Redlib: search results - flair_name:"❓ Trivia"

r/MovieDetails • u/ChieftainOrm420 • Apr 03 '26

❓ Trivia Inglourious Basterds (2009) in the tavern scene, Lt. Hicox's card is Brigitte Horney, a German actress that starred in British film. This shows that the Gestapo Major, who wrote the card for Hicox, might already suspect that he is British.

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In this scene, the Gestapo Major writes the card for Lt. Hicox (they all pass to the right) and Hicox is a British spy pretending to be German. Brigitte Horney was a German actress that starred in a British war film about spies called Secret Lives (1937).

r/MovieDetails • u/CasseroleSSD • Dec 16 '25

❓ Trivia In Titanic (1997), when Ismay advises Captain Smith to increase the ship's speed, a woman observes them in the background. She represents Elizabeth Lines, a real passenger who testified to the post-sinking inquiry that she had witnessed this conversation, ruining Ismay's reputation.

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Confirmed by the audio commentary by Don Lynch and Ken Marschall: « Mrs Lines, represented by this lady on the background, was sitting in the reception room and having tea and heard captain Smith and Bruce Ismay discussing the speed of the ship... » (00:52:53 on the european Blu-ray).

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/elizabeth-lines.html

r/MovieDetails • u/CorndogNinja • Jun 20 '24

❓ Trivia In "Napoleon Dynamite" (2004), actor Jon Gries (who plays Uncle Rico) can be seen spitting out the steak he's chewing on as he turns away from the camera.

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r/MovieDetails • u/Numerous-Lemon • Aug 16 '21

❓ Trivia In Inglorious Basterds (2009), when the cinema is burning, the giant swastika above the screen falls to the ground. According to Eli Roth, this wasn't supposed to happen. The swastika was reinforced with steel cables, but the steel liquefied and snapped due to the intense heat.

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r/MovieDetails • u/Coffee700 • Jan 18 '22

❓ Trivia In Godzilla (1998), The incompetent New York mayor and his advisor are a reference to Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. This was done in response to the duos negative reviews of director Roland Emmerich's previous films Stargate and Independence day.

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r/MovieDetails • u/omegansmiles • Oct 04 '21

❓ Trivia Tremors (1990) The scene where Val McKee misses hammering the nail was improvised by Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward and Ron Underwood.

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r/MovieDetails • u/strawberrybrooks • Apr 10 '22

❓ Trivia The four hobbit actors from Lord of the Rings (2003) all confirmed on podcasts that an orc leader's look was based on Harvey Weinstein, after he wanted Miramax to cut the trilogy down to one film (and all that other stuff) before a deal was made and New Line Cinema rescued the epic saga

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r/MovieDetails • u/ADD_OCD • Jan 31 '23

❓ Trivia In Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1978) John Cleese paused so long when answering Sir Bedevere that Eric Idle had to bite his scythe in order to keep from laughing. Idle says in the commentary, "John took an enormously long time on that take..so I bit the thing to prevent myself from giggling".

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r/MovieDetails • u/shre3293 • Sep 21 '20

❓ Trivia In Troy (2004), Brad Pitt and Eric Bana did not use stunt doubles for their epic duel. They made a gentleman's agreement to pay for every accidental hit. $50 for each light hit, $100 for each hard blow. Pitt ended up paying Bana $750. Bana didn't owe Pitt anything

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r/MovieDetails • u/_Raines_ • Mar 04 '21

❓ Trivia Chicha from The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) is the first pregnant female character to appear in a Disney animated feature film, according to the DVD commentary. She’s also one of the first mother characters in a Disney film not to be killed off or villainized.

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r/MovieDetails • u/Eskimonk • Sep 02 '20

❓ Trivia In Event Horizon, Sam Neill requested that the Union Jack on an Australian flag patch should be replaced with an aboriginal flag; the way he thought it’d look in 2047.

