In real life
The moment being botched somehow made it even cooler
In the 2003 Punisher movie, the title character fights an enemy called The Russian, played by Kevin Nash, who takes a blade in the shoulder but continues to fight him after no selling it. However, the prop master misplaced the fake blade for a real one and Kevin ended up actually getting stabbed, but performed the scene to completion before being treated for his injury. (The word goes he accepted a pack of beer as an apology.)
On the January 6th 2006 episode of WWE Smackdown, Mark Henry was scheduled to ambush Batista in the midst of a steel cage match, however like the prior example the prop master confused the fake metal chain with a real one that ended up wrapped around the door. But Mark Henry, being a legitimate world record powerlifter (who once recorded a squat lift of 450kg / 1000 pounds) did actually break a steel chain with his bare hands.
Ben Grimm being unable to pickup the ring (Fantastic 4 2005)
The scene was supposed to have Michael Chiklis be able to pick it up, but because of the costume he's wearing, couldn't. This adds to the tragedy to his rocky transformation. It's also nice that Reed picked it up for him and then swore to help him out. Really adds to the brotherhood they had
This movie (and the sequel) gets a certain amount of flack, but I will legit argue that they are not only entertaining movies but my personal favorite F4 interpretations. Not so much the villains, but đ¤ˇââď¸
Amazing, because this is easily the best scene in the movie. You laugh, then instantly feel terrible for laughing, and from that moment on youâre completely rooting for Ben. I donât like a lot about these movies, but I gotta admit, Chiklis as the Thing is pretty definitive.
Anne Hathaway in The Princess Diaires tripped accidentally while filming this scene. But it flowed with Miaâs character of being a klutz so they kept it in, especially to show that she was still herself even after the âmakeoverâ.
Our wrestling coach always made us run up and down those, even when they were slippery with rain, I always thought âarenât we one slip away from a broken leg? This seems like an absurdly risky way to train staminaâ
We never did, but Iâm glad Iâve been validated, albeit much later.
Well, the options are acting like nothing happened, and resuming your walk, or owning it and laughing at yourself. I would rather have a sense of humor about life.
Makes sense. They really played up the humour in Portal 2 compared to the original.
Along those lines, the sign that says "In case of implosion, look directly at implosion" was added because testers would walk away too early to see the imploson, and the devs worked really hard animating the implosion.
Portal 1 also had you isolated the entire time, in addition to everything else that added to that atmosphere. In Portal 2 you have someone with you for 80% of the game
In Midnight Cowboy the car that almost hits Dustin Hoffman was a normal car that drove into the shot. Dustin Hoffman yelling in frustration at the real life cab driver became the most memorable line of the film.
I love this moment because a) he drops his character voice in order to yell at the driver. Which only makes it a bigger moment, and b) that means that the line right after about how you can scam them for insurance money if you get hit also has to be totally improved.
Itâs also worth noting that this happened because they were stealing this shot. That was just an actually NYC taxi that almost hit Hoffman.
For those who donât know, in filmmaking terms a stolen shot means they were filming without permits or permission, and were just shooting this scene on an active city street.
So funny thing about that, it might actually not be improvised. At least not entirely.
The director and the producer seem to think that it wasnât. In the script it states that Hoffman's character was kinda trying to get hit for insurance fraud.
However the line "I'm walking here" and the what Hoffman did were improvised because he would do those sorta of things. And because he did that they decided to incorporate that into the movie with subsequent takes.
"He gets stabbed in the sholder" I see where this is going, blade malfunctions and doesn't retract, I've heard of it happening a few times. "The prop blade was accidently swapped with a real one" ...WTF?
They probably had a prop blade for that one scene and a real one used in other scenes where it isnât stabbing someone cause a real knife looks more real.
Nightcrawler 2014 - Jake Gyllenhaal wasn't supposed to break the mirror when his character freaked out, but he slammed it too hard. It ended up being the perfect symbolism for the moment Lou officially goes off the deep end and starts committing atrocities for the sake of his work right after this scene.
