23 Details Hidden In Movies That I Just Discovered This Week

Pixar changed broccoli to bell peppers in Japan because kids there hate bell peppers!

1. Pixar's Ratatouille has a "Genuine animation! No motion capture" guarantee in its credits because the year before, the film studio's Cars lost the Best Animated Feature Oscar to Happy Feet, which used motion capture.

After Cars (2006) lost out on the Oscar for Best Animated Movie to Happy Feet (2006), which utilized motion capture, Pixar placed a "Quality Assurance Guarantee" at the end of their next movie Ratatouille (2007) to remind the Academy they animate every single frame of their movies manually from MovieDetails

2. Guy's calendar in Free Guy is missing the fourth day of the month because he's not fully developed yet.

In Free Guy (2021), the calendar in Guy's apartment is missing the number 4. This was added by the production designer, who wanted Guy's apartment to reflect his status as a "half-developed character". from MovieDetails

3. The Joker in _The Dark Knight _licks his lips so much because that's how actor Heath Ledger kept his prosthetic scars in place.

In The Dark Knight (2008), Joker is constantly licking his lips. This is actually because of the prosthetic scars that Heath Ledger wore. They kept falling off, so Heath would lick his lips to keep them in place. Gradually, it became a part of the Joker’s character. from MovieDetails

4. The Jackass logo is missing a tooth, just like cast member Danger Ehren.

The skull in the logo for the jackass (2002) movies is missing the same tooth as cast member Danger Ehren. from MovieDetails

Image credit: Kevin Winter / Getty Images

5. The actors playing students in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were given free rein as to how they wore their uniforms, unlike in previous movies.

For Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Alfonso Cuarón asked the kids playing the Hogwarts students to wear their uniforms as they would if their parents weren't around. This is in sharp contrast to the first two films; were they wore their uniforms in a very orderly fashion. from MovieDetails

6. King Harold and Queen Lillian in Shrek 2 are named after a well-known couple who worked in Hollywood for decades as a production designer and a film researcher.

In Shrek 2 (2004), King Harold and Queen Lillian were named after Harold and Lillian Michelson, a couple who had been working in Hollywood for decades. Lillian is a film researcher and Harold was a production designer (he died in 2007). from MovieDetails

7. The Joker in the 1989 Batman is interested in the painting "The Blue Boy," and in the movie Joker, the same painting is in Arthur's apartment.

In Batman (1989 )a painting the joker has his eyes on is featured in The joker( 2019 ) from MovieDetails

8. The band Crush 40, who've had many (excellent) songs on various Sonic games, are on Robotnik's playlist in the movie Sonic the Hedgehog.

In Sonic 2020, you can see a band named "Crush 40" in Robotnik's playlist They actually composed music for various sonic games. from MovieDetails

9. A bartender in _Mrs. Doubtfire _is played by Robin Williams' winemaking brother, Robert, but the credit uses his nickname, Dr. Toad.

In Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), the poolside bartender is played by an actor credited under the nickname Dr. Toad, but his real name was Robert Todd Williams, and he was Robin Williams’ older brother. A vintner by trade in real-life, this was his only film appearance. from MovieDetails

10. Skurge in Thor: Ragnarok re-creates the cover of the video game Doom, and Karl Urban, the actor who plays Skurge, also portrayed the main character in the film adaptation of Doom.

Thor: Ragnarok (2017) recreates the Doom cover with Skurge. Karl Urban, who portrays Skurge, also portrayed the main character in Doom (2005) from MovieDetails

11. The "gross" pizza toppings in _Inside Out _were changed from broccoli to bell peppers in Japan because that's the stereotypical food that kids hate there.

In Inside Out, the pizza toppings were changed from broccolis to bell peppers in Japan, since kids in Japan don’t like bell peppers. Pixar localised the joke. from MovieDetails

12. One of Charlie's classmates in The Santa Clause is actually an elf keeping tabs on him.

In the Santa Clause(1994) when Charlie is at school you can see an elf behind him in class meaning they were keeping tabs on him and his dad from MovieDetails

13. The real Chris Gardner, whose life The Pursuit of Happyness is based on, makes an appearance at the end of the movie.

In The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Will Smith walked past the real Chris Gardner, the man he played and the movie was based on. from MovieDetails

14. Director Martin Scorsese's baby daughter is in Gangs of New York, which is also why Martin himself plays a character in that scene.

In Gangs of New York (2002), the baby is Francesca Scorsese, the daughter of director Martin Scorsese. from MovieDetails

15. Truman takes vitamin D in The Truman Show, probably because he's deficient after only ever living under an artificial sun.

In the Truman Show, we see Truman taking high dose vitamin D at breakfast time. This is to counteract the deficiency he would have becouse there is no real sunlight in the constructed world he inhabits. from MovieDetails

16. There's always a strange and special light reflecting off of Galadriel's eyes in The Lord of the Rings movies because she's seen the light of the Trees of Valinor.

In The Lord of the Rings, the filmmakers used a special lighting rig for Galadriel so that her eyes appear to reflect the starlight. This is because Galadriel is the last Elf in Middle-Earth to have seen the light of the Trees of Valinor. from MovieDetails

17. In Quentin's memory of being humiliated by Tony's B.A.R.F. presentation in Spider-Man: Far From Home, the audience laughs, but in the real scene in Captain America: Civil War, it's silent.

In Captain America: Civil War (2016), the audience is silent during Tony Stark’s B.A.R.F. presentation. But in the flashback to that same scene in Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), the audience is laughing, implying that Mysterio remembers this moment as a lot more humiliating than it actually was. from MovieDetails

18. The line used during the filming of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was "Obi-Wan killed your father" rather than "No, I am your father," which was dubbed in later, to keep the twist a secret.

In order to prevent the twist of Vader being Luke's father being spoiled in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the line written in the script and spoken during filming was "Obi-Wan killed your father", with it later dubbed over. Of the main cast, only Mark Hamill was informed before release from MovieDetails

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19. Benny's helmet in The Lego Movie is broken in the exact spot where the '80s Lego astronauts always broke.

In The Lego Movie (2014) Benny the spaceman has a broken helmet. This used to happen to the original Lego pieces. Picture of my 80s spaceman to the right. from MovieDetails

20. In Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks's daughter, Elizabeth, plays the girl who refuses to sit next to Forrest on the bus, and director Robert Zemeckis's son Alex plays the kid who says, "Seat's taken."

In Forrest Gump (1994), the girl on the bus who refuses to let Forrest sit next to her is played by Elizabeth Hanks, the daughter of Tom Hanks. from MovieDetails

21. Ryan Reynolds asked for permission from Taylor Swift to wear a shirt with her cats on it in Deadpool 2.

In Deadpool 2 (2018), Wade wears a shirt that says: "Olivia & Meredith. Best Friends Purrrr-ever". The two cats actually belong to Taylor Swift. The production crew had to get permission from her to use their image. from MovieDetails

22. The blossoms in Coraline are actually painted pieces of popcorn.

In Coraline (2009) The crew spent 800 hours painting 250,000 pieces of popcorn—pink on the outside, red on the kernel—to stand in as blossoms for the nearly 70 trees. from MovieDetails

23. And finally, Sid the sloth from Ice Age was turned into a robot for the movie Robots.

Sid, from Ice Age, makes a cameo appeareance in the movie Robots (2005) from MovieDetails

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