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<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Han Solo's original line in the carbonite freezing chamber during Empire Strikes Back was "I love you too." but during filming Harrison Ford switched it to "I know." to fit his character better in his mind. George Lucas agreed.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> One of the asteroids in the back of the asteroid chase scene during Empire Strikes Back is actually a potato.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Around 5,800 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vote for the Oscars.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> The first Best Actor Oscar went to Emil Jannings in 1929 for his movies The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command. He didn't turn up to accept it.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> The longest Oscars ceremony, in 2000, lasted a butt-numbing 256 minutes.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> It takes twelve people twenty hours to make one Oscar statuette.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Three Oscars have been refused by winners, including Marlon Brando, who rejected his second Oscar, in 1972 for The Godfather.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Since 1950, neither winners nor heirs may sell the statuette without offering to sell it back to the Academy first for $1.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> When Orson Welles won the Best Screenplay Oscar for his classic Citizen Kane in 1941, it wasn't a popular choice. The audience booed.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Potential Oscar winners were told to keep acceptance speeches to Forty-five seconds after Greer Garson's 1942 speech clocked in at five minutes and thirty seconds.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> In 1979, Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine used the podium to cheer up her sibling, Warren Beatty, who had lost out for Heaven Can Wait. "I want to use this opportunity to say how proud I am of my little brother. Just imagine what you could accomplish if you tried celibacy!" He was not amused.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> There are more Godzilla movies (28) then there are James Bond movies (24).

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are responsible for 7 of the top 10 highest-grossing films of the 1980s.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> The word "Mafia" was not uttered once in the movie The Godfather.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Repunzel from the movie "Tangled" is the first white Disney princess in nearly 20 years.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> The Hurt Locker is the lowest grossing film ever to win an award for Best picture.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> The weightlessness depicted in Apollo 13 was real. They used a NASA training device dubbed the "Vomit Comet" to achieve this instead of using wires.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> The "Creepy Voice" that you heard on the phone in all four Scream movies was done by the same guy that does the voice for Mojo Jojo on the Powerpuff Girls.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Disney made an educational, animated film called The Tales of Menstration. Don't believe me? Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWR-rIKRe4 (Thanks to [Akayume] for finding this video).

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Much of the Hermoine/Bellatrix torture scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Pt 1 had to be cut to avoid giving the movie an R rating.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Brendan Gleeson, the actor who plays Mad-Eye Moody, and Damhnail Gleeson, who plays Bill Weasley, are father and son.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid is the only Disney prince that does not sing during his movie.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Hercules is technically Ariel's cousin.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider have appeared in 18 movies together (as of 2011).

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> No women have died in any of the Jurassic Park movies.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> The earliest porn films were made in 1896, just month after the premier of the Cinematograph. The first one is believed to be Le Coucher de la Marie.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Pumbaa is the first Disney character to fart.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> It was rumored that Nickelodeon once aired a film so scary (for kids) that it wasn't aired for another 11 years. It was called "Cry Baby Lane". These rumors were eventually disproved.

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> The Lion King may have been stolen from a 1950 anime called "Kimba the White Lion".

<img:http://elftown.eu/stuff/Button_Circle_ETGreen%20copy.gif> Winston Groom, the author of the Forrest Gump books, didn't receive any royalties for the film adaptation of his book.


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2011-09-29 [Ravenclaw]: In the 1993 film Tombstone, Doc Holiday's "wink" that started the shoot out at the O.K. Coral was Val Kilmer's idea. Both he and the director George P. Cosmatos believed that it made more sense than both sides suddenly opening fire. - Documentary: When Big Gun's Talk

All of Sean Connery's scenes in Highlander were filmed in 12 days. He was surprised when his filming wrapped because he believed they couldn't finish all of his work in so little time. - Special feature footage 20th anniversary edition.

Christopher Lambert; who prefers to do his own stunts when at all possible, nearly lost his thumb filming the death glider scene in Highlander: The Quickening. - Special feature footage Highlander: The Quickening (renegade Version)

During the fight scene between Mistique and Wolveriene, Hugh Jakcman nearly lost his eye when one of his aluminum claws flew off and struck him in the face. - Special features 1:5 edition.

Nickolas Cage has had a Ghost Rider tattoo on his left bicep for years. Even before he became Jhonny Blaze. Make up artists were forced to cover it up for the scene where Sam Elliot is stitching the knife wound in Jhonny's shoulder. - Yeah yeah yeah, Special features

2011-09-29 [Lord Josmar]: I will post those when I get home.

2011-09-29 [Ravenclaw]: kk. I've got more but I don't wanna give you anything I don;t have proof for.

2011-09-30 [Lord Josmar]: Ok. You get proof and then let me know.

2011-09-30 [Ravenclaw]: k

2011-09-30 [Eyonic]: wow...walt disney, you amaze me...

2011-10-02 [Yami]: How are they cousins?

2011-10-02 [Lord Josmar]: It has something to do with the Greek pantheon.

2011-10-03 [Yami]: But Ariel's father isn't Poseidon/Neptune, it's king Triton.

2011-10-03 [Lord Josmar]: Next chance I get I will look it up again and give you the way they linked it. My phone is my only internet option.

2011-10-05 [Yami]: Ok ^^ I am very curious.

2011-10-06 [Lord Josmar]: Ok, here is the info verbatim:

According to Greek mythology, Ariel’s father, King Triton, is the son of Poseidon, which would make the sea god Ariel’s grandfather. Poseidon’s brother Zeus is the father of Hercules, so Herc and Triton are first cousins. The child of your first cousin is your first cousin once removed, therefore Hercules and Ariel are first cousins once removed.

Hercules and Triton’s cousinly relationship is confirmed in (this episode of the Hercules cartoon series) - keep an open mind though, Triton looks NOTHING like he does in The Little Mermaid.

This is the link to the Hercules cartoon episode being referenced. It is a youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8-eP-vGEes

2011-10-06 [Yami]: ah ok I see

2011-10-11 [shadow frost wolf]: Im pretty sure the child of your first cousin is called the second cousin. or maybe its both? Idk lol

2011-10-12 [Lord Josmar]: Yea, it gets pretty complicated once you break that far out of the first circle of relatives, but now that I am reading it I realize that "Once Removed" is the term for a person who married in to the family before divorceing/widowing out and then marrying back in. I think the person meant second cousin.

2011-10-12 [shadow frost wolf]: ah, okay.

2011-11-11 [Eyonic]: really pumbaa?

2011-11-11 [Lord Josmar]: Yep.

2011-11-12 [XxTsomexX]: pumbaa <3

2012-03-07 [Yami]: The actor who played Arthur (The main character) in the 1989 version of "The woman in Black" is the same actor who plays James Potter in the Harry Potter movies were as in the 2012 release the actor who plays James Potter's (and title character) Harry plays Arthur.

2012-03-07 [Lord Josmar]: Ok, I think this one confused me.

Also, you should take it over to Useless Contributions.

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