What are some of the strangest facts about famous movies?

 1. The weird barking sound the raptors use to communicate in “Jurassic Park”, is actually the sound of tortoises having sex.

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2. Although not as successful as the sequels, the first “Paranormal Activity” movie cost less than $15,000 to make, but grossed over $193,000,000. That’s some return of investment.

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3. The budget to film “Titanic” was actually larger than the cost to build the actual Titanic.

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4. The movie “Gravity” had a $100,000,000 budget and was more expensive than the Indian Mars Mission.

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5. The 1976 classic “Rocky” was shot in just 28 days.

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6. The iconic DeLorean time machine in the movie “Back to the Future” was originally meant to be a refrigerator!

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7. Before Keanu Reeves was offered the part of Neo in “The Matrix“, the role was also offered to Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage and Leonardo DiCaprio.

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8. When adjusted for inflation “Gone with the Wind” is the highest grossing movie of all time.

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9. “Saving Private Ryan” depicted battle scenes of D-Day so realistically that it caused or exacerbated post traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans when they watched the movie.

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10. There is a Starbucks cup in every single scene in the movie “Fight Club“.

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12. The director of the movie “Cannibal Holocaust” was arrested for murder and had to prove his innocence by calling in all his “murdered” actors. This is because the courts could not understand how an impalement scene was done and believed an actress was murdered for the sake of the movie.

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13. There is a scene in “Matrix Reloaded” when Trinity hacks into a power station’s computer that’s actually very accurate.

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14. Val Kilmer learned 50 “The Doors” songs in preparation for his role as Jim Morrison for the movie “The Doors(film)”. In fact, he sung them so well, real “The Doors” members couldn’t tell whether it was his, or Jim Morrison’s voice.

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15. “300” is well known as a battle-happy film, although is actually the most death-packed film ever made with an average of 5 people dying every minute.

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17. The iconic roar that Godzilla made in the 1954 movie was actually created by rubbing a leather glove across the strings of a double bass instrument.

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18. There are over 24 minutes of just staring during the Twilight movies.

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19. In “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory”, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts rather than use CGI.

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20. The directors who filmed “Despicable Me” actually wrote a language that the minions speak throughout the movie. They called it “minion-ese” and every word they speak can be translated into English.

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22. The famous shot featured in the Bond films’ introduction was actually filmed through the barrel of a gun.

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24. The train-top fight scene in “Skyfall” was actually filmed on top of a real moving train.

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25. While filming “The Passion of Christ”, multiple cast and crew members were struck by lightning, including the actor who played Jesus.

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What are some of the strangest facts about famous Indian movies?

 PINK.

A film which can arguably be called as one of the very best films to have ever come out of our Indian film industry (My favorite if I may add), had elements which just shows how brilliant the makers were about their subject.

**Spoiler alert**

Fact 1:

Do you remember the dramatic climax of “Pink” where the judge ruled in favor of Meenal Arora (played by Taapsee Pannu) against Rajveer Singh (played by Angad Bedi)?

Well, when the original draft was written and probably shot, it wasn’t the case.

According to the initial climax, Rajveer Singh was going to WIN the case and judge would have ruled against Meenal Arora.

But the makers did not want to hurt the popular (national) sentiment by doing so and antagonize themselves and hence, they eventually planned to flip the climax in favor of Meenal Arora and the girls. (Which in my opinion was a very good decision).

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Fact 2:

Do you remember the scene where Meenal Arora starts coughing as soon as the prosecuting lawyer (played by a phenomenal Piyush Mishra) started to interrogate her?

In reality, Taapsee Pannu was actually suffering from a viral infection while shooting the scene and she wanted to do the dubbing later but Shoojit Sircar (the producer) decided to shoot the scenes as it is because it rendered even more authenticity to those scenes.

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Fact 3:

The title of the film “PINK”.

With all the hue and cry that surfaced as to the reason why the film was titled “PINK”, the popular consensus being the fact that since the film is about the suppression of Women and as there is a typical notion that Pink-the color is generally associated with girls and hence the title was chosen as “Pink”.

But this was so very wrong.

When you look at the poster above, you’ll notice that there are two hands that are holding on to the letters “I” and “K”. This was the main punch.

Director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury wanted to convey the fact that this particular notion about the color pink being associated with girls shouldn’t be. He wanted to empower women so that they can speak up.

Amitabh Bachchan went on to say that Pink means that women have the liberty and freedom to walk at night and it will be a wake-up call to bust such stereotypes.

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“PINK” was much more than a film to me. The film possibly happens to be one of the most important stories that needed to be told in our times and with all these deft facts taken into consideration, it just adds to the prowess exhibited by the film.

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Source: Pink (2016 film) - Wikipedia, Why was movie ‘Pink’ called ‘Pink’? Amitabh Bachchan explains the relevance

What is the strangest country you have ever visited?

 Haven't visited yet but it's gotta be Turkmenistan.

The capital Ashgabat is often described as

• A sci-fi film set
• A ghost town
• A mix between Las Vegas & Pyongyang

The city is full of flashy buildings but pretty much no one lives there. Visitors describe having an eery, creepy feeling in the utopian landscape. Have a look:

Empty roads:

Abandoned apartments:

A new park:

An airport:

Famous monuments:

Other (not-so-)fun facts about Turkmenistan:

• Black cars are banned. Dirty cars are also banned.
• Only men above 70 can keep beard. Police forcibly shave young men's facial hair and remove bearded men from flights
• Lip syncing at concerts is banned
• Dogs are banned in the capital
• Smoking is banned everywhere
• All apps banned, wifi nonexistent

No wonder Turkmenistan is dubbed “the North Korea of Central Asia”.

What countries have the strangest population distributions?

 Scandinavian countries:

They tend to have all their populations along coastlines.

It's even more pronounced in Greenland:

Greenland has only 50,000 people and one of the lowest population densities in the world.

Coastlines tend to offer more access to resources and favorable weather versus inland areas.

Australia:

Australia had almost nobody inland. The vast, vast majority avoid the harsh outback climates.

But there is a small city that has been built underground to deal with the climate:

It is called Coober Pedy.