The Pumpkin King
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"Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!"
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Post by The Pumpkin King on May 22, 2019 2:25:10 GMT
Thank you for posting all that! My favorite bit of trivia was the JAWS reunion between Mrs. Kintner and Alex! Nice! Also very interesting was that Martin Scorsese was actually influenced by "Reflections in a Golden Eye", an odd little curio that I don't think too many people have seen, I definitely think it is better than "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" I also think it marked the beginning of the period when Elizabeth Taylor became a fascinating screen presence, though I think only a precious few would agree. Thank you for reading and liking my post! I just try and keep fans involved with all of the cool movies and trivia out there. I could probably do a whole individual movie with trivia of like 20+ facts per, ha. Horror movies are my personal fave. Any chance I get to share movie facts, I'm all over it, lol.
"Reflections in a Golden Eye" I saw only once, way back when I was young. I've seen "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" about five times, so the second title I'd have a better opinion about. I love horror stuff, but you can't help but appreciate the emotions that go into serious drama roles. The directing also, I love most about these two movies. And exactly, yeah. I do love knowing what movies or performances influence an actor/actress later in their career. Random examples, about actor Jack Nicholson; actor Brad Dourif took note about Nicholson's performance after working with him in the movie, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Dourif credits his performance in the voice role of 'Chucky' as inspired by Nicholson. Actor Christian Slater grew up idolizing Jack Nicholson, in all of Slater's early work he mimics a lot of Jack's behavior and smirks. Coincidentally as you mentioned Brando, Jack Nicholson found Marlon Brando as an inspiration for himself. The two worked together in the 1976 movie, "The Missouri Breaks".
Here's a link of a small list of actors today and quotes they have for each of the actors that inspire them most from yesteryears. Thank you again! www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/04/i-pray-at-the-temple-of-jack-nicholson-actors-on-their-favorite-actors/274817/
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 28, 2020 14:12:51 GMT
I've been listening to Unspooled, a podcast reviewing the latest AFI top 100. Mostly for easy listening cinematic content during this virus nonsense.
Some of the ideas pointed out aren't really trivia, just aspects:
- The Wizard of Oz... not only was it the first colour film for most ppl of its time, it's probably been the first black & white film for everyone else's time forever since.
- Titanic... Cameron not only showed the Titanic's sinking early on via the video, so we know where we are when it happens, yet he geographically moves us from stern to bow, & back again throughout via Jack & Rose. Not to mention from top to bottom of the ship as well. He really did put that romance story to good use for us.
- Rear Window... Hitchcock had everyone in their 'apartments' wired with earpieces so he could discretely direct them from afar. Georgine Darcy, aka Miss Torso, was about to get dance lessons prior to shooting... Hitch said no, give us your own amateur stylings for the character instead.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey... Keir Dullea, Dr. David Bowman, suggested to Kubrick that some of the performance was too dull. Kubrick later visited his home, Dullea afraid of being fired... Kubrick said no, the scene just isn't working yet. It was Dullea himself who suggested HAL read Dave's lips in the pod... & the rest is history.
Their best deep dive though so far was talking about the women & children first on Titanic, & how one of the male crew got on his sparse lifeboat early, as shown in the film I think. That guy survived & had to live with survivor's guilt forever more. That same man ended up being a part of the Dunkirk rescue. Christopher Nolan featured him as the lead rescue boater in his Dunkirk. Or so they say.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 4, 2020 0:50:38 GMT
An interesting bit of trivia I've always loved hearing about my favourite film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), is that during the fight scene near the end of the movie, Viggo Mortensen deflected an actual real knife that was accidentally thrown at him. Someone upstairs had a vendetta with this guy. When he kicked the helmet in TTT and screamed (presumably about his dead Hobbit friends), the scream was actually real and of pain because he accidentally broke his toe on that shit. On that note, while on the cross, Jim Cavieaueaiuazal was struck by lightning while filming The Passion. Kinda weird.
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