exact same spot. - Robabob
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- The movie "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
was banned from television for 25 years. (Source:
Common knowledge) - Movie
Man
- People actually walked out on previews for
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". (Source:
Common knowledge) - Movie
Man
- The original name for this film was none
other than HeadCheese. (Source: Magazine)
- Erin
- Jim Carrey was originally casted to play
the role of Ted, but was cut buy the directors
because he was to wacky. - The
Quiz Man
- The "meat on a stick" and "meat
in a cone" jokes were actually intended
for a Seinfeld episode that never got produced.
They were originally written for George and
Jerry to muse about while munching on corn
dogs. The Farrelly Bros. bought the joke from
the authors after reading the script. (Source:
I was there) - Flutterby
- Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre's
cameo in the movie was originally intended
to be played by San Francisco 49'ers quarterback
Steve Young. Young, a devout Mormon, declined
because he thought the movie's content was
too vulgar. This is interesting because as
a pro football player, just about all of his
games were on Sundays, and also when Young
was pulled out of a blowout loss to the Philadelphia
Eagles in 1994, you could clearly see him
yell obscenities at his coach, George Seifert.
- Jack
- The Thin Man in the Title refers to the
murder victim in the story and not to William
Powell's character, Nick Charles. The name,
however, persisted through out the series
due to name recognition. - Dangerous2know
- Many know that Clark Gable was named the
King of Hollywood by Photoplay Magazine and
that the name stuck. What many do not know
is that Photoplay named Myrna Loy as Queen
of Hollywood in the same issue. They have
identical buildings stand next to each other
on the old MGM lot (Now Sony Pictures) in
Culver City. - Dangerous2know
- Near the end of the film, when Harry Lime
(Orson Welles) is being pursued through the
sewers, there is a scene above ground which
shows Lime's fingers protruding through a
sewer grate. In reality, those fingers belonged
to the film's director, Sir Carol Reed. (Source:
Personal knowledge) - Covenant
- URBAL LEGEND: When Ted Danson is talking
to his mother in the back ground behind the
curtains you can see a kid looking at the
camera. Rumor has it he is one of the producers
kids, he is a kid that wonder into the set,
or he is a ghost from a kid who jumped out
the window. OOOOHHHH Spookie. - Dude
- Correction:
What the Dude mentioned about the kid
in the back of the scene is not true.
When the rumor first started, it was said
to be the ghost of the boy who lived in
the apartment where the movie was being
filmed. He died when he fell out the window.
When his mother saw the movie, she saw
him and screamed, "That's my son!"
The result was a run on Three Men and
a Baby at the video stores as everyone
rushed to see the ghost of the dead boy.
As it turns out, there was no dead boy
or mother. The boy in the background was
actually a cardboard cutout of one of
the actors in the film, Ted Danson, I
think. They even took a picture of Ted
posing with the cardboard cutout and put
it in People magazine, with a small article
explaining this urban legend. - Jim
M
- Comment: In
that same scene where Jack passes the
two windows while his mother is there,
yes, the second window does have a cardboard
cutout inserted into one scene and as
Danson goes by the window again it is
gone..but also in the first window. Danson
goes by the window and there is a rifle
in the window, when he repasses that first
window again, it is gone. I was told that
this was the gun that the boy who killed
himself used, but we all know now that
this was not a goof, just a publicity
stunt to get viewers interested in the
movie just in case it did not do so well
at the box office. - lisa46224
- Comment: Everybody
knows about the boy behind the window.
Well if he was a fake then why does he
appear again. When they are all singing
Goodnight sweetheart its time to go, and
the baby is sleeping in the crib. Look
in the round window above the crib. At
first he is not there, but then you will
see his head float up in the window, then
it will float back down. I have done research
on where the movie was taped, and it was
filmed in a real apt, and filmed on the
2nd floor. So why would they go to all
of this trouble for a fake ghost sighting.
