Cinema secrets: 10 funny incidents that happened on the set of famous films

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Today, thanks to new technologies, film companies are able to embody the most unexpected and daring director's fantasies on the screen with the help of special effects. But even so, the process of realizing these effects is quite complicated, and behind the scenes from the films, beloved by many viewers, there are not only complex programming and deadly tricks, but also curious circumstances. We have collected 10 rather funny cases that happened at different times on the set of various films.

1. Hyacinth hippopotamus in "Fantasy"

"Fantasy" by Walt Disney is a masterpiece that has inspired children since its release in 1940. Dozens of young ballerinas watched the hyacinth hippopotamus scene, during which hippos dressed in ballet tutus perform dance pirouettes. That being said, few people suspect what actually helped create this beautiful scene. In order to film the scene with the dancing hippos, Walt Disney resorted to the services of overweight women. The animators dressed the women in tutu and recorded their awkward movements as they dance.

2. Woody's horse from Toy Story

Good sound effects can make a movie, especially an animated movie, a hit. Sometimes the sound engineering team will resort to completely unconventional methods to get the perfect effect. To accurately portray Woody's chomping horse cartoon "Toy Story", the sound engineers smeared the trainee's face with peanut butter. Then they took him out to a field where the cows were grazing. The sound of a cow licking butter off the poor man's face with gusto was just perfect for the stage.

3. Scene in the airship in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Films often feature situations that take place in a fictional world. This forces the actors to act in non-standard conditions. It's about the scene where Harrison Ford and Sean Connery are on the airship. The film is set in the winter, but the scene was actually filmed in the summer. The actors, dressed in fur coats and warm jackets, literally drenched in sweat. Considering that in this episode Sean Connery is sitting at a table and only the upper part of his body is visible, the famous actor decided to act without trousers so that it would not be so hot.

4. Fake pubic hair in The Big Lebowski

This is one of the most famous scenes from movie "The Big Lebowski"when Jackie Trichorn drugged Lebowski and he began to hallucinate. In one of the moments, Jeff Bridges (the actor who played the role of Lebowski) swims between the legs of the dancers. At the same time, he has a completely crazy expression on his face. In fact, during the shoot, Jeff didn't even have to work hard to portray that look. The fact is that the colleagues decided to make fun of the actor, and giant bunches of supposedly pubic hair were attached to the dancers under their skirts. When Jeff first "rode" across the stage between the girls' legs, his eyes involuntarily bulged.

5. Police sirens in "Swingers"

"Swingers" - a sample of the classics of cinema of the 90s, and also one of the most cited films. The film was shot on a very tiny budget, and a lot was done literally from scrap materials. Due to lack of money, the writers did not even have a shooting permit during filming. In the film, you can even hear police sirens in the background as police on the Las Vegas to Los Angeles highway stopped repeatedly to check what was happening next to the road and to make sure they had permission to shoot.

6. Lando Calrissian's helmet in Star Wars

It's worth taking a look at Lando Calrissian's helmet, as well as a baseball glove, to see the unmistakable resemblance. This is because Lando's helmet is actually a baseball glove, decorated with a space theme. Usually the crew members played baseball on Fridays. One day, Nilo Rodis-Jamero jokingly put a baseball glove on the head of engineer Wade Childress. At first, everyone just laughed, but the next day Childress began to shoot with a glove on his head.

7. Spiderman

During filming Spider-Man Sam Raimi ran into a problem. The director wanted to find the perfect spider for the scene where Peter Parker is first bitten by a radioactive spider. A black widow was perfect in appearance, but using a deadly poisonous spider in the filming would be too dangerous. In the end, a suitable spider was found, only the wrong color. Without thinking for a long time, the insect was simply painted.

8. Nazgul from "The Lord of the Rings"

The Nazgul ring-bearers from the famous film and book "The Lord of the Rings" are terrible creatures who were deprived of their physical form by the rings of omnipotence. When they attack from the sky on the wings of darkness, the only thing that the victim hears before death is a terrible screech. The sound engineer thought for a long time where to get such a sound from, until a brilliant idea dawned on him. He took an ordinary disposable plastic dish and rubbed the glass on the plate in front of the microphone.

9. Coffee grinder Krupps

This harmless grinder has appeared in several films, each time being presented as some kind of technology from the future. For example, in Back to the Future II, the grinder was featured as "Mr. Fusion's home energy converter." Then in another cult film "Aliens" the grinder was introduced as part of the Nostromo ship.

10. Predator Blood in Predator

The classic 80s movie, Predator, introduced the world to one of the most iconic monsters in cinema of all time. When Arnold Schwarzenegger shot the monster, its phosphorescent, luminescent green blood was visible. In fact, this blood was made from a substance used in chemical light sources mixed with KY Jelly lubricant.

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