Pieces of trivia that amuse you
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We cinema admirers often trying to find interesting things about films we liked. And many happen to prove that. So share yours, what first pops in to you mind
Not the best, but I'll share this for the moment: Director Francis Ford Coppola explains on the DVD commentary that Mina and Harker's wedding was a reshoot done at a Los Angeles Greek Orthodox church. They filmed the entire ceremony with a genuine Orthodox minister and realized afterwards that Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves really were married.
Up to you!
Not the best, but I'll share this for the moment: Director Francis Ford Coppola explains on the DVD commentary that Mina and Harker's wedding was a reshoot done at a Los Angeles Greek Orthodox church. They filmed the entire ceremony with a genuine Orthodox minister and realized afterwards that Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves really were married.
Up to you!
Fishtigua said:
The yacht in Duran Duran's 'Her Name Is Rio' video was restored by the old man and filmed outside our old house.
In the background is an iron-hulled Brixham Trawler I worked on in the school holidays.
And Bob Holness played the saxophone solo on Gerry Raferty's "Baker Street".....In the background is an iron-hulled Brixham Trawler I worked on in the school holidays.
(Richard Madeley is a Captain in the SAS Reserves too)
The story about Bob Holness and the Sax is made up.
Bob was interviewed on the radio about it a couple of years back.
The Turin Traffic centre in the original (only one worth mentioning in my opinion) was actually in the UK. It was the DER building on the old DER Roundabout in Hounslow.
In one scene, they had to pull the power to the building, what they did not know, was that external companies rented computing time from their mainframe computers overnight, all of which powered off when they pulled the plug.
Funny that I passed that building many many times in my youth, but never realised it was in one of my favourite films.
Bob was interviewed on the radio about it a couple of years back.
The Turin Traffic centre in the original (only one worth mentioning in my opinion) was actually in the UK. It was the DER building on the old DER Roundabout in Hounslow.
In one scene, they had to pull the power to the building, what they did not know, was that external companies rented computing time from their mainframe computers overnight, all of which powered off when they pulled the plug.
Funny that I passed that building many many times in my youth, but never realised it was in one of my favourite films.
Edited by onyx39 on Monday 18th August 15:01
Veeayt said:
Crossflow Kid said:
pretty sure this thread has been done before
I cannot recall it, and I'm regular over this section. If there was one, it probably was long time agoMost of the German tanks in A Bridge Too Far were plywood mock-ups built on Land Rover Series IIIs.
The scene in the Bond film where the BMW jumps from the multi storey car park is one hell of a jump as the car park is at Brentford and the car lands in the front of an avis rental shop in Amsterdam.
The Goldenye yacht from the film ended up in a boatyard in Germany being re-powered when the boatyard wnet bust and a legal battle ensues for control over it. It was auctioned in the German Court in Southern Germany and sold to the engine supplier who had a mortgage on it. It sold for peanuts as it was in such poor shape with most of the back end cut away.
The Goldenye yacht from the film ended up in a boatyard in Germany being re-powered when the boatyard wnet bust and a legal battle ensues for control over it. It was auctioned in the German Court in Southern Germany and sold to the engine supplier who had a mortgage on it. It sold for peanuts as it was in such poor shape with most of the back end cut away.
Just realised thread is from 2014!
No matter, interesting subject anyway...
Anne Bancroft was only about 9 years older than her ‘daughter’ Katherine Ross in The Graduate. No matter how old I get she’ll always be an older woman to me!
Similar story in the Indiana Jones film where Sean Connery played Harrison Ford’s dad despite being only 12 years his senior.
Prize to the first person to mention both the above being normal today in Broken Britain, council etc.
No matter, interesting subject anyway...
Anne Bancroft was only about 9 years older than her ‘daughter’ Katherine Ross in The Graduate. No matter how old I get she’ll always be an older woman to me!
Similar story in the Indiana Jones film where Sean Connery played Harrison Ford’s dad despite being only 12 years his senior.
Prize to the first person to mention both the above being normal today in Broken Britain, council etc.
Tyre Tread said:
The scene in the Bond film where the BMW jumps from the multi storey car park is one hell of a jump as the car park is at Brentford and the car lands in the front of an avis rental shop in Amsterdam.
The car park chase scenes were filmed in the Brent Cross multi storey.Van Morrison was born in a gym, Jim Morrison was born in a van.
Gary Oldman is 2 weeks younger than Gary Numan.
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