In The Producers (1968), when Max and the Little Old Lady are playing “Contessa and the Chauffeur,” she calls him “Rudolfo.”
Later, when Max and Leo go to see Roger De Bris, they drive up in a Rolls Royce limo. The chauffeur opens the door for Max, and he says “Thank you, Rudolfo!”
Also, when Franz Liebkind blows the lock off Max’s door with his Luger, we can see for just a second that the slide is locked in the open position, meaning the pistol is empty and making it impossible for him to fire the subsequent rounds without reloading. Conversely, when he tries to commit suicide and fails because the Luger is empty, the slide is back down, indicating it’s ready to fire again.
There’s a copy of the movie’s original script available on line. A lot of things were left out of the final cut, notably the “Siegfried oath” to which Franz refers in the “crazy Kraut” scene above.
This year, during my umpteenth viewing of Love Actually, it finally dawned on me that everyone Keira Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor hired for their wedding failed miserably. I mean, I registered each piece separately (the food sucked, the DJ sucked, the videographer’s film all came out blue) but never put it all together. :smack: Probably because the actual ceremony and surprise went off so well.
There was a major character who was edited out of the movie. He was supposed to be a mysterious stranger who apparently was arranging events so people would get together and may have had magic powers - essentially a Cupid figure that was supposed to be connecting all the separate stories. But when they were editing the film they felt it was running long and they decided they could cut out this character.
The character was played by Rowan Atkinson and you can still see him a couple of times but he’s no longer a main part of the story.
Driving to work the other day, it occurred to me out of nowhere that * Scrubs* referred to both surgical garments and also a contemptuous term for an inexperienced person.
Maybe he had one of those baby-monitor thingies so that his nurse could hear him in another room. Dunno if they were around in the 1940s, but he was rich enough to commission one if he wanted to.
Towards the end of the movie, the butler tells the journalist that he heard Kane’s last word and that it was “Rosebud”. It’s true that the butler isn’t seen in the opening scene, but the movie does tell us that someone was within earshot.
Another Citizen Kane one. (I didn’t catch this one myself. I think it was Roger Ebert who pointed it out.)
Early in the movie, there’s a long camera shot where the camera tracks across a street, on to a roof, and then down through a skylight into the nightclub where Susan Alexander is singing.
Later in the movie, there’s another scene with Susan in the nightclub and the camera follows the same path. But this time the glass in the skylight is broken although no special mention is made of it.
It’s a joke. The supposed reason the glass is broken is because the camera went through it in the earlier scene.
Actually, it’s when Thompson interviews the butler (Raymond) that he tells Thompson that he heard Kane saying “Rosebud” following an outburst after Susan left him. Nobody heard him say it right before he died.
I recently saw the movie TRON for the first time while marathoning 80s sci fi movies and fell in love with it. As is my tendancy, I’ve watched it about ten times since then. I never realized that the guy who asked Alan to share his popcorn at the beggining of the movie was Ram’s user. I found out reading it online.
:dubious: :rolleyes: