Top 10 Movie Facts Everyone Gets Wrong

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Not everything you’ve heard about Hollywood movies is true. 🎬✨  In this video, we uncover the Top 10 movie “facts” that everyone gets wrong—from famous behind-the-scenes myths and misquotes to film legends that turned out to be completely false. These are the stories fans have believed for years, but the truth might just surprise you.  📺 Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or a film buff, this list will set the record straight about some of the biggest movie misconceptions.  👉 Which of these myths did you believe? Let us know in the comments!

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00:00I thought you said she was dead.

00:02That was her sister, the Wicked Witch of the East.

00:04This is the Wicked Witch of the West.

00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're answering movie trivia questions.

00:10Let the stormy clouds chase everyone from the place.

00:18Number 10.

00:19In Pulp Fiction, All the Clocks are set to 420.

00:22Quentin Tarantino sure knows a lot about cinematic history,

00:25and his films are a treasure trove of Easter eggs and cool references.

00:28However, for all those who like telling people that all the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 420,

00:34cut it out!

00:35Where's my watch?

00:36Yes, there are some 420 clocks in the film,

00:39a couple of which can be seen in the pawn shop when Butch goes to save Marcellus,

00:43but a few isn't all.

00:45And there are a whole bunch of shots of clocks and watches in the movie that aren't set to 420,

00:50including the watch Captain Coon's hands to a kid Butch.

00:53You know, the one he wore where the sun don't shine.

00:55This watch was on your daddy's wrist when he was shot down or at Hanoi.

01:00Number 9.

01:01Braveheart was not filmed in three weeks.

01:03We're not sure where this one came from,

01:05but one rumor claims Mel Gibson only took three weeks to film Braveheart.

01:09Were this true, we would be truly amazed.

01:11You alright?

01:13You look a wee bit shaky.

01:15Having seen the film many times,

01:17we would be more likely to believe that it took three weeks to film one of those amazing battle sequences.

01:21In actuality, Gibson and the crew spent June to October of 1994 filming the movie in Ireland and Scotland.

01:35Nothing good is ever rushed,

01:36so we're glad to see Gibson took the time he needed to capture his vision.

01:39That they may take our lives,

01:41but they'll never take our freedom!

01:45While it might seem to anyone who saw the 2016 film that the script was written quickly,

01:57the much-bollied-around two-week rumor is just not true.

02:00It's taken some work.

02:01But I finally have them.

02:03The worst of the worst.

02:05This is according to the one person who would know better than anyone else,

02:08writer-director David Ayer himself.

02:10When someone on Twitter repeated the false claim,

02:12Ayer actually responded, saying, quote,

02:14Script in two weeks is meme garbage.

02:21That might also be a word people would use to describe the script and the film itself.

02:27But we digress.

02:33Number 7.

02:34The beer can that hits John Malkovich and being John Malkovich was unscripted.

02:38We gotta give it to the guy who created the fake director's commentary.

02:41If we didn't know any better,

02:42we would totally believe it was Spike Jonze talking about how an extra got drunk on set,

02:47threw the beer can at Malkovich,

02:48and they kept it in the movie because Jonze loved it.

02:50Hey Malkovich, think fast!

02:54But the truth is,

02:55the scene was very much scripted.

02:57A fact that John Malkovich himself is confirmed in multiple interviews,

03:00in an attempt to refute the rumor.

03:01One thing that is true, though,

03:05is that the guy who threw the can

03:06hit Malkovich square on the back of the head

03:08on the first take.

03:10There's some actual movie trivia for you.

03:16Number 6.

03:18The rain in Singing in the Rain was milk.

03:20There's a lot of false trivia surrounding this iconic film,

03:23particularly the titular scene

03:24in which Gene Kelly dances and sings in the rain.

03:40While there are those who like to tell you

03:42that Kelly filmed the entire sequence in one take,

03:45the truth is,

03:45it took two to three days to get it all done.

03:48Then,

03:48there's the even weirder bit of trivia

03:50which posits that the rain in the scene

03:51was mixed with milk

03:52in order for it to show up better on camera.

03:55Come on with the rain,

03:57I have a smile on my face.

04:01The truth is that, yes,

04:02they did have to take certain steps

04:04in order for the rain to pop on screen,

04:06but it wasn't done with milk.

04:07It was done with backlighting.

04:09Dancing

04:10and singing

04:12in the rain.

04:17Number 5.

04:18Snow White

04:19Snow White

04:19is the first ever animated film.

04:21To answer this one correctly,

04:23one must listen very carefully

04:24to the question being asked.

04:26You see,

04:26while it might sound

04:27like a bit of a technicality,

04:29Walt Disney's

04:30Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

04:31is the first full-length

04:33cell animated movie ever made.

