Last week I made you a promise that today I have to fulfill. And, coincidentally, I was playing late on the radio on April Fool’s Day, and I couldn’t resist playing a radio joke or bringing it to the blog to share it with those of you who read me but don’t listen to me on the airwaves.
I told you ten incredible curiosities (like they were not true) but I also told you, at the end of the post, that there was one completely true, one completely false and, of all the others, there was a part of truth. I proposed to play a guessing game and I promised that today I would tell you the truth about everything I had told you. Here you have it 🙂
Yes, he knew how to swim, although perhaps it would not have been necessary because, in fact, everything was filmed in a plot prepared and the water did not cover their entire body. The one who did have a problem with this issue was her co-star, Kate Winslet, and in one scene, in which they were both fleeing when a body of water approached them, Winslet got her coat caught and the wave swallowed her. She swallowed a lot of water and had a bad time. She later said that, in fact, no one had asked her if she knew how to swim. Which, by the way, made Cameron angry with her.
2. George Lucas didn’t let Carrie Fisher wear a bra while filming the movies. Star Wars.
And here is the completely true curiosity. And, since it is true, I leave it written again, just as I told you last week.
Fisher said, well into the new millennium, that she had asked Lucas why she couldn’t wear a bra, and he told her that Leia didn’t wear a bra. She responded something like “And can you tell why not?”, to which the director responded that it was because “in space you don’t need bras because there is no gravity.” Fisher told it in a roasting to Lucas in 2005, when the American Film Institute presented him with an honorary award. It remained as an anecdote in the air, without knowing if it was true or not, until in 2010 Fisher confirmed its veracity in his stand up comedy ‘Wishful Drinking’ (Blessed Alcoholism): «George Lucas He said it with as much conviction as if he had been in space and had dedicated himself to seeing whether people were wearing underwear or not.
Lucas told her, she said, that “what happens is that when you go to space you lose your weight due to zero gravity. What happens if your body expands? That the bra doesn’t do it. That is, you die strangled by your bra. Fisher said she wanted that to be her obituary: “strangled by her own bra.”
3. Tom Cruise was going to be Adso in The name of the rose.
No way. At the time, Cruise was involved in filming Top Gun. He was never considered for the role nor did he have a problem with Sean Connery that left him out of the project, although it is true that Cruise and Connery have never made a film together. The part about Marie Jo Slater interceding to get her son Christian in the role is also not true. It is true that she was director of castingbut not in that movie.
4. Michael Jackson was going to be the first SpiderMan in cinema.
This would have been good, right? Well, even this had a part of truth, and Jackson did make an attempt to buy Marvel in the ’90s, when the company was in financial problems, but the purchase did not come to fruition. From there arose the legend that the singer wanted to be Spider-Man, because everyone knew that he was a big fan of the character, but that has never been confirmed. It is true that Taj Jackson, his nephew, told Popcorn Planet in an interview that he remembers hearing about this possible purchase at home, at family gatherings, and that by the time ’96 arrived and Marvel declared bankruptcy, Jackson was no longer in a position to embark on that project due to the great drop in his popularity after the first child abuse scandals.
5. Forrest Gump broke the record for the use of special effects.
This is not true, but just barely. He did not break any records, but he does have many more effects than is believed. In fact, he has more or less the same as Jurassic Park: Forrest running through different states and countries, playing pingpong, in Vietnam, in the speech at the Washington Monument, Lieutenant Dan’s legs… They add up to a good amount of CG footage, and let’s not forget that half of the effects of Jurassic Park they were craft, not CGI.
6. Record of anachronisms for…
Tell them that Braveheart It held the record for the film with the most errors, mainly due to the extras, who did not take off their watches for battles. Well, it could have been true, but they actually realized it and repeated the scenes after telling them to take off their watches.
7. This scene was shot 157 times.
I could have made several combinations with the data I gave you here, where I stated that the ax scene in The glow It had been filmed 157 times, and that Shelley Duvall had been mistreated to make her as out of her mind as possible. This is not strictly true, but it could have been:
The ax scene was shot “only” about 60 times. The one with the staircase was filmed 127 times and the one with Hallorann explaining to Danny what the glow consists of was repeated 148 times in a row. Duvall, by the way, was isolated and mistreated during the filming of the film. Kubrick, years later in an interview for Rolling Stonehe threw things out and said that “he had no perfectionist desire: the actors were not up to par.”
8. Toy Story 2 It was done twice.
I told you that, when they had practically finished the movie, the “master machine” broke down and lost 90% of the stored data, and that they had to repeat the movie completely. They didn’t have to repeat it, but just barely: the technical director had taken a copy to her house to work from there, so they were able to restore the film from what she had saved.
9. Spielberg appears in ALL of his films.
It’s not true: Spielberg does not appear in his films. But he does appear in one: you can see his reflection on a television screen in Jurassic Park: Finding the Lost World.
10. Why Spielberg has never worked with Winona Ryder
I told you that Spielberg had signed Ryder for The Sun’s empire, that he had caught her “keeping a small wooden figurine as a souvenir” before filming began and that he had dispensed with it, and that was the reason why he had never worked with her. They have never worked together, but that is not the reason: this is absolutely false curiosity.
I hope you were good at guessing 🙂
2024-01-04 07:44:12
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