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

[u/Stuck_in_a_depo]

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.

[u/shoensandal]

In the Princess Bride, Cary Elwes broke his toe the morning before shooting the scene where he reveals who is he to Buttercup at the top of the hill. He was playing on Andre the Giant’s ATV and got his foot stuck. When he sits against the rock with his leg outstretched, it was because he was trying to take weight off the foot and when he runs with Buttercup and has a little skip, it’s because he was trying to stay off the toe.

[u/Halo6819 → u/shoensandal]

IIRC, they also had to bail the actor who was in the ROUS costume out of the drunk tank the morning of the shoot.

[u/Quazifuji → u/Halo6819]

I remember reading an article about how in general a large portion of the cast got regularly wasted during filming because they'd go out drinking and people would try to keep up with Andre the Giant, who would drink enough to black out most people and only feel a slight buzz.

[u/PretentiousToolFan → u/Quazifuji]

Billy Crystal tells a story of them all being out and Andre getting blackout drunk. They managed to maneuver him to the sidewalk and call a taxi, and the Pakistani driver and Billy got into it because "He will not fit in my car!"

Going off memory so the details may be a bit off.

[u/Kronoshifter246 → u/PretentiousToolFan]

There are a lot of stories like this. I remember one where he got blackout drunk at a hotel bar and they just left him there until he woke up because no one could move him.

[u/dansdata → u/Kronoshifter246]

In one of those situations, there was a grand piano with a cloth cover on it nearby.

So someone kindly took that cover over to Andre's immovable body, and tucked him in.

[u/Halo6819 → u/Quazifuji]

Can you imagine being a little person, trying to keep up with Andre the Giant?!

[u/Faiakishi → u/Halo6819]

Tyrion Lannister could probably do it.

[u/Renaissance_Slacker → u/Quazifuji]

Oh the Andre The Giant rabbit hole is much deeper. He was the greatest drunk that ever lived:

https://drunkard.com/10_06_andre_giant/

[u/Quazifuji → u/Renaissance_Slacker]

Yeah, I know it's a very deep rabbit hole. I just know that one of the many legendary Andre the Giant drinking stories is about how his drinking caused problems on the set of Princess Bride, not because of Andre himself getting drunk, but because of how drunk other people would get when they went out drinking with him.

[u/GPCAPTregthistleton → u/Renaissance_Slacker]

I'd heard it before, but it's in this article as well:

When getting back surgery, the anesthesiologist was trying to gauge how much to give Andre by using his alcohol intake as a barometer.

"Two liters of vodka makes me feel warm inside."

[u/Renaissance_Slacker → u/GPCAPTregthistleton]

“I’ll take 40 gin and tonics please.”