Die besten Trvia

[Rangy]

Moin!

Eigentlich immer, wenn ich mir einen Film angeschaut habe, gehe ich am nächsten Tag auf IMDB und schaue mir ein paar Goofs und Trivia an. Da ist mir mal die Idee gekommen, dass man hier in einem Thread die besten Trivia zu Filmen zusammenstellen kann. (Nicht alle aufgelisteten Fakten zu einem Film sind sooo interessant.) Und da ich gestern Terminator 2: Judgement Day angesehen habe, hier mal meine 'Best-Of-Trivia-Liste':

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

The Minigun used in the Cyberdyne scene was so heavy that Arnold Schwarzenegger was in fact the only person on stage that could carry the gun.

Special F/X guru Stan Winston and his crew studied hours of nuclear test footage in order to make Sarah Connor's "nuclear nightmare" scene as real as possible. In late 1991, members of several U.S. federal nuclear testing labs unofficially declared it "the most accurate depiction of a nuclear blast ever created for a fictional motion picture".

In the fight scene in the steel mill between the two Terminators, the set was liberally dressed with rubber so the actors wouldn't hurt themselves when being flung around.

Linda Hamilton's twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Gearren was used as a double in scenes involving two "Sarah Connors" (i.e., when the T1000 was imitating her), and in a scene not in the theatrical release (but on the DVD) as a mirror image of Linda.

Identical twins Don Stanton and Dan Stanton played the hospital security guard and the T1000.

Over 1 million feet of film was shot and printed. Far less than 1% of that is actually seen in the final cut.

Given Arnold Schwarzenegger's $15 million salary and his total of 700 words of dialog, that translates to $21,429 per word. "Hasta la vista, baby" cost $85,716.

A female passer-by actually wandered onto the biker bar set thinking it was real, despite walking past all the location trucks, cameras and lights. Seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger standing in the bar dressed only in boxer shorts, she wondered aloud what was going on, only for Schwarzenegger to reply that it was male stripper night.

Sound designer Gary Rydstrom added some lion roars to the sounds of the tanker truck that the T-1000 drives down the freeway to add some extra menace.

There are around 200 different types of weapons used in the film.

For Sarah's nightmare of the nuclear holocaust, some of the materials used in the miniature Los Angeles model that mimicked all the destroyed masonry were Matzos crackers and Shredded Wheat.

The damaged Terminator look in the climax of the film took five hours to apply and an hour to remove.

The "forced medication" scene (Special Edition only) had to be re-shot several times because actor Ken Gibbel wouldn't hit Linda Hamilton properly with his nightstick. The scene was very physically demanding and Hamilton was furious with Gibbel because he repeatedly botched it. She got her revenge in a later scene where she beats Gibbel with a broken off broom handle - the blows are for real.

In all three Terminator films, the Terminator's definition of "being back" means entering a building by driving a vehicle through it: In "The Terminator", he drives a car into a police station after saying, "I'll be back." In "Terminator 2", he drives a SWAT van into the Cyberdyne Building after saying, "I'll be back." In "Terminator 3", he flies a helicopter into an airplane hangar, steps out and proclaims, "I'm back!"
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Mal sehen, ob der Thread Anklang findet ;-) !

[Rangy]

Die Fakten zu Apocalypse Now waren auch sehr heftig, hier mal ne Zusammenstellung:

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola believed that Marlon Brando was familiar with Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and had prepared for the role before the legendary actor arrived on the set. When Brando did come out, Coppola was horrified to find that Brando had never read "Heart of Darkness", did not know his lines, and had become extremely fat (Kurtz had always been written as a tall but starvingly-thin man). After some panicking, Coppola decided to film the 5'10" Brando as if he was a massively built, 6'5" brute (to explain Brando's size) and steered the camera clear of Brando's huge belly.

Marlon Brando was paid $1 million in advance. He threatened to quit and keep the advance. Coppola told his agent that he didn't care, and if they couldn't get Brando, they would try Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, and then Al Pacino. Brando eventually turned up late, drunk, 40kg overweight, and admitted he hadn't read the script or even "Heart of Darkness", the book it was based on. He read Coppola's script, and refused to do it. After days of arguments over single lines of dialogue, an ad-lib style script was agreed upon, and this was shot according to Brando's stipulations that he appears in shadows.

Francis Ford Coppola spent days reading Joseph Conrad's source novel "Heart of Darkness" out loud to Marlon Brando on the set.

Marlon Brando so angered Francis Ford Coppola that the director turned over the filming of Brando's scenes to Jerry Ziesmer, the assistant director.

Martin Sheen was actually drunk in the scene where Willard is drunk alone in his hotel room. All of Sheen's actions in that scene were a result of his real intoxication. When Sheen punched the mirror (which was real glass), he really did cut his hand as shown in the film. While drunk, Sheen also began sobbing and tried to attack Francis Ford Coppola.

When Francis Ford Coppola asked Al Pacino to play Willard, Pacino turned him down saying, "I know what this is going to be like. You're going to be up there in a helicopter telling me what to do, and I'm gonna be down there in a swamp for five months." The shoot actually lasted 16 months.

Francis Ford Coppola lost 100 pounds while filming.

Martin Sheen had a heart attack during the filming and some shots of Willard's back are of doubles, including Sheen's brother who was flown out specially. Coppola was so worried that backing would be withdrawn by the studio and distributor if news of Sheen's heart attack leaked out, that he kept it quiet, even to the extent of explaining Sheen's hospitalization as being due to "heat exhaustion" in the official Shoot Schedule.

It took Francis Ford Coppola nearly three years to edit the footage from Apocalypse Now. While working on his final edit, it became apparent to him that Martin Sheen would be needed to tape a number of additional narrative voice-overs. Coppola soon discovered that Sheen was busy and unable to perform these voice-overs. He then called in Sheen's brother Joe Estevez, whose voice sounds nearly identical to Sheen's, to perform the new narrative tracks. Estevez was also used as a stand-in/double for Sheen when Sheen suffered a heart-attack during the shoot in 1976. Estevez was not credited for his work as a stand-in or for his voice-over work.

Coppola shot nearly 200 hours of footage for this film.

Originally scheduled to be shot over six weeks, ended up taking 16 months.

Sam Bottoms was on speed, LSD, and marijuana during the shooting of parts of the movie.

Randy Thom, one of the film's sound mixers, said that the sound mix took over nine months to complete.

According to his book "In the Blink of an Eye", Walter Murch took nearly two years to edit the movie, with an average of 1.47 cuts a day.

Laurence Fishburne lied about his age (he was 14 at the time) when production began in 1976.

Coppola threatened suicide several times during the making of the film.

The people on the riverboat were actual Vietnamese refugees who had come to the Philippines less than six weeks earlier.

The scene at the beginning with Captain Willard alone in his hotel room was completely unscripted. It was the last scene to be shot, and Martin Sheen told the shooting crew to just let the cameras roll. The crew was so disturbed by his actions, such as punching the mirror, then rubbing the fresh blood on his face that they wanted to stop shooting, but director Francis Ford Coppola wanted to keep the cameras going.