26The Grand Budapest Hotel
The 3 timelines shown in The Grand Budapest Hotel were each shot in a different aspect ratio, to reflect the cinematic history of the period being depicted.
27. 2 versions of 'Mad Max: Fury Road' were made: a PG-13 version and an R-rated version. Test audiences preferred the R-rated version, so that's what was released.
28. The original version of the French film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, was lost in a fire. The master negatives were found 53 years later in a Norwegian mental institute by a janitor in a closet.
29. While shooting ‘No Country for Old Men’ on-location in Marfa, Texas, the movie There Will Be Blood (2007) was shooting nearby. One day, while filming a wide shot of the landscape, directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen had to halt shooting for the day when a gigantic cloud of dark smoke floated conspicuously into view. The Coens resumed filming the next day, when the smoke finally dissipated. A year and a half later, both films were the leading contenders at the Academy Awards.
30. In 2012, ‘V for Vendetta’ was broadcast in China without any censorship, surprising many viewers.
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31Forrest Gump
When Forrest Gump gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, and you cannot hear him, he says, "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that."
32. A Gladiator sequel script had Maximus reincarnated by the Roman Gods and returned to Rome to defend Christians against persecution; then transported to other periods including World War 2, the Vietnam War, and finally being a general in the Pentagon. It was rejected for being too far-fetched.
33. In Saving Private Ryan, all main actors went through army training except Matt Damon so that the other actors would show resentment for him.
34. The cast of the critically acclaimed "Das Boot" were not allowed to see sunshine during the entire year the movie was filmed. This was done in order to maintain their unhealthy pallor and contributed to their realistic portrayal of a "journey into madness."
35. Braveheart has been described as one of the most historically inaccurate modern films. One historian took particular exception to the costumes and compared it to, "a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th-century business suits, but with the jackets worn back-to-front."
