The Shining. Living in England and petrified of flying, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick didn’t get to examine the hotel in Oregon where The Shining’s exteriors were filmed. Nor was he familiar with Ed McMahon’s famous catchphrase from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: “Here’s Johnny!”. Image via Warner Bros.
To hide the actor’s girth, Coppola and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro dressed Brando in black pajamas and shot the movie scenes mostly in shadow, which wound up adding to Kurtz’s aura of mystery and madness.
The studio forced Marlon Brando to work for free, due to his difficult reputation. The Godfather’s opening scene, in which Brando strokes a cat and discourses on friendship, cemented the role as his. Image via Paramount Pictures. That gray-and-white tabby, though, belonged to nobody.
In a 2013 AMA on Reddit, director and co-writer Peter Farrelly claimed that around 15 percent of Dumb and Dumber was improvised . Riding down the highway with his best friend Harry and hitchhiker henchman Mental Mentalino, Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) posed a question no one should ever say “yes” to: “Hey, wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?”
A description of the most famous scene in Wayne’s World sounds like a setup for a joke: five head-bangers drive around in a 1976 AMC Pacer, singing along to . . . Producer Lorne Michaels wanted a Guns N’ Roses tune, but actor and screenwriter Mike Myers argued for “Bohemian Rhapsody.” In fact, he threatened to leave the set unless he got his way.
In an interview commemorating the 30th anniversary of The Goonies, director Richard Donner said he loved working with the film’s child actors because of their “pure, wonderful, unprogrammed minds.”.
As the cane got stuck, Wilder fell to the ground, only to execute an astonishing summersault. Surprise and cheers ensued. Wilder explained his choice in the iconic movie scenes as ensuring that “from that time on, no one [would] know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”.
And yet, it has a storied history in entertainment, even up into the '80s and '90s. Beloved comedian Dan Aykroyd is one of the many who've donned tasteless blackface in cinema, doing so during a brief scene in Trading Places, a comedy in which he stars opposite Eddie Murphy in a Prince and the Pauper -inspired tale.
While on the subject of minors engaging in age-inappropriate activity, it would be remiss not to mention Franco Zeffirelli's gorgeous 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. One of this film's great triumphs is in its casting of the titular characters as teenagers, the way they are portrayed in the original play.
Another candidate for the underage nudity lawsuit goes to the disturbing drama American Beauty, wherein Kevin Spacey plays Lester Burnham, an unfulfilled advertising exec caught in an unhappy marriage. In his frustration, he becomes obsessed with his teenage daughter's friend Angela, played by Mena Suvari.
It goes without saying that blackface performance is definitely not okay. Born out of mockery of the plight of African slaves and kindled in the era of Jim Crow, it's a disgusting reminder of how thoughtless and cruel white Americans have been in their dealings with black Americans. And yet, it has a storied history in entertainment, even up into the '80s and '90s. Beloved comedian Dan Aykroyd is one of the many who've donned tasteless blackface in cinema, doing so during a brief scene in Trading Places, a comedy in which he stars opposite Eddie Murphy in a Prince and the Pauper -inspired tale. While the film certainly intends to bring up the idea of inequality between races and succeeds in many ways, the modern viewer has to ask themselves if it could have been done without having to resort to the cheap racist comedy of yesteryear.
The recent film A Quiet Place , written by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and John Krasinski, has its entire premise built on telling a story with no dialogue. The screenplay is a lean 68 pages and it’s really fun to read. Here are our top ten movie scenes with nearly zero dialogue. 10. The opening scene of Baby Driver.
When the film industry first began in the 1890s, there was no dialogue at all because the technology to synch sound with film hadn’t been invented, creating what we now call the silent film era.
The Mexican standoff in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The tension is so thick in this scene you can cut it with a knife. Clint Eastwood’s rugged scowl helps too. Though the three men are standing in the middle of the desert, it begins to feel claustrophobic, especially when the camera is close on the men’s eyes.
