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Not everything goes to plan on the set of a film, but those errors, goofs, and ad-libbed lines can lead to something truly great.
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00:00When hundreds of people get together to make a movie, mistakes happen all the time.
00:04Perhaps you saw the hydraulic system on the underside of a chariot in Gladiator, for example.
00:09These mistakes sometimes make it to screen, but only rarely do they happen in such a way as to actually
00:14improve a scene.
00:16No, the guy wasn't supposed to drop the most powerful item in the universe, but it sure was funny when
00:21he did.
00:22When it happens, it's memorable, and sometimes it's entirely moviemaking.
00:26Some of the best moments in video history were completely unscripted and accidental.
00:33So with that in mind, I am Ellie with WhatCulture, here with movie mistakes that made films better.
00:40Star Wars Stormtrooper Headbutt
00:42When it comes to 1977's Star Wars, the most infamous blooper has got to be the time a Stormtrooper slammed
00:49his head into an opening door.
00:51If you ever needed more proof that those suits were so impractical for intergalactic space fighting and just for general
00:58vision, then this moment is absolutely golden.
01:00It's one of those scenes that every fan of the franchise knows, but probably missed the first time they watched
01:06the movie.
01:06In the 1977 special edition remaster of the film, the director added an audible bonk sound, and even recreated the
01:14scene in Attack of the Clones.
01:15As Jango Fett was walking into his ship, he bonked his head on the opening door in exactly the same
01:20way, which solidified the trait of Stormtroopers, his clones, having originated right there at the source.
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01:44Midnight Cowboy. I'm walking here.
01:47Sometimes actors like to ad-lib their dialogue when they think that their words are better than the scripted bits.
01:52Dialogue make it into the final cut and become some of the best spoken words in the movie.
01:58And this is what happened in Midnight Cowboy.
02:00When it was being shot, the production didn't have the permits necessary to shut down traffic on a busy New
02:06York City street, but Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman had to make that trek.
02:10To get past the lack of a permit, a van was stationed with a hidden camera across the street, and
02:15the actors walked back and forth to get the scene on a busy sidewalk.
02:18After 15 takes, the duo finally had a workable shot, but it was interrupted by a cab that ran a
02:24red light and nearly barreled right into the actors.
02:27Without skipping a beat, Hoffman reacted like anyone would in such a situation, but he remained in character, which made
02:33all the difference.
02:34He repeatedly slammed the hood of the car and yelled,
02:37I'm walking here!
02:38And movie history was made.
02:41Zoolander.
02:44Sometimes, an actor will remain in character and re-deliver the same line, hoping to spark that memory to get
02:50to where they need to be.
02:51Which usually doesn't get thrown into the final cut of the film, or at least you'd hope it wouldn't.
02:55For Ben Stiller and David Duchovny's scene in Zoolander, though, the director found their take so funny, it made it
03:01to the final cut.
03:02This was the most crucial moment of the film, when Duchovny's J.P. Pruitt reveals the plot involving turning male
03:10models into assassins.
03:12Zoolander asks,
03:13So why male models?
03:14and receives the explanation that they don't think for themselves and do as they're told.
03:18In perfect form and timing, Stiller forgot his next line, so he simply repeated his last, which played perfectly with
03:25what Duchovny had just said.
03:27The gaff was kept in and remains one of the funniest moments in the whole movie.
03:30Casino Royale.
03:31Bond's white bikini scene.
03:34Fans were originally quite sceptical of seeing Daniel Craig portray the British secret agent in 2006's Casino Royale,
03:41going back and forth pretty much up until one moment.
03:44That one moment, of course, being when he emerges from the ocean in all of his drippy, wet glory,
03:51in some spin of Ursula Andress's white bikini moment in 1962.
03:55The only catch is, that scene wasn't planned at all.
03:59Originally, the shot was meant to be filmed quite differently,
04:01with Bond positioned to look on at the villain's wife, Solange, while he floated in the ocean.
04:06But the reality of the location stepped in and changed everything.
04:10Craig explained that where they filmed in the Bahamas is one of those places where there's a sand shelf,
04:15and the sand shelf happened to be three feet deep.
04:17He was supposed to swim in and then float off like a friendly sea lion, but the water level thought
04:22otherwise.
04:23If only he'd been wearing the white bikini.
04:26Django Unchained, DiCaprio's hand slip.
04:29To be honest, we've all heard about this one by now.
04:31It is legendary.
04:33Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as Calvin Candy in Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film,
04:38Django Unchained, has that one key moment where acting overtook all sense of reason
04:44and made one big blooper historical moment in the process.
04:48And it was of course during the dinner negotiation scene,
04:51where DiCaprio's Candy decides to drive a point home by slamming the palm of his hand on the table as
04:56hard as possible.
04:58Unfortunately for Mr. DiCaprio, there happened to be a crystal glass in the way,
05:01which shattered and embedded a chunk or two into the actor's hand, requiring stitches afterwards.
05:07The injury was so unexpected and intense that you can see the look of shock and concern on the actor's
05:13face.
05:13Fortunately, a little blood wasn't going to slow Leo down,
05:17and so he finished the scene and it was kept in the movie.
