# Movie trivia you noticed yourself. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889 "2014-10-09T19:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/21 "2014-10-10T17:37:40Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > I realized on my own that _Predator_ has two future governors in it. > ETA: and I just realized so does _The Running Man_. Predator also has a third guy who ran for governor, but lost. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/22 "2014-10-10T17:50:59Z")
I remember noticing that all the major characters in _Final Destination_ share last names with horror movie directors. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/23 "2014-10-10T17:52:38Z")
In _Harold & Maude_, Harold always dresses in the same outfit as his psychiatrist. In _Troy_ there’s a scene with Peter O’Toole and John Terry, who played Henry II and John in _The Lion in Winter_. In _Gone With the Wind_ there’s a scene of carriages driving up the lane to the mansion at Twelve Oaks. They drive over the shadows of trees but the shadows never touch them. (I knew it was editing but found out why in a documentary: the trees and lane were a glass painting.) ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/24 "2014-10-10T17:55:38Z")
I’m probably not the only one who noticed this and I’m sure it’s probably on a trivia list _somewhere_ online… …but when I first watched Glee and they said the name of [Stephen Tobolowsky’s](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/536131448/tobolowsky.JPG) character (which is Sandy Ryerson), I immediately remembered he played Ned Ryerson in Groundhog’s Day. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/25 "2014-10-10T18:02:50Z")
Ah, another one. I remember watching \*Ronin \*in the movie theater, and thinking, “hey, there’s THREE Bond villains in this movie!” ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/26 "2014-10-10T19:23:48Z")
[Roger Ebert published several books](http://www.amazon.com/Eberts-Bigger-Little-Movie-Glossary/dp/0836282892) about about, well, not exactly movie trivia but rather movie cliches. I submitted two suggestions via email and he published them both! In fact he’s used one of them in two or three of his reviews. I’d love to reference them, but it would mean revealing my actual name… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/27 "2014-10-10T20:15:17Z")
The three dads in Mama Mia are spies. Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Colin Firth (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), and Stellan Skarsgard (Ronin). ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/28 "2014-10-10T20:24:57Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > The other day I was watching “Raising Arizona” for the millionth time, and I saw something I’d never really noticed before: > Right after the two brothers escape from prison, you see them in a gas station restroom cleaning themselves up (gooping up their hair). On the back of the restroom door is graphitti spray-painted “O.P.E” and “P.O.E” - a nod to a well known movie. > > You can also get a quick glimpse of the graphitti just before Randall crashes down the door with his bike. Similarly, in “Men in Black 3,” the number CRM-114 makes two appearances in the form of text that appears on the outside wall of the Lunar Max prison and the ID for the bunker on the beach at Cape Canaveral. The CRM-114 was the radio scrambling device aboard the B-52 in “Dr. Strangelove.” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/29 "2014-10-10T20:32:26Z")
I come up with these things all the time - more often with tv shows - but for some reason the only thing I can think of at the moment is the main characters’ last name in Gone Girl is Dunne (as in “done”). Will come back when brain re-engages. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/30 "2014-10-10T21:07:01Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > I realized on my own that _Predator_ has two future governors in it. > ETA: and I just realized so does _The Running Man_. So does _Batman And Robin_. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/31 "2014-10-10T21:46:45Z")
(Maybe not so significant) I remember “The Sting” being hailed as the big reunion of not only Paul Newman and Robert Redford, but also the “Butch Cassidy” directory, George Roy Hill. When I watched “Butch Cassidy” recently, I realized that there was another actor who was also reunited for “The Sting”: Charles Dierkop - the guy who plays “flat nose (something)” in the Hole in the Wall gang. He plays one of Robert Shaw’s thugs in “The Sting”. (He’s most notable in his reaction to Paul Newman out-cheating Shaw on the big, final poker hand) (For all I know there are others, but his face is so distinctive, I finally realized he was also in both movies). ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/32 "2014-10-11T02:48:21Z")
Since a TV show was mentioned in the OP, there was a _Monk_ episode where Scott Glenn played a corrupt sheriff who framed Monk for murder and has to be brought to justice by Monk and Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine)–a role reversal of _The Silence of the Lambs_ (Jack Crawford and Buffalo Bill). ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/33 "2014-10-11T04:13:25Z")
