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Zaragoza said:
The reason why the voice acting in Resident Evil 1 was so bad was because the voice director was Japanese, he wanted the voice actors to put heavy emphasis on specific words because that's how it works in Japanese. While he understood English, he didn't knew what natural spoken English acting sounded like.
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You know what, I hadn't really noticed that before, but it makes a lot of sense. At first I thought it was just because the actors sucked, but directing is incredibly important as well, if not moreso than just the actors.
 
In John Carpenter's The Thing, the husky who played the infected dog in the beginning of the movie actually wasn't trained to act so stoic and uncanny valley-esque during its scenes, its behavior was completely unscripted and it's odd behavior was the dogs natural reaction. He was part wolf, and the unfamiliar people and surroundings made the little guy fairly nervous and because of the circumstances and his aforementioned wolf instincts he basically clammed up resulting in his unnerving stillness. The director absolutely adored his creepy performance, but the cast was pretty scared of him throughout the filming. He played several heroic dog roles after his work in The Thing, showing that he was a pretty sweet and friendly pup when his nerves weren't getting the better of him.

The Rottweiler in the Omen had the exact opposite problem. His scenes were actually some of the most difficult to film, not because he was viscious or rowdy, but because he was so friendly and playful it was ridiculously hard to get him to give a scary performance.

The infamous baboon scene in the Omen is another example of horror movie animal insanity. During the initial filming attempts the baboons didn't really give a shit about the car and instead opted to ignore it while they went about their business. After several failed attempts they contacted the handler to ask him about the baboons behavior, and he told them that their pack leader was recently injured and had to receive medical treatment and was currently knocked out with heavy anesthetic. It was after hearing this that they made a very...odd decision. They ordered that the pack leader be brought out in front of the other baboons and then placed into the back seat of the car the actors were in. This resulted in the beserk and violent behavior they displayed in the movie, but unfortunately while they were filming the scene, the pack leader started to come to and promptly reached up and grabbed Lee Remick's hair in its drugged confusion resulting in the terrified scream she lets out near the end of the scene.
 
Right after Germany surrendered in WWII, Patton had the idiotic notion to keep moving east and take out the Soviet Union while it was weakened using the western allies and what was left of the Wehrmacht placed under Allied command. This plan was vetoed because the Allies were exhausted, and several leaders questioned the wisdom of giving a bunch of guys we had just spent the last 6 years trying to kill guns and expecting them to behave themselves.
 
Remember Rugrats in Paris? Remember the song, Who Let the Dogs Out? The song was a hit back when the movie came out, you'd think the men behind the song the Baha Men would rise to stardom well, in this case it's an example of a one hit wonder, just like our generation's Psy Gangnam Style, look at their twitter followers:

Chris Chan has more followers than them.

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The Rugrats episode Toys in the Attic was ghost written by the author John O'Brien, the writer of Leaving Las Vegas, same novel which was adapted to the 1995 movie of the same name.

The novel is a semi autobiographical movie about a depressed divorcee who becomes a suicidal alcoholic who meets and gets in a relationship with a pretty prostitute and they fall in love. Keep in mind with the word autobiographical, because everything in the story is pretty much what happened to the real author.

Yes this is some serious shit when you realize this guy wrote an episode for The Rugrats.
 
Frank Lloyd Wright once overheard someone call him "The greatest living American architect". Wright stormed up to the guy and yelled "What do you mean living? What do you mean American? I'm the greatest architect the world has ever seen!"
 
Zaragoza said:
The Rugrats episode Toys in the Attic was ghost written by the author John O'Brien, the writer of Leaving Las Vegas, same novel which was adapted to the 1995 movie of the same name.

The novel is a semi autobiographical movie about a depressed divorcee who becomes a suicidal alcoholic who meets and gets in a relationship with a pretty prostitute and they fall in love. Keep in mind with the word autobiographical, because everything in the story is pretty much what happened to the real author.

Yes this is some serious shit when you realize this guy wrote an episode for The Rugrats.
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what the fuck
 
Nebraska has the only unicameral and nonpartisan state legislature in the entirety of the U.S.
(Every state should do it like this tbh.)
 
If you ever thought the possibility of Forrest Gump being recruited by the Army along with his friend Bubba being impossible due to their low IQs and mental disabilities, well it actually happened.

Known as Project 100,000 or McNamara's 100,000, the United States government initiated a secret program which involved recruiting men who failed to meet the military standards of recruitment whether it be because low IQ or medical or mental disabilities, this was due to the government wanting to increase manpower when the height of American involvement was ever increasing and due to the growing protests.

Because of this, most of the 58 thousand men that died in the war, most of them were from the men recruited by the Project.

https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/story-behind-mcnamaras-morons
 
You can grab someone by their nostril and slam their face down on something.

I don't have a source for this, it's just something you can actually do, it's true.
 

Lucille Ball claimed that she almost drowned while filming this scene of The Lucy Show.

Lucy and Viv are stuck in the shower as the water continually rises. Lucille Ball later stated that she nearly drowned during the filming of this episode, when she went to the bottom and found herself unable turn herself upright. Vivian Vance realized she was in trouble, and pulled Lucy up by her hair. Vance ad-libbed until Lucy could catch her breath and resume her lines. The near-disastrous moment was left in the episode and is widely considered the funniest of the show.
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Oscar Wildean said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=asv2bnrBg_c
Lucille Ball claimed that she almost drowned while filming this scene of The Lucy Show.
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Speaking of movie accidents related to water that manage to end up in the finished movie:

When they filmed "Das Boot" in 1981, during one scene, they simulated a storm by splashing a 1:1 mockup of the Tower with large amounts of water. One of the actors lost his grip and was swept off the set, leading to one other actor unscriptedly yelling "Man Overboard". The actor that was swept off, Jan Federer, broke a few of his ribs and got a concussion, but they kept the video material and went with it. They had to rewrite the movie, so his character was bedridden - cause the actor actually was. They had to pick him up at the hospital every day when he was to film his scenes and then brought him back. In the uncut version, you can see him lying in his bunk and the strained, painful expression on his face is actually real.

Some more interesting facts: The set they used for the submarine was actually completely closed, there were no cutaways for the camera, which helps to establish the movie's claustrophobic atmosphere.

The actors dubbed their own english dialogue. Furthermore, they were forced to stay as much indoors as possible before they started filming, so they would be as pale as possible, to fit the setting.

In general, the production of the movie/series is rather amazing and if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
 
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