- wazzzup
- Comment: There
is a ghost in the film and yes it is of
the boy that lived in that apt. The film
makers paid the mother of the boy a huge
sum of money to film the movie in her
apt after her son died of leukemia. When
she saw the premier of the film she saw
him, still dressed in the same outfit
he passed away in and yes she tried to
get the movie stopped. If you notice that
the new movies don't included that scene
or it was dubbed out. Answer this, why
would they keep filming if there was a
boy standing in the window? Because you
can't see it in real life only on film
since it goes so fast you have to really
look, I never knew it was there until
I was told it was. Stunt or not, I still
believe that it's a ghost and it's of
the woman's son. Rest his soul. - Just
Me
- Comment: Do
you people also believe that The Blair
Witch Project was true?!? There is no
ghost in Three Men And A Baby. Here, straight
from snopes.com, is the truth about the
(rofl) "ghostly figure." "The
strange figure seen behind the curtains
of a window in the background of a Three
Men and a Baby scene is a cardboard cutout
of Ted Danson, not the supernatural image
of a dead boy. Also, all filming took
place on soundstages, not in any real
house or apartment." Read all about
this urban legend at the Urban
Legends Reference Pages. - hikkchik
- Comment: Not
to beat a dead horse so to speak but it
is widely believed the cardboard cutout
was actually "planted" in the
window to create the illusion of the "ghost
boy". An alleged ploy by the director/producer
to drum up interest in the video release.
- K2000kid
- Comment: There's
no way that little boy in the window is
Ted Danson's cardboard cut out. Look at
the pictures! Ted's cutout is full sized
- that little boy in the window is not!
- jenn4516
- Correction:
It is in fact a cardboard cutout of
Ted Danson and NOT of a child ghost...he
isn't standing right next to it in
that particular scene so it makes
it look smaller. Freeze the scene
and you will be able to tell it is
his cardboard cutout. It just made
it in to that scene by accident. -
sara
- Correction:
About the whole ghost story thing. It's
a good story, a great way to entice some
date into watching the movie with you.
A fun little gag for friends. However,
it is, in fact, a cardboard cut out of
Danson. And there is no validity to the
apartment story, because that scene was
filmed on a soundstage in Hollywood. Sorry
to anyone who truly believed it, but hey,
play a prank on your friends. This is
the perfect set up, don't you think? -
nloding
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mother of god! It's a boy! It's a ghost
boy!
Oh, hang on a sec... It's just a fake
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When James Bond discovers
the sunken Vulcan-bomber, he swims through
a door between the bomb-bay and the cockpit.
When the movie was shown at a Royal Air
Force base, the Vulcan-pilots who saw this
scene laughed, since the real Vulcans didn't
have such a door. - Olav
Westerman
- The flight scenes with the Vulcan bomber
were made with a actual airplane flown by
Squadron Leader Brown. Only the crash and
sinking scenes were done with models. (Source:
Personal Knowledge (I knew the pilot)) - Spoc42
- Lauren Bacall is miming to a song sung by
Andy Williams - yes, Andy Williams. He was
17 at the time. (Source: Interviews with Lauren
Bacall) - Phil
- I wondered if anybody ever noticed that
Rob Lowe is not credited at all for his rather
large part in Tommy Boy? (Source: Me!) - DocBrosnan
- Comment: True.
Rob Loew is uncredited. His plays Paul
Barish. (Source: imdb.com) - Webmaster
- The movie was originally called "Would
I Lie to You?" Dustin Hoffman suggested
the named TOOTSIE because it was his childhood
nickname. - Nate
-
During the opening scene,
the guys on the bikes drive by a speeding
red car and an old oil truck. The same ones
in Duel directed
by Steven Spielberg.
- The director [Joseph Kahn] of this movie
also directed music videos for EMINEM 'Without
me' and Britney 'Toxic'!!! (Source: Seeing
the movie) - Shaun
-
Orson Welles was not originally
slated to direct this noir masterpiece,
but Charlton Heston balked until the producers
allowed Welles on board. - Covenant
- The titles of the books on the boy's bookshelf
are the titles of many of Pixar's animated
short films. If you can get your hands of
a videotape called Tiny Toy Stories you can
see five of the best ones. My personal favorite
is one called Knicknack. - Cathy
- When Buzz and Woody are fighting under the
family car at the gas station you can hear
either Buzz or Woody mumble rape me or something
along those lines when Buzz jumps on Woody.
- pat
- Correction:
Neither one of them say "rape me".
Woody says "make me". - Jeremy
- Towards the end when we see the inside of
Sid's house, look at the wallpaper. The design
sure looks like pot leaves to me and the people
I've talked to. - thunderbolt
- When Sid traps Woody under a crate in his
bedroom there is a brand name on the crate
which is visible to the audience. The name
says "Binford". Binford was the
name of the sponsor of Tim Allen's (who does
Buzz Lightyear's voice) character's show "Tool
Time" on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement.
