Monday, July 13, 2026

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.