In “Catch Me If You Can” there is a scene on an airplane where Leo DiCaprio (as Frank Abagnale) looks out the window and recognizes LaGuardia airport. He remarks to Tom Hanks that he can see runway 44. That’s impossible. Runway numbers go by compass directions with the third digit removed, so the highest one could see is a northbound runway, 36. I assume the filmmakers did that intentionally out of some kind of security concern. Which is funny because runway information is publicly available. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/34 "2014-10-11T04:27:01Z")
What’s with Tom Hanks peeing? Maybe this has been explained but I’ve never searched on it. All of these pissing scenes are on film: In _A League of Their Own_, when he first meets the team he busts into the locker room, stumbling drunk, and scuffles over to the head and takes a leak. Madonna, playing “All the .way May”, times how long he pisses for. In _Apollo 13_ right after he as astronaut Jim Lovell films some space capsule activities for the public back home, pisses in a relief tube. I think that’s what that tube is called. In _Castaway_ he climbs to a high cliff on a hilltop and pisses off of the cliff, seemingly claiming victory as if marking his territory. In _The Green Mile_ he’s battling a UTI which is subsequently cured by Michael Clark Duncan’s character, John Coffey. Tom Hanks, off-screen but you definitely hear it, groans with relief as he pees pain-free for the first time in ages. And then later that night he, umm, pleases his wife some three or four times. But that’s a different story. There may be other movies where he pees. What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/35 "2014-10-11T05:27:33Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > There may be other movies where he pees. Forrest Gump: I have to go pee. John F. Kennedy: I believe he said he has to go pee! ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/36 "2014-10-11T05:50:33Z")
> [@Nom\_de\_Plume](#): > > I noticed in all the Mad Max movies, they only mention his last name one time. Max Von Sydow yells at him as he walks out of the police station. Von Sydow would have been good in the part, but Max’s boss Fifi was played by Australian actor [Roger Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ward). ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/37 "2014-10-11T06:38:02Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > There may be other movies where he pees. > > What’s up with that? > [@buddha\_david](#): > > Forrest Gump: I have to go pee. > > John F. Kennedy: I believe he said he has to go pee! [I think the problem started at an early age.](http://youtu.be/nJPju1f6p0E?t=2m19s) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/38 "2014-10-11T06:51:19Z")
Movie/TV cross reference, this time. In _Star Trek: Enterprise_, the captain’s last name is “Archer.” …kinda like “[Bowman](http://armedrobbery.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/dave1.jpg).” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/39 "2014-10-11T10:20:41Z")
Director Ron Howard often uses family members in his movies. For _Apollo 13_ there were: - brother Clint Howard was the White team EECOM (Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager) Sy Liebergot - father Rance Howard was the Lovell family minister - mother Jean Speegle Howard was Jim Lovell’s mother Blanch. - wife Cheryl Howard and daughter Bryce Dallas Howard appeared as uncredited background performers in the scene where the astronauts wave goodbye to their families I didn’t know about the last line. I looked that one up. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889/40 "2014-10-11T14:18:12Z")
In the movie _Paint Your Wagon_, Clint Eastwood sings the song “I Talked to the Trees”. Forty-three years later he talked to a chair at the Republican Convention. I was astonished at the time of the convention that no political commentators made a joke about it. In the 1956 movie _Baby Doll_, in a scene set in a diner in a small Southern town, people are shown eating pizza. When I saw that, I immediately said to myself, “No, they wouldn’t have eaten pizza. It didn’t reach small town America until the mid-1960’s.” I did an online search when I got home from the movie and found this review on the IMDb: > **[Baby Doll (1956) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048973/reviews)** > > Baby Doll (1956) on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Most of _Baby Doll_ was shot in a small Mississippi town, and most of the minor parts were played by locals. The scene where the people eat pizza was one of the few shot in a New York studio. The people from the small town who were in that scene were brought to New York for the filming, and indeed that was the first time they had ever eaten pizza. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trivia-you-noticed-yourself/700889.md?page=3)