Making of a Blockbuster: 28 Intriguing Behind the Scene Facts of Hollywood Movies – Part 8

The dust storm that sets off the events in the film "The Martian" isn't plausible because the atmosphere on Mars is about 1% as dense as Earth's and the winds in the strongest Martian storms top out at about 60 miles per hour, unlikely to tip or rip apart major mechanical equipment.

"Airplane" was judged "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" significant and added to the National Film Registry in 2010

The Prawns in the movie District 9 are not called that because they looked like shrimps, but the name is in reference to the Parktown prawn which is a cricket native to South Africa.

The boots worn by the actors portraying American soldiers in Saving Private Ryan were made by the same company that supplied boots for American soldiers during the Second World War.

"Finding Nemo" is the second film to be dubbed in Navajo, following the success of Navajo "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope". It was a joint effort between the Navajo Nation Museum and The Walt Disney Studios for more than a year

The "Funny how? Like a clown?" scene in Goodfellas is based on an actual encounter Joe Pesci had with a mobster while working in a restaurant as a young man.

The 1959 film "The Tingler" was about a parasite that causes tingling sensations in victims. The film's producers rigged surplus WWII aircraft motors to random theater seats, so viewers would "feel the tingler" when it attacked. Some viewers were also paid to pretend to scream and faint.

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.

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.

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.