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down our picks for the top 10 things
everyone gets wrong about famous movies
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examining some popular misconceptions
about iconic films while some of the
following entries might qualify as myths
this won’t be a myths list as most are
just misunderstandings or errors about
movies 10 Brandon Lee’s actual death
made it into the movie The Crow Brandon
Lee was the star of the crow playing the
protagonist Eric Draven and died during
filming during a scene that called for a
gun to be fired a dummy bullet was left
in the firearm and was not properly
removed as the gun specialist had gone
home when the gun went off Lee was shot
for real and died later in the hospital
however despite popular belief the take
in which he was fatally wounded was not
used in the final cut of the film and
was in fact destroyed after being used
in evidence in the investigation into
the accidental death
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number nine Jason Voorhees is the killer
Friday the 13th
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Jason Voorhees is the famed killer of
the Friday the 13th franchise but he
wasn’t always in the first installment
it’s actually Jason’s mother Pamela that
murders teenagers taking her revenge not
only on the two camp counselors whose
negligence led to her son’s apparent
death but also on counselors decades
later – it wasn’t until the second film
that Jason himself became the primary
antagonist and he didn’t even acquire
his iconic hockey mask until the third
film just goes to show that while a
property can become associated with one
thing it’s not always representative of
the whole number eight it’s a prequel
not a sequel Indiana Jones and the
it’s a common misconception that the
second film in the original Indiana
Jones trilogy is a sequel after all that
is generally how trilogies work with one
following the next however like the pulp
adventure serials that inspired them
Indiana Jones doesn’t follow a strict
overarching narrative Indiana Jones and
the Temple of Doom is actually a prequel
taking place the year prior to Raiders
of the Lost Ark apparently writer George
Lucas didn’t want not cease to be the
villains and made the film take place
prior to Raiders to avoid the hero
running into them twice in a row though
the Third Reich would return in the
third film these guys number seven
Tim Burton directed it The Nightmare
given that it’s often titled as Tim
Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
the general public can be forgiven for
assuming that Burton was in the
director’s chair given Burton’s track
record of whimsical yet creepy movies it
seems right up his alley
while Burton did create the story and
characters and co-produced the
screenplay and Direction were handled by
others name was likely attached for
marketing reasons since he did provide
the seed of the film’s idea and was
already a big name by that point both in
the industry and with cinema goers the
actual director however was Henry Selick
who went on to direct James and the
Giant Peach and Coraline number six the
reason the film was shelved the day the
clown cried and in terms of that film I
was embarrassed in the early 1970s
comedian actor and director Jerry Lewis
directed and starred in a movie about a
clown imprisoned by the Nazis during
World War two Lewis was reportedly
embarrassed with the end result
Lynch is often cited as the reason for
the film’s lack of release however in
reality the day the clown cried was tied
up in legal issues once it was completed
with the rights being retained by the
screenwriter John O’Brien which delayed
and ultimately halted its release that
being said Lewis’s embarrassment may
have played a part in its continued lack
of exposure in 2015 a copy was finally
given to the Library of Congress but
even they can’t screen it until 2024 are
we going to ever gonna get to see the
day the clown cried no number 5 Luke I
am your father
Star Wars Episode five the Empire
Strikes Back
you’d think it’d be hard for people to
get something so famous about a
franchise like Star Wars so wrong but if
you search your feelings you’ll know it
to be true despite being one of the most
oft quoted lines in film history
the phrase Luke I am your father is
never actually said by Darth Vader the
actual line is me the line has through
Mis quoting and paraphrasing in pop
culture become so prevalent that people
mistakenly believe it’s actually present
in the Empire Strikes Back this line
along with play it again Sam from
Casablanca are just two of the many
famously oft misquoted lines from film
still in circulation play as time goes
by
number four munchkin suicide The Wizard
as bright and colorful as this classic
film is The Wizard of Oz has some pretty
dark rumors associated with it perhaps
the most chilling is the belief by some
viewers that one of the actors who
portrayed the munchkins in the movie can
be seen hanging themselves in the
background of one of the scenes with
their shadow supposedly visible through
one of the backgrounds while this may be
an odd story the truth is even weirder
several large birds like cranes and emus
were allowed to roam the set to give us
a more authentic outdoorsy feeling and
the shadow is actually one of these
avian accoutrement number three it’s the
story of one man with no name the
dollars trilogy Clint Eastwood’s
character or characters and the dollars
trilogy goes by and is referred to by
several names including Joe man Coe and
blondie outside of the film’s he’s
referred to as the men with no name but
this moniker was actually created by the
film’s American distributor United
Artists rather than director Sergio
Leone
the nickname was invented to better sell
the films as a trilogy though his
gradual acquisition of his iconic outfit
in the good the bad and the ugly seems
to point to him being the same man
Leone’s lack of endorsement could
indicate that Eastwood’s character is
actually intended to be several
characters number two it’s based on a
true story The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
part of what made this Seminole slasher
flick feels so real apart from the
documentary style camerawork was the
tagline that it was based on a true
story while this isn’t quite false
advertising it’s not entirely true
either writer and director tobe Hooper
actually drew inspiration from real-life
serial killer Ed Gein whose grisly
murders may have involved anything from
cannibalism to grave robbing Hooper was
also inspired by a shop display of
chainsaws that once caught his eye so
although he drew on actual events none
of them was close to resembling the
cannibalistic chainsaw wielding family
depicted in the film sorry still a scary
movie though
number one se X in the sky The Lion King
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can you feel the love tonight midway
through this Disney classic symbol the
lion flops down on a cliffside and
knocks up a cloud of dust when played
back very slowly the dust appears to
form the vague outline of the letters s
e^x religious organizations have used
this as an example of Disney’s apparent
lack of morality in the supposed message
has been the subject of playground rumor
for decades however the generally
accepted explanation is that the letters
are actually SFX
a common abbreviation for special
effects and were inserted by someone
from that particular department who
worked on the Lion King do you agree
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