Top 10 Strangest Facts About Famous Movies- The Top Ten Today

Movies, the only thing that almost never bores us. Some movies are good, some are bad; but say what you can, you can't deny the fact that movies are one of the best time killers and entertainers.

Some movies are literally eye over eye to us, we just can't take our attention away from them. We all have watched many movies or films but almost every time we don't get to know about queer, interesting and curious facts about movies and the actors who played them behind the scenes.

So here we are counting upon our list of Top 10 Strangest Facts About Famous Movies, these facts are surely going to bring something curious and weird to you, thing you never knew and facts that you overlooked are going to be revealed here.

Therefore, buckle up as we're diving straight to the list.

#10. Silence Of The Lambs

 The role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter was originally to be played by Gene Hackman, who also wished to direct; but he later withdrew from the project owing to the evolving screenplay's graphic content.

The role later on, as we all know, was played by Antony Hopkins which landed him an Oscar Award.

What is amazing is that it was only the third movie to win the Big Five Academy Awards :  Best Picture, Best Director (Demme), Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Foster), and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) (Ted Tally).

But thats not the most mind blowing part. Hopkin's portrayal of the cannibalistic serial killer is one of the shortest lead performances to win an Oscar, as Hopkins only appears on screen for little over 16 minutes, less than 14% of the film's running-time.

Who can forget this cold look -

 

#9. The Crow

This is about the son of Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee.

Brandon Lee was killed by an accidental real gunshot, during filming of his last movie, The Crow. 

Somehow, a normal movie gunshot went horribly wrong and Brandon Lee was shot in the abdomen and was mortally wounded. He was taken to a hospital and was operated on, but eventually died at the age of 28.

 

What is really creepy about this?

Father and son, Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee, died at ages of 32 and 28 respectively and before the release of their last movies. 

Brandon Lee's last movie was "The Crow" and Bruce Lee's last movie was eerily named, "Game of Death".

In Bruce Lee's last movie, Game of Death, he plays the role of an actor. In the movie, he is shown to be shooting a movie. In this movie, the plot involves the dummy gun being replaced with a real gun and Bruce Lee's character is killed in the movie as a result of this replacement. 

Almost serving like a macabre premonition of his son's eventual death.

#8. Harry Potter

Not to disappoint the fans, Maggie Smith though diagnosed with breast cancer, struggled through the filming of HP/Half Blood Prince (2008) while undergoing the chemo treatments.

Even, during the filming of HP/Deathly Hallows, she developed Shingles (a painful skin rash), but continued the film despite the pain.

Also read Top 10 Unknown Facts About Harry Potter Series.

On the subject, she said, "If there's work to do I'll do it. I've still got the stagger through the last Harry Potter. The cancer is hideous. It takes the wind out of your sails and I don't know what future holds, if anything."

A True Gryffindor Indeed...

 

Also, she is said to have made a full recovery from the cancer :)

#7. The Imitation Game

 

 The scenes where Turing is waiting overnight for the machine to stop calculating could be a reference to his earlier work on the "Halting Problem". 

In 1936, Turing had proved that there is no universal way for a computer to determine whether a given program will stop or carry on forever, except by running it to find out.

#6. Interstellar

 

 For the cornfield scene, Christopher Nolan sought to grow 500 acres of corn, which he learned was feasible from his producing of Man of Steel (2013). The corn was then sold and actually made a profit.

The screenplay is based on the works of theoretical physicist Dr. Kip Thorne. He described the story as "based on warped space-time--the most exotic events in the universe suddenly becoming accessible to humans".

Kip Thorne won a scientific bet against Stephen Hawking upon the astrophysics theory that underlies Interstellar (2014). As a consequence, Hawking had to subscribe Penthouse magazine for a year. 

This famous bet is depicted in The Theory of Everything(2014) which was released in the same year as Interstellar. 

#5. Inception

 

he name of the character Cobb is a reference to Henry N. Cobb , an American architect notable for designing skyscrapers. The world Cobb and Mal made in Limbo consists mostly of skyscrapers.

If the first letters of the names of the characters - Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito are extracted, they spell "DREAMS". 

If you add Peter, Ariadne and Yusuf, the whole thing makes "DREAMS PAY", a reference to the earnings of a mind thief from dreams. 

It took ten years for Christopher Nolan to write the screenplay for this movie. 

When Cobb gave Ariadne the puzzle test, Ariadne's final solution was a diagram of King Minos' Labyrinth. Ariadne is the name of King Minos' daughter in the same mythology. 

#4. Heather

These actors of the 1988 black comedy cult film died in manners eerily related to certain lines they delivered in the movie :

In her one of the famous lines from the film, Kim Walker—as Heather Chandler—asks Heather Duke,"Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?" Tragically Walker passed away 12 years later, at the age of 32, from a brain tumor.




 

Jeremy Applegate, who played Veronica's friend Peter Dawson, who prays not to suffer Heather Chandler's fate because "I don't think I could handle suicide", actually committed suicide with a shotgun in 2000. He was 34.

#3. Fight Club

To prepare for their roles, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt took basic lessons in boxing, taekwondo and grappling, and also studied hours of UFC programming. Prior to principal photography, Pitt also visited a dentist to have his front tooth chipped.

The scene in film where Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are drunk and hitting golf balls, they really are drunk, and the golf balls are sailing directly into the side of the catering truck.

#2. Avatar

 Each minute of the final footage for Avatar took up about 17.28 GBs of storage!!

Creating the Na'vi characters and the flora and the fauna of Pandora occupied over a petabyte of data.

During the production of James Cameron's Avatar (2009), to render the animations, a server farm was set up, deploying 4,000 HP servers, with 40,000 processor cores with 104 TBs of RAM and 3 petabytes of network area storage running Linux, that executed 1.4 million tasks per day, which consisted of processing 8 gigabytes of data per second running 24 hours for over a month.

 

Due to the huge amount of data involved, Microsoft had to create a new cloud computing Digital Asset Management (DAM) system especially for Avatar. It was named Project Gaia.

The Na’vi language was created entirely from scratch by linguist Dr. Paul R. Frommer from the University of Southern California. It contains about 1000 words. James himself added about 30 words to it.   

#1. The Dark Knight

For the first four days of production, Christopher Nolan put cast and crew under a movie boot camp comprising eight films whose tone he wanted to emulate. 

In chronological order, these were: King Kong, Citizen Kane, Cat People, Stalag 17, Black Sunday, A Clockwork Orange, Heat and Batman Begins.

Many believe that the Hospital scene from the Dark Knight, where Joker taps the remote and looks at the building before it explodes was improvised by Heath Ledger!

  

Reality check: 'twas planned. Its a wide spread misconception that the hospital scene was improvised. Adding such subtle drama to a character is a classic Nolan style and not improvisation! 

I am saddened that people watch his movies and take his directorial abilities for granted.

Heath Ledger designed the make-up of The Joker himself. He also spent six weeks in a ramshackle hotel to get into character as The Joker.

The Dark Knight Rises' was originally supposed to be about The Joker standing trial while Two Face goes on a rampage through Gotham city. Heath Ledger’s untimely death changed all that and brought Bane into the picture.

There you have it, Top 10 Strangest Facts About Famous Movies that you never knew!

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I hope you found something new and interesting facts about your famous movies and actors, as these curious things just make the life go on.

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