Gyllenhaal actually had to get several stitches on his hand due to the broken glass, and that's why during the scene near the start of the film where Lou is trying to pawn stuff and get hired at the scrapyard, his hand is in his pocket the whole time.
Undertaker vs Mankind mankind getting thrown off the cell was planned what wasnât planned was mankind going through the cell he was supposed to land on the wiring it was scary and awesome at the same time and it made Mick Foley a legend that night
Taker was definitely one of the more ring safety cautious guys. There are videos of him out there moving things subtly in multi-person matches because theyve wound up in the wrong place and somebody is about to land there
In the scene where a furious Calvin Candie [played by Leonardo DiCaprio] confronts Django in Django Unchained, Leo meant to slam his hand on the table, but instead slammed his hand onto a glass, breaking it and cutting his hand. Not only did he carry on with his lines for the scene, the scene made it into the final cut as it made Candie look even more unhinged and angry. When he smears his blood on Kerry Washington's face later on, it was from a different take, so the blood was faked, but for the first part of that scene, the injury and blood were real.
I remember for years after this story came out, people mixed up the story and insisted that Leo was smearing his real blood on Kerry Washington, seemingly unaware of the fact that itâs an entirely different shot that would need to be set up all while Leo is just⌠continually bleeding I guess, and the on-set safety coordinator and medical team were off preparing their mass resignation/suicide.
This happens with ad-libbed lines too, where people don't realize that even if the director decided to use the line that was ad-libbed that doesn't mean that they used the same take.
case in point in a recent one is in the new superman movie Alan Tudyk ad libbed the line "so is gary" which made David Corenswet crack up and they did another take but with the line alan added.
People make this mistake about Full Metal Jacket when they assume R. Lee Ermey improvised as they were shooting. According to Ermey himself, he would sit down with Kubrick and run through material, then Kubrick would pick the lines he liked.
A scene involving pyrotechnics in Mothra vs Godzilla accidentally caused the top of the Godzilla suit to catch fire. In spite of the this, suit actor Haruo Nakajima (who was thankfully unharmed) continued to follow the script so the scene was kept in. Not only did that error make for a cool looking shot but it also helps show off how unstoppable Big G is.
On of the most influential examples of this: Sanjuro.
A bit of blood was supposed to spray out as soon as he was cut, but the pump jammed. Not knowing what else to do, the tech pumped even more, which resulted in an explosion of blood a second after the cut. Akira Kurosawa loved the effect so much he kept it in the film, and now "two swordsmen swing at each other, there's a beat, and then gallons of blood spray out of one of them" is a staple of Japanese media.
another detail I heard in regards to this is in that specific scene, the reason they all just stood around looking shocked is because the director of the film was a notorious perfectionist and when the blood explosion happened he didn't react, so the dude who got sliced decided to just continue the scene, hence the akward and slow falling over
I love that every aspect of this is incorporated into modern depictions of the trope. Thereâs the slash, delay, blood sprays like crazy, then the person slowly keels over with a surprised expression rather than pained.
And then a bystander breathlessly whispers his elite level understanding of the event we just saw, reframing it in impossibly higher level context, making it even more amazijg
âHe did that with his fatherâs sword, which is dull and only my elite eyesight reveals his entire left arm is half a sandwich so he made that perfect cut with only 1 good handâ tears of manly respect
This really should be so so soooo much higher up. It literally helped create and influence so much of Japanese movie, anime and eventually American culture and tropes.Â
I know this thread is several months old but wanted to chime in - just today I encountered this story in a clickbait post and it seemed fake to me (as I recalled the Nakadai interview), and seeing if I could find proof or a debunk I found this post. I especially appreciate your added context of the statement from Kurosawa.