05:20As you can see by all of the blood.
05:21Rain Man. Phone booth flatulence.
05:24While his most famous example clearly comes from Midnight Cowboy,
05:27another iconic role of Dustin Hoffman's required him to remain in character
05:31while going through something many have had to deal with.
05:34Flatulence in a small space.
05:36I mean, Shrek always said, better out than in, and who are we to argue with Shrek, eh?
05:41In the movie Rain Man, Hoffman played the older brother Raymond to Tom Cruise's Charlie.
05:46Raymond was an autistic savant who had difficulty navigating the social niceties and norms in polite society,
05:53which is why he remained in character while shooting in a phone booth with Crows
05:57when he had to let out a massive fart.
05:59In true Dustin Hoffman fashion, he remained in character and repeated,
06:03uh-oh, fart, over and over again.
06:06Cruise, who is also a stalwart actor, remained in character and reacted in much the same way anyone would,
06:11in such a situation, making this scene one of the funniest, most realistic, and memorable from the entire film.
06:17True Lies. Stumbling Stripper.
06:20When Jamie Lee Curtis played a mum and unwitting wife to a secret agent in the movie True Lies back
06:26in 1994,
06:27she had a memorable scene that few could forget.
06:31While trying to put a little excitement into her life,
06:33she gets involved in an espionage mission orchestrated by her husband,
06:37though she isn't aware of his involvement.
06:39Through the course of the operation, she finds herself in a hotel room with a dark figure
06:43and the instruction that she has to plant a bug,
06:46which leads to her stripping in front of the sitting gentleman.
06:49As she throws her clothes off in front of the man she isn't aware is her husband,
06:53she starts out awkwardly but slowly finds her rhythm
06:55as her dance develops into a sexy show of distraction
06:58that culminates in her use of a bedpost as a stripper pole.
07:02Just as things are getting hot, she pulls herself up on the pole
07:05and quickly falls right off and hits the floor.
07:07It was an accident, and good old Arnie nearly stood up to make sure Curtis was okay,
07:12but she kept her composure and continued with the scene.
07:15Given her awkwardness in the scene, the gaff actually played perfectly for the character,
07:19and it remained in the film.
07:20The Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers. Kick the Can.
07:23Through the course of three epic films shot and produced over several years,
07:28there were bound to be a few injuries on the set of the Lord of the Rings movies.
07:32One does not simply walk into Mordor,
07:34and Viggo Mortensen learned that the hard way by smashing his foot up
07:38and not being able to walk anyway.
07:40When Aragorn and company finally catch up to the Uruk-hai,
07:43who have Pippin and Merry, it appears that they were killed.
07:45In his frustration and anger, Aragorn kicked a helmet towards the camera
07:49and cried out in anguished pain.
07:52The scene was shot numerous times to try and capture Aragorn's rage and disappointment
07:56in finally finding his friends, only to have them turn up dead.
07:59But after four takes that weren't pulling off what director Peter Jackson wanted,
08:03he asked for more.
08:04The fifth take was perfect for Jackson,
08:07who saw the character's pain come across in the shot.
08:09Little did he know at the time that Mortensen had actually broken two of his toes,
08:14and while he did stay in character as he screamed in pain,
08:16that pain appeared to be all the more real to the situation
08:19rather than real to his newly broken toes,
08:22which is why that take made it to print.
08:24Guardians of the Galaxy, Star-Lord's Clumsiness
08:27In the first Guardians of the Galaxy film,
08:29Peter Quill begins his adventure by finding an artifact
08:32which turns out to be an Infinity Stone,
08:35also known as one of the most dangerous and powerful items
08:38in all the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
08:40Well, that was handy, wasn't it?
08:42You would think that such a device would hold the reverence of the characters,
08:46but when the collector asks for the stone,
08:48Quill does something that is so true to character and funny,
08:51it's surprising to learn that the whole thing was an accident.
08:53In true Star-Lord fashion,
08:55just as he is about to hand over the most powerful thing in the whole universe,
09:00Quill drops the stone and quickly recovers it.
09:02That scene was an accident, and Chris Pratt truly did drop the prop.
09:06They shot several takes,
09:07but the one that made it to the final cut of the film showing the gaffe
09:10was arguably the best of them all.
09:12The Usual Suspects
09:14The Line-Up Scene
09:15Originally, the police line-up scene in The Usual Suspects was supposed to be serious,
09:19and each actor was meant to read the line,
09:22Hand me the keys, you effing sucker,
09:24with all the grace and aplomb you would expect from such hardened, professional actors.
09:29As it happened, they all giggled like schoolboys,
09:32which didn't make director Bryan Singer happy.
09:34At first, what made it to the final cut of the film was hardly serious,
09:38and there's a familiar reason why.
09:41Flatulence
09:41It's amazing how many scenes have been ruined, or rather improved,
09:45by something so mundane as passing gas.
09:48Benicio del Toro farted like 12 takes in a row,
09:51inciting uncontrollable laughter,
09:53and the delivery of their lines in silly, over-the-top ways.
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