When I first saw this film, I had expected a happily ever after ending. I was devastated when Ben Braddock’s (Dustin Hoffman) face went from joy to what looks like regret, possibly even fear. It was like a kick in the gut. Even if the writer wanted to add dialogue to the scene, it’s nearly impossible to imagine what Ben might say.
The crop duster scene in North by Northwest. Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) gets off the bus in what appears to be the middle of nowhere. When the plane flies too close for Roger’s comfort, he’s afraid but assumes it’s an accident or the pilot didn’t see him.
As writers, it’s easy to rely on dialogue to tell the story. But often scripts include a lot more dialogue than is truly necessary. Really great screenwriters know that less dialogue with more subtext makes for the most powerful films.
Jim Belushi approached the infamous food fight scene with plenty of ideas. But the only thing that was scripted was that there would be a food fight. The rest of the food fight itself was all improvised by Belushi, including the now classic, " I'm a zit " line.
As Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight are walking down the street in a busy New York intersection, they attempt to cross the street when an actual New York City taxi cab flies into frame nearly hitting both actors. The car was not part of the film but the reaction became a legendary response to a real moment that was not planned.
9 The Sword Fight (Indiana Jones: Temple Of Doom) During the fight scene between a sword fighting villain and Indiana Jones, instead of going face-to-face with an obviously brilliant sword fighter, he shoots him instead.
15 It's Not The End Of The World (Shaun Of The Dead) During one of the film's first scenes, Shaun meets Ed, his best friend, at a pub where the two of them get drunk after Shaun loses his girlfriend.
After discovering that the hobbits were possibly dead, Viggo Mortensen kicks an Orc's helmet and then screams in frustration over their failure to find them. However, when he actually kicked the helmet, he badly broke two toes leading to a real scream of pain you can hear in the film.
There has long been a rumor that the scene where John Malkovich walks down the road and gets nailed by a beer can was improvised. It is true but not entirely. John Malkovich had no idea it was going to happen so that his reaction would be real, and it turned into a glorious movie scene.
11 The Perfect Entrance (Willy Wonka) Before he even signed on to be in the film, Gene Wilder had one request. He would only do the film if he could make the exact entrance that Willy Wonka makes. He had the idea and knew it would be a perfect way to introduce the eccentric man to his fans.
Similarly, it has actual s3x scenes between Lisa and Matt. According to The Guardian, 9 Songs is the most s3xually explicit mainstream film to date, largely because it includes several scenes of completely unsimulated interactions between the two lead actors. 9 Songs currently holds a 24% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews with an average rating of 4.4/10.
The drama is inspired by Tamara Faith Berger’s novel, and it’s a story of a carefree fanatic who didn’t mind where or when she was doing it– as long as she was doing it. She met and started a real affair with a go-ahead young man despite being not so happy with the emotional side of their relationship. The film starred Lauren Lee Smith and Eric Balfour and it was among the most romantic movie theatre listings.
An American erotic comedy-drama, “Shortbus” is a movie that revolves around New Yorkers who often visit Brooklyn salon. Shortbus received from mixed to positive reviews, currently holding a 66% “fresh’ rating on the TV movie database – Rotten Tomatoes based on 121 reviews with an average rating of 6.4 out of 10.
Featuring Caroline Ducey, the movie was tripple X rated by TV movie database in Canada, it’s about Marie, a young woman living with her boyfriend Paul. She is frustrated by her boyfriend’s stance not to get intimate with her, as a result, she embarked on a journey that proves to be both fulfilling and empowering, her frustration drove her to a series of relationships, until she found herself engaging in a series of completely unsimulated interactions with an older man.
It was not released to theaters until 2000. The 14-year-old , Charlotte Alexandra featured in this movie was 20 at the time of the film’s production.
The Brown Bunny (2003) This movie was filmed on handheld 16 mm cameras in various locations throughout the United States, including New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, Missouri, Utah, Nevada, and California. The movie is about a professional motorcycle racer Bud Clay who headed from New Hampshire to California to race again.
It was directed by Bruce LaBruce, a Canadian actor, writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground adult director based in Toronto, Ontario. Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis wandering the streets of the city, until one day he auditions for a zombie film.