# Complete BS movie trivia
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 14, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875 "2003-12-14T02:19:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/181 "2003-12-27T00:38:20Z")
Tentacle Monster doesn’t preview his posts. D’oh!
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/182 "2004-03-06T20:41:55Z")
Gibson’s “Passion Of The Christ” pissed off God so much that it was hit by lightning _twice_ during filming.
Oh wait, that’s true:
[http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/24/gibson.passion/](http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/24/gibson.passion/)
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/183 "2004-03-07T00:31:31Z")
In LOTR:ROTK, the Witch King, during his fatal fight scene, gets kicked in the nuts by a horse. In later takes, his squeaky, high pitched voice causes fits of laughter from his costars. These fits are left in and crying sounds are overdubbed.
Gandalf is actually played by a paper mask on a stick.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/184 "2004-03-07T02:10:55Z")
The script of _Star Wars_ is based entirely on Shakespeare’s _Richard III_, in anagram form – (eg; “The winter of our discontent” = “‘Trust the Force,’ intoned wino.”)
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/185 "2004-03-07T03:12:49Z")
Iam Holm has flatly stated that he will NOT reprise his role of Bilbo in the LOTR prequel “The Hobbit”, in order to play Ash v2.0 in the next “Alien” movie.
Peter Jackson’s short list for the role of Bilbo is Danny DeVito, Linda Hunt, and Tom Cruise.
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### Author:  [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/186 "2004-03-07T03:37:31Z")
The first act of Ronald Reagan’s presidency was to issue an Executive Order to the FBI and the CIA to locate and destroy all copies of his first movie, a little known porn called **A Boy and his Dog**. So far only two of the known five copies have been found.
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### Author:  [@DevilDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DevilDan)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/187 "2004-03-07T06:12:29Z")
Little known fact: the entire world is a movie set. Like “western sets” that were used and reused when cowboy movies were really popular, the Earth set probably won’t be dismantled and mothballed until the hugely popular “Earth genocide” genre loses its popularity, which should be pretty soon since it’s the equivalent of a Keystone cops routine.
The medium that these “movies” are “filmed” in is incredibly complex and advanced. Hence, even though we are all played by actors following scripts, the illusion of free will and independent thought is created. Our bodies exist, but our “consciousness” and “sould” are the result of a very high “frame rate.”
Of course, all but a few hundred thousand of us are extras. Seems excessive, but the fractal crystal lattice that is the real world (think a spherical Sierpinkski sponge thirteen quadrillion miles in radius) holds a lot of people.
No, I am not stoned. I think.
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/188 "2004-03-07T06:23:40Z")
> [@DevilDan](#):
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> Little known fact: the entire world is a movie set. Like “western sets” that were used and reused when cowboy movies were really popular, the Earth set probably won’t be dismantled and mothballed until the hugely popular “Earth genocide” genre loses its popularity, which should be pretty soon since it’s the equivalent of a Keystone cops routine.
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> The medium that these “movies” are “filmed” in is incredibly complex and advanced. Hence, even though we are all played by actors following scripts, the illusion of free will and independent thought is created. Our bodies exist, but our “consciousness” and “sould” are the result of a very high “frame rate.”
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> Of course, all but a few hundred thousand of us are extras. Seems excessive, but the fractal crystal lattice that is the real world (think a spherical Sierpinkski sponge thirteen quadrillion miles in radius) holds a lot of people.
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> No, I am not stoned. I think.
No, the world is really a hologram. It has been reset several times, that’s why nobody can remember anything that happened 40 years ago or more. Well, nobody except for Roger, Dorothy and Angel.
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### Author:  [@DevilDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DevilDan)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/189 "2004-03-07T06:27:38Z")
> [@Joel](#):
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> No, the world is really a hologram. It has been reset several times, that’s why nobody can remember anything that happened 40 years ago or more. Well, nobody except for Roger, Dorothy and Angel.
Great, all the universe is the blinking “12:00” on God´s VCR. Every blink is a Yuga, or epoch, or “big bang to cosmic collapse” period.
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### Author:  [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/190 "2004-03-07T08:28:19Z")
**Back To The Future** was originally titled **I’m My Own Dad** , but they had to change it when they wrote out the sex scene between Marty and his mom. Also, they lost the first Delorean and had to replace Doc Brown’s dog “Einstein” because, by amazing coincidence, it actually did travel through time. They are keeping that parking lot blocked off for it’s unknown re-entry.
The phrase “cross the streams” in **Ghostbusters** was the result of a night of drinking in the back alley with Ramis, Aykroyd, and Murray.
Boris Karloff was actually killed and resurrected for his role in **Frankenstein**.
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### Author:  [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/191 "2004-03-07T11:19:28Z")
Eddie Murphy is not wearing a fat suit for his roles in the **Nutty Professor** series. In reality, all his films for the past twenty years have been extensively altered with computer animation to make him appear 250 pounds lighter.
Wesley Snipes is a Muppet, and as such is wholly owned by the Jim Henson company.
Charlie Sheen replaces the blanks in his prop guns with actual bullets, and has killed over thirty-five people on film.
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### Author:  [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/192 "2004-03-07T13:34:17Z")
**Pleasantville** was based on footage of a real 50’s sitcom which was never aired due to company politics. The interaction between the original cast and the modern actors was achieved by top-notch CGI, while the coloring for the older scenes was hand-painted by south-east Asian labor. Don Knotts, who plays the repairman that sends the main characters into the sitcom, was part of the original cast.
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### Author:  [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/193 "2004-03-07T14:53:32Z")
All Academy Award winners are, immediately after winning an Academy Award, granted membership into the 1927 Club. This is one of the most elite clubs in the world, and is located under the Spinning Teacups at Disneyland.
The reason that most winners of the Best Supporting Actress Award in recent years have had their careers collaspe isn’t because of bad luck, but because there has been a direct conspiracy against them by the studios.
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### Author:  [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/194 "2004-03-07T15:23:15Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#):
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> Eddie Murphy is not wearing a fat suit for his roles in the **Nutty Professor** series. In reality, all his films for the past twenty years have been extensively altered with computer animation to make him appear 250 pounds lighter.
For that matter, in real life, Michael Moore weights only 110 pounds, Jerry Lewis 89 pounds, and Marlon Brando 54 pounds.
CGI can work wonders.
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/195 "2004-03-07T16:36:46Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#):
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> Wesley Snipes is a Muppet, and as such is wholly owned by the Jim Henson company.
However, Snipes was in the center of the controversy regarding the recent sale of some characters to Disney. The Henson Company now owns the rights to _Fraggle Rock_, _The Dark Crystal_, _The Storyteller_, most of Snipes, and other miscellaneous projects, and Disney owns the Muppets, _Bear in the Big Blue House_, and Snipes’ left arm. Snipes’ big toes were accidentially sold to Sesame Workshop along with the _Sesame Street_ Muppets in 2000.
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### Author:  [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-bs-movie-trivia/218875/196 "2004-03-07T17:36:31Z")
Rene Zelwegger?
Robot.
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