Fun facts about the seventh art

coppersailor28 said:😲 what could possibly be controversial about that?

(just please spare me the "it's just how things work" excuses or the usual "Al Pacino masterfully captured the realistic scope of such situations" nonsense)

I’m asking, though—maybe you meant something else entirely. Basically, the old man Al just loves to get handsy...

Paul Anderson7 said:A few actors who turned down iconic roles:

John Travolta passed on playing Forrest Gump, and after him, both Bill Murray and Chevy Chase said no to the role too.

Matthew Broderick turned down the role of Walter White in Breaking Bad.

Tom Selleck declined to play Indiana Jones.

Burt Reynolds passed on the chance to be Han Solo in Star Wars.

Kevin Costner turned down The Shawshank Redemption and filmed Waterworld instead.

I honestly can't picture any of them in those parts, so maybe they did us a favor by passing. 😁 Especially not someone as soft as Matthew Broderick playing Walter White in WW.

analogbear40 said:http://www.theguardian.com/film/film...ushima-nuclear

An incredibly gripping article from 2011 regarding all the little details surrounding the filming of the cult classic Stalker.

"But Stalker itself had a catastrophic history. While it's a well-known part of the film's legend that it had to be shot twice after the original film stock was ruined in the lab, it's less talked about that the entire production had by then already had to vacate its original location in northern Tajikistan after a major earthquake. Touched as such by disaster in its early life, the film would end up embraced by it. While the last month saw New York's drinking water deemed unfit for children, the toxic legacy of eventually filming near a chemical plant outside the US capital of Washington D.C. has been blamed for killing both lead actor Anatoli Solonitsyn and in 1986, just a few months after Chernobyl, Tarkovsky himself. Earlier this week it would have been his 79th birthday – there could hardly be a better moment to raise a glass."

This is easily the most fascinating part.

Even if most enthusiasts probably already know the main facts, there's no harm in repeating them for the new generations who are just starting to discover it.

Tarkovsky always gave off this underdog vibe, and he was so desperate to expose the sins of this world that he chose to go out that way. He's essentially the Jan Palach of the seventh art.

Tarkovsky himself was a religious fanatic, and honestly, that was his only flaw. For everything else, I bow down.

bluenomad2 said:Hardly surprising. It’s common knowledge that most actors and directors in Hollywood are pedophiles.☕

Even Corey says

"Interesting." (Using quotes—because if they were mostly vegetarians, it would be a different kind of /"normal"/ interesting).

Mark Cruz15 said:I'm asking, maybe you meant something else. Meaning Al Pacino likes to grope.

I don't know if he does or doesn't. I'm not claiming he seeks out those opportunities on purpose.
But it's practically a fact that he took advantage at least once ("took advantage of the crowd"). There's no debate there—he "prepared" himself for the grab—he looked to see exactly where his hand "needed" to go.

Unforgettable lines:

Scarecrow: "I don't have a brain... just straw."

Dorothy: "Then how can you talk if you don't have a brain?"

Scarecrow: "I don't know... But then again, some people without brains talk a lot... don't they?"

Tin Man: "Dorothy, what have you learned?"

Dorothy: "That if I ever go looking for my dreams again, I won't look outside my own backyard. Because if they aren't there, then I never really lost them in the first place!"

The movie is based on the children's books written by Frank Baum at the turn of the 20th century. The screenplay was penned by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, while the music and lyrics are credited to Harold Arlen and Edgar Harburg. The direction was handled by Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, and King Vidor.

• This isn't actually the first time we've heard the title "Inglourious Basterds," since
  Quentin Tarantino essentially lifted the name from an old Italian war flick released back in '78.

• He originally intended to call the project "Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France," but they eventually settled on "Inglourious Basterds," though he did tuck his original title away as the name for the movie's opening chapter.

• The script was actually sitting there since 1998, but he just pushed it aside for a while to focus on finishing up "Kill Bill" and "Death Proof."

• Even Jason Mraz lent a hand in getting the script over the finish line; apparently, Tarantino would loop "I'm Yours" constantly just to keep his head straight while writing.

• There’s a moment where you hear Samuel L. Jackson’s voice before you ever see his face, acting as the narrator for the whole stretch involving Elle Driver.

• Christoph Waltz wasn't even the initial thought for the role of Hans Landa, was he? In the early stages, Tarantino was actually looking at Leonardo DiCaprio for the part.

• Then there was Adam Sandler, who was supposedly lined up to play Donny Donowitz, better known as "The Bear Jew," but he passed on it because he was tied up filming "Funny People."

• Another German actress was almost cast as Bridget von Hammersmark; Tarantino wanted Nastassja Kinski, but the role ended up going to Diane Kruger instead.

• That "movie within a movie" was produced by Eli Roth, the guy famous for horror hits like "Hostel" and "Cabin Fever," who shows up in the film as Donny Donowitz and produced that fake six-minute Nazi propaganda short called "Pride of Nations" that you can watch right here.

• Michael Fassbender’s German sounded perfectly natural, which makes sense when you consider that he spent most of the film playing a German officer and was actually born in Germany.

• Interestingly, the marketing materials had to be censored in Germany, with all the swastikas stripped out because displaying Nazi symbols is illegal there.

• "Basterds" also marked the end of a long era for Tarantino and his editor, Sally Menke, who had handled all his films up to that point before she passed away shortly after the release.

Source: militaryhistory.americannews.com