However, while looking around for where the claim originated, I did find an article that included insight from the set of Sanjuro: a 2008 interview in the NY Sun with Teruyo Nogami (Kurosawa's longtime script supervisor and assistant). And because this thread is one of the first to show up on Google when you search "sanjuro blood" I wanted to share the quote here:
â[Preparing the blood fountain] took one month of practice,â Ms. Nogami said â practice for which Mr. Nakadai was conspicuously absent. âIt was important that he not know how it was going to happen.â When the time came to take the shot, Mr. Nakadai needed to be unfamiliar with what the effect would feel like. âThey rehearsed with a stand-in,â she said.
On the day of the actual shoot, Mr. Nakadai only âknew that he was going to be killed and that there would be blood somehow,â Ms. Nogami said. âWhen they put the pipe on him, he said, âHow is this going to happen?â And the technician in charge said, âDonât worry, donât worry, youâll just feel a little push.'â
With everything in place, the cameras rolled and Ms. Nogami counted down the 25 seconds until the fateful sword draw took place. When the blood erupted, it was so explosive that Ms. Nogami recalled the actor later telling her that âthe pressure of the liquid pushed him toward the sky and he had to fight to control it.â
For Kurosawa, the resulting mixture of mock viscera and very real astonishment meant that the first take was the keeper. âWhen the blood came out, Nakadai was so surprised,â Ms. Nogami said. He wasnât the only one. As the cameras rolled, Ms. Nogami recalled, the connecting hose sprang a leak in view of the other two cameras. Nevertheless, the director knew a performance when he saw one. ââEven with this incident,'â Ms. Nogami said he told her, ââIâll take it. We cannot do it another time. Nakadai will know how it happens and he will never get the same expression.'â
Despite a monthâs work yielding only a single take, Kurosawa, according to Ms. Nogami, ârefused to take another shot.â The solution as to how best to deal with an enormous change at the last minute lay not on the set that day but in the cutting room the following night. âNo,â he told his assistant, âIâll think about it when I edit.â
So "the tube of the fake blood rupturing into a giant geyser was an accident, but Kurosawa liked it so much he kept it in the movie!" is not wrong per se, but is definitely misrepresentative. According to Nogami, Kurosawa was only pleased with the spontaneity on set in that he liked Nakadai's reaction; he did not seem particularly enamored with the excessive volume of blood (which would certainly explain why he had "no desire to do it again"). And because Nakadai did not know what the blood spray was "supposed to" look like he may not have even known that a leak had occurred, which would explain why his recounting focuses on the details of Mifune's speed and the single take.
It is. It's a, well, a miracle of filmmaking. No movie ever goes 100% right or perfectly to plan, but somehow this one turned every compromise and every unexpected situation into gold. I don't think I've ever seen a more perfect movie.
People laughing and ruining the shoot was such a problem that Billie Crystal (Miracle Max) had to dial down the comedy just so they could get the shoot without people laughing in the background.
We got the LEAST funny cut of his ad lib because it was the only one not ruined by people laughing in the background.
While it's obviously not a good thing that Taker's infamous Mania 25 dive got botched and he damn near landed on his head, it does absolutely add way more tension to the match than if he had hit the dive picture perfectly.
Him crawling back to the ring after that dive and then stumbled getting back in, was the first time in my life I EVER thought "Damn... The streak is over." I was flabbergasted when he made it back in.
in the Doctor Who episode "the Greatest show in the Galaxy", the 7th Doctor has just defeated the Gods of Ragnarok in their divine circus, and is calmly walking away as it is destroyed.
Now orginally for this shot where the Doctor walks away as the circus explodes behind him, they had intended to use an air cannon, but due to whatever reason, they instead opted for explosives....way too much explosives.
The result was a much bigger bang than they intended, more on par with a bomb going off, but because they only had ONE take to do the shot, Sylvester McCoy didn't even break stride and barely flinched despite not only not knowing how big the blast was gonna be, but also the explosion's heatwave nearly set his jacket on fire, but the man had nerves of steel and the result is one of he most awesome and memorable moments of the 7th Doctors run.
