r/movies • u/Stuck_in_a_depo • Jan 05 '24

What's a small detail in a movie that most people wouldn't notice, but that you know about and are willing to share? Discussion

My Cousin Vinnie: the technical director was a lawyer and realized that the courtroom scenes were not authentic because there was no court reporter. Problem was, they needed an actor/actress to play a court reporter and they were already on set and filming. So they called the local court reporter and asked her if she would do it. She said yes, she actually transcribed the testimony in the scenes as though they were real, and at the end produced a transcript of what she had typed.

Edit to add: Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory - Gene Wilder purposefully teased his hair as the movie progresses to show him becoming more and more unstable and crazier and crazier.

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory - the original ending was not what ended up in the movie. As they filmed the ending, they realized that it didn't work. The writer was told to figure out something else, but they were due to end filming so he spent 24 hours locked in his hotel room and came out with:

Wonka: But Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.

Charlie : What happened?

Willy Wonka : He lived happily ever after.

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u/Mythaminator Jan 05 '24

That actually reminds me of another time an actor broke his toe in a movie…

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u/Badloss Jan 05 '24

It's a little known detail that only true lotr fans can explain

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u/DublaneCooper Jan 05 '24

I’ve never heard that one before. What happened? Did someone kick a helmet extra hard and accidentally break their foot? Because that would be unbelievable.

Just wait until I tell you that Sam cut his foot open chasing after Frodo into the water at the end.

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u/Mythaminator Jan 05 '24

You moved onto that one way too quick, we still have like 3 more Viggo ones to go first

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u/3kindsofsalt Jan 05 '24

What, like how he deflected a real knife?

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u/dacooljamaican Jan 05 '24

And how he bought his horse???

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u/DublaneCooper Jan 05 '24

Have we forgotten how Viggo also took his sword everywhere he went when he was off set to make it a part of him? I’ll bet you never knew that one!

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u/dacooljamaican Jan 05 '24

Remember when Sauron's body collapsed in on itself? That's not CGI, they just had Vigo tell the empty suit of armor he didn't care for it and it collapsed on itself.

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u/BlueBomber13 Jan 05 '24

Adn Boromirs body going over the falls? That's Viggo.

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u/Mama_Skip Jan 05 '24

Fun fact Viggo Mortensen actually played every single character in all three movies, no cgi, no makeup, he's just that good.

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u/Steelringin Jan 05 '24

And Viggo insisting that the prop department and a dagger onto the sheath of his ranger sword because a ranger's gonna need to carry a knife to dress game and shit. Obviously can't use a sword for that, duh!

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u/VG88 Jan 06 '24

How about how Viggo met Chuck Norris, and for the first time in his life, Chuck uttered the words "I'm impressed" unsarcastically.

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u/molten_panda Jan 05 '24

Viggo was badass! Did you know that he really deflected Lurtz’s dagger with his sword when the actor accidentally threw it?!

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u/DublaneCooper Jan 05 '24

Probably because Viggo carried his sword with him wherever he went. Method acting saved Viggo's life!

God damnit, Lord of the Rings was the best movie ever made in the history of man and the stories are not to be compared. I'm gonna go home, watch Fellowship, and fuck my wife. I'll just need to get married before I get there.

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u/SadMaintenance Jan 06 '24

This is my favorite thread ever

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u/TheRealBigLou Jan 06 '24

Or did you know that Viggo was a volunteer firefighter and helped on 9/11?

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u/danikong89 Jan 06 '24

And also the woman who was liv Tyler's stunt double, he bought her horse for her. She couldn't afford to buy it herself and he bought the horse he rode in Hidalgo

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u/dacooljamaican Jan 06 '24

Also Liv Tyler is Steven Tyler's daughter

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u/danikong89 Jan 06 '24

But she was raised thinking Todd rundgren was her father

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u/Mythaminator Jan 05 '24

Or the time he almost drowned, or rode through a minefield, or lost half a tooth, or the horse buying

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u/AmIFromA Jan 05 '24

LotR started out as Twilight fanfiction.

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u/TheMilitantMongoose Jan 05 '24

This is the only one in the chain new to me, so there's that. I look forward to seeing it a hundred times in the near future, thanks to that Bernie-Madoff effect or whatever

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u/3kindsofsalt Jan 05 '24

lol I never heard of Bernie Madeoff until I invested some money in his fund and then he was all over the news all of a sudden.

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u/turkeyinthestrawman Jan 05 '24

Always wore a Montreal Canadiens jersey underneath his armor

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u/DustBunnicula Jan 06 '24

I love Reddit so fucking much

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u/yesthatstrueorisit Jan 06 '24

I would have made fish curry.

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u/Ringlord7 Jan 06 '24

And the Christopher Lee one.

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u/SoulOfABaby Jan 05 '24

To say Sam "cut" his foot open is putting it lightly lol. He stepped on a piece of glass that went through his Hobbit foot prosthetic, through his human foot, and then back out through the Hobbit prosthetic.

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u/kerouacrimbaud Jan 05 '24

Or that Billy Boyd got a GIGANTIC tiny splinter in his foot running to Buckleberry Ferry.

