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they also sold pepsi their warships
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During the filming of the Texas chainsaw massacre, several of the actors were severely injured and nearly fucking died several times. For instance, during the scene where leatherface hangs a woman on a meat hook before he slaughters her, the contraption they rigged up to hold her in place on the hook actually malfunctioned and caused her to be suspended by her crotch on an extremely thin piece of wire, and she was left on said piece of wire screaming her lungs out in pain during the entire filming of the scene because they didn't realize what was happening until the cameras were off, and several actors nearly collapsed from heat stroke because they had to spend hours in the hot texas sun in the middle of summer with no way of cooling themselves off.
But out of all the shitty things that happened on the set, nobody suffered more than Gunnar Hansen, the man who played leatherface. During filming of one scene poor Gunnar ended up tripping over, sending his still running chainsaw flying into the air where it came down blade-first inches from his head, during the infamous dinner scene he was so delirious from the heat he actually believed he was leatherface and was horrified to take directions because he believed the director actually wanted him to kill someone, and during the scene where leatherface is knocked down and his leg ends up falling on his own chainsaw, the armored plate on his leg did protect him from the running blade, but unfortunately it didn't protect him from the heat from the friction of the blades running against the plate resulting in him getting severe burns on his leg.
Because of all the aforementioned bullshit the guy had to go through, he went off script during the shooting of the final scene. The script simply called for leatherface to stomp his foot and scream after his final victim escaped, but because Gunnar was so pissed off at the whole experience he began to rev the chainsaw and essentially throw a massive tantrum where he swung it around wildly in an attempt to scare the director for all he put him through. Ironically they thought this ending was way more intense and it ended up becoming one of the most famous scenes from the movie.
But out of all the shitty things that happened on the set, nobody suffered more than Gunnar Hansen, the man who played leatherface. During filming of one scene poor Gunnar ended up tripping over, sending his still running chainsaw flying into the air where it came down blade-first inches from his head, during the infamous dinner scene he was so delirious from the heat he actually believed he was leatherface and was horrified to take directions because he believed the director actually wanted him to kill someone, and during the scene where leatherface is knocked down and his leg ends up falling on his own chainsaw, the armored plate on his leg did protect him from the running blade, but unfortunately it didn't protect him from the heat from the friction of the blades running against the plate resulting in him getting severe burns on his leg.
Because of all the aforementioned bullshit the guy had to go through, he went off script during the shooting of the final scene. The script simply called for leatherface to stomp his foot and scream after his final victim escaped, but because Gunnar was so pissed off at the whole experience he began to rev the chainsaw and essentially throw a massive tantrum where he swung it around wildly in an attempt to scare the director for all he put him through. Ironically they thought this ending was way more intense and it ended up becoming one of the most famous scenes from the movie.
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Female cats are Calico. The only time a male is a calico is if it has the XXY chromosome.
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This part is so interesting because everybody in that scene was fucking miserable. The dude playing Grandpa didn't want to go through the makeup process again, so they had to film everything over the course of 36 hours. This was during a heat wave in Texas in a house with no AC in a room with rotting food. This is why Hansen got so delirious from the heat. During the part where Sally gets her finger cut, they couldn't get the rubber knife and hose to work properly, so Hansen got fed up, removed the rubber edge, and cut her finger for real; the blood you see is actually Marilyn Burns' blood.
The filming of the dinner scene was so torturous that Edwin Neal stated that it was the worst time of his life, and worse than his time in Vietnam.
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This sounds like something people would make up during production to hype up the movie, did this shit really happen?
Kinda reminds me how the makers of Cannibal Holocaust had to present proof that they did not actually kill and impale a woman in the making of their movie...
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A lot of this stuff came from commentaries the actors made over the years. At the time, the only thing being hyped up about the movie was that it was based on a true story, which it wasn't.
Also, Edwin Neal claimed that if he ever met Tobe Hooper again, he might kill him (this was before Hooper actually died).
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Oh yeah it's all true. They had to work with a pretty minuscule budget and since slasher movies weren't really a big thing at the time they didn't really have a lot of the more advanced rigs and special effects that were available once the genre really took off so they had to juryrig a lot of shit to make the film work. They still gave an awesome performance and there's a good reason it's considered a staple of horror, but actually making the damn thing was a literal nightmare for all the actors involved.
Their budget was so shitty that they couldn't even afford to have any proper gore rigs to be made, which is why the only person who gets killed by the chainsaw was the guy in the wheel chair because his was the only character they could design a convincing prop for. Most of the kills in the movie were actually carried out using leatherface's cattle hammer.
