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00:00Were you aware of just how close you actually were to witnessing the heartbreaking death of
00:04a beloved movie hero during an epic trilogy? Well, as difficult as the answer may be to accept,
00:11all of these unbelievable entries are surprisingly accurate, folks,
00:16and are about to provide you with some rather impressive slash fascinating movie trivia.
00:21You are welcome, because I am Gareth, this is WhatCulture, and here are
00:26unbelievable movie facts that are somehow true. M. Night Shyamalan surprisingly helped write a
00:32little family flick. The lover of mind-blowing twists known as M. Night Shyamalan has crafted
00:37some of the finest big-screen thrillers and horrors of the last three decades,
00:42writing and directing everything from Signs to Unbreakable to Old during his intriguing career.
00:48Perhaps more surprising than any of his many iconic and shocking twists, however,
00:52is the fact this creator of rather tense and suspense-filled flicks once helped create one
00:58of the sweetest movies of the 90s. There was a time there when Shyamalan was very much fighting
01:03to make family films, and it was that urge to create this sort of work once upon a time which
01:08actually led to him co-writing the screenplay for the first Stuart Little film, a family-friendly
01:14talking mouse hit that actually arrived in theatres the same year as his iconic thriller The Sixth Sense.
01:20Shyamalan wouldn't return to help write either of the follow-ups, but it's still rather odd to think
01:24that the mind behind many a chilling supernatural picture was also partly responsible for writing
01:30the adaptation of this funny, heartwarming story of a mouse being adopted by a human family.
01:35What a world, eh? The real reason James Cameron wanted to make Titanic.
01:40Along with being the masterful director behind the likes of the Avatar movies,
01:44Aliens, and the first two Terminator flicks, James Cameron also unforgettably brought the
01:50tragic classic that is Titanic to screens in 1997. But what actually drew the world-class
01:56filmmaker to this story about the sinking of an iconic ocean liner? Was it the thought of getting
02:02to tell a beautiful love story in the middle of such a shocking disaster? Or perhaps Cameron was
02:07simply searching for awards recognition with this big-budget drama? Well, it turns out,
02:12according to an interview the director did with Playboy back in 2009, that Cameron was actually
02:18more interested in exploring the real-life Titanic wreck than anything else. He even surprisingly
02:23admitted during that conversation,
02:25I made Titanic because I wanted to dive to the shipwreck, not because I particularly wanted to
02:31make the movie. And in the end, Cameron was very much able to quote-unquote make a Hollywood movie
02:36to pay for an expedition, shooting at the wreck on 12 occasions, and managed to create a movie that
02:43ended up winning a stonking 11 Academy Awards in the process. Not bad for a project unbelievably
02:49largely made just because Cameron fancied exploring the wreck. Now I want to know, what is your favourite
02:54James Cameron movie? Is it Titanic, Aliens, Avatar, or something else? You let me know in the comment
02:59section down below. Harry Potter doesn't cast any spells in the first movie. That first ever trip to
03:05Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was one hell of a magical ride. But while you were so busy
03:11being swept away by epic Quidditch matches, clashes with three-headed dogs and trolls,
03:16and a ton of other classic moments of supernatural mayhem in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,
03:22you likely missed one rather unbelievable detail. You see, despite being the star of the whole show,
03:28and regularly being shown holding a powerful wand in his hands during the flick,
03:32Daniel Radcliffe's Boy Who Lived never once casts a single intentional spell in the runtime of that
03:382001 picture. That's right, though Potter is seen being taught some spells in class,
03:44most famously the levitation charm Wingardium Leviosa, he never actually unleashes his own spell
03:50on screen in that first appearance. Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and even Seamus Finnegan at least
03:56attempt to chuck out a spell in Philosopher's Stone. But not Potter. Harry does end up firing out a few
04:02accidental bursts of magic when trying to pick his wand in Ollivander's shop, of course,
04:06but he still doesn't technically try to cast an intentional spell here, meaning we have to wait
04:11until the Chamber of Secrets to see Harry's first successful spell. And now you know.
04:16The producers wanted to kill a hobbit in the Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings trilogy may
04:21boast
04:22a number of fearless warriors, including badass men and women, majestic elves, brave dwarves,
04:28and powerful wizards. But the true MVPs of this series are unquestionably the four hobbits
04:33dumped into the middle of this War of the Ring. Despite coming up against many an orc, troll, giant
04:39spider, and fel beast throughout the trilogy, though, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc,
04:44Brandybuck, and Peregrine Took all actually managed to survive to the very end of both the books and
04:49films. But you probably never realised just how close you were to witnessing one of these legendary
04:54hobbits shockingly fall during this quest to destroy the One Ring. Unbelievable, right?
05:00But it's the truth. Back when Peter Jackson was bringing these iconic tales to the screen,
05:06the filmmaker was very much being pressured by producers at the time to kill off one of the
05:10hobbits. In other words, there would have been no more second breakfast for one of these little
05:14heroes if Jackson had yielded to these demands. As merry actor Dominic Monaghan recalled, though,
05:20I think Pete quite rightly was like, this is a luminary piece of written work, and we need to
05:26stick close to the text. So he stuck by his guns. And they all lived happily ever after,
05:31to the end of their days.