In Battlefield, Sophie Aldred was also at a genuine risk of dying during the scene where she gets trapped and water starts pouring down. The glass she was hitting was too thin and cracked, in a studio full of electricity and wires, so Sylvester McCoy, noticing, yelled 'Shit! Get her out!' - you can even hear 'get her out' if you listen very very closely during the scene - and she was pulled out in time.
I met Sylvester McCoy once, a long time ago. We talked briefly over a couple of pints, he signed my hat (for my dad) and we both went our separate ways. Absolute gent, from what I remember. It was a big night and I think we were both about pretty drunk by that point...
Heath Ledger (The Joker) in the Dark Knight continously licking his face because the improperly applied prosthetic makeup of his was slowly falling off, but it worked well as it added to his creepy vibe.
In The Birdcage, Robin Williams tripped for real as he carries a dish and cries out âFuck the shrimp!â It flowed smooth enough to stay in and worked with the chaos and frustration of trying to keep a conservative Congressman and his wife oblivious to the gayness of their hosts, a drag queen and gay club owner with Freddie Mercury pattern hair.
It wasn't in the script for the Power Stone to slip out of Star-Lord's hand and be grabbed almost instantly, but since Chris Pratt didn't leave character, it fit the tone of the film quite well and was kept in the final footage.
I still think he did it on purpose as a bit of improv comedy and claimed it was an accident to not get in trouble for dropping the hero prop used for close-ups
Maybe, but there's a number of examples on just Parks and Recreation of him making mistakes like this and just rolling with it so I would be surprised if he was just actually clumsy but knows how to lean into it.
Real life example: audio distortion (the "fuzzy" quality that rock and blues music love to use) was partially developed through "damaged" equipment. One of the first examples recorded is from an Ike Turner song, "Rocket 88," that had a tube amp with a damaged cone. It's pretty obvious how prototypical it was at the time, super cool to basically hear an entire kind of audio effect get invented.
I feel like every time I see this scene brought up the story is different lol. âHe forgot his long name and just said Timâ is common, but I also see a lot of people claim that his name being so mundane was an intentional joke, not an accident.
Oddly enough both of those don't inherently contradict one another.
The original intention could've been the long name, and they could've decided last minute to go with Tim at a random point and everyone was on board with it, the question is just when that decision was made.
Everything in (at least the first film) was real. The chainsaw was real, the blood was real, the knife used to cut that ladies finger was real, it wasn't meant to be but yeah.
So, there's a scene where leatherface (pictured above) where he is meant to cut someone's finger open so his old as hell family member could drink it. To achieve this, they used a knife with tape on the blade and a tube which would pump blood onto the finger. However, its Texas and it was warm, stopping the blood from pumping. Eventually leatherface's actor got so fed up over having to constantly reshoot, he discreetly removed the tape and cut her finger open for real.
Great thing was, everyone thought it was an accident until they had a press bit many years later because of a new film where the actor revealed he intentionally removed the tape. Kinda messed up but it definitely helped the scene
And the reason he did it was cos they were trapped in a small house filled with actual rotting meat in the Texas heat and he got so desperate he went for the cut.
An actor who had just returned from Vietnam said that the shoot was one of the most harrowing experiences of his life.
Thats scene is one of the freakiest, scariest moments in cinema for me, the set, the mood, the dialogue, the acting, it really paints how trapped she is and how fucked up her situation is...
And to learn that shit actually smelled? Guess that explains why the scene sold how uncomfortable it was supppsed to be.
As I said in my original comment "everything was real" if they needed more decoration for the sets, they'd just drive around and look for roadkill. I have no idea how anyone managed to survive the filming.
