1Mrs. Doubtfire
When Mrs. Doubtfire was serving tea, the icing on his/her face is melting off. This was not intentional. The heat from the set lights melted the icing on his face and Robin Williams improvised the bulk of that scene.
2Reservoir Dogs
In Reservoir Dogs, the person Mr. Pink pulls out of her car is the same person that gets shot by Marcellus Wallace after the car wreck in Pulp Fiction.
3A Nightmare on Elm Street
The famous horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is actually based on a true story. The director claimed of a young boy who saw a mysterious creature trying to kill him in his dreams. Days after trying to stay awake, the boy screamed, then died in his sleep.
4Braveheart
The original script of Braveheart had the Irish fighting the Scottish, which was historically accurate. The script had to be changed because the Irish and Scottish extras refused to fight each other.
5The Italian Job
In The Italian Job (2003) the studio had to build custom electric Mini Coopers for the scenes in the LA subway because combustion engines would have been too dangerous in the enclosed spaces.
6Ben-Hur
While filming the 1925 movie 'Ben-Hur', the director split Italian extras based on fascist or antifascist factions to make the fighting more realistic. Real swords were removed from the scene to prevent things from getting too out of hand.
7Spirited Away
In Spirited Away, Miyazaki based the river spirit on his own experience of cleaning a polluted river.
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8Maverick
In Top Gun, Maverick goes into a flat spin which he cannot recover and crashes into the ocean, killing Goose. During production, the stunt pilot hired to perform and film the scene went into the flat spin but couldn't recover, crashed into the ocean, and died.
9The Matrix
Mouse's shotguns in The Matrix were working models that fired 900 rounds per minute. It used a unique cam-driven design invented by movies armorer, John Bowring.
10Chinatown
The entire movie of "Chinatown" is portrayed subjectively through the eyes of the main character, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson), who appears in every scene. In fact, in the one scene when Gittes is knocked unconscious, the film fades to black and fades back in only when he awakens.