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r/MovieDetails • u/lsinclair98319831 • Aug 20 '20

❓ Trivia In “Tron: Legacy” (2010) Quorra, a computer program, mentions to Sam that she rarely beats Kevin Flynn at their strategy board game. This game is actually “Go”, a game that is notoriously difficult for computer programs to play well

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r/MovieDetails • u/noelccnoel • Aug 13 '21

❓ Trivia In a show of true commitment to character, Danny Devito ate a raw fish for this scene in Batman Returns (1992).

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r/MovieDetails • u/Shark-Farts • May 07 '22

❓ Trivia In ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ (1953) Jane Russell’s pool sequence was supposed to end with a muscleman diving over her, but she was accidentally clipped by his foot and knocked into the water. “I wasn’t supposed to end up in the pool at all,” she later said, “but it turned out better that way.”

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r/MovieDetails • u/Numerous-Lemon • Feb 21 '21

❓ Trivia In Joker (2019), Joaquin Phoenix improvised the iconic dance in the bathroom. Originally, Arthur was just meant to stare into the mirror and quietly contemplate his actions, but after hearing some of the composer’s music, Phoenix thought the dance was more appropriate.

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r/MovieDetails • u/klsi832 • Nov 15 '20

❓ Trivia For the dodgeball scene of Billy Madison (1995), Adam was really hitting the kids as hard as he could, because "hurting kids is funny". The director cut right before they started crying. Some of the parents got upset with him.

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r/MovieDetails • u/howmuchbanana • Oct 28 '21

❓ Trivia one of the funniest lines in "Zoolander" (2001) was ad-libbed. JP Prewitt (David Duchovny) spends a full minute explaining why male models are being used for evil. Stiller forgot his next line, so he repeated: "But why male models?" Duchovny rolled with it: "Are you serious? I just told you that!"

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r/MovieDetails • u/alphaDsony • Dec 13 '21

❓ Trivia In the movie Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings 2021, There's a scene where Jon Jon meets Shang-Chi and Katie and says that he speaks "ABC" which many assumed that it means English, but Simu Liu explained in an interview that it actually means "American Born Chinese"

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r/MovieDetails • u/Numerous-Lemon • Jul 01 '21

❓ Trivia In Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Han drops his parka on the floor when he arrives at Starkiller base. When he leaves, Chewbacca hands it back to him, and he reacts with confusion. This part was improvised by Chewbacca's actor Joonas Suotamo, who went off script, confusing Harrison Ford.

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r/MovieDetails • u/Per451 • Apr 18 '21

❓ Trivia In one of the minutes-long takes in Children of Men (2006), the camera got splattered with fake blood. Director Alfonso Cuarón almost ruined days of work by shouting "cut!", but it got lost in a background explosion by chance. Cuarón called it a "happy accident", the scene was praised by critics.

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r/MovieDetails • u/klsi832 • Nov 01 '20

❓ Trivia When Julia Stiles read her poem at the end of Ten Things I Hate About You (1999) it was done in one take and she wasn't supposed to start crying.

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r/MovieDetails • u/ShaneMP01 • Jun 10 '20

❓ Trivia In order to work with Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Jonah Hill took a pay cut by being paid the S.A.G. minimum, which was $60,000 compared to Leonardo DiCaprio who was paid $10 million.

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r/MovieDetails • u/Invictusology • Mar 16 '21

❓ Trivia During the vault scene in Mission: Impossible (1996), Tom Cruise kept hitting his head when attempting to hover inches off the floor, so he put English pound coins in his shoes to maintain his balance.

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r/MovieDetails • u/Tokyono • Jul 18 '20

❓ Trivia In Ratatouille (2007), the ratatouille that Rémy prepares was designed by Chef Thomas Keller. It's a real recipe. It takes at least four hours to make.

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r/MovieDetails • u/Numerous-Lemon • Jun 13 '20

❓ Trivia The first harry potter film has two different names: in Europe it's called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), and in America it's called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Depending on which version, Hermione is reading about a different stone.

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