Fun Facts 16

[4Drea]

The awesomeness continues with fun facts about... HOLLYWOOD!

 

Originally, the term “movies” did not mean films, but the people who made them

 

When Horace and Daeida Wilcox founded Hollywood in 1887, they hoped it would become a religious community.

 

The “running W” was a trip wire to make horses fall over at the critical moment during filming. The device broke countless horses’ legs and necks. It is now illegal

 

The American Humane Association, AHA objected to the scene in the Shawshank Redemption (1994) where the character Brooks feeds his crow a maggot. The AHA stated it was cruel to the maggot, and it required that the crow be fed a maggot that had died from natural causes

 

In The Godfather (1972), John Marley’s (Jack Wolz) scream of horror in the horse head scene was real, as he was not told that a real horse head, which was obtained from a dog food company, was going to be used

 

For The Twilight Saga: New Moon, each actor portraying one of the wolf pack was required to have documentation proving Native American descent

 

According to the Movie Mistakes Web site, the movies with the most goofs are:

Apocalypse Now (1979) with 390 mistakes

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) with 296

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) with 289

 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) with 267

 and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) with 262

 

In the 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon, star Clint Eastwood sang “I Talk to the Trees, But They Don’t Listen to Me.” Eastwood says the experience prompted him to start producing and directing his own movies

 

A real bridge with a real train crossing it was blown up for the 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai

 

Adolph Hitler put studio head Jack Warner on his “extinction list” because of his film Confessions of a Nazi Spy

 

Planet Vulcan in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) is actually Yellowstone National Park

 

There were 124 midgets hired to play munchkins in The Wizard of Oz (1939). One midget fell into a studio toilet and was trapped there until somebody finally found him

 

The largest number of fatalities ever in a production of a film occurred during the shooting of the 1931 film Viking. Twenty-seven people died, including the director and cinematographer, when a ship they were shooting from exploded in the ice off the coast of Newfoundland

 

During the “chest bursting” scene in Alien (1986), director Ridley Scott had the actors unexpectedly showered with actual entrails bought from a nearby butcher shop so that their screams of horror would be real

[2emily]

Omgsh i would not what happened in Alien to happen to me! now thats just plain digusting EVEN if you are getting paid for it. they couldn't pay me enough to participate in that scene.

[0Drake]

hahaha a midget stuck in a toilet.  that would be soooooooooooo hilarious.  unless you're that midget.  then it wouldn't be very fun, and quite embarrassing..

[4Lindsey]

directors are crazy.
so is the AHA. its a maggot, for pete's sake!

[3 Josh]

Thats quite comical.

[3Ally]

Hahaha, that's funny that a midget fell into the toilet and didn't get out until someone noticed him!

[2 leah]

i really cant believe some of the movies that have so many mistakes in them are accually movies, they have made it look like it was suppose to be there that i dont think i would still relize it was a mistake inless someone told me every mistake. also, its really kinda sad and funny that a munchkin fell into a toliet when they were working on Wizard of Oz.

[2austinfred]

some of this stuff is really weird do they mean by goofs things change in the back ground or what and if things fell on my i would probaly punch some on in the face

[3Allisha]

That's so cool.  I didn't know most of this stuff.

[2courtneyl]

I didn't know any of these facts they were really interesting

[4 Nick]

i would be soooooooo pissssssssed if something like ALIEN happened to me. unless they paid me enough to compensate.