Interesting Facts About Movies
Did you know that the word movie comes from the word moving pictures?
The shortest film ever made was just one second long.
The longest film ever made was over 87 hours long!
The first movie ever made was only about 2 minutes long.
The highest-grossing film of all time is Avengers: Endgame.
The first film to ever win an Academy Award was Wings in 19
7. The movie Jaws was originally supposed to have much more on-screen shark time, but due to technical difficulties, the shark malfunctioned and they had to find creative ways to shoot the film without showing the shark too much.
The famous shower scene in Psycho only took 7 days to shoot, but the editing process took nearly 3 weeks to perfect.
Tom Cruise does almost all of his own stunts, including hanging from the side of a plane in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
The Matrix was originally pitched as a comic book series but was later developed into a film trilogy.
The film Forrest Gump was adapted from a novel of the same name.
The movie Titanic cost more to make than the actual ship itself.
E.T. was originally supposed to be a horror film about an alien terrorizing a family.
The movie Die Hard was originally written as a sequel to another film, Commando.
The film Inception was inspired by when Christopher Nolan woke up from a dream and tried to remember the details, but they were slipping away.
The iconic line Here’s Johnny! from The Shining was improvised by Jack Nicholson.
The movie Psycho was the first film to ever show a toilet on screen.
The Lion King was the first animated film to cross the $1 billion mark at the box office.
The film Casablanca was shot entirely on a sound stage and did not have any authentic on-location shooting.
Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rope was shot almost entirely in one take.
The sound of the TIE fighters in Star Wars was created by combining the sounds of an elephant and a car driving on wet pavement.
The line You’re gonna need a bigger boat from Jaws was improvised by Roy Scheider.
The movie Jurassic Park was the first film to feature photo-realistic, computer-generated dinosaurs.
The film The Godfather was based on a novel that was rejected by over a dozen publishers before being published.
The movie Pulp Fiction is known for its nonlinear storytelling and iconic dialogue.
The song Mrs. Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel was written for the film The Graduate.
The movie The Shawshank Redemption has been voted the best film of all time on multiple occasions.
The film Back to the Future almost didn’t have Michael J. Fox as the lead, as the producers originally cast Eric Stoltz in the role of Marty McFly.
The famous I’m the king of the world! line from Titanic was improvised by Leonardo DiCaprio.
The film The Wizard of Oz was originally going to be shot in black and white, but the success of Technicolor allowed them to film in color.
The sound of the velociraptors in Jurassic Park was created by slowing down the sound of tortoises mating.
The famous mirror scene in the movie Duck Soup was actually accomplished by using a very large mirror.
The movie Fight Club initially had a poor box office performance but later became a cult classic.
The iconic film Jaws had a significant impact on the rates of beach attendance as some people were afraid to go swimming after seeing the movie.
The film The Exorcist was the first horror film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
The movie The Blues Brothers holds the record for the most cars destroyed in a single film.
The film Ghostbusters was originally written to be set in the future, with the Ghostbusters being a group of time-traveling exterminators.
The line May the Force be with you from Star Wars has become a popular catchphrase and has been voted one of the top 10 movie quotes ever.
The film E.T. inspired the naming of the Atari game console, Atari 2600, as the codename for the project was E.T. at 2,600 referring to the game’s release deadline.
The iconic movie poster for Jaws was designed by artist Roger Kastel, who only had a few hours to create it and used his own hand as the model for the woman’s leg.
In The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger’s Joker character improvised the clapping after the explosion in Gotham hospital, as the pyrotechnics didn’t go off as planned.
The movie Avatar was the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
The iconic red stapler used by Milton in Office Space was a real, functioning stapler that was painted red for the film.
The bullet time effect in The Matrix was created by using multiple cameras to capture a freeze-frame moment from different angles and then stitching them together.
The movie Blade Runner was originally a commercial failure but later gained a large cult following and is now considered a classic in the science fiction genre.