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Originally from [livejournal.com profile] karaokegal. I did this yesterday, but I liked it so much I'm doing a sequel.

1.) Look up ten of your favorite films on IMDB.
2.) Go to "trivia" and pick out the most interesting fact about each film.
3.) Copy + paste!



1. Fame
Albert Hague was an actual teacher at Laguardia (the fictional school's real-life counterpart) when he was hired almost on a whim by the producers to play Benjamin Shorofsky, a role that resurrected his acting career.

2. Saturday Night Fever
In the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, "maneiro" is a widely-used word, meaning "cool", taken from the character name, Tony Manero.

3. Grease
The film was released in Spain as Brilliantina (Brilliantine) - because its English title translated as "fat" in Spanish.

4. An Angel At My Table
Kerry Fox gained two stone for her role as Janet Frame. She managed this by drinking liters of Coca-Cola, eating packets of chocolate biscuits and going on the pill.

5. Mona Lisa
Bob Hoskins was unaware that Michael Caine was in the film until he arrived on set for the first day of shooting. Caine himself had created the ruse while they worked together on Sweet Liberty (1986). He told Hoskins that he had been offered the part but it was too small and he was tired playing villains, even though he had already agreed to take the role.

6. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit
Hutch only speaks phrases spoken by Wallace previously in the movie and preceding short films.

7. Mermaids
Emily Lloyd had actually started shooting when Winona Ryder became available and Lloyd was unceremoniously dumped. (She later won a sizeable cash settlement from the production company for being booted off the film). Original director Frank Oz was also replaced, reputedly at Cher's insistence.

8. Educating Rita
At the train station, there is an unusual black rectangle above the word "Platform" on the platform sign hanging from the ceiling. Its purpose is to cover up the Irish (Gaelic) word "Árdán", which would have been out of place in an English railway station. A slightly different tactic was employed in another scene showing a double-decker bus. Its destination is listed as Beaumont, a real suburb of Dublin. It was most likely chosen partly as a could-be-anywhere sort of name, but mostly because practically every other destination on a Dublin bus is listed bilingually.

9. Desperately Seeking Susan
Camel withdrew a sponsorship of $5,000 because of the scene where Dez (Aidan Quinn) tells Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) that she "should stop smoking".

10. The Missionary
Whilst filming at Longleat House in Wiltshire, Michael Hordern asked to get off the set early because there was a trout stream nearby and he was an experienced trout fisherman. Later that day, the cast and crew had a barbecue with the fish Hordern caught.


I had to miss out on a few films because they either had no trivia section or nothing of real interest. The films listed are among those I like, rather than my top films ever.
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