Russell Crow learned to play violine while Paul Bethany learned to play cello within 3 months before shooting Master and Commander.
But tbh I don't think the music we hear in the movie is actually what they are playing.
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The text of the legendary and very long fight scene in THEY LIVE in the screenplay is the coolest thing I've ever read in a screenplay.
It extends over 5 pages and begins on page 78 with the line "And so we begin the fight in the alley, as Nada and Frank go at each other."
Pages 79, 80, 81 are all blank, except for the line "The fight. Continued."
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The Lady who sings the german folk song in the tearbreaking final scene was Stanley Kubricks later wife Christiane.
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Paths of Glory was banned in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and many more countries. Other countries like Britain imposed editing restrictions.
In Germany, the film caused diplomatic turmoil. In the French sector of Berlin, the city commander issued a ban on screenings and threatened to boycott the International Film Festival.
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Michael Crichton wanted to film the POV of a robot and used scnanning/digitizing methods invented by NASA/JPL for fly-by photography of mars in 1964.
That's why Westworld is the first Hollywood movie with computer animated imagery (CGI).
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Though main charakter Todd is on screen 85% of the the time, he has very little dialouge - only 104 spoken words.
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Soldier is considered a side-quel of Blade Runner, because its based on an unused opening scene of BR.
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Kurt Russell refused to take steroids and bulked up naturally, which caused delay of several months.
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William Friedkin waited for the statute of limitations to expire, before he admitted he was using the counterfeit money from To Live and Die In LA in real life
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Friedkin had a real counterfeiter setting up the process of counterfeiting depicted in the movie To Live and Die in LA.
The counterfeits produced for the film were so good, that crewmembers were interrrogated by Secret Service Agents. Even Friedkin himself was contacted by them but refused to talk, unless they showed up with a warrant.
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| finally called Marvin the Torch in New York, out of desperation. His wife answered and | said, “Hi Mrs. Torch, is Marvin there?” Looking back, that probably wasn't the best strategy on my part. She got very upset, and started screaming “He doesn’t do that anymore! You leave us alone!” | convinced her the job | had was legit.
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some #uselessfilmfacts in memory of the great director William Friedkin
For an explosion scene in The Sorcerer William Friedkin didn't want to use any trickery. Instead he hired Marvin the Torch, who was a famous arsonist.
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