Unscripted Bits In A Film

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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The one which definitely was unscripted was the slap to the cheek that the big boss Paulie gives to Henry when he's telling him to keep away from selling drugs. You can see the genuine shock on Liottas face. Great scene.

[biggbn]

Nimby said:

biggbn said:

the most famous line in Jaws, 'we're gonna need a bigger boat ' is claimed to be a non scripted ad lib

It's "You're gonna need a bigger boat".

Thanks man, probably decades since I watched it!!

Info here
https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Hilarious-Way-Jaws...

Edited by biggbn on Wednesday 15th July 00:00

[PositronicRay]

Midnight cowboy.

"I'm walking here" Dustin Hoffman crossing the road and an altercation with a yellow taxi.

[generationx]

Allegedly most of the "banter" in the Hollywood vomit puddle that is Ghostbusters 2016. Thanks Paul Feig.

[Parsnip]

Heath Ledger walking away from the hospital blowing up in The Dark Knight was supposedly unscripted when the bombs didn't go off on time - apparently not true, but I like to think that it is.

The "Biggus Dickus" scene in Life of Brian - the Roman Guards ere told to just stand there and not laugh, again, conflicting information on the net for how true this is, but who cares?

[Sway]

The end of (the original) Taxi - when the German ringleader is trapped and boots the car in frustration.

Look closely, his fellow gang member is looking out the window and cops a boot to the face.

[AshVX220]

Isn't the scene in Empire Strikes Back when Leia tells Han she loves him, his response of "I know" was apparently unscripted.

[PositronicRay]

Not film, but most of the kids scenes in outnumbered. They just had guidelines and a plot.

[nicanary]

Old -time star David Niven had a mate in his army training days named Trubshaw. In all his films he will try to insert the name into the dialogue - I'm pretty sure at most times it wasn't in the script.

It probably was scripted in "A matter of life or death" but not the Sergeant Chef Trubshaw he mentions in "The way ahead" or the "Swedish" word he uses when conversing with Ginger Rogers masquerading as a foreigner in "Bachelor mother".

[Nimby]

If we're allowing TV too - the pizza-on-the-roof throw in Breaking Bad.
They never expected Walt/Brian to manage it, so had a rubber one ready to crane onto the roof, but he threw a real pizza in exactly the right spot first time.

[AJB88]

George Lazenby says "Bet this never happened to the other fellow" at the start of OHMSS, anybody know if that was scripted or a goof that they ended up keeping in?

[P5BNij]

The scene in 'Get Carter' where Michael Caine meets Ian Hendry at the races was partly adlibbed....

Hendry : ''Still got your sense of humour Jack...''

Caine : ''Yes. I retain that, Eric''.

I think the famous ''piss'oles in the snow'' line was as per the script though.

[daddy cool]

Leon R said:

Tom Cruise breaks his ankle in one of the mission impossible films and then gets up and tries running on it which is pretty impressive.

Bradley Armpitt did his own stunts in Seven, and ended up putting his arm through a windscreen, requiring surgery - so when you see him bandaged-up for the rest of the film, its for real.

As for dialogue, isn't much of Dennis Hopper's Apocalypse Now lines drug-induced ramblings? In fact, the I heard the opening scene of Martin Sheen in the hotel room was pretty improvised, and they just ended up getting him drunk and upset and then rolled cameras...

I saw a film called "Into the heart of darkness" about the making of, and its well worth a watch...

[coppernorks]

There's a scene in Primary Colours where Allison Janney is climbing stairs surrounded
by politicians or pressmen, she stumbles headlong, and they pick her up and the scene continues.

And you think because everything in movieland , even mundane things, have potential significance,
a locked room, a furtive look, a missed phone call, a creaky floorboard, the stumble must be
important to the plot, but no, the director rightly thinks, people trip on stairs all the bloody time, keep it in.

[Genuine Barn Find]

Smiler. said:

I only noticed the shooting star, in the ITV screening a few weeks ago.

The scene in that other of Shaw's nautical adventures, The Deep, where Jacqueline Bisset's stick is grabbed by the Moray eel, is rumoured to be unscripted.

The shooting star was, i believe, a regular Spielberg ‘thing’

Anyway, unscripted = Bill Murray in Ghostbusters. take
your pick of the lines..

[A Winner Is You]

Tora Tora Tora, where a full size P40 gets blown up whilst taking off. But it veered off to one side and crashed through several other planes, so the extras in that scene really were running for their lives.

[P5BNij]

daddy cool said:

Leon R said:

Tom Cruise breaks his ankle in one of the mission impossible films and then gets up and tries running on it which is pretty impressive.

Bradley Armpitt did his own stunts in Seven, and ended up putting his arm through a windscreen, requiring surgery - so when you see him bandaged-up for the rest of the film, its for real.

As for dialogue, isn't much of Dennis Hopper's Apocalypse Now lines drug-induced ramblings? In fact, the I heard the opening scene of Martin Sheen in the hotel room was pretty improvised, and they just ended up getting him drunk and upset and then rolled cameras...

I saw a film called "Into the heart of darkness" about the making of, and its well worth a watch...

Speaking of Dennis Hopper - the New Orleans cemetery scenes in 'Easy Rider' were shot for real, Hopper, Peter Fonda and Karen Black were all off their tits on acid while it was being filmed.

[sinbaddio]

anonymous said:

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I'd read that Pesci was telling Ray Liotta a story that happened him when he was working as a waiter. Scorsese overhead the story and asked the pair of them to use it, but without telling the other actors so they'd get a true reaction.

[the cueball]

McQueen overshooting turns in both Bullitt and the great escape...

[Shuvi McTupya]

Steven Seagal was never asked to run everywhere like a fanny, that was all him.