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05:40Tony Hawk Inspired Tarzan
05:42Tarzan and Tony Hawk were two names you likely didn't expect to hear in the same sentence today,
05:48but strangely enough, that latter skateboarding icon actually hugely influenced the Disney animated
05:54version of the former in that classic 1999 feature during one rather stunning sequence.
06:00You know that terrific Son of Man tune written and sang by a Phil Collins on top form?
06:06Well, the impressive tree surfing the titular figure can be seen doing throughout that absolute
06:10banger was actually inspired by the legendary skateboarder. As the movie supervising animator
06:16Glenn Keane would eventually explain, Edgar Rice Burroughs' book describes a Tarzan that is like a
06:21wild man, somebody that the adrenaline had to be pumping through. So Keane took one look at that and
06:27thought, this son of man right here was an extreme sports guy. From here, Keane took inspiration from
06:33Hawk's exceptional moves on a board, turned Tarzan into an awesome tree surfer, and one of the coolest
06:39moments of the Disney hit was ultimately born. Buzz Lightyear's name was once. Sticking in the Disney
06:45animation sphere for this next entry, Pixar's Toy Story brought with it the arrival of the soon-to-be
06:50iconic duo of Woody and Buzz Lightyear in 1995. Long before that latter Space Ranger first fell
06:57with style in that hugely popular first entry into the eventual franchise, however, this Buzz
07:02actually initially went by a few other quite jarring names. Prior to landing on that outstanding Lightyear
07:09title for their delusional space toy, one of the ideas first suggested was Tempus of Morph. Yep,
07:15let that one just sit with you for a moment. And brace yourself, Luna Larry was another early
07:19moniker also used for Woody's eventual rival. Luna Larry, that is. That particular name even found
07:26its way into early designs for the character, with an LL clearly being seen on his chest in a few
07:32sketches. It's rather hard to imagine a world where Luna Larry from Star Command crash-landed in Andy's
07:37room by mistake all those years ago, but whether you like it or not, Lightyear was unbelievably almost
07:43Larry folks, the real reason Emma Mackey was cast in Barbie. Joining the likes of the sensational
07:49Margot Robbie, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp and many more as the titular Barbies found
07:55wandering around Barbie-land in Greta Gerwig's critical and commercial hit, Sex Education's
08:01Emma Mackey eventually brought Physicist Barbie to life on screen. But along with being a brilliant actor
08:07of course, there was actually another major and quite fascinating reason Gerwig and Robbie decided
08:12to hire Mackey as one of the walking talking dolls in this 2023 masterpiece. Joining the many folks
08:19online who felt that Mackey was Robbie's doppelganger, the star of this fantasy comedy tale told Buzzfeed
08:25that herself and Gerwig pretty much had the British-French actor player Barbie because they thought it would
08:30be funny. They had a whole joke planned about how the two looked similar too, but after the pair both
08:35got dressed up as their Barbies on set and the brown-haired Mackey stood next to the blonde-haired
08:40Robbie, it soon became clear that they didn't actually look that similar at all. Ah, in the end
08:45then, the gag was dropped from the movie. As far as casting stories go, being basically brought into
08:51a movie because of a joke that didn't even make the cut is pretty wild. Psycho was the first US
08:56movie
08:57to show a toilet flushing. Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror classic Psycho is widely recognised as one of
09:04the most influential movies of all time. However, what you probably didn't realise is that this creepy
09:09picture also boasts a rather bizarre first. That moment when Janet Leigh's Marion Crane flushes some
09:15paper down the loo in the flick? Well, that was actually a pretty shocking visual back in the day.
09:20At that time, watching a toilet on the big screen in the United States was rather rare. In fact, this
09:26was
09:26actually the very first time a flushing bog had been seen in a mainstream movie or TV show in the
09:32States. The horror! Screenwriter Joseph Stefano wanted to include this moment as he felt, if he could
09:38begin to unhinge the audience here, they'd be so out of it by the time of the shower murder, it
09:43would be an
09:43absolute killer. And it was, of course. With folks all ultimately recoiling at the shocking and hugely
09:49iconic death that soon followed what was amazingly the first ever American mainstream movie flush.
09:56John Kazal only appeared in Oscar nominated movies. This list has already mentioned a number of the
10:02truly gifted thespians who somehow have never once been nominated for an Academy Award during their
10:07otherwise impressive careers. But while the following performer also may not have taken home an Oscars nod,
10:14he still possessed a pretty unbelievable Academy Award stat. The terrific John Kazal was tragically taken
10:20way too soon at the age of 42 back in 1978. However, during his relatively short film career,
10:28the star managed to appear in a number of all-time classics. Not only that, but every one of the
10:33five
10:33feature films he appeared in from 1972 to 1978 was actually nominated for Best Picture at the Academy
10:40Awards. The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part 2, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter all
10:47receive Best Picture nods in the end. With The Godfather features and The Deer Hunter winning the
10:52prize at the event too. To have only made five full-length movies and for all of them to earn
10:57this
10:58Oscar's honor is about as remarkable as it gets. And this unmatched run helped immortalize the late
11:04Kazal as one of the finest character actors of his generation.
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