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Willem Dafoe got fired from his first film for laughing. Fortunately for him, the movie was Heaven's Gate, the movie that bombed so hard it killed the New Hollywood movement, nearly everyone's careers on the movie (except Christopher Walken), and caused United Artists to have to be bought up by MGM to stay alive.
And he ended up being an extra in the final cut anyways.

22 years after Heaven's Gate, Dafoe narrated a documentary on the making of the film and its effects on Hollywood
 
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AnOminous said:
Was this by notorious prick Michael Cimino? Did he get butthurt about Dafoe laughing?
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Yeah that was Michael Cimino. And yes he was butthurt.

Here's a link to the movie's making of.

https://youtu.be/XnG-KZwrCxs

if you do watch Heaven's Gate, watch the Steven Soderbergh Cut or the Criterion Collection restoration.
 
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Sexy Times Hitler said:
So you could say he got the last laugh.

...I'll see myself out the door.
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I groaned so hard I think I took a year off my life. Thanks a lot jerk!

When the Army released America's Army as a recruiting tool, it was so accurate that people who played medics were able to treat people in real life who'd been injured.

A fun fact about myself: I still have an original Legend of Zelda cartridge for the NES. I had to crack it open a few years ago and replace the battery, but it still works!
 
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The original plot for the first Zelda game was actually pretty similar to later games like OoT. Essentially Link was going to shift back and forth through fantasy and sci-fi versions of hyrule, using items from each version to solve puzzles and things like that. The triforce pieces were also going to be computer chips as opposed to an ancient holy relic.
 
There's only one nation in the world that has an automatic gun on their flag: Mozambique.
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An AK-47 with a bayonet, baby.

Also, the star stands for Marxism.
 
When General John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing left to command the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1917, he was not only America's foremost military leader but also a broken and nearly insane man, mourning the loss of his wife and three daughters in a house fire in 1915. His subordinates constantly found him sobbing uncontrollably in the back of his limousine, and he mostly let his proteges, including an eccentric young lieutenant named George S. Patton Jr., plan the war in France.

Patton himself was probably insane, constantly going over events that he believed he lived out in his many past lives, including a Spartan at Thermopylae, one of Caesar's legionnaires, a Viking warrior at Stamford Bridge, an English Longbowman at Agincourt, a Scottish Highlander who died at Culloden in 1745, and a Napoleon's marshall Joachim Murat.
 
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Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
When General John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing left to command the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1917, he was not only America's foremost military leader but also a broken and nearly insane man, mourning the loss of his wife and three daughters in a house fire in 1915. His subordinates constantly found him sobbing uncontrollably in the back of his limousine, and he mostly let his proteges, including an eccentric young lieutenant named George S. Patton Jr., plan the war in France.

Patton himself was probably insane, constantly going over events that he believed he lived out in his many past lives, including a Spartan at Thermopylae, one of Caesar's legionnaires, a Viking warrior at Stamford Bridge, an English Longbowman at Agincourt, a Scottish Highlander who died at Culloden in 1745, and a Napoleon's marshall Joachim Murat.
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My god I wish we still had people like this around.
 
The guy who designed Godzilla made a King Kong movie called "King Kong appears in Edo", and it was heavily inspired by German Expressionism (basically movies that were priortizing emotion over Realism. Sets would look surreal and dream like. If you need examples, look at the sets of Nosferatu, Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Metropolis, or even modern films like Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, and Dark City)

Sadly, the film became lost to time because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
 
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tomthehusky said:
Jews have been kicked out of nearly every country they've ever been in, but it's never their fault.
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Oy vey stop noticing things goy.

In 1907, a Hidatsa Indian chief in North Dakota named Wolf Chief sold a sacred medicine bundle to the authorities in Washington, DC. Thirty years later in 1937, during the height of the Dust Bowl, the medicine bundle was given back to the Hidatsa, and the next year rain started to fall again, and the Dust Bowl vanished shortly after.
 
If you stare into a mirror in a dark room for several minutes straight, your brain will get bored and make you hallucinate all sorts of creepy things to entertain itself. It’s believed that this phenomenon is responsible for all of the spooky urban legends about mirrors like Bloody Mary.
 
If you think the song "Tear" by Smashing Pumpkins sounds like it was made for a film, that's because it was. Billy Corgan wrote the song for the movie Lost Highway by David Lynch but was rejected when Lynch wasn't satisfied.

The song they used, "Eye", was actually made for a Shaquelle O'Neal collaboration that Smashing Pumpkin's record label wanted to do, but plans fell through.
 
Count groudon said:
There’s some old recordings of his singing still floating around.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KLjvfqnD0ws
It’s actually kind of depressing to listen to, knowing what they did to keep his voice sounding young.
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Especially since it sounds like a woman could sing that part just as well... but then again, castrates originated in a time where female singers were most likely not a thing, so you'd need high-pitched male singers.
 
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