Movie Stuff

Here’s a small collection of movie trivia and a few instances of Urban Legends creeping up in Hollywood.

I know, this is a cheap entry, but these can be interesting! Anyway , they were compiled from various sources and I hope you like them.

Saving Private Ryan

•During the Omaha Beach scenes, the soldiers with limbs missing were portrayed by real amputees.

Scream

Fred the janitor in scream is Director Wes Craven in make-up

When Stu was hit on the head with the phone by Billy, that was actually an accident on Skeet's behalf. Because the fake blood was so slippery, the phone slipped out of Skeet's hand and hit Matthew in the head. Stu's response, "F**cken' hit me with the phone dick!" was actually Matthew's real response. The filmmakers however thought it was funny and kept it in. – Taryn

In Gale's van right above the little T.V. if you look real carefully you can see a "Happy Days" bumper sticker. A reference to Henry Winkler who played the principal who also played Fonzie on Happy Days. – Smiley

Shrek

Chris Farley was originally considered for performing the voice of Shrek before he passed away. –

Stakeout

While being on the stakeout, Emilio Estevez and Richard Dreyfuss play a movie quote game to pass time. Eztevez asks Dreyfuss to recognize the quote: "This was no boating accident." and Dreyfuss has no idea - although he was the one who originally said it in Jaws (1975) as Matt Hooper - the shark-expert. – Webmaster

Carrie

Stephen King is the author or the Book "Carrie", which came out in 1974. It was the first novel he wrote. King had thrown the first pages of the story in a garbage pail, but his wife rescued them and urged him to finish the work. Signet paid $400,000 for its paperback rights.

Strangest Moive Urban Legends

The ghost of a boy who died in the apartment where the movie was filmed can be seen in the final version of Three Men and A Baby

A tiny actor portraying a Munchkin hanged himself on the set of the Wizard of Oz and his death was not only captured on film but can be seen in the movie.