What are some of the strangest facts about famous movies?
- In John Wick: Chapter 2, Keanu Reeves performed about 95 percent of the fight scenes himself.
- The sound of velociraptors communicating with each other in Jurassic Park is actually the sound of turtles mating.
- Gregory Peck took on his role in 1976's The Omen as a way of fighting his "personal demons": his son had committed suicide just before the audition.
- Scream was partly based on a wave of real murders in Florida in the 1990s.
- Tony Todd put real bees in his mouth while filming this terrifying scene from Candyman.
- Jack Nicholson pointed a real gun at Leo DiCaprio in The Departed, even though it wasn't in the script.
- The iconic scene in Pulp Fiction where Vincent stabs Mia in the heart with a needle was actually filmed in reverse. So, in reality, John Travolta was pulling the needle out.
- Many of the extras seen in the background of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were real mental patients.
- When Taxi Driver premiered in New York City, it was voted one of the 25 most dangerous movies.
- Casino Royale is the first James Bond film approved by Chinese censors.
- To put Jack Nicholson in the right agitated mood, they only fed him cheese sandwiches, which he hates, during the filming of The Shining.
- There is an island nation called Niue that accepts Star Wars collectible coins.
- Christopher Nolan took ten years to write the script for Inception.
- In Seven, Brad Pitt broke his arm while filming the rain scene in which he chases John Doe, so the injury was included in the script.
- Star Trek: The sound of the automatic doors opening on the USS Enterprise is the sound of a Russian train toilet.
- James Cameron carried a nail gun on the Avatar sets and would nail any mobile phones that rang during a take to the wall.