[01] — Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] — Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] — Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.


The Royal Tenenbaums

The spots on the dalmatian mice were created using a Sharpie pen.

The movie is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan, with such imaginary addresses as "100 N. 30th Avenue" (the address of the hotel where Royal stays) or the "375th Street YMCA".

The hand that is seen with the BB lodged between its knuckles is not Ben Stiller's, but Andrew Wilson's, brother of Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson. When they were children, Owen fired a BB gun at Andrew's hand and the pellet has been there ever since 

Rosemary's Baby

The script called for Rosemary (Mia Farrow) to explain to Guy (John Cassavetes), that she'd "been to Vidal Sassoon" for her dramatic new haircut. Thus, Vidal Sassoon was in fact flown to the set to arrange Mia Farrow's hair into the now iconic pixie cut she sports during the second half of the film. For the first part, she wears a blonde wig designed by famed stylist Sydney Guilaroff.

According to Mia Farrow, the scenes where Rosemary walks in front of traffic were spontaneous and genuine. Roman Polanski is reported to have told her that "nobody will hit a pregnant woman

Amélie

Whenever this film was shot on location, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the crew would clean the area of debris, grime, trash and graffiti, so that the film would match his fantasy more so. This was an especially difficult task when it came time to shoot at the huge train station.

There are two films shown when Amélie is in the movie theater. When she watches faces behind her we see two scenes from Jules et Jim (1962). When she makes the comment about people not looking at the road whilst driving in older films, it is during a scene from Father's Little Dividend (1951).

Jackie Brown

The suit that Jackie buys is the same that Mia Wallace wears in Pulp Fiction (1994).

The money that's shown in the bag is genuine currency.

It was Samuel L. Jackson's idea to give his character the long hair and the braided goatee.

Mean Girls

Amy Poehler who plays Mrs. George is only five years older than her on screen daughter Rachel McAdams (Regina George)

Rachel McAdams was told to partly model the character of Regina George after Alec Baldwin's performance in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

Initially, Lindsay Lohan was cast as Regina, but decided to play the "nice girl" so the public wouldn't base her real personality on Regina's. Rachel McAdams was chosen to play the "mean girl" because "only nice girls can play mean girls" according to the producer 

The Departed

Body count: 22

When the main characters are shown in a police academy ballistics lecture at the beginning, the large flip chart illustrations seen in the background are Warren Commission exhibits of President John F. Kennedy's head wounds, prepared by medical illustrator H.A. Rydberg under the direction of Dr. James Humes, the chief examiner of Kennedy's autopsy.

Whenever any of the main characters is about to die there is an "X" somewhere on screen as a reference to Scarface (1932).

Annie Hall

Alvy's (Woody Allen's) sneezing into the cocaine was an unscripted accident. When previewed, the audience laughed so loud that director Allen decided to leave it in, and had to add footage to compensate for people missing the next few jokes from laughing too much.

Annie's outfits, which caused a brief fashion rage, were Diane Keaton's own clothes.

Almost Famous

Penny Lane asks William if he'd like to go to Morocco with her. He says, "Yes... ask me again." According to director Cameron Crowe, "Ask me again" was Patrick Fugit stepping out of character and asking Kate Hudson to repeat her lines for another take. But Crowe liked the take as-is and kept it in the final cut.

The scene where members of the band Stillwater are being driven into New York city in a limo mimics a scene in the film "The Song Remains the Same" where members of Led Zeppelin are being driven into New York city in a limo.

Cameron Crowe's original script was 172 pages and, according to him, he filmed almost all of it.

 School of Rock

The rock band Led Zeppelin are notoriously hesitant to allow their music to be licensed for commercial purposes. Knowing this, Richard Linklater filmed a plea by actor Jack Black in front of 1,000 screaming fans, imploring the band to let the production use the "Immigrant Song" in the movie. The plea worked and the filmed request is included on the DVD.

All the kids really play their instruments, and the backup singers are real vocalists. Jack Black also played a bit of guitar in the movie (for example, when he is teaching "Smoke on the water", "Iron man" and other songs to Zach), but he didn't do the guitar solos.

Rear Window

One thousand arc lights were used to simulate sunlight. Thanks to extensive pre-lighting of the set, the crew could make the changeover from day to night in under forty-five minutes.

Other than a couple of shots near the end and the discovery of the dead dog, all the shots in the movie originate from Jeff's apartment.

Ranked #3 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Mystery" in June 2008.