Favorite Movie Trivia
Submitted by lukeprog on Mon, 10/18/2004 - 03:16
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- The profits from the influential adult film Deep Throat (1972) were used to set up a production company to finance, among others, cult classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
- When asked by friends how Kane's last words would be known when he died alone, Welles reportedly stared for a long time before saying "Don't you ever tell anyone of this". (Note: this isn't a mistake, though; the majordomo said he was in the room and heard Kane say 'Rosebud').
- When 20th Century Fox attempted to distribute the Star Wars (1977) in the U.S., fewer than 40 theaters agreed to show it.
- Brigette Helm, who played Maria/The Robot in Metropolis (1927), refuses to talk about the movie and denies she was ever in it.
- The 'shoot the swordsman' scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was an improv by Harrison Ford. So was his response to Leia's "I Love You" in The Empire Strikes Back (1980): "I Know."
- Only six people knew the secret ending to The Empire Strikes Back (1980) before it released because Lucas had Vader's actor say "Obi-Wan killed your father" and later dubbed it to be "I am your father."