- Philthemovieman
- Throughout the movie, there is a ball with
a stripe and a star. It bounces through scenes
and sits in others. Try to count how often
it shows up! It is almost every scene for
a while. The ball is from one of the original
Pixar shorts where lamps and playing ball
then one jumps up and down on a ball then
squashes it. There are a lot of other references
to Pixar shorts, including many shots with
the lamp in it. - mellodie
- Addition:
The short animation that the ball first
appears in was the first ever animated
short created by Pixar. The two lamps
that feature are the reason that there
is a lamp in the logo of Pixar. (Source:
Common knowledge) - Lizzie
- Billy Crystal was originally going to play
Buzz but at the end we all know Tim Allen
go the part. (Source: TBS) - Tazz
- Frank Oz is the policeman who finds the
PCP on Winthorpe in Trading Places. (Source:
The Movie and my eyes) - Olorin
- Addition:
Oz is credited as "Corrupt cop".
- Webmaster
- The singer Macy Grey has a cameo in the
movie. - TAZ
- Addition/Correction:
She is credited as "Sandman's Wife".
A cameo is an uncredited appearance. -
Webmaster
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The film uses the same music
as "badlands" the Terrence Malick
film about young lovers on the run. "True
romance" also uses voice-over narration
by the female lead, ala once again "badlands".
- David
- Comment:
The comment about having the same music
as Badlands... Actually I thought this
but upon checking the Badlands music
is actually by Carl Orff (of Carmina
Burana fame) and is part of his music
for children. The prolifix Hans Zimmer
did the music for True Romance and but
similarities between the two pieces
are too close to be accidental. Anyone
know the story behind this? - AndyB
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In some ways the Christian
Slater character is an homage to "Taxi
Driver's" Travis Bickle. Slater's character
is a loner who wears a military jacket,
is infatuated with a prostitute, and finally
guns down a pimp. Travis Bickle is a loner
who wears a military jacket, is infatuated
with a prostitute, and finally guns down
a pimp. - David
- Addition:
Clarance and Travis both also go alone
to the movies. The difference is; Travis
prefers Swedish porn and Clarance old
Kung Fu movies.
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Tarantino's screenplay originally
had the film told out of order ala " Reservoir Dogs",
and " Pulp
Fiction". In the original script
Clarence dies in the end, and Alabama goes
on to work in crime meeting up with "Mr.
White" from "Reservoir Dogs".
- David
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According to the great actor
Sean Penn ("Dead Man Walking","The
Thin Red Line") the magnificent scene
between Christopher Walken and Dennis hopper
is "The best pop-culture scene ever
shot...". A very high mark from one
of our best actors. - David
- Kahuna burgers are mentioned Pulp Fiction,
From Dusk Till Dawn and in True Romance too.
If I recall correctly when Clarence (Slater)
takes his first bite of the Kahuna burger
he has almost the exact same reaction as Jules
(Jackson) has in Pulp Fiction when he takes
a bite of Brett's burger. Both liking it very
much. - Webmaster
- Clarence's Elvis mentor (Val Kilmer) appears
in two scenes to advise Clarence. Clarence
is nearly killed shortly after both scenes,
the first one when he killed the pimp, and
the second one when he was shot by the cop.
- Gibborino
- Clarence grows up to be Mr. White. In Reservoir
Dogs when Joe is 'interviewing' his friend
Mr. White he asks "How's Alabama?".
Mr. White comments that he hasn't seen her
in a long time. - Tracy
- Correction:
Hmm, that's interesting... did he somehow
grow back the eye that was shot out in
True Romance? I wish I knew how to do
that trick! (Source: I watched both movies)
- marcera
- Correction:
Clarence doesn't grow up to be Mr. White.
Mr. White's first name in Reservoir Dogs
is Larry. (Source: Snypes) - snypes
- Every car in the movie is a Ford. (Source:
movie itself) - Di@n@
- Veteran stuntpilot Paul Mantz was paid
$4,500, a large amount of money in 1949, and
the largest sum paid for a single stunt until
the early 1970s, to crash-land the B-17 in
the beginning of the movie. The bomber was
contaminated after it had been at the test-range
during a nuclear bombtest. (Source: Aircraft
magazines and the web) - Olav
Westerman
- Jan de Bont is a great Stanley Kubrick
fan so two of the characters are named Stanley
and Kubrick; and that is why he chose to have
"The Shining" playing at the drive-in
theatre. - Cathy
- Also, because many of the same SFX people
worked on Twister as worked on The Abyss,
the tanker-truck that explodes is a Benthec
Petroleum truck, just like the oil exploration
company in The Abyss. - Cath
- Mike Piazza the catcher of the New York
Mets makes a cameo as himself in the film
in the scene where they are at the baseball
game. (Source: Theatre) - TAZ
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