Ever since the first silent films, movies have helped shape our culture and our world. Whether it is a Bollywood film or a classic Hollywood blockbuster, the cinema is important in our daily lives. It has shaped popular culture in ways that cannot be underestimated. In many ways it determines what is going to be “cool” and what won’t be. Whether it is slang, clothing, or just a general style, there is nothing more potent and powerful than Hollywood in dictating the direction of culture. Even in parts of the world where electricity and internet connection are sparse, people find themselves being influenced by movies.
Of course, along with this influence comes the possibility of division. Movies and cinema play a strong role in dissent and political activism as well. Documentary makers often cast light on things that people otherwise wouldn’t know about. Today we are going to take a look behind the scenes of the movies and find out some quirky facts about the cinema and Hollywood that you might not have known before. So even if you are not a movie buff, we are sure that you will enjoy this list. These are 25 interesting tidbits you might not know about movies.
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Movie trailers actually used to play after films
Source: straightdope.comIt cost more to make the movie Titanic than to actually build the Titanic
Source: spking.com, Image: pixabayNigeria actually makes more movies per year than the United States
Source: economist.com, Image: wikipediaTime travel is banned in movies and on TV in China
Source: time.com, Image: wikipediaMore than 90% of American movies filmed before 1930 have been lost
Source: film-foundation.orgIn the movie The Godfather, the word "mafia" is never mentioned because the real mafia had requested for it not to be
Source: imdb, Image: Insomnia Cured Here via FlickrBruce Lee was so fast that they actually slowed his movies down so people could see what he was doing
Source: neatorama.com, Image: wikipediaThe Movie Gravity cost more to film than the cost of the entire Indian Mars Mission
Source: nytimes, Image: wikipediaBefore acting, Bruce Willis was a private investigator
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipediaYoda's look was inspired by the look of his creator Stuart Freeborn with a little bit of Albert Einstein thrown in to make him seem more wise.
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipediaSpeaking of Star Wars, initially the series was meant to have the article "the" before it, as in "The Star Wars"
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipediaSpeaking of movie facts, if you are a Harry Potter fan, feel free to check out these 25 Harry Potter facts that will knock you off your broomstick.
In Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid more than $20,000 for every word he spoke
Source: imdb, Image: wikipediaThe movie industry actually moved from New York to Los Angeles to escape Thomas Edison's patents
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipediaAdjusted for inflation, Gone With The Wind is the highest grossing movie of all time (It would have earned nearly 3.5 billion 2014 USD)
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipediaSylvester Stallone was once so poor that he sold his dog for $50. One week later he sold the script for Rocky and bought his dog back for $3,000
Source: news.com.au, Image: wikipediaWhen James Cameron wrote Terminator, he was homeless and he sold the script for $1 along with an agreement that he could direct the movie
Source: ign.com, Image: wikipediaThe first Titanic movie was released less than a month after the sinking (Saved From The Titanic). It starred an actress who had actually survived the sinking
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipediaWalt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film in Disneyland during the early 60s because he made "that disgusting movie Psycho"
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipediaBecause he started balding at 21, Sean Connery wore a toupee in all of his James Bond films
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipediaJohnny Depp, Brad Pitt, and Harrison Ford, have never won Oscars. Leonardo DiCaprio would have also been on this list...but he finally won an Oscar this year.
Source: imdb, Image: wikipediaDavid Holmes, Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double in the first six Harry Potter films was paralyzed during an accident on the set of the 7th film
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipediaMorgan Freeman didn't appear in a movie until he was 34 and didn't get a big role until he was 52
Source: imdb, Image: wikipediaBorat was a huge hit in Israel because all of Borat's Kazakh lines were actually in Hebrew
Source: washingtonpost.com, Image: wikipediaOtto Frank wrote to Audrey Hepburn asking her if she would play the role of his daughter, Anne Frank, in the movie adaptation of her life. Audrey politely turned the role down because of her own past in Nazi occupied Netherlands would make it too emotionally challenging.
Source: tcm.com, Image: wikipediaNASA keeps Armageddon, Apollo 13, and Around The World In 80 Days aboard the International Space Station
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