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There was a gay porno called "Him" about a guy who had an erotica obsession with Jesus Christ, made in the early seventies (and Jesus himself had a gay scene at the end, reportedly.)
No known copies survive, and the film was thought to be a hoax since
The only book that ever mentioned this movie: The Golden Turkey awards [1980], a book that awarded the worst films ever made. Him was awarded "The Most Unerotic Concept for Pornography." It was mentioned at the end of their book that one of the films was fake. Because of the obscurity, everyone thought it was "Him." But it turned out the fake movie was "Dog of Norway", since the titular Dog is the one shown in the Author's about section.
And it turned out, through public news archives, there were newspaper ads for the thing in Village Voice, Variety, and a few other places, and it was reviewed in a few newspapers.
Some dude wrote an academic essay on this that went pretty in depth.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eqxBp0w0UV9RRXCYobuehfZqmKYi3_xQ/view
this shit is absolutely fucked up but good god I'm curious about it.
There was a gay porno called "Him" about a guy who had an erotica obsession with Jesus Christ, made in the early seventies (and Jesus himself had a gay scene at the end, reportedly.)
No known copies survive, and the film was thought to be a hoax since
The only book that ever mentioned this movie: The Golden Turkey awards [1980], a book that awarded the worst films ever made. Him was awarded "The Most Unerotic Concept for Pornography." It was mentioned at the end of their book that one of the films was fake. Because of the obscurity, everyone thought it was "Him." But it turned out the fake movie was "Dog of Norway", since the titular Dog is the one shown in the Author's about section.
And it turned out, through public news archives, there were newspaper ads for the thing in Village Voice, Variety, and a few other places, and it was reviewed in a few newspapers.
Some dude wrote an academic essay on this that went pretty in depth.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eqxBp0w0UV9RRXCYobuehfZqmKYi3_xQ/view
this shit is absolutely fucked up but good god I'm curious about it.
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Remember The Lion King and how the cats moved and looked super convincing for being cartoons?
Well that's because they bought real damned lions into the studio for artists to sketch
http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2013/07/drawing-lions.html
They did the same thing for Bambi, Brother Bear, the reindeer from Frozen, and pretty much any Disney movie with animals. Even Zootopia
Well that's because they bought real damned lions into the studio for artists to sketch
http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2013/07/drawing-lions.html
They did the same thing for Bambi, Brother Bear, the reindeer from Frozen, and pretty much any Disney movie with animals. Even Zootopia
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Fidel Castro was constantly asking the Soviet Union to nuke the US in retaliation for the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviets eventually sent a team of experts to tell him that even if the United States didn't retaliate at all, the fallout would kill everyone in Cuba. He didn't care, and contained to send requests until the Soviet Union collapsed.
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The US government doesn't actually exist, it's a corporation registered in England-told to me by a SovCit.
Related: He "learned" this "fact" in a seminar by some con artist that he paid $1000 to attend.
Fun Fact: There are stupid people with lots of money and if I had fewer scruples, I'd be living in a mansion in Coral Gables Florida right now.
Related: He "learned" this "fact" in a seminar by some con artist that he paid $1000 to attend.
Fun Fact: There are stupid people with lots of money and if I had fewer scruples, I'd be living in a mansion in Coral Gables Florida right now.
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Oh boy here I go. Prepare my fellow kiwis!
The cassowary can swallow an apple full in under a second.
Wombats have square shaped shit.
People that live in the Andes have adapted to have enlarged hearts and bigger lungs (not sure about the lung one tho)
The capital of Peru, Lima, was founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro
The Kangal, a sheep guarding dog in Turkey, has a 700+lb bite.
Wallabies, if threatened by predators, will use their own baby as a sacrifice.
Female hyenas have penises
Many Japanese people after ww2 fled to Brazil! In fact, I think Brazil has the highest Japanese population in SA.
Many Irish people during the Potato Famine fled to Australia, New Zealand and Brazil and Chile.
Horses sleep standing up! However if they truly feel safe they will sit down.
Cows can hold grudges
The Sun King, the king who built Versailles from his father's hunting lodge, ate with his fingers (ew).
The Kakapo is a New Zealand parrot too heavy to fly and can live up to 90! Unfortunately they are endangered ):
Only a few animals have shown self recognition and they are: magpies, manta rays, primates, crows and elephants.
The cassowary can swallow an apple full in under a second.
