Movie Trivias

Hailed as one of the most memorable and accurate epic war movies of all time, the gory and accurate opening scenes of the invasion was so accurate veterans broke in tears prompting the Defense Department’s office of Veterans Affairs to put up a toll-free 800 number for counseling. The movie was hailed as too violent and gory that many countries wanted the film’s graphic scenes cut. Spielberg stood firm opting not to release the film in countries that wanted editing. He also insisted that the film be released uncut even if review boards issue cuts and revisions in accordance with ratings.
There are many unknowns about the film, one of the best is that it was the last (very last) film edited using traditional cut and pasting of the film negatives. Known as linear editing, the scenes are viewed, literally cut and taped together which results in a master negative from which the actual film rolls are made from. The actors all received a few weeks of boot camp except Matt Damon so their resentment of him not getting battered and bruised would show in the film. The opening invasion scene also showed two actual landing crafts that were used on D-Day. The two German Tiger tanks seen in the final battle were actually Russian T-34 tanks made to look like them.

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Anime fanatics gone “banzai!” as a new piece of Shojo anime masterpiece just reached Philippine T.V.’s shores and is currently a hit among otakus. It is a crazy mix of romance, comedy, friendship and pure hardcore silliness that will surely tickle the anime-lover kid in you.

The story revolves around Sunako Nakahara, a not-so-typical female protagonist that is actually a fan of the dark and creepy things instead of the usual sweet and fair stuff you see in most stories. That’s twist enough but there’s more: she actually has to live in a big mansion with four super handsome guys until she becomes a “real” lady.

Yes it sounds as if it’ll be super romantic and all, but believe me, it’s more of light, innocent fun than whatever you’re probably thinking of. Actually, it’s stress-relieving to watch, take me for my word.

It’s now airing at TV5 every Mondays to Thursdays at 6:30 pm and every Saturdays and Sundays at 5:00-6:00 pm. Try and watch it!

Box office top-notcher Iron Man is one of the biggest movies with the highest gross income on its opening weekend of 2008. The creation of this successful superhero film took about 18 years to develop, starting with Universal Studios buying the rights of Iron Man’s development on the big screen. Due to its low budget, the production was not pushed through, instead the rights were transferred to 20th Century Fox in 1996. A year after, actors such as Tom Cruise and Nicolas Cage expressed their interest in playing the main character Tony Start who was later on portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. Quentin Tarantino was then approached in 1999, asking if he could direct the movie. Then, New Line Cinema eventually acquired the rights from Fox, and after a long process of preparations and transfers, the rights were finally given back to Marvel Studios, and they had to work again from scratch in producing this big film.

The movie Speed Racer is based on the TV cartoon series in 1967 which originated from a manga series “Mach GoGoGo.” This title is an interesting mix of words. Go in Japanese means 5, and Speed was originally named Go Mifune. When translated, the title would say “Mach 5, Go Mifune, go!”. It is popularly believed that the letter “M” on the Mach 5 stands for “Mach,” it actually stands as the symbol of their family business “Mifune Motors”. Although the Western version of the series changed most of these Japanese details, M for Mach is also acceptable. Another notable detail in this film is the race commentator played by Peter Fernandez who voiced Speed Racer in the original series.

Third installment of the series The Fast and the Furious, Tokyo Drift is set in Tokyo, Japan where drifting originated, with a new set of cast and also a new set featured cars. The type of racing in this movie is different from the previous two, as it focuses on drifting. In the movie, Sean (Lucas Black) is sent to Tokyo by his mother because he kept on getting into trouble as he stayed back home. There, he meets new friends along with a few enemies, namely Takashi (Brian Tee) who was called DK for short, which meant Drift King. Little do the viewers know that there exists a real Drift King in the real world who happens to appear in the film. Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya who is the pioneer of drift-driving appears as the old man who watched Sean as he learned how to drift. This character gave comments on Sean’s drifting, which appeared to him as below average to poor.

Based on a popular cartoon show back in the 1980s, Transformers is one of the most successful movies in the year 2007. This movie produced by Steven Spielberg earned over $707 million throughout its run with a number of awards won, including nominations for Oscars in the Academy Awards. One notable character in the movie is Bumblebee, Sam’s (Shia LeBeouf) yellow Camaro which transforms into his guardian robot. Bumblebee’s silence was inspired by Spielberg’s film E.T. showing the bond of the guardian robot and they boy Sam, even without words. Bumblebee was originally a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, but director Michael Bay decided to use a 1976 Chevrolet Camaro which later on transformed into a concept 2009 model. Since this model has not yet been on production, the body of the Camaro was placed on the frame of a Mustang. Hasbro did not mind this replacement as long as the vehicle remained yellow. The yellow beetle still appeared in the movie, parked beside the Camaro when Sam was choosing a car to buy.

The creators of The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers and their team have again produced another ingenious movie, V for Vendetta, an action-thriller movie starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving. Behind the Guy Faux mask was originally James Purefoy. He was replaced by Hugo Weaving after filming for 6 weeks due to problems and difficulties with the mask. This movie was based from the graphic novel of Alan Moore, but it is said that Moore did not credit the movie due to inaccuracy of detail. Certain themes and motifs are followed throughout the film, both in subtle and noticeable ways, such as the letter V and the number 5. An example of which is Portman’s character Evey – E is the fifth letter in the alphabet, and vey, standing in for the letter V. Also, during V’s introduction, the scene had a total of 55 V’s in the dialogue, plus the V he marked on the wall.