04:35And I've been tricked.

04:37But it isn't the first animated movie ever.

04:40That honor goes to a 1926 German film

04:42called The Adventures of Prince Achmed,

04:44which was produced

04:45using a silhouette animation technique.

04:48Well, actually,

04:52Prince Achmed

04:52is the oldest surviving animated feature film.

04:54There were two movies made in Argentina

04:56prior to Prince Achmed,

04:57but they have been lost.

04:59See what we mean

04:59about listening to the question?

05:01I'm surprised.

05:02I don't know what I mean.

05:03I don't know what I mean.

05:04I don't know what I mean.

05:04Number 4.

05:05Jenny died of AIDS in Forrest Gump.

05:07There's no denying

05:08how heartbreaking it is

05:09when Jenny passes away

05:10at the end of Forrest Gump.

05:12What can be denied

05:13is that her passing

05:13was definitively as a result

05:15of the AIDS virus.

05:16You died on a Saturday morning.

05:19Winston Groom,

05:20the man who wrote the novel

05:21on which the film is based,

05:22has said that,

05:23in his mind,

05:23the virus that took Jenny's life

05:25was Hepatitis C.

05:26It is worth noting, however,

05:27that screenwriter Eric Roth

05:29admitted that in the film,

05:30they intended for it to be AIDS.

05:32Forrest,

05:33I'm sick.

05:36The fact still remains

05:37that the virus

05:38is never mentioned in the movie,

05:39and when director Robert Zemeckis

05:41was asked if it was AIDS,

05:42he said,

05:43it could have been,

05:44but it didn't matter.

05:45And the doctors don't,

05:46they don't know what it is,

05:47and there isn't anything

05:48they can do about it.

05:49Number 3.

05:50Heath Ledger improvised

05:52the explosion scene

05:53in The Dark Knight.

05:57Possibly the most famous scene

06:00in The Dark Knight

06:01is the one where the Joker

06:02walks off after blowing up

06:03the hospital in the background.

06:05The timing of the explosion

06:06doesn't go as planned,

06:07and he smacks the remote detonator

06:09a few times to get it to work.

06:14The popular behind-the-scenes

06:15account of this scene

06:16is that the explosion

06:17not going off right away

06:18was a mishap on set

06:20that Heath Ledger

06:20managed to improvise with.

06:22While it's a great story,

06:23it's utterly false.

06:24As Christopher Nolan

06:25has confirmed himself,

06:26every second of that scene

06:27was rehearsed endlessly,

06:28and it went exactly

06:29as it was supposed to go.

06:34Number 2.

06:35A Munchkin Died

06:36During The Wizard of Oz.

06:37And she's not only

06:39merely dead,

06:40she's really

06:41most sincerely dead.

06:44When The Wizard of Oz

06:44movie comes up

06:45in conversation,

06:46there are usually

06:46two things you're

06:47almost guaranteed

06:48to hear someone say.

06:49There are the people

06:50who will ask

06:50if you've ever watched

06:51the film

06:52Sink to the Dark Side of the Moon,

06:53and at least one person

06:54who has to tell you

06:55about the hanging munchkin

06:56in the background.

07:03While it's pretty cool

07:04to watch the film

07:05sink to the Pink Floyd album,

07:06you can rest assured

07:07that you won't glimpse

07:08any sort of remains on screen.

07:09What you're actually looking at

07:11is the silhouette

07:11of a bird on set,

07:12something that can be

07:13more obviously seen

07:14in the 1980 TV broadcast.

07:15We're out to sing

07:17the wizard,

07:18the wonderful wizard of Oz!

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07:361. Hitchcock directed

07:40the famous MGM logo

07:41There are many parts

07:45to this myth,

07:46so bear with us.

07:47The story goes

07:48that Alfred Hitchcock

07:49was directing the lion

07:50in the iconic MGM Roar logo

07:52when two robbers

07:53snuck onto the lot.

07:54The lion killed one of them

07:55and the other was hit

07:56by a car

07:56while trying to get away.

07:57The next day,

07:58the lion,

07:59all shaken up

08:00by the events,

08:01killed his trainer.

08:02It might come as no surprise

08:03that the entire tale

08:04is a fabrication,

08:05including Hitchcock

08:06directing the logo sequence.

08:07You can also take comfort

08:08in there being no record

08:09of any of the MGM lions

08:11ever mauling anyone.

08:12As for that famous

08:13photo of him and the lion,

08:14that was promo

08:15for North by Northwest.

08:22What's your favorite piece

08:23of true movie trivia?

08:24Let us know in the comments.

08:26You can't check

08:27smartphones during trivia.

08:28It's against the rules.

08:29Okay, I'm turning it off.

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