Wombats have square shaped shit.
People that live in the Andes have adapted to have enlarged hearts and bigger lungs (not sure about the lung one tho)
The capital of Peru, Lima, was founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro
The Kangal, a sheep guarding dog in Turkey, has a 700+lb bite.
Wallabies, if threatened by predators, will use their own baby as a sacrifice.
Female hyenas have penises
Many Japanese people after ww2 fled to Brazil! In fact, I think Brazil has the highest Japanese population in SA.
Many Irish people during the Potato Famine fled to Australia, New Zealand and Brazil and Chile.
Horses sleep standing up! However if they truly feel safe they will sit down.
Cows can hold grudges
The Sun King, the king who built Versailles from his father's hunting lodge, ate with his fingers (ew).
The Kakapo is a New Zealand parrot too heavy to fly and can live up to 90! Unfortunately they are endangered ):
Only a few animals have shown self recognition and they are: magpies, manta rays, primates, crows and elephants.
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People born to japanese parents in Brazil had the right to return to Japan at their leisure. During the 70s and 80s, many came due to Japan being very rich, which made Portuguese one of the biggest non-japanese language groups in Japan for some time.
Also, there's a region in Spain called "Coria del Rio" where many people (~700] carry "Japon" in their name, either as a second forename or surname. All these people are descendants of a group of Japanese that came to Spain as envoys around 1615, who converted to Christianity and then refused to go back to their country.
This guy was the leader of the group, Hasekura Tsunenaga:
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During WWII, the FBI partnered with the mafia to patrol the waterfronts of major East Coast cities to watch for German saboteurs trying to sneak in. It was called Operation UNDERWORLD.
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IIRC Castro also called Khrushchev a Bastard and a rat a little after the CMC.
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that reminds me, Eric Stefani, Gwen Stefani's brother and Keyboard player of the band No Doubt, was an animator on Rugrats. Which now makes perfect sense why No Doubt is on the first movie's soundtrack.
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When a person is exposed to certain radioactive materials going critical (such as after accidentally being hit by an object), the person sometimes sees a bright flash of light. This flash of light, in fact, is not visible to a video camera and the reason is simple:
The flash of light is cherenkov radiation, that is emmissioned inside the person's eyeballs due to high-velocity nuclear particles passing through them.
Similarly, when exposed to radioactivity, many people tell of a metallic taste or smell. That is your nervous system or mucous membranes being damaged by radiation. It can also be a result of oxygen being shaped to ozone by the radiation.
The flash of light is cherenkov radiation, that is emmissioned inside the person's eyeballs due to high-velocity nuclear particles passing through them.
Similarly, when exposed to radioactivity, many people tell of a metallic taste or smell. That is your nervous system or mucous membranes being damaged by radiation. It can also be a result of oxygen being shaped to ozone by the radiation.
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Not so fun fact. If you experience that as a result of a high burst of radiation, odds are you're going to die.
You can get it from normal radiation treatment too, though.
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Radiation Sickness is like something out of a religious text anyway.
I mean, a flash of light that is only visible to biological things. A taste of metal in your mouth. And then there's the slow process of dying itself, where the body essentially rots while you're still alive.
One of the typical courses of the disease for heavily irradiated people is that of the "living dead", when after a couple days of feeling like shit, enough body tissue and nerves have died, so that you're no longer feeling pain or fatigue. Before, you were unable to move due to pain, suddenly, you can walk around and you feel almost healthy. Then you get spasms and start to suffocate... radiation sickness is a really nasty way to go.
And speaking of which, apparently the austrian military had 3 categories of radiation poisoning for their soldiers during the cold war:
They essentially boiled down to
1) Fit for Service
2) Unfit for Service
3) Only fit for Service
Category 1) applies to those with small amounts of radiation poisoning, who are barely affected at all and can continue serving in the military. Catgory 2) is when you're irradiated so much, that you need medical treatment and 3) is when medical treatment no longer affects your chances of survival, thus you pretty much serve until you drop. That's some "Warhammer 40k Imperial Guard"-type shit.
Gets even worse. One former soldier once told me: When a nuclear bomb goes off, soldiers were trained to lay down on the ground, ontop of their rifle.
Officially, this is supposed to prevent an ammo cook-off or something, but inofficially, this is only meant to make the rifle absord less radiation, so it can be used longer. That's the pragmatism and cynicism that the military is famous for. "We can't protect the soldier, but at least protect the rifle, it's harder to replace..."