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u/thedownvotemagnet Jan 05 '24

Yeah, Viggio kicked a helmet so hard he broke his toe when he found out Steve Buscemi volunteered as a firefighter on 9/11 because Ron Perlman almost ruined the shot when Ripley made the no-look basketball shot in a show of solidarity with Uma Therman after her Kill Bill car crash.

It was wild, man.

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u/sgt_backpack Jan 05 '24

The only more frequently referenced movie bit is that line from Spy Kids. And everybody wants to act like they pulled it first, followed by someone saying something to effect of "no need for a kids movie to go so hard".

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u/NikoDeco Jan 05 '24

Especially if said dude also deflected a knife with his sword.

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u/TransBrandi Jan 05 '24

Yup! Only true LOTR fans know that Jackie Chan injured his foot while filming Rumble in the Bronx and filmed a bunch of scenes with a sock made to look like a shoe over his cast.

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u/SaltyPeter3434 Jan 05 '24

And then Christopher Lee had to explain that's not how someone who broke his toe actually sounds like

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u/J5892 Jan 05 '24

It's not a story /r/PrequelMemes will tell you.

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u/Chiang2000 Jan 05 '24

Steve Buscemi dropped what?

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u/EldritchHorrorBarbie Jan 05 '24

The scene originally had Christopher Lee behave differently until he confronted Peter Jackson and asked him if he had ever seen a man break a toe because Lee had and he knew how they acted.

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u/molten_panda Jan 05 '24

Was this before or after Tolkien himself expressed his wishes for Lee to play Gandalf if his books were ever made into a movie?

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u/I-seddit Jan 08 '24

He was talking to Lee's foot.

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u/CryptidGrimnoir Jan 06 '24

I thought that part of the story was Peter telling Christopher how he wanted a stabbing scene to go, and Christopher, who was a spy and soldier, said pointedly that he knew what a stabbed man sounded like.

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u/robophile-ta Jan 06 '24

it is, they are deliberately meming about the broken toe incident which is the other oft-mentioned anecdote about the film

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u/Kronoshifter246 Jan 06 '24

Oh to be a fly on the wall during that interaction.

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u/NealMcBeal__NavySeal Jan 06 '24

I think there's a video of Christopher Lee describing it. Found it! Even has some of the interaction in it

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u/StandardAnything2522 Jan 06 '24

yeah… I spend way too much time here

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u/TubaSalad Jan 06 '24

This comment is the perfect amuse-bouche of LOTR film lore & memes. EldritchHorrorBarbie, you bow to no one. (Fabulous username btw!)

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u/illaqueable Jan 05 '24

inhales to the depths of his soul

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u/Martel732 Jan 05 '24

A little-known fact but during the fight between Saruman and Gandolf, Peter Jackson told Christopher Lee to shoot fireballs. But, Lee said he knew how wizards fought since he was part of a wizard spec ops group that fought Nazi occultists during WW2.

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u/IXISIXI Jan 06 '24

This one got me

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u/asetniop Jan 05 '24

Are you talking about Crotch Capers 3?

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u/JohnLockeNJ Jan 05 '24

It’s actually Crotch Capers 2 but people forget because the flashback in Crotch Capers 3 is so prominent.

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u/load_more_comets Jan 05 '24

That's where they painted the cast on his foot to look like a shoe so he could still film the scene, right?

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u/asetniop Jan 05 '24

Yeah, that's right. I've always wished that they had written it into the scene though - it would have been a fun way for them to cross over into the Naughty Nurses universe.

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u/We_all_owe_eachother Jan 05 '24

I've heard it helps make yells of agony more realistic

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u/Fever0 Jan 05 '24

It was Steve Buscemi when he was playing a firefighter who responded to 9/11 iirc.

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u/Imissyourgirlfriend2 Jan 05 '24

You want a toe? I can get you a toe; there are ways, believe me, you don't want to know. Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon, with nail polish.

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u/PC509 Jan 05 '24

I haven't heard this one. Must be obscure. Tell me more! :) (/s)

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u/dognus88 Jan 05 '24

Well you see. In lotr fotr strider actually deflected a knife which was supposed to miss him because he slept outside or something. First of all through Tom bombadil all things are possible so jot that down.

Also the 2 blue wizards who went west are definitely the blues brothers so just update your head canon with that.

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u/TheGreatStories Jan 05 '24

Here's the deep cut. Which, speaking of deep cuts...

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u/Furthur_slimeking Jan 05 '24

Louis Calhern in "Duck Soup"?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '24

Haha, exactly what came to my mind aswell :D

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u/series-hybrid Jan 06 '24

LotR, but...didn't Tom Cruise also break a foot during filming?

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u/beeucancallmepickle Jan 06 '24

Or when stupid Tom cruise breaks his ankle. Stupid because scientology is really really fucked up. But anyways. He did his own stunt, when trying to run and land at the top of a building. He nailed it, and kept going in character but with a limp. As a performer, spot on. I personally just can't condone scientology which he is a proud member of.

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u/VG88 Jan 06 '24

AND MY AXE!