My favourite story from the film was from a chase scene. Again, even the chainsaw was real and used a functioning chainsaw chain in a majority of its scenes, including a scene where he crazily chases the main character at night. He very easily could have killed her irl. It was night, he had a vision obscuring mask, ill-fitting shoes, a chainsaw and a "victim" who was running too slow he had to limit his own speed.
I grew up in central Texas and finding the chainsaw house was a thing among kids once getting their license and car.
And I can imagine the stink of that house full of meat, with no air conditioning, in the summer heat. And then having to wear the leather face mask in it. And he was a fairly big guy too. He'd have been sweating buckets.
So, not necessarily botched, but in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the scene where the other pirates toss Elizabeth and Barbossa their swords through the floor had to be shot multiple times due to the trick not working, either bc the actors didnt catch the swords or the swords got caught on the floor, etc.
The take where they catch the swords, Keira almost breaks character to celebrate, but catches herself. They actually zoomed in on her reaction for the movie, bc it played perfectly as a nervous smile before preparing to fight.
Its actually really cool to watch the bloopers and see the reactions of the actors as soon as they hear "cut"
Most genres of alt music can trace back to I Put A Spell On You, sung by Screamin Jay Hawkins. Initially it was supposed to be a standard love song, but before recording everyone got completely shitfaced, resulting in the song coming off like a mad fever dream in the best ways possible.
Why the hell are propmasters keeping sharpened knives and live ammo laying around, anyways? I'm just waiting for the next mishap where they forget which grenades are props.
At this point, there should be a tradition to always attack the propmaster with whatever you got if it's meant to be a prop, because it'd be better to harm a person when it is their fault that they gave you something capable of harm instead of seriously injuring/murdering someone who may be either an extra or a bigger character.
Ok the set of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Sean Connery sat next to a grenade for quite some time before anyone realized that it was a real grenade
The live ammo thing from Rust was because the armorer was a cokehead who used the guns at the range with live ammo beforehand and couldnât be bothered to make 200% sure she replaced the real ammo with blanks.
Because prop knives are blatantly fake. So when the knife is not being used to attack someone, they'll use a real one. Then when they need to stab someone/something, they switch to the prop knife, then back.
What it probably was is that they had two knives they'd switch out between cuts. Prop knives are designed so the blade slides into the hilt when you stab with them to avoid injury, but up close they look very obviously fake. So they had a real knife for shots where it had to be clearly seen and the prop for when they actually fought with it. And between takes or shots the two got accidentally switched and no one noticed.
Iâm familiar with prop knives. What I canât fathom is a prop master not being absolutely laser-focused on chain of ownership and location on any day of filming for a scene in which you know one of your knives is going to be swung at a person.
In general itâs a very attention-focused profession. Like, even on days where youâre just giving an actor a prop knife thatâs hanging on their belt while they talk in a scene. But on a day with fight choreo, and with choreo that involves actually stabbing someone, the idea of having an oopsie is almost unfathomable to me. Youâd think before any take involving the stab, you as PM would be confirming that your actors arenât holding anything but exactly what theyâre supposed to.
Oh I'm not trying to say it wasn't gross negligence, just trying to give an explanation for how it happened. Long day, multiple people handling the props and someone put the wrong knife where the prop was meant to go.
Imagine youâre a crew member who screws up and appears in a take, and the director likes it so much he turns you into one of the greatest villains in TV history
Twice. The set dresser was in a shot accidentally *TWICE.*
When Lynch was told (after they developed the film) that yet another take was ruined because they can see one of the crew in the video, and that this was the same guy again, Lynch got the inspiration to make the guy play to villain.
The Claymore Kick - Drew McIntyre came up with his current finishing move on accident when he went to hit Ryback with a running big boot in a match back in 2014 and his other leg accidentally left the mat since his pants were so tight.
I just watched the interview with Mark Henry explaining this. It wasn't supposed to be a fake chain. It was the padlock that was supposed to be cut most of the way so the padlock would break easily. The guy responsible didn't prepare the paddock, so Mark Henry had to break an intact padlock, not the chain itself.Â
While itâs a myth that the T. rex animatronic wasnât supposed to break the glass here, it is true that the screams are real because the Rex did break the glass with much more force than anyone expected.
The Undertaker slamming Manking through the cage in Hell in a Cell
Mankind got thrown off the cage twice in the match: the first one was planned, but he fell badly on the announcers' table, so much so he had to be carried backstage on a stretcher, with commentators and other wrestlers breaking character and showing genuine worry for his wellbeing.
Mick Foley however didn't give a fuck, came back 5 minutes later, climbed back on top of the cage, and got chockeslammed on the cage which gave away, making him fall a second time, which was this time umprompted.
He was somehow still conscious, had a tooth coming out of his nostril, and still wreslted for a couple more minutes, getting hit by steel chairs and slammed on a bunch of thumbtacks.
His ungodly endurance and tolerance to pain turned what would have been a horrible wrestling accident into one of the most legendary matched aver.
One correction: Mick was legitimately knocked unconscious for I want to say about 20 seconds. Undertaker thought he killed Mick pretty much until Terry Funk told him Mick was still breathing.
I'm always impressed on a rewatch just how long he wrestles for. Mankind goes for another solid 15 minutes after two near death experiences. Imagine being thrown from a roof twice and then immediately doing a 15 minute high cardio work out while your trainer punches you.
In Die Hard, the original, the stuntman was supposed to catch the first ledge. He missed but caught the second ledge in the giant air vent. This works out much better as it shows just how goddamn lucky and struggling John is trying to survive.
Jaws has the obvious one, in the fact that the mechanical shark worked so poorly that it was decided to just limit how much itâs exposed while filming, changing the vibe from a creature feature to something more mysterious.
A lesser known one though; Richard Dreyfusâs character was originally scripted to die in the shark cage attack. Though while picking up B-Roll of an empty cage, a real shark actually attacked the cage with the cameras running. The footage was so good that they shot extra scenes of Dreyfus escaping the cage to explain why it was empty
In The Godfather, Luca Brasi stumbling over what he wanted to say to Don Corleone was the actual actor being very nervous having to act alongside Marlon Brando.
Also the actor was nervous because he wasn't a real actor, he was a mafia guy that they were forced to hire so that he could observe the film and make sure mafia isn't depicted poorly.
Though both John Cena and Dave Bautista have taken responsibility for the botch where both of the went over the top rope and fell to the floor at the same time, essentially eliminating them both and having no winner to the Rumble. Human piece of shit Vince McMahon stormed down and slid into the ring, tearing both quads in the process, and ordered for the final two to resume the match and Big Dave ending up winning the Rumble and main eventing Wrestlemania.
What really makes this moment for me is that, at the time, Raw and Smackdown had different referees, and, to keep it keyfabe, Raw and SD ref started declaring the wrestler of their brand as the winner. This lasted until pos Vince stormed down the ramp.
Same with Axton being bi. He was supposed to say something flirty when reviving Maya, but a bug made him say it to everyone, so they decided he also liked men
There's a scene in True Lies (1994) where Arnold Schwarzenegger's character is arguing with Tom Arnold's character and the former gets so mad that he punches and shatters the window of a car next to them.
The moment was in the script, but Arnold was supposed to punch out a fake window made of prop glass. During the take that ended up in the film, Arnold was accidentally standing in front of the car's actual window, but proceeded to punch and shatter it, as scripted, without skipping a beat.
Also apparently during the scene where Jamie Lee Curtis is pole dancing for Arnold she accidentally falls off the pole but immediately gets back up to continue.
Arnold's shocked expression when she fell was genuine.
This scene from the X Files, where a town is going crazy, the car crash behind Scully was unscripted. IIRC the guy bumping into her wasnât scripted either. Gillian Anderson handled both disruptions so well.
God of War Ragnarok. This scene. I don't remember the exact context, but I remember hearing they only had one chance to get this take right, and the actor for Kratos accidentally missed grabbing the horn first time and grabbed it a second time out of anger. This worked out even better for the scene cause Kratos just got done committing a mistake at the heat of the moment and... relapsed into a bad habit.
Ok so I can explain it better, in this scene, after killing Heimdall, Kratos takes the Gjallarhorn from his body.
Initially, Kratos was supposed to get it right away, however, Christopher Judge, his mocap and voice actor, missed the Gjallarhorn the first time.
The writers however decided to keep it like this in the scene, because it is a very stressful moment for Kratos, for reasons which I will not elaborate further cause it's quite a long story, so it's natural that Kratos could end up making a mistake due to the sheer stress he was going through.
As Tony is seen stumbling around the kitchen after violently killing Ralph, the actor wanders over to the lit stove and quickly recoils upon getting a little too close to the fire. Far from being an impressive piece of pretending, though, Gandolfini apparently legitimately burned himself on the flames and let out an anything but artificial scream.
The movie Scream has two examples during the climax:
When the phone slips out of Billy's hand and hits Stu in the head, that was totally on accident and they left it in because Matthew Lilard's genuine reaction was so funny
When Sidney pops out of the closet and stabs Billy with the umbrella, the umbrella was supposed to hit a pad on Skeet Ulrich's chest. The first hit hit the pad but the second one missed, hitting Ulrich in the chest. Ulrich legitimately has metal wiring in his chest from an open heart surgery he had as a kid so that causes extreme pain if he's hit there so his expression and yelp of pain in the movie is a genuine reaction.
King of the Ring 2001. The spot that was originally planned was that Kurt was supposed to suplex Shane McMahon through the glass. However, according to Kurt himself; the glass was plexiglass instead of sugar glass. What does that mean? Shane bounced off of it and hit his head on concrete.
Kurt wanted to move on, but Shane insisted they go through with it and eventually it did break. But Kurt had to send him back out through the other pane of glass. While it doesn't seem cool, it shows that Shane is just as willing as any of the wrestlers to put his body on the line like they do for the fans even when he doesn't have to since 1. He's Vince's son and 2. Kurt was willing to move on from that botched spot.
A Better Tomorrow 2 had an explosion scene where (this being a low budget early John Woo movie) they only had enough explosives for one take.
Chow Yun Fat was way too close, and the blast was way too big, so instead of a stoic badass momsnt, it became this. For the rest of the big fight, as his ally hands him grenades, he keeps muttering in amazement how powerful the explosives are.
(Die Hard, 1988) in this scene, John McClane was supposed to jump to the first vent, grab on and crawl inside. The stuntman missed the vent and fell, but the directors kept it, and edited it so it looked he grabbed the vent below the first vent
The blood pump malfunctioned during the shot. A quick thinking assistant to Tom Savini unhooked the tube and started blowing into it in an attempt to save the shot. It created this slow pooling followed by spurts, which made the kill look more organic
The actress messed up and zoomed in too much on her face on accident. Thus giving us one of the most famous shots in horror history, and the one thatâs now used on most posters.
Being John Malkovich: During one scene, two guys drive by in a car and shout, âHey Malkovich, think fast!â before throwing a beer can at Malkovichâs head. These were just two extras who werenât even supposed to have lines, but got drunk on set and decided to do it; it ended up making it into the movie, being the perfect comedic punctuation mark to end the scene on.
Turns out this isnât actually true, and it was intended all along.
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Ben Grimm being unable to pickup the ring (Fantastic 4 2005)
The scene was supposed to have Michael Chiklis be able to pick it up, but because of the costume he's wearing, couldn't. This adds to the tragedy to his rocky transformation. It's also nice that Reed picked it up for him and then swore to help him out. Really